2023 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

Women's road race

2023 UCI Road World Championships
Race details
Dates	13 August 2023
Stages	1 in Balloch, Great Britain
Distance	154.1 km (95.75 mi)
Winning time	4h 02' 12"
Medalists
Gold   Lotte Kopecky  (BEL)    Silver   Demi Vollering  (NED)    Bronze   Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig  (DEN)
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The women's road race of the 2023 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 13 August 2023 in Balloch, Great Britain. ^[1] The race was won by Belgian Lotte Kopecky for the first time. ^[2]

Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 30 June 2023. ^[3]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified. ^[4]

Nations	Riders
Australia	7
Belgium
France
Italy
Netherlands
Canada	6
Denmark
Germany
Great Britain
New Zealand
Poland
South Africa
Spain
Switzerland
United States
Neutral athletes of Russian sporting nationality	5
Austria
Cuba
Norway
Uzbekistan

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Annemiek van Vleuten	Netherlands	Incumbent World Champion
Ese Ukpeseraye	Nigeria	African Champion
Skylar Schneider	United States	Panamerican Champion
Nguyễn Thị Thật	Vietnam	Asian Champion

Participating nations

210 cyclists from 71 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses. ^[5]

•   Argentina  (2)
•   Algeria  (1)
•   Australia  (7)
•   Austria  (5)
•   Belgium  (7)
•   Bermuda  (1)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   British Virgin Islands  (1)
•   Burkina Faso  (1)
•   Canada  (6)
•   Chile  (1)
•   China  (3)
•   Colombia  (3)
•   Cyprus  (1)
•   Czech Republic  (3)
•   Denmark  (6)
•   Ecuador  (1)
•   Finland  (1)
•   France  (7)
•   Germany  (6)
•   Great Britain  (6)
•   Greece  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (3)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   Indonesia  (1)
•   Ireland  (3)
•   Israel  (2)
•   Italy  (7)
•   Japan  (2)
•   Kazakhstan  (3)
•   Latvia  (2)
•   Luxembourg  (3)
•   Mauritius  (3)
•   Morocco  (1)
•   Namibia  (2)
•   Netherlands  (8)
•   New Zealand  (5)
•   Nigeria  (3)
•   Norway  (5)
•   Paraguay  (1)
•   Poland  (6)
•   Portugal  (2)
•   Rwanda  (3)
•   Serbia  (1)
•   Slovakia  (1)
•   Slovenia  (3)
•   South Africa  (6)
•   Spain  (5)
•   Sweden  (3)
•    Switzerland  (6)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (1)
•   Uganda  (1)
•   Ukraine  (3)
•   United Arab Emirates  (1)
•   United States  (7)
•   Uzbekistan  (5)
•   Venezuela  (2)
•   Zimbabwe  (2)

Final classification

Rank Rider Country Time 1 Lotte Kopecky   Belgium 4h 02' 12" 2 Demi Vollering   Netherlands + 7" 3 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig   Denmark + 7" 4 Marlen Reusser    Switzerland + 12" 5 Christina Schweinberger   Austria + 34" 6 Elizabeth Deignan   Great Britain + 34" 7 Elise Chabbey    Switzerland + 1' 24" 8 Annemiek van Vleuten   Netherlands + 2' 48" 9 Riejanne Markus   Netherlands + 3' 51" 10 Mavi García   Spain + 4' 05" 11 Kata Blanka Vas   Hungary + 4' 34" 12 Silvia Persico   Italy + 4' 34" 13 Shirin van Anrooij   Netherlands + 4' 34" 14 Agnieszka Skalniak   Poland + 4' 34" 15 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio   South Africa + 4' 34" 16 Juliette Labous   France + 4' 34" 17 Anna Shackley   Great Britain + 4' 34" 18 Lauren Stephens   United States + 4' 34" 19 Liane Lippert   Germany + 4' 34" 20 Chiara Consonni   Italy + 5' 13" 21 Marta Lach   Poland + 8' 11" 22 Justine Ghekiere   Belgium + 8' 26" 23 Lauretta Hanson   Australia + 8' 26" 24 Grace Brown   Australia + 8' 26" 25 Jelena Erić   Serbia + 8' 26" 26 Audrey Cordon-Ragot   France + 8' 26" 27 Paula Patiño   Colombia + 8' 26" 28 Pfeiffer Georgi   Great Britain + 8' 26" 29 Elisa Balsamo   Italy + 8' 26" 30 Elena Cecchini   Italy + 8' 29" 31 Soraya Paladin   Italy + 8' 29" 32 Simone Boilard   Canada + 9' 11" 33 Alison Jackson   Canada + 13' 47" 34 Olivia Baril   Canada + 13' 47" 35 Julie de Wilde   Belgium + 14' 42" 36 Megan Jastrab   United States + 14' 49" 37 Romy Kasper   Germany + 14' 49" 38 Kathrin Schweinberger   Austria + 14' 49" 39 Anastasia Carbonari   Latvia + 14' 49" 40 Marthe Goossens   Belgium + 14' 49" 41 Karolina Kumięga   Poland + 14' 49" 42 Eri Yonamine   Japan + 14' 49" 43 Dominika Wlodarczyk   Poland + 14' 49" 44 Linda Riedmann   Germany + 14' 49" 45 Loes Adegeest   Netherlands + 14' 49" 46 Sarah van Dam   Canada + 14' 49" 47 Marianne Vos   Netherlands + 14' 49" 48 Carina Schrempf   Austria + 14' 49" 49 Sandra Alonso   Spain + 14' 15" 50 Teniel Campbell   Trinidad and Tobago + 14' 49" 51 Ella Wyllie   New Zealand + 14' 49" 52 Franziska Koch   Poland + 14' 49" 53 Arlenis Sierra   Cuba + 14' 49" 54 Eugenia Bujak   Slovenia + 14' 18" 55 Niamh Fisher-Black   New Zealand + 14' 18" 56 Tereza Neumanová   Czech Republic + 14' 18" 57 Alexandra Manly   Australia + 14' 18" 58 Emilia Fahlin   Sweden + 14' 18" 57 Claire Steels   Great Britain + 14' 49" 57 Marie Schreiber   Luxembourg + 14' 49" 57 Noëlle Rüetschi    Switzerland + 14' 49" 62 Eliška Kvasničková   Czech Republic + 14' 49" 63 Maggie Coles-Lyster   Australia + 14' 49" 64 Kimberley Le Court de Billot   Mauritius + 14' 49" 65 Zeng Luyao   China + 14' 49" 66 Marthe Truyen   Belgium + 14' 49" 67 Ricarda Bauernfeind   Germany + 14' 49" 68 Lara Gillespie   Ireland + 14' 49" 69 Sanne Cant   Belgium + 14' 49" 70 Elena Hartmann    Switzerland + 14' 58" 71 Rasa Leleivytė   Lithuania + 14' 58" 72 Leun Wing Yee   Singapore + 14' 58" 73 Léa Curinier   France + 14' 58" 74 Antonia Niedermaier   Germany + 15' 01" 75 Lilibeth Chacón   Venezuela + 15' 01" 76 Amalie Lutro   Norway + 15' 04" 77 Yanina Kuskova   Uzbekistan + 15' 04" 78 Kim Cadzow   New Zealand + 15' 05" 79 Megan Armitage   Ireland + 15' 05" 80 Olha Kulynych   Ukraine + 15' 05" 81 Diana Peñuela   Colombia + 15' 05" 82 Marcela Prieto   Mexico + 15' 05" 83 Sara Poidevin   Canada + 15' 09" 84 Mischa Bredewold   Netherlands + 15' 21" 85 Marte Berg Edseth   Norway + 19' 46" 86 Julia Borgström   Sweden + 19' 46"

Rank Rider Country Time Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini   Italy DNF Ingvild Gaskjenn   Norway DNF Alice Sharpe   Ireland DNF Ally Wollaston   New Zealand DNF Nina Berton   Luxembourg DNF Miryam Núñez   Ecuador DNF Anna Henderson   Great Britain DNF Aude Biannic   France DNF Clara Copponi   France DNF Amanda Spratt   Australia DNF Urška Žigart   Slovenia DNF Tiffany Keep   South Africa DNF Katrine Aalerud   Norway DNF Olga Zabelinskaya   Uzbekistan DNF Yuliia Biriukova   Ukraine DNF Anabel Yapura   Argentina DNF Amalie Dideriksen   Denmark DNF Linda Zanetti    Switzerland DNF Julie van de Velde   Belgium DNF Sara Martín   Spain DNF Noemi Rüegg    Switzerland DNF Rebecca Koerner   Denmark DNF Anniina Ahtosalo   Finland DNF Solbjørk Minke Anderson   Denmark DNF Christine Majerus   Luxembourg DNF Daniela Campos   Portugal DNF Diane Ingabire   Rwanda DNF Heidi Franz   United States DNF Agua Marina Espínola   Paraguay DNF Lily Williams   United States DNF Alba Teruel   Spain DNF Nora Jenčušová   Slovakia DNF Nofar Maoz   Israel DNF Makhabbat Umutzhanova   Kazakhstan DNF Andrea Ramírez   Mexico DNF Andrea Alzate   Colombia DNF Tang Xin   China DNF Selam Amha   Ethiopia DNF Maude Le Roux   South Africa DNF Antri Christoforou   Cyprus DNF Margarita Misyurina   Uzbekistan DNF Caitlin Conyers   Bermuda DNF Petra Zsankó   Hungary DNF Malin Eriksen   Norway DNF Skye Davidson   Zimbabwe DNF Fariba Hashimi   Afghanistan DNF Brodie Chapman   Australia DNF Lorena Wiebes   Netherlands DNF Akari Kobayashi   Japan DNS Michaela Drummond   New Zealand DNF Georgia Baker   Australia DNF Urška Pintar   Slovenia DNF Elisa Winter   Austria DNF Leila Gschwentner   Austria DNF Catalina Soto   Chile DNF Barbara Guarischi   Italy DNF Sarah Roy   Australia DNF Victoire Berteau   France DNF Cédrine Kerbaol   France DNF Lizzie Holden   Great Britain DNF Marta Jaskulska   Poland DNF Marita Jensen   Denmark DNF Emma Norsgaard Jørgensen   Denmark DNF Coryn Labecki   United States DNF Skylar Schneider   United States DNF Sheyla Gutierrez   Spain DNF Frances Janse van Rensburg   South Africa DNF Hayley Preen   South Africa DNF Sofiya Karimova   Uzbekistan DNF Nafosat Kozieva   Uzbekistan DNF Olga Shekel   Ukraine DNF Kristýna Burlová   Czech Republic DNF Jazilla Mwamikazi   Rwanda DNF Xaveline Nirere   Rwanda DNF Chaniporn Batriya   Thailand DNF Kamonrada Khaoplot   Thailand DNF Sun Jiajun   China DNF Vera Vilaça   Portugal DNF Aurélie Halbwachs   Mauritius DNF Raphaëlle Lamusse   Mauritius DNF Nesrine Houili   Algeria DNF Monique du Plessis   Namibia DNF Melissa Hinz   Namibia DNF Ana Vitória Magalhães   Brazil DNF Rotem Gafinovitz   Israel DNF Ayustina Delia Priatna   India DNF Safia Al Sayegh   United Arab Emirates DNF Faina Potapova   Kazakhstan DNF Rinata Sultanova   Kazakhstan DNF Lee Sze Wing   Hong Kong DNF Yang Qianyu   Hong Kong DNF Tombrapa Grikpa   Nigeria DNF Mary Samuel   Nigeria DNF Ese Ukpeseraye   Nigeria DNF Vanessa Santeliz   Venezuela DNF Dana Rožlapa   Latvia DNF Raja Chakir   Morocco DNF Helen Mitchell   Zimbabwe DNF Aikaterini Eleftheriadou   Greece DNF Ebtissam Mohamed   Egypt DNF Yareli Acevedo   Mexico DNF Faranak Partoazar   Iran DNF Silja Jóhannesdóttir   Iceland DNF Hafdís Sigurðardóttir   Iceland DNF Kristin Edda Sveinsdóttir   Iceland DNF Dunja Ivanova   North Macedonia DNF Elena Petrova   North Macedonia DNF Yulduz Hashimi   Afghanistan DNF Zahra Rezayee   Afghanistan DNF Olympia Maduro Fahie   British Virgin Islands DNF Luciana Roland   Argentina DNF Bucumi Beolyne   Burundi DNF Emmanuella Rukundo   Burundi DNF Julia Mirigu   Kenya DNF Florence Nakagwa   Kenya DNF Fanny Cauchois One   Laos DNF Awa Bamogo   Burkina Faso DNF Katarzyna Niewiadoma   Poland DNS Chloé Dygert   United States DNS Zanri Rossouw   South Africa DNS Jenny Rissveds   Sweden DNS

References

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