UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial explained

Women's Time Trial
Date:	September–October
Discipline:	Time Trial
Type:	One-day
Organiser:	Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
Number:	(as)
Mostwins:	(4 wins)

The UCI Road World Championships - Women's time trial is the annual world championship for road bicycle racing in the discipline of time trial, organised by the world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale. The event was first run in 1994.

From 2022 to 2024, competitors in this event under the age of 23 at the end of the previous year were also competing for honours in their own classification.

Medallists

Year!scope=col style="background-color: gold"

Gold	scope=col	Time	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	Silver	scope=col	Margin	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	Bronze	scope=col	Margin	scope=col	Distance	scope=col	Location	scope=col class=unsortable	Ref.
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1994							30km (20miles)	Agrigento, Italy	^[1]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1995							26.1km (16.2miles)	Duitama, Colombia	^[2]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1996							26.4km (16.4miles)	Lugano, Switzerland
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1997							28km (17miles)	San Sebastián, Spain
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1998							23km (14miles)	Valkenburg, Netherlands
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1999							25.8km (16miles)	Verona, Italy	^[3]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2000							24.5km (15.2miles)	Plouay, France	^[4]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2001							19.2km (11.9miles)	Lisbon, Portugal	^[5]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2002							23.2km (14.4miles)	Heusden-Zolder, Belgium	^[6]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2003							20.8km (12.9miles)	Hamilton, Canada	^[7]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2004							24km (15miles)	Verona, Italy	^[8]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2005							21.9km (13.6miles)	Madrid, Spain	^[9]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2006							26.1km (16.2miles)	Salzburg, Austria	^[10]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2007							25.1km (15.6miles)	Stuttgart, Germany	^[11]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2008							25.1km (15.6miles)	Varese, Italy	^[12]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2009							26.8km (16.7miles)	Mendrisio, Switzerland	^[13]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2010							22.8km (14.2miles)	Geelong, Australia	^[14]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2011							27.8km (17.3miles)	Copenhagen, Denmark	^[15]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2012							24.3km (15.1miles)	Valkenburg, Netherlands	^[16]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2013							22km (14miles)	Florence, Italy	^[17]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2014							29.5km (18.3miles)	Ponferrada, Spain	^[18]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2015							29.9km (18.6miles)	Richmond, Virginia, United States	^[19]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2016							28.9km (18miles)	Doha, Qatar	^[20]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2017							21.1km (13.1miles)	Bergen, Norway	^[21]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2018							27.7km (17.2miles)	Innsbruck, Austria	^[22]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2019							30.4km (18.9miles)	Yorkshire, United Kingdom	^[23]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2020							31.7km (19.7miles)	Imola, Italy	^[24]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2021							30.3km (18.8miles)	Brugge, Belgium	^[25]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2022							34.2km (21.3miles)	Wollongong, Australia	^[26]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2023							36.2km (22.5miles)	Stirling, Scotland, UK	^[27]
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2024							29.9km (18.6miles)	Zurich, Switzerland	^[28]

Most successful cyclists

Rank!scope=col

Cyclist	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	Gold	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	Silver	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	Bronze	scope=col	Total	scope=col	Gold medal-winning places
scope=row style="text-align:center"	1		4	1	1	6	Duitama, Lugano, San Sebastián, Lisbon
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2		3	1	2	6	Firenze, Brugge, Wollongong
scope=row style="text-align:center"	3		2	3	2	7	Copenhagen, Valkenburg
scope=row style="text-align:center" rowspan=2	4		2	1	1	4	Salzburg, Mendrisio
	2	1	1	4	Verona, Madrid
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		2	0	2	4	Bergen, Innsbruck
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		2	0	1	3	Harrogate, Stirling
scope=row style="text-align:center" rowspan=2	8		2	0	0	2	Valkenburg, Verona
	2	0	0	2	Varese, Doha
scope=row style="text-align:center"	10		1	4	0	5	Imola
scope=row style="text-align:center"	11		1	2	3	6	Richmond

Medallists by nation

Nations are ranked in order of number of gold, silver and bronze medals won.

External links

• Women's ITT

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cycling : World Championships 1994 - Results Women. www.the-sports.org. 2019-09-27.
2. Web site: Women's ITT World Championship 1995. autobus.cyclingnews.com. 2019-09-27.
3. Web site: World Road Championships 1999. autobus.cyclingnews.com. 2019-09-27. Tim. Maloney.
4. Web site: There's something about Mari - she's World Champion. autobus.cyclingnews.com. 2019-09-27. Tim. Maloney.
5. Web site: Longo by a whisker. autobus.cyclingnews.com. 2019-09-27. Jim. Jones.
6. Web site: More gold for Russia as Zabirova wins in Zolder. autobus.cyclingnews.com. 2019-09-27. Jeff. Jones.
7. News: Defending champion takes third to Spanish climber . 8 October 2003 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Mark . Zalewski .
8. News: Thürig thrashes the field in Verona . 28 September 2004 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Tim . Maloney .
9. News: Thürig wins back-to-back . 21 September 2005 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Hernan . Alvarez Macias . Shane . Stokes .
10. News: First World Championship Gold for Armstrong . 20 September 2006 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Kristy . Scrymgeour .
11. News: Kupfernagel gets first women's time trial title for Germany . 26 September 2007 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Shane . Stokes .
12. News: Neben knocks out favourites for gold . 24 September 2008 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Shane . Stokes .
13. News: Armstrong wins second time trial gold in Mendrisio . 23 September 2009 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 . Gregor . Brown .
14. News: Pooley too quick for competition . 29 September 2010 . Cycling News . 26 September 2019 .
15. News: Arndt claims time trial world title . Cycling News . 20 September 2011 . 26 September 2019 . Barry . Ryan .
16. News: Arndt repeats world time trial title . Cycling News. 18 September 2012. 26 September 2019. Daniel . Benson .
17. News: Van Dijk wins elite women's time trial world championship . Cycling News . 24 September 2013 . 26 September 2019 . Stephen . Farrand .
18. News: Brennauer wins second gold for Germany in Worlds time trial. Cycling News. 23 September 2014. 26 September 2019. Barry. Ryan.
19. News: World Championships: Villumsen secures rainbow jersey in women's time trial. Cycling News. 22 September 2015. 26 September 2019.
20. News: World Championships: Neben wins women's individual time trial title . Cycling News . 11 October 2016 . 26 September 2016 .
21. News: Van Vleuten claims time trial world title . Cycling News . 19 September 2017 . 26 September 2019 .
22. News: World Championships: Van Vleuten leads Dutch sweep of women's time trial . Cycling News . 26 September 2018 . 26 September 2019 . Barry . Ryan .
23. News: Chloe Dygert Owen wins elite women's individual time trial . Cycling News . 24 September 2019 . 26 September 2019 . Barry . Ryan.
24. News: Van der Breggen wins time trial title at Imola World Championships . Cycling News . 24 September 2020 . 24 September 2020 . Kirsten . Frattini.
25. News: Ellen van Dijk wins elite women's time trial title at Flanders World Championships. Cycling News . 20 September 2021 . Kirsten . Frattini.
26. News: Van Dijk beats Brown to win third elite women's time trial title at World Championships. Cycling News . 18 September 2022 . Kirsten . Frattini.
27. News: World Championships: Chloe Dygert beats Grace Brown to reclaim elite women's time trial title. Cycling News . 10 August 2023 . Kirsten . Frattini.
28. News: World Championships: UCI World Championships: Grace Brown beats Demi Vollering to elite women's time trial title. Cycling News . 22 September 2024 . Dani . Ostanek.