The Women's time trial of the

2016 UCI Road World Championships The 2016 UCI Road World Championships took place in Doha, Qatar, in October 2016. The championships was moved from the traditional September to October to avoid extreme hot and blustery weather. The event consisted of a road race, a team time t ...

took place in and around in

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, Qatar on 11 October 2016. The course of the race was .

Linda Villumsen Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985) is a Denmark, Danish-born road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's Team . Villumsen became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi licence from 2010. Career Born in H ...

won her first world time trial title in

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but did not take part in the 2016 race.

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world champion

Amber Neben Amber Leone Neben (born February 18, 1975) is an American racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team . Neben won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and 2016 as well as the U.S. national road race champions ...

, from the United States, claimed her second rainbow jersey, completing the course 5.99 seconds quicker than the European champion

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cycling, tr ...

, from the Netherlands. Australia's

Katrin Garfoot Katrin Garfoot (born 8 October 1981) is a German-born Australian former cyclist who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's road time trial, road time trial. She started cyc ...

, the Oceanian champion, won the bronze medal, 2.33 seconds behind van Dijk and 8.32 seconds in arrears of Neben's winning time.

Qualification

Qualification for the event

All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion, the Olympic champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.

Schedule

All times are in

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Final classification

* Aljersiwi fell during her race by riding into a fence.http://www.corvospro.com/preview.aspx?VIEW_OFFSET=115&CATEG=15019000

References

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