The women’s Road World Championships is an annual cycling event held at a different venue each year. The event features two women’s races; The Women’s road race, which is the longest running women’s cycling race, starting in 1958; and The women’s time trial race, added in 1994. The winner of each race earns the right to wear the rainbow jersey for World Tour races the following season. The races are generally considered the most prestigious events in the disciplines.
The most successful rider in the road race is the French Jeannie Longo who has worn the rainbow jersey 5 times (1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1995). Longo is also the most successful time trial rider with 4 victories (1995, 1996, 1997, 2001). Only Jeannie Longo (1995) and Anna van der Breggen (2020) have won both the road race and the time trial in the same year.
UCI Road World Championships 2022
The 2022 event was held from 18 to 25 September 2022 in Australia. The women’s time trial was held on 18 September 2022 and was won by Dutch rider Ellen van Dijk. The women’s road race was held on 24 September 2022 and was won by Annemiek van Vleuten.
UCI Road World Championships 2023 Preview
The 2023 World Championships will be held from 3 to 13 August 2023 in Scotland. The women’s road race will take place on 13 August 2023 around Loch Lomond, and the women’s time trial will be held on 10 August 2023 in Stirlingshire.
Results
Road Race
- 2022 – Annemiek van Vleuten
- 2021 – Elisa Balsamo
- 2020 – Anna van der Breggen
- 2019 – Annemiek van Vleuten
- 2018 – Anna van der Breggen
- 2017 – Chantal Blaak
- 2016 – Amalie Dideriksen
- 2015 – Lizzie Armitstead
- 2014 – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
- 2013 – Marianne Vos
- 2012 – Marianne Vos
- 2011 – Giorgia Bronzini
- 2010 – Giorgia Bronzini
- 2009 – Tatiana Guderzo
- 2008 – Nicole Cooke
- 2007 – Marta Bastianelli
- 2006 – Marianne Vos
- 2005 – Regina Schleicher
- 2004 – Judith Arndt
- 2003 – Susanne Ljungskog
- 2002 – Susanne Ljungskog
- 2001 – Rasa Polikeviciute
- 2000 – Zinaida Stahurskaia
- 1999 – Edita Pucinskaite
- 1998 – Diana Ziliute
- 1997 – Alessandra Cappellotto
- 1996 – Barbara Heeb
- 1995 – Jeannie Longo
- 1994 – Monica Valvik
- 1993 – Leontien van Moorsel
- 1991 – Leontien van Moorsel
- 1990 – Catherine Marsal
- 1989 – Jeannie Longo
- 1987 – Jeannie Longo
- 1986 – Jeannie Longo
- 1985 – Jeannie Longo
- 1983 – Marianne Berglund
- 1982 – Mandy Jones
- 1981 – Ute Enzenauer
- 1980 – Beth Heiden
- 1979 – Petra de Bruijn
- 1978 – Beate Habetz
- 1977 – Josiane Bost
- 1976 – Keetie van Oosten-Hage
- 1975 – Tineke Fopma
- 1974 – Genevieve Gambillon
- 1973 – Nicole Vandenbroeck
- 1972 – Genevieve Gambillon
- 1971 – Anna Konkina
- 1970 – Anna Konkina
- 1969 – Audrey McElmury
- 1968 – Keetie van Oosten-Hage
- 1967 – Beryl Burton
- 1966 – Yvonne Reynders
- 1965 – Elisabeth Eicholz
- 1964 – Emīlija Sonka
- 1963 – Yvonne Reynders
- 1962 – Marie-Rose Gaillard
- 1961 – Yvonne Reynders
- 1960 – Beryl Burton
- 1959 – Yvonne Reynders
- 1958 – Elsy Jacobs
Individual Time Trial
- 2022 – Ellen van Dijk
- 2021 – Ellen van Dijk
- 2020 – Anna van der Breggen
- 2019 – Chloe Dygert
- 2018 – Annemiek van Vleuten
- 2017 – Annemiek van Vleuten
- 2016 – Amber Neben
- 2015 – Linda Villumsen
- 2014 – Lisa Brennauer
- 2013 – Ellen van Dijk
- 2012 – Judith Arndt
- 2011 – Judith Arndt
- 2010 – Emma Pooley
- 2009 – Kristin Armstrong
- 2008 – Amber Neben
- 2007 – Hanka Kupfernagel
- 2006 – Kristin Armstrong
- 2005 – Karin Thurig
- 2004 – Karin Thurig
- 2003 – Joane Somarriba
- 2002 – Zulfiya Zabirova
- 2001 – Jeannie Longo
- 2000 – Mari Holden
- 1999 – Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel
- 1998 – Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel
- 1997 – Jeannie Longo
- 1996 – Jeannie Longo
- 1995 – Jeannie Longo
- 1994 – Karen Kurreck