UCI 2019 race programme
The UCI 2019 road World Championships take place in Yorkshire from Saturday 21st to Sunday 29th September 2019. Harrogate is the central hub, where all the events finish.
This is the race programme.
Cycling in Yorkshire
The UCI 2019 road World Championships take place in Yorkshire from Saturday 21st to Sunday 29th September 2019. Harrogate is the central hub, where all the events finish.
This is the race programme.
Elite women's road race | Elite men's road race | Para-cycling | Mixed team time trial | Junior women's ITT | Junior men's ITT | U23 men's ITT | Elite women's ITT | Elite men's ITT | Junior men's road race | Junior women's road race | U23 men's road race | UCI 2019 Harrogate circuit
Saturday 28th September 2019
The women's road race starts in the centre of Bradford. The riders make their way north via Shipley and Otley, then climb up Norwood Edge. They continue to Pateley Bridge, then on to Lofthouse, and the steep Côte de Lofthouse climb. The market town of Masham is at the northern extremity of the route, then it's back south via West Tanfield to Ripon. The return to Harrogate takes in Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills, Clint, Birstwith, and Hampsthwaite. The Harrogate circuit is tackled three times before the finish line.
Where to watch the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds elite women's road race. There are lots of great places. They include the start in Bradford, Otley, Norwood Edge, Pateley Bridge, the Lofthouse climb, Masham, Hampsthwaite, and Harrogate.
The favourites for the UCI 2019 elite women's road race include Yorkshire's own Lizzy Deignan, and Dutch riders like Annemiek van Vleuten, Anna van der Breggen, and Marianne Vos.
Read about favourites for the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds elite women's road race.
This is the start list for the elite women's road race.
Read about the women's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Annemiek van Vleuten (NL) (2) Anna van der Breggen (NL) (3) Amanda Spratt (Aus). This is the results sheet.
Sunday 29th September 2019
The men's road race starts in Leeds, and is a monster route of 280km. The ride through the Yorkshire Dales closely resembles Stage 1 of the 2014 Tour de France, with climbs at Cray, Buttertubs, and Grinton Moor. On their return to Harrogate, the riders do seven laps of the 14-km Beckwithshaw-Penny Pot Lane-Valley Gardens circuit, before the finish line on West Park.
Seven ideas for places to watch the elite men's road race, including the start, the climbs in the Yorkshire Dales, and the finishing circuit in Harrogate.
Favourites for the elite men's road race include Julian Alaphilippe and Peter Sagan.
This is the start list for the elite men's road race.
Read about the elite men's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Mads Pedersen (Den) (2) Matteo Trentin (Ita) (3) Stefan Kung (Swi). This is the results sheet.
Saturday 21st September 2019
The 2019 Championships open with para-cycling road races, called the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International.
There will be para-cycling road races for all para classifications (13 classifications for men and 13 for women). There are three different start points, for different classifications: Beverley, 106.2km route, Tadcaster, 57km, and Wetherby, 41.2km/28km. All routes finish in Harrogate.
This is the first time that para-cycling will take place alongside the UCI Road World Championships. It will get the 2019 event off to a great start, with competitive races and big crowds.
At the Saturday Market in Beverley, where some of the races start, there's a day of entertainment and activities. Other places to watch include Market Weighton, Tadcaster, Wetherby, Knaresborough, and Harrogte. Read about where to watch the Yorkshire 2019 para-cycling road races.
Read about the para-cycling road races at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Sunday 22nd September 2019
The mixed team time trial takes place on the Harrogate circuit, on the Sunday of the opening weekend of the Championships. (It will follow on from the amateur event, the UCI official sportive, which takes place earlier in the day). The mixed team time trial involves national teams of three men and three women. The men ride the 14-km circuit first, and when the second of them crosses the line, the women set off. The final time is taken when the second of the female riders crosses the finish line on West Park.
This should be a fun and exciting event.
Since the mixed team time trial takes place on the Harrogate circuit, see my suggestions as to where to watch on the UCI 2019 Harrogate circuit.
Read about the mixed team time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) NL (2) Germany (3) GB. This is the results sheet from the mixed team time trial.
Monday 23rd September 2019
The junior women's individual time trial is on Monday morning, and the junior men race on Monday afternoon. The start ramp will be in the West Park Fan Zone. From there, the junior women do one lap of the Harrogate circuit, a distance of 14km. It's a rolling route, with very little flat. Pot Bank and Penny Pot Lane are probably the toughest uphill sections. There should be lots of local people watching and encouraging the riders.
Map and profile as for the mixed team time trial. See where to watch on the UCI 2019 Harrogate circuit.
Read about the junior women's individual time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Aigul Gareeva (Rus) (2) Shirin van Anrooij (NL) (3) Elynor Backstedt (GB). This is the results sheet from the junior women's ITT.
Monday 23rd September 2019
The junior men's individual time trial is two laps of the Harrogate circuit, for a total distance of 28km. While there are no long climbs, there are plenty of short, sharp ones - in fact, for almost the whole route, it's either up or down. The advantage of the route is that it's never far from the centre of Harrogate, which should mean plenty of vocal support for the competitors.
The map and profile are as for the mixed team time trial.
Read about the junior men's individual time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Antonio Tiberi (Ita) (2) Enzo Leijnse (NL) (3) Marco Brenner (Ger). See the results sheet from the junior men's ITT.
Tuesday 24th September 2018
The U23 men's individual time trial is on the same day, and uses the same Ripon to Harrogate route, as the elite women's ITT. Both courses take the A61 to Ripley, then head off to Bedlam, Clint, Birstwith, and Hampsthwaite, before heading into Harrogate. The total distance is 30.3km.
Where to watch the U23 men's individual time trial is as for where to watch the elite women's individual time trial.
Start list for the UCI 2019 U23 men's individual time trial.
Read about the U23 men's individual time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Mikkel Bjerg (Den) (2) Ian Garrison (USA) (3) Brandon McNulty (USA). This is the results sheet from the U23 men's ITT.
Tuesday 24th September 2019
The elite women's individual time trial is 30.3km. The route is from Ripon to Harrogate, then one lap of the Harrogate circuit. Ripon to Ripley is on the A61, via Ripley, then the competitors will wend their way through Bedlam, Clint, Birstwith, Clapham Green, and Hampsthwaite. They reach the A59, and pedal along it as far as the New Park roundabout. There, they re-join the A61, and but for the usual Swan Road/Crescent Road diversion, stay on it all the way to the centre of town. They go up Parliament Street to the finish line on West Park.
The map and profile are the same as for the under 23 men's individual time trial.
Good places to watch the elite women's individual time trial include the start at Ripon, and villages on the river Nidd like Birstwith and Hampsthwaite. Read where to watch the elite women's individual time trial at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
Favourites for the elite women's individual time trial include 2018 World Champion Annemiek van Vleuten, Anna van der Breggen, and Ellen van Dijk.
Start list for the UCI 2019 elite women's individual time trial.
Read about the elite women's individual time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Chloe Dygert (USA) (2) Anna van der Breggen (NL) (3) Annemiek van Vleuten (NL). This is the results sheet.
Wednesday 25th September 2019
The elite men's individual time trial is a 54km route from Northallerton to Harrogate. Heading south out of Northallerton, it passes through Morton-on-Swale, and crosses the A1M at Leeming Bar, before reaching Bedale. From Bedale, there's a series of dips and rises as the route crosses rivers and streams. One of those rivers is the Ure, and just after crossing it the competitors arrive at Masham. From Masham, the route is popular with local cyclists: Grewelthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, and Risplith, then on to Ripley. Here it joins the A61 (less popular with this local cyclist). The A61 Ripon road leads to the finish on West Park in Harrogate.
Six ideas for places to watch the elite men's individual time trial, including the start at Northallerton, towns and villages along the route such as Bedale, Masham, and Kirkby Malzeard, and the finish in Harrogate.
Favourites for the elite men's individual time trial include Geraint Thomas and Rohan Dennis. In the likely absence of Tom Dumoulin and Chris Froome, it's more open than it might have been. Could a relative outsider seize the world title?
This is the start list for the elite men's ITT.
Read about the elite men's individual time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Rohan Dennis (Aus) (2) Remco Evenepoel (Bel) (3) Filippo Ganna (Ita). This is the results sheet.
Thursday 26th September 2018
The junior men's road race starts in Richmond. It dips into Wensleydale, before heading up Kidstones Bank (otherwise known as the Côte de Cray). The other side of the climb, it's down into Wharfedale (Buckden, Kettlewell, Kilnsey, Threshfield), then on to Bolton Abbey. From Bolton Bridge, the riders are on the A59, with a climb at Summerscales up to Blubberhouses Moor. On arrival in Harrogate, there are three laps of the Harrogate circuit before the finish on West Park.
Places to watch include Richmond, Kidstones Bank, Bolton Abbey, Blubberhouses Moor, and Harrogate. Where to watch the junior men's road race.
This is the start list for the junior men's road race.
Read about the junior men's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Quinn Simmons (USA) (2) Alessio Martinelli (Ita) (3) Magnus Sheffield (USA). This is the results sheet.
Friday 27th September 2019
The junior women's road race starts in Doncaster. It makes its way north via Hatfield and Thorne, then passes to the east of Pontefract and Castleford. Monk Fryston and Sherburn-in-Elmet are on the route before Tadcaster. Wetherby is the next main town, and from there, the riders take the A661 to Spofforth. Arriving in High Harrogate at the Empress roundabout, they are then on the A59 to the New Park roundabout. They approach the finish on West Park, like the other races, on Ripon Road, Swan Road, Crescent Road, and Parliament Street.
Places to watch include Doncaster, Tadcaster, Wetherby, Spofforth, and Harrogate. Where to watch the junior women's road race.
Read about the junior women's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Megan Jastrab (USA) (2) Julie de Wilde (Bel) (3) Lieke Nooijen (Ned). This is the results sheet.
Friday 27th September 2018
The U23 men's road race starts in Doncaster, and heads north to Sherburn-in-Elmet, Tadcaster, and Boroughbridge. Then the route is west to Ripon and Pateley Bridge, before the riders go up Greenhow Hill, a popular climb with lots of roadside spectators when it has featured in the Tour de Yorkshire. The riders then travel via Thruscross and Blubberhouses to Harrogate. There are three laps of the Harrogate circuit before the finish on West Park.
Places to watch the U23 men's road race include the start at Doncaster, Tadcaster, Boroughbridge, Ripon, Pateley Bridge, Greenhow Hill, and Harrogate.
Read about the U23 men's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Result: (1) Samuele Battistella (2) Stefan Bisseger (Swi) (3) Tom Pidcock (GB). This is the results sheet.
The Harrogate circuit is central to the 2019 UCI Road World Championships. The mixed team time trial is exclusively on it, and most of the other races will ride it after a route from elsewhere in Yorkshire. For example, the women's road race does three laps, and the men's road race does seven.
Discover the Harrogate circuit at the 2019 UCI road World Championships.
