1995 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1995
UCI Road World Championships
took place in Duitama, Colombia
from October 4 to October 8, 1995. It was the last world championship that had an amateur road race: in 1996 this was replaced by an event for cyclists under 23 years.
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UCI Road World Championships
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale...
took place in Duitama, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
from October 4 to October 8, 1995. It was the last world championship that had an amateur road race: in 1996 this was replaced by an event for cyclists under 23 years.
Events summary
| Men's Events | ||||||
| Men's road race |
Abraham Olano Ábraham Olano Abraham Olano Manzano is a Spanish Basque former professional road racing cyclist. His crowning achievement came in 1995 when he became World Road Champion... |
7h09'55" | Miguel Indurain Miguel Indurain Miguel Ángel Indurain Larraya is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. He won five consecutive Tour de Frances from 1991 and 1995, the first to do so, and the fourth athlete to win five times. He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of only seven people in history to achieve the Giro Tour... |
+ 0'35" | Marco Pantani Marco Pantani Marco Pantani was an Italian road racing cyclist, widely considered one of the best climbers in professional road bicycle racing... |
s.t. |
| Men's time trial |
Miguel Indurain Miguel Indurain Miguel Ángel Indurain Larraya is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. He won five consecutive Tour de Frances from 1991 and 1995, the first to do so, and the fourth athlete to win five times. He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of only seven people in history to achieve the Giro Tour... |
55'30"4 | Abraham Olano Ábraham Olano Abraham Olano Manzano is a Spanish Basque former professional road racing cyclist. His crowning achievement came in 1995 when he became World Road Champion... |
+ 0'48"97 | Uwe Peschel Uwe Peschel Uwe Peschel is a German professional road bicycle racer and a time trialist. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Peschel along with Bernd Dittert, Christian Meyer and Michael Rich, captured the gold medal in the Men's Team Road Race.- Major achievements :199219961997 – Uwe Peschel is a German... |
+ 2'03"5 |
| Amateur road race |
Danny Nelissen Danny Nelissen Daniel Wilhelmus Maria Nelissen is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer and current sports commentator at Eurosport... |
4h52'39" | Daniele Sgnaolin |
+ 0'13" | Víctor Becerra |
+ 0'46" |
| Women's Events | ||||||
| Women's road race |
Jeannie Longo Jeannie Longo Jeannie Longo is a French racing cyclist, multiple French champion and 13 times world champion. Longo is still active in cycling as of 2011 and is widely considered one of the greatest female cyclists of all time... |
2h37'45" | Catherine Marsal Catherine Marsal Catherine Marsal is a retired female racing cyclist from France. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally in Italy and the US. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then she represented her native country at four Summer... |
+ 0'38" | Edita Pučinskaitė Edita Pucinskaite Edita Pučinskaitė is a Lithuanian racing cyclist. For many years, she has been one of the top competitors in women's racing on the international level with a victory in the World Road Race Championships in 1999 and several very high finishes in major tours, World Championship competition and on... |
+ 1'56" |
| Women's time trial |
Jeannie Longo Jeannie Longo Jeannie Longo is a French racing cyclist, multiple French champion and 13 times world champion. Longo is still active in cycling as of 2011 and is widely considered one of the greatest female cyclists of all time... |
44'27"3 | Clara Hughes Clara Hughes Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics... |
+ 1'11"4 | Kathryn Watt |
+ 1'25" |