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Video: Gianni Moscon’s thoughts on the Elite Men’s race

Gianni Moscon is certainly one of the Italian riders to keep an eye on Sunday. The race might me too hard for such a rider, and someone doubts about him due to the long stop after the Tour de France. Truth is every national team will be watching him closely because he showed good condition during the recent Italian races and because he is so strong that leaving him five meters could mean seeing him again at the finish line. More about the 2018 UCI World Championships, click here >>

2018 UCI Road World Championships – Everything you need to know!

What’s your opinion? who’s going to win? You probably have an opinion about the new world champion yourself. Leave your name in the comments below, predicting who you think will win on Sunday. The 2018 UCI Road World Championships are taking place this week – from September 23 to 30 – in Innsbruck, Austria. This is Austria’s third time hosting the road cycling world championships. From the moment you fly or drive into Innsbruck, mountains dominate the view. Mighty and majestic, they will undoubtedly make for a magnificent backdrop this week when more than a thousand elite cyclists will compete for medals and rainbow stripes in Tyrol at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. LET’S GO RIDE We set out to ride one lap of the Olympic circuit that the riders will face seven times on Sunday, adding in the extremely steep and narrow Höttinger Höll, dubbed “Highway to Höll,” 11 kilometers from the finish. ELITE MEN’S ROAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE The elite men’s road race looks set to be one of the toughest in history, with 4,670 meters of elevation gain over a distance of 258.5 kilometers. So it makes sense that the best ...

History: Road World Championships

The very first championships were held in 1921 in Copenhagen, Denmark. However, the only event that was contested that year was the men’s road race for amateurs. The first professional world championships took place in July 1927, hosted at the Nürburgring in Germany, where Alfredo Binda led an Italian one-two-three (Alfredo Binda, Costante Girardengo, Domenico Piemontesi) to win the first of his three world titles. Alfredo Binda won three world titles in his career (1927, 1930 and 1932). A record later equalled by Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx, Óscar Freire and Peter Sagan). A massive breakthrough for women’s cycling came in 1958, when the women’s road world championships were introduced in Reims, France. The Luxembourg rider Elsy Jacobs got to pop the Champagne after becoming the first women’s world champion, ahead of Tamara Novikova and Mariya Lukshina of the Soviet Union. Elsy Jacobs waves to the crowd after winning the first women’s cycling World Road Race Championship in Reims, France, 1958. Over the years, further categories and races (men’s and women’s: Junior, Under 23 and Elite) were added to the program, which now spreads over an eight-day period in September, starting just one week after the final grand tour of the ...

Great performance in Bergen with seven medals for the Italian athletes

It was a brilliant week for the Italian national team at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships. Italy won the most medals in Bergen, with seven – all in the junior categories. Elena Pirrone doubled up for the gold medals in the time trial and road race. In the junior men’s road race, Luca Rastelli and Michele Gazzoli won the minor medals, while Alessia Vigilia won silver in the junior women’s time trial and Letizia Paternoster bronze in the road race. In the elite men’s road race, Italy was one of the dominant teams marking all the moves when the morning breakaway came back, with Alessandro De Marchi going in the break with a few laps to go, Gianni Moscon bridging across when Julian Alaphilippe launched a stinging attack on the final climb of Salmon Hill, and Alberto Bettiol leading out Matteo Trentin, who came close to his first world championships podium finish in a head-to-head sprint with some of the world’s fastest sprinters. Trentin showed form in his preparation for the worlds after bagging five wins in the last month (four stages at La Vuelta a España and the Primus Classic). He was less than satisfied with missing out ...

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championship, ponferrada, Racing, worlds - September 24, 2014

Ponferrada: Let’s Go Riding

The 2014 UCI Road World Championships is right now taking place in the historic city of Ponferrada in the Northwest of Spain. Stunning nature and great climbs all over the place. However, the Alto de Montearenas and Alto de Compostilla are no special climbs whatsoever, but since riders have to pass them 14 times they tend to get nasty. The circuit is 18.2 kilometres, which gives a total distance of 254,8 kilometres. Meeting up with the Italian Team on Thursday, we managed to get a seat in the Italian Team car following the elite men’s team during their first recon together on the race course. The road race is a criterium of 18.2 kilometres in length. The first 4 kilometres are flat, after which the start of the climb to Alto de Montearenas has an average gradient of 8%. After a few hundred meters the ascent flattens and the remaining 5.1 kilometres are 3.5% on average. Next is a descent, the steepest part is after 11 kilometres – at this point the riders are going downhill with a 16% negative gradient. Alto de Compostilla is a short climb of 1.1 kilometre. The average gradient is 6.5 % and some of the steepest parts are ...