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2009 UCI World Road Championships

September 23-27, 2009; Switzerland (Mendrisio)

Held over five days, the UCI World Road Championships sees the best Elite Men, Women and Under 23 riders race in two disciplines, the Road Race and Time Trial. Great Britain has a strong team at the Championships with medal chances in a number of the events. Larry Hickmott reports from within the GB Team.

TIME TRIALS

Wednesday 23 September, Men’s U23 & Elite Women
There were mixed fortunes for the Great Britain riders on Day 1 of the UCI World Road Championships. A seventh place for Alex Dowsett in the Under 23 Time Trial was a pleasing result for both the rider and team whilst in the Elite Women’s Time Trial, there was disappointment for Beijing Silver medallist Emma Pooley who was 11th with Beijing Pursuit Silver medallist Wendy Houvenaghel in 23rd place: Full Report

Thursday 24 September, Men’s Elite 
The second day of the World Time Trial Championships in Switzerland saw a full day of Time Trial racing for the Elite men with Great Britain having two accomplished specialists in action, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome. There were no medals, but that could have been so different had it not been for a mechanical for Bradley Wiggins: Full Report

ROAD RACES

Saturday 26 September, Under 23 RR & Women’s Elite RR
It was a mixed day for GB on a long day at the World Road Race Championships in Switzerland. Yet again, the Great Britain Cycling Team’s men’s endurance Academy showed just how successful it is in producing riders capable of challenging for rainbow jerseys on the road and track when Peter Kennaugh was fourth in the Under 23 road race.

In the Elite Women’s race, three of the team’s riders, defending champion Nicole Cooke, Track World Champion Lizzie Armitstead and two time World Road Cup winner in 2009, Emma Pooley have all shown they are among the best road riders in the world but there was no pot of gold for them after a tough race with Emma Pooley finishing the best of them in 14th place  Full Report

Sunday 27 September, Men’s Elite RR

Whilst the rainbow jersey went to an Aussie, Cadel Evans, there was also a reward for Team GB after a year of working to create a team that can win Britain a World Road title. The foundations were laid on the slopes around Mendrisio and despite some bad luck for David Millar and Ian Stannard, Millar said afterwards "the atmosphere and spirit that we have after today is the biggest reward we have" Full Report

OTHER NEWS

Friday 25 September - British Cycling's President, Brian Cookson OBE, has today been appointed to the UCI's (International Cycling Union) Management Committee, at the organisation's Annual Congress held at the Road World Championships in Switzerland. Full Report

 

FEATURES

GB Team Training Day for Time Trial


We look at the Time Trial course - described as a time trialists course - by Olympic and Tour de France hero Bradley Wiggins: Full Report

ALSO: Day 1 in the Great Britian Camp

 

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Graham_Webb
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Cadel and his Ozzie team showed just how it should be done. At the right moment and with only two good men, they dragged Cadel and the bunch up to the leading group. Only in the last lap, after saving all his energy, did Cadel make one move; the winning one! It just goes to show what a good training ride the Tour of Spain can be. And take note that some of the top riders did training rides of over 300kms last week proving that even today there is still no substitute for sitting in the saddle for hours on end!

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clives
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Sorry Graham i dont agree if the rest of the riders had not let cancellara do all the work and helped then there were only going to be one winner and that would have been fabian also like you said lets sit in the bunch all day and save energy forgot about t.t on thursday who won that bet that werent cadel evans not to take any thing away from his ride but there is only one way to see who is best that is on your own from A to B the fastest man wins  

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Graham_Webb
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 Clives, those riders were only doing what they were paid for, quite rightly as they are intelligent pros and all knew that they had to wear Fabian down before the finish or they wouldn’t stand a chance. Fabian won the worlds TT and made most of the other riders look silly but even though I was a similar style of rider to him I find that the “race of truth” is a bit archaic and still caries very little weight here on the continent, that in comparison to the road race. It’s sad to see that in England you still think time trials are the be all and end all of cycle racing; this has been the death of many good British riders as they never learnt to handle a bike in a bunch at a young age and that saves energy.

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