1997 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1997 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 San Sebastián
San Sebastián
Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...

, Spain
Spain
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, between October 7 and October 12, 1997. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.

Events summary

Men's Events
Men's road race
Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard is a retired professional road racing cyclist from France. In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became world road champion in San Sebastián, Spain....


6h16'48" Bo Hamburger
Bo Hamburger
Bo Hamburger is a former Danish professional road racing cyclist. He retired in 2006.He was fired from Team CSC in 2001, after a positive EPO test. He was later cleared legally since the B test was below the limit, but still higher than normal. Since then, the Danish Cycle Union refused to let Bo...


s.t. Leon van Bon
Léon van Bon
Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon is a road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the HEW Cyclassics...


s.t.
Men's time trial
Laurent Jalabert
Laurent Jalabert
Laurent Jalabert is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as "Jaja" , he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the 1990s...


52'01" Serhiy Honchar
Serhiy Honchar
Serhiy Honchar is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He is a former world time trial champion. In the 2006 Tour de France, Honchar lead the general classification after a time-trial win in stage 7....


52'04" Chris Boardman
Chris Boardman
Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...


52'21"
Women's Events
Women's road race
Alessandra Cappellotto
Alessandra Cappellotto
Alessandra Cappellotto is a retired female racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1996, and 2000. She won the world title in the women's individual road race at the 1997 UCI Road World Championships in San Sebastian, Spain.-References:*...


2h44'37" Elisabeth Tadich
s.t. 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...


s.t.
Women's time trial
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli
39'15" Sulfija Sabirowa
39'16" Judith Arndt
Judith Arndt
Judith Arndt is a German professional cyclist for the T-Mobile Women cycling team. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she was 20...


39'44"
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 road race
Kurt Asle Arvesen
Kurt Asle Arvesen
Kurt Asle Arvesen is a former Norwegian professional road bicycle racer for . Arvesen is from Eresfjord, Nesset. From 2012 he will be manager of ....


3h46" Óscar Freire
Óscar Freire
Óscar Freire Gómez is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, riding for the UCI ProTeam Rabobank. He is one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship a three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen and Eddy Merckx...


4h00" Gerrit Glomser
Gerrit Glomser
Gerrit Glomser is an Austrian racing cyclist with Team Volksbank. He turned professional in 1998.- Palmares :* Österreich Rundfahrt** 2 stages & GC ** 1 stage & GC ** 1 stage...


s.t.
Men's under-23 time trial
Fabio Malberti
40'41" Laszlo Bodrogi
László Bodrogi
László Bodrogi is a professional road bicycle racer from Hungary riding for , specializing in the individual time trial.- Biography :László was born in 1976 in Budapest, Hungary...


41'08" David Harold George
41'12"
Men's Junior Events
Men's Junior Road Race
Crescenzo d´Amore
2h54'49" Martin Bolt
s.t. Margus Salumets
s.t.
Men's Junior Time Trial
Torsten Hiekmann
Torsten Hiekmann
Torsten Hiekmann is a German former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :* Regio-Tour - 1 stage * GP Schwarzland * 2nd, National U23 Road Race Championship World U19 Time Trial Champion...


35'56" Michael Rogers
35'57" Alexei Markov
Alexei Markov
Alexei Mikhailovich Markov is a Russian professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :19961997...


36'11"
Women's Junior Events
Women's Junior Road Race
Mirella van Melis
Mirella van Melis
Mirella van Melis is a retired female track and road racing cyclist from the Netherlands. She started her career as a cyclo-cross rider.-Career:1996...


1h50'19" Nicole Brändli
Nicole Brändli
Nicole Brändli is a professional cyclist from Switzerland. She's a three time winner of Giro d'Italia Femminile.-Palmarès:...


s.t. Sofie Andersson
s.t.
Women's Junior Time Trial
Olga Sabelinskaja
19'56" Sylvia Hubscher
20'32" Maria Mercedes Cagigas
20'33"
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