2012 UCI Road World Championships – Men's under-23 road race

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Men's under-23 road race
2012 UCI Road World Championships
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Dates 22 September 2012
Stages 1
Medalists
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The Men's under-23 road race of the 2012 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 22 September 2012 in Limburg, the Netherlands. [1]

The UCI Road World Championships - Men's under-23 road race 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 1996.

2012 UCI Road World Championships

The 2012 UCI Road World Championships took place in the southern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, also known as South Limburg, between September 15 and 23. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23, and team time trials for elite men and women. It will be the 79th Road World Championships. Castelfidardo near Loreto in Italy was also a candidate, but Italy had held the UCI Road World Championships in Varese in 2008. The Netherlands last hosted the Road World Championships in 1998 in Valkenburg aan de Geul and this time it was the seventh time in total that the country has hosted the championships.

Limburg (Netherlands) Province of the Netherlands

Limburg is the southernmost of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. It is in the southeastern part of the country, stretched out from the north, where it touches the province of Gelderland, to the south, where it internationally borders Belgium. Its northern part has the North Brabant province to its west. Its long eastern boundary is the international border with the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Much of the west border runs along the River Maas, bordering the Flemish province of Limburg, and a small part of the Walloon province of Liège. On the south end, it has borders with the Flemish exclave of Voeren and its surrounding part of Liège, Wallonia. The Vaalserberg is on the extreme south-eastern point, marking the tripoint of Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.

Final classification

Cyclist Nation Time
1 Alexey Lutsenko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan en4h 20'  15"
2 Bryan Coquard Flag of France.svg  France + s.t.
3 Tom Van Asbroeck Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium s.t.
4 Hugo Houle Flag of Canada.svg  Canada s.t.
5 Luka Pibernik Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia s.t.
6 Esteban Chaves Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia s.t.
7 Hernando Bohórquez Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia s.t.
8 Kenneth Vanbilsen Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium s.t.
9 Wouter Wippert Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands s.t.
10 Sam Bennett Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland s.t.

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References

  1. "Guide des compétitions course en ligne / CLM individuel" (PDF). uci.ch. Retrieved 24 September 2012.