| 2013 in road cycling |
|---|
 |
| List of men's road bicycle races |
| List of women's road bicycle races |
| 2013 in road cycling |
|---|
| |
| List of men's road bicycle races |
| List of women's road bicycle races |
The World Road Championships was held in Florence, Italy.
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championship Team Time Trial | September 22 |  Omega Pharma–Quick-Step |  Orica–GreenEDGE |  Team Sky | [1] |
| World Championship Time Trial | September 25 |  Tony Martin (GER) | Bradley Wiggins (GBR) |  Fabian Cancellara (SUI) | |
| World Championship Road Race | September 29 |  Rui Costa (POR) |  Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | May 4–26 | Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) |  Rigoberto Urán (COL) | Cadel Evans (AUS) | |
 Tour de France | June 29 – July 21 | Chris Froome (GBR) | Nairo Quintana (COL) | Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) | |
| Vuelta a España | August 24 – September 15 |  Chris Horner (USA) | Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) |
| Tour | Individual champion | Individual champion's team | Team champion | Nations champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Tour | Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) | Team Katusha | Movistar Team | Spain |
| Africa Tour |  Adil Jelloul (MAR) | No team | MTN–Qhubeka | Morocco |
| America Tour | Janier Acevedo (COL) | Jamis-Hagens Berman | UnitedHealthcare | Colombia |
| Asia Tour | Julián Arredondo (COL) | Team Nippo-De Rosa | Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team |  Iran |
| Europe Tour |  Riccardo Zoidl (AUT) | RC Gourmetfein Wels | Team TotalEnergies | France |
| Oceania Tour | Damien Howson (AUS) | No team | Huon Salmon–Genesys Wealth Advisers | Australia |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road race | November 11, 2012 |  Natnael Berhane (ERI) |  Jay Thomson (RSA) | Frekalsi Debesay (ERI) |
| Individual time trial | November 9, 2012 | Daniel Teklehaymanot (ERI) |  Tsgabu Grmay (ETH) | Jay Thomson (RSA) |
| Team time trial | November 7, 2012 | Eritrea Natnael Berhane Frekalsi Debesay Daniel Teklehaymanot Jani Tewelde |  Tunisia Said Ali Akkouche Rafaâ Chtioui Maher Hasnaoui Ahmed M'Raihi |  Algeria Adel Barbari Hichem Chaabane Karim Hadjbouzit Fayçal Hamza |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road race | March 17 |  Muradjan Halmuratov (UZB) | Arvin Moazzemi (IRI) |  Andrey Mizurov (KAZ) |
| Individual time trial | March 14 | Muradjan Halmuratov (UZB) | Andrey Mizurov (KAZ) |  Evgeny Vakker (KGZ) |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road race (under-23) | July 21 | Sean De Bie (BEL) |  Petr Vakoč (CZE) |  Toms Skujiņš (LAT) |
| Individual time trial (under-23) | July 18 | Victor Campenaerts (BEL) |  Oleksandr Golovash (UKR) | Jasha Sütterlin (DEU) |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road race | March 17 | Cameron Meyer (AUS) | Damien Howson (AUS) | Jack Anderson (AUS) |
| Individual time trial | March 14 |  Paul Odlin (NZL) | Benjamin Dyball (AUS) | Joseph Cooper (NZL) |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road race | May 5 | Jonathan Paredes (COL) |  Ignacio Diaz (MEX) |  Segundo Navarrete (ECU) |
| Individual time trial | May 2 |  Carlos Oyarzun (CHI) | Ignacio Diaz (MEX) |  Leandro Messineo (ARG) |
| Race | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race [39] |  Joël Zangerle (LUX) |  Hans Burkhard (LIE) | Tom Thill (LUX) |
| Time trial [40] | Stefan Küng (LIE) | Alex Kirsch (LUX) | Christian Helmig (LUX) |
| Race | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race [41] |  Tobyn Horton (GGY) |  Torkil Veyhe (FRO) |  Andrew Roche (IOM) |
| Time trial [42] | Andrew Roche (IOM) | Torkil Veyhe (FRO) |  Shannon Lawrence (BER) |
| Road race team [43] | Guernsey | Isle of Man |  Jersey |
| Time trial team [44] | Isle of Man | Guernsey | Jersey |
| Town centre criterium [45] | Tobyn Horton (GGY) | Richard Tanguy (Jersey) | Greg Mansell (Jersey) |
| Race | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race [46] | Nicola Ruffoni (ITA) | Christophe Laporte (FRA) | Abdelbasat Hanachi (ALG) |
| Time trial [46] | Yoann Paillot (FRA) | Luis Mas Bonet (ESP) |  Rasim Reis (TUR) |
| Race | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race |  Feng Chun-kai (TWN) |  Altanzul Altansukh (MGL) | Tuguldur Tuulkhangai (MGL) |
| Race | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race |  Alex Destribois (LAO) |  Mai Nguyen Hung (VIE) |  Robin Manulang (INA) |
| Time trial |  Mark Galedo (PHI) | Robin Manulang (INA) | Ronald Oranza (PHI) |
| Team time trial | Vietnam Le Van Duan Nguyen Thanh Tam Trinh Duc Tam Mai Nguyen Hung |  Thailand Sarawut Sirironnachai Thurakit Boonratanathanakorn Puchong Sai-Udomsin Nawuti Liphongyu |  Malaysia Mohamed Rauf Nur Misbah Amir Rusli Muhamad Othman Mohamed Lutfi |
| Code | Official team name | License holder | Country | Groupset | Bicycles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALM | Ag2r–La Mondiale (2013 season) | EUSRL France Cyclisme | France | SRAM | Focus |
| ARG | Argos–Shimano (2013 season) | SMS Cycling |  Netherlands | Shimano | Felt |
| AST | Astana (2013 season) | Olympus Sarl | Kazakhstan | Campagnolo | Specialized |
| BMC | BMC Racing Team (2013 season) | Continuum Sports LLC | United States | Shimano | BMC |
| EUS | Euskaltel–Euskadi (2013 season) | Fundación Ciclista Euskadi | Spain | Shimano | Orbea |
| FDJ | FDJ.fr (2013 season) | Société de Gestion de L'Echappée | France | Shimano | Lapierre |
| GRM | Garmin–Sharp (2013 season) | Slipstream Sports, LLC | United States | Shimano | Cervélo |
| OGE | Orica–GreenEDGE (2013 season) | Lachlan Smith | Australia | Shimano | Scott |
| LAM | Lampre–Merida (2013 season) | Total Cycling Limited | Italy | Shimano | Merida |
| CAN | Cannondale (2013 season) | Brixia Sports | Italy | SRAM | Cannondale |
| LTB | Lotto–Belisol (2013 season) | Belgian Cycling Company sa | Belgium | Campagnolo | Ridley |
| MOV | Movistar Team (2013 season) | Abarca Sports S.L. | Spain | Campagnolo | Pinarello |
| OPQ | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (2013 season) | Esperanza bvba | Belgium | SRAM | Specialized |
| BEL | Belkin Pro Cycling (2013 season) | Rabo Wielerploegen | Netherlands | Shimano | Giant |
| KAT | Team Katusha (2013 season) | Katusha Management SA |  Russia | Shimano | Canyon |
| RLT | RadioShack–Leopard (2013 season) | Trek Bicycle Corporation [N 1] | Luxembourg | Shimano | Trek |
| SAX | Saxo–Tinkoff (2013 season) | Riis Cycling A/S |  Denmark | SRAM | Specialized |
| SKY | Team Sky (2013 season) | Tour Racing Limited | United Kingdom | Shimano | Pinarello |
| VCD | Vacansoleil–DCM (2013 season) | STL–Pro Cycling B.V. | Netherlands | Shimano | Bianchi |
Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016. He began his cycling career on the track, but later made the transition to road cycling. He won world titles in four disciplines, and Olympic gold in three. He is the only rider to have won both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road as well as winning the Tour de France. He has worn the leader's jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions. He won a gold medal at four successive Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, and held the record as Great Britain's most decorated Olympian with 8 medals until Jason Kenny won his 9th in 2021. He is the only rider to win both the Tour de France and Olympic Gold in the same year, winning them a week apart in 2012.
Stephen Philip Cummings is an English former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Landbouwkrediet–Colnago, Discovery Channel, Barloworld, Team Sky, BMC Racing Team and Team Dimension Data squads, and rode for Great Britain at the Summer Olympic Games, the UCI Road World Championships, and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Geraint Howell Thomas, is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers, Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and road rider, with notable victories in the velodrome, in one-day racing and in stage racing. On the track, he has won three World Championships, and two Olympic gold medals, while on the road he won the 2018 Tour de France becoming the first Welshman and third British rider to win it.
Bauke Mollema is a Dutch professional cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. He has finished in the top 10 in all three Grand Tours, with stage wins in the 2021 Tour de France, 2017 Tour de France, and the 2013 Vuelta a España. His best result in the general classification in the Tour de France came in 2013 when he finished in 6th place. He won the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2016 and finished on the podium on three other occasions at the race. In 2019, he achieved the biggest win of his career in Il Lombardia.
Christopher Clive Froome [kɹɪs fɹuːm], is a Kenyan-British professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech. He has won seven Grand Tours: four editions of the Tour de France, one Giro d'Italia (2018) and the Vuelta a España twice. He has also won several other stage races, and the Vélo d'Or three times. Froome has also won two Olympic bronze medals in road time trials, in 2012 and 2016, and took bronze in the 2017 World Championships.
Thomas De Gendt is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProTeam Lotto–Dstny.
Peter Sagan is a Slovak professional cyclist, who competes in road bicycle racing for UCI Continental team RRK Group–Pierre Baguette–Benzinol. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-country race at the 2008 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships, before moving to road racing. Following 121 victories in road racing, Sagan is scheduled to return to mountain bike racing in 2024 with Specialized Factory Racing.
Tejay van Garderen is an American former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2021 for the Rabobank Continental Team, HTC–Highroad, BMC Racing Team and EF Education–Nippo. Following his retirement as a cyclist, van Garderen became a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.
Richard Julian Porte is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2022. His successes include wins at 8 World Tour stage races: Paris–Nice in 2013 and 2015, the Volta a Catalunya in 2015, the Tour de Romandie in 2017, the Tour Down Under in 2017 and 2020, the Tour de Suisse in 2018 and the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2021. In Grand Tours, he won the young rider classification at the 2010 Giro d'Italia, his first year at UCI ProTour level, and finished on the podium of the 2020 Tour de France, but was also frequently hit by illnesses and injuries.
Thibaut Pinot is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023, spending his entire career with Française des Jeux. Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finished third overall in the 2014 Tour de France and first in the young rider classification. He has won stages in all three Grand Tours, with 3 in the Tour de France, 1 in the Giro d'Italia and 2 in the Vuelta a España. Pinot has taken more than thirty professional victories, including the Giro di Lombardia in 2018, and he won the mountains classification at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.
Tom Dumoulin is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. He has won the Giro d'Italia and nine stages across the three Grand Tours, five medals in three different World Championships and two Olympic silver medals.
Romain Bardet is a French professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL. Bardet is known for his climbing and descending abilities, which make him one of the top general classification contenders in Grand Tours.
The 2013 UCI Europe Tour was the ninth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2013 season began on 27 January 2013 with the Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise and ended on 20 October 2013 with the Chrono des Nations.
The 2013 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 48th edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycling stage race, often known as the Race of the Two Seas. It started on 6 March in San Vincenzo and ended on 12 March in San Benedetto del Tronto and consisted of seven stages, including a race-commencing team time trial and a race-concluding individual time trial. It was the third race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.
Simon Philip Yates is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla. His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a professional cyclist. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España. Yates has taken more than thirty professional victories, including ten Grand Tour stage victories – six at the Giro d'Italia and two each at the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
The 2013 Milan–San Remo was the 104th running of the Milan–San Remo single-day cycling race. It was held on 17 March over a shortened distance of 246 kilometres, and was the fourth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. For the first time in 31 years, Milan–San Remo was held on a Sunday, after race organisers requested to change and move into line with several of the other Classic races.
The 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné was the sixty-fifth running of the Critérium du Dauphiné cycling stage race; a race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation, rated as a World Tour event on the UCI calendar, the highest classification such an event can have. The race consisted of eight stages, beginning in Champéry on 2 June – the first such start for the race in Switzerland – and concluding in Risoul on 9 June, and was the sixteenth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. The Dauphiné was viewed as a great preparation for July's Tour de France and a number of the contenders for the general classification of the Tour participated in the Dauphiné. It featured mountainous stages as well as an individual time trial similar in length to the Tour.
Warren Barguil is a French cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL. He is best known for winning two mountain stages and the mountains classification of the 2017 Tour de France.
Adam Richard Yates is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. Yates placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ahead of his twin brother Simon Yates.
