The International Cycling Union is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.
The UCI Road World Championships Elite Women's Road Race is a one-day event for professional cyclists that takes place annually. The winner is considered the World Cycling Champion and earns the right to wear the Rainbow Jersey for a full year in road race or stage events. The event is a single 'mass start' road race with the winner being the first across the line at the completion of the full race distance. The road race is contested by riders organized by national cycling teams as opposed to commercially sponsored or trade teams, which is the standard in professional cycling.
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and as of 2019, a mixed team relay.
Rohan Dennis is an Australian former cyclist, who competed professionally in the track and road disciplines of the sport for five different teams.
Nelson Filipe dos Santos Simões Oliveira is a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.
Jolanda Neff is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Trek Factory Racing team. She won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Alistair Donohoe is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for Australian club team Blackburn CC. Following a right arm impairment in 2009, Donohoe became a multiple medallist at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships and UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. He won two silver medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, a silver and bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and a silver and bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Ryan William Mullen is an Irish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.
Uno-X Mobility is a Norwegian UCI ProTeam established in 2016, as a continuation of the earlier Team Ringeriks-Kraft. Uno-X Mobility was initially established as a cooperation between Uno-X, Ringerike Sykkelklubb og Lillehammer Cykleklubb, and had its inaugural season in 2017. The team is sponsored by fuel station chain Uno-X, which is part of the Reitan conglomerate.
Lennard Kämna is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe. He rode with Team Stölting in 2015, before his team and Cult Energy Pro Cycling merged for the 2016 season.
Casper Philip Pedersen is a road and track cyclist from Denmark, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.
Niklas Larsen is a Danish professional track and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility. He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships winning a bronze medal.
Thomas Pidcock is a British cyclist who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.
Kasper Asgreen is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. Asgreen won the 2021 Tour of Flanders by defeating Mathieu van der Poel in a sprint finish.
The 2019 UCI Road World Championships was the 92nd edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It took place between 22 and 29 September 2019 in the historic county of Yorkshire, United Kingdom, the fourth to be held in the United Kingdom. The championships are traditionally hosted by a single town or city but, while each event in 2019 finished in the North Yorkshire town of Harrogate, the whole historic county of Yorkshire was the official host. Heavy rainfall caused some of the events to be re-routed and delayed.
Marc Hirschi is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.
Jonas Rutsch is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.
Jonathan Milan is an Italian professional track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Niklas Märkl is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM–Firmenich PostNL.
Niklas Behrens is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Lidl–Trek Future Racing.
