UCI Road Cycling World Championships 2024: Results, routes and schedule
Road World Championships coverage from Cycling Weekly, with up to date race results, news and reports
Sunday 22 September | Women's elite individual time trial | 29.9km |
Row 1 - Cell 0 | Men's elite individual time trial | 46.1km |
Monday 23 September | Men's junior individual time trial | 24.9km |
Row 3 - Cell 0 | Men's U23 individual time trial | 29.9km |
Tuesday 24 September | Women's junior individual time trial | 18.8km |
Wednesday 25 September | Mixed relay team time trial | 53.7km |
Thursday 26 September | Women's junior road race | 73.6km |
Row 7 - Cell 0 | Men's junior road race | 127.2km |
Friday 27 September | Men's under-23 road race | 173.6km |
Saturday 28 September | Women's elite and U23 road race | 154.1km |
Sunday 29 September | Men's elite road race | 273.9km |
Dates: 21-29 September 2024
Events: 11
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
TV Coverage (UK): Eurosport/Discovery+, BBC
The 2024 UCI Road World Championships is taking place in Zürich, Switzerland, the largest city in the country, with events taking place over nine days.
This is the 97th edition of the event, which now sees 12 rainbow jerseys will be awarded across the different categories. It is also the first time the Para-cycling Road World Championships will be contested at the same time, with a further 24 jerseys on the line.
The battles for the rainbow bands begins with para-cycling time trials on the Saturday - 21 September - with the elite time trials following on Sunday, 22 September. There are 12 separate road events, with the under-23 women's road race combined with the elite road race for a second year.
Grace Brown won the first elite medal of the Worlds, storming to time trial victory, before Remco Evenepoel also doubled up on his Olympic success in the men's TT. Among the other big stories of the Worlds so far are Cat Ferguson winning the women's junior TT and then winning the junior road race, and Sarah Storey winning yet another para-cycling rainbow jersey.
Many of the races take place around the Zürich city circuit, a 26.8km loop with 447m of elevation, with almost all the road races finishing with differing numbers of laps of this, and the mixed relay TTT also using this.
The events are spread throughout the week, with the finalé coming on the final weekend, with the women's elite road racing on Saturday 28 September, and then the men's elite edition coming the next day.
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Last 10 World Championships winners
2013:
WE TT Ellen van Dijk
ME TT Tony Martin
MU23 TT Damien Howson
WJ ITT Séverine Eraud
MJ ITT Igor Decraene
MJ RR Mathieu van der Poel
MU23 RR Matej Mohorič
WJ RR Amalie Dideriksen
WE RR Marianne Vos
ME RR Rui Costa
2014:
WE TT Lisa Brennauer
ME TT Bradley Wiggins
MU23 TT Campbell Flakemore
WJ ITT Macey Stewart
MJ ITT Lennard Kämna
MJ RR Jonas Bokeloh
MU23 RR Sven Erik Byrstrøm
WJ RR Amalie Dideriksen
WE RR Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
ME RR Michał Kwiatkowski
2015:
WE TT Linda Villumsen
ME TT Vasil Kiryienka
MU23 TT Mads Würtz Schmidt
WJ ITT Chloe Dygert
MJ ITT Leo Appelt
MJ RR Felix Gall
MU23 RR Kévin Ledanois
WJ RR Chloe Dygert
WE RR Elizabeth Deignan
ME RR Peter Sagan
2016:
WE TT Amber Neben
ME TT Tony Martin
MU23 TT Marco Mathis
WJ ITT Karlijn Swinkels
MJ ITT Brandon McNulty
MJ RR Jakob Egholm
MU23 RR Kristoffer Halvorsen
WJ RR Elisa Balsamo
WE RR Amalie Dideriksen
ME RR Peter Sagan
2017:
WE TT Annemiek van Vleuten
ME TT Tom Dumoulin
MU23 TT Mikkel Bjerg
WJ ITT Elena Pirrone
MJ ITT Tom Pidcock
MJ RR Julius Johanesen
MU23 RR Benoît Cosnefroy
WJ RR Elena Pirrone
WE RR Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
ME RR Peter Sagan
2018:
WE TT Annemiek van Vleuten
ME TT Rohan Dennis
MU23 TT Mikkel Bjerg
WJ ITT Rozemarijn Ammerlaan
MJ ITT Remco Evenepoel
MJ RR Remco Evenepoel
MU23 RR Marc Hirschi
WJ RR Laura Stigger
WE RR Anna van der Breggen
ME RR Alejandro Valverde
2019:
WE TT Chloe Dygert
ME TT Rohan Dennis
MU23 TT Mikkel Bjerg
WJ ITT Aigul Gareeva
MJ ITT Antonio Tiberi
MR TTT Netherlands
MJ RR Quinn Simmons
MU23 RR Samuele Battistella
WJ RR Megan Jastrab
WE RR Annemiek van Vleuten
ME RR Mads Pedersen
2020:
WE TT Anna van der Breggen
ME TT Filippo Ganna
WE RR Anna van der Breggen
ME RR Julian Alaphilippe
2021:
WE TT Ellen van Dijk
ME TT Filippo Ganna
MU23 TT Johan Price-Pejtersen
WJ ITT Alena Ivanchenko
MJ ITT Gustav Wang
MR TTT Germany
MJ RR Per Strand Hagenes
MU23 RR Filippo Baroncini
WJ RR Zoe Bäckstedt
WE RR Elisa Balsamo
ME RR Julian Alaphilippe
2022:
WE TT Ellen van Dijk
ME TT Tobias Foss
MU23 TT Søren Wærenskjold
WJ ITT Zoe Bäckstedt
MJ ITT Joshua Tarling
MR TTT Switzerland
MJ RR Emil Herzog
MU23 RR Yevgeniy Fedorov
WJ RR Zoe Bäckstedt
WU23 RR Niamh Fisher-Black
WE RR Annemiek van Vleuten
ME RR Remco Evenepoel
2023
WE TT Chloe Dygert
ME TT Remco Evenepoel
MU23 TT Lorenzo Milesi
WJ ITT Felicity Wilson-Haffenden
MJ ITT Oscar Chamberlain
MR TTT Switzerland
MJ RR Albert Withen Philipsen
MU23 RR Axel Laurance
WJ RR Julie Bego
WU23 RR Niamh Fisher-Black
WE RR Lotte Kopecky
ME RR Mathieu van der Poel
2024
WE TT Grace Brown
ME TT Remco Evenepoel
MU23 TT Iván Romeo
WJ ITT Cat Ferguson
MJ ITT Paul Seixas
MR TTT Australia
MJ RR Lorenzo Finn
MU23 RR
WJ RR Cat Ferguson
WU23 RR
WE RR
ME RR
(WE TT: Women's elite time trial; ME TT: Men's elite time trial; MU23 TT: Men's under-23 time trial; WJ TT: Women's junior time trial; MJ TT: Men's junior time trial; MR TTT: Mixed relay team time trial; MJ RR: Men's junior road race; MU23 RR: Men's under-23 road race; WJ RR: Women's junior road race; WU23 RR: Women's under-23 road race; WE RR: Women's elite road race; ME RR: Men's elite road race)
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