2005 UCI Road World Championships
The 72 UCI Road World Championships 2005 took place from September 20 to 25 in the Spanish capital Madrid.
There were a total of six decisions in the disciplines of time trial and road race and in the classes women, men and men extended U23. At World Championships the riders do not occur as usual for their sponsors on it, but driving in teams. The strongest nations - calculated according to a scoring scheme that takes into account the success in recent international competitions - this may start with up to nine riders.
- 3.1 Road Race (126 km)
- 3.2 Individual Time Trial (22 miles)
- 4.1 Road Race (168 km)
- 4.2 ITT ( 37.9 km )
Stretch
The time trial competitions were held at the Casa de Campo, a large park west of downtown. The start was going on at the Puerto de Castaño, and the target was located at the Puerta del Ángel. The track contained two not easy for a time trial ascents, the six-kilometer long, but very shallow rise after Somosaguas and the short steep climb to the cable car teleferico.
The road race took place on a 21- mile loop course in downtown Madrid. The start and finish were at the Plaza de Lima. The course led past the Bernabeu Stadium and the Palacio de Congresos. The three sections were the hardest climbs to La Dehesa de la Villa, Avenida Cardenal Herrera Osoria and the Avenida de Asturias. The expressed prior assumption that the distance against the sprinters come, was rather not confirmed by the race course for men ( Elite and U23 ).
Road race (273 km)
Over the past one and a half rounds could in a partially hectic race course up to a 11- man breakaway to the Italian Paolo Bettini, Michael Boogerd (NL) and Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ ) form. On the home stretch this group was obtained from a 25 -strong chase group with eventual winner Tom Boonen. Best German was Andreas Klier eighth.
Individual time trial (44 km)
Michael Rogers thus scored his third world championship title in the time trial in a row. The two German competitors Sebastian Lang and Michael Rich reached the seats eight and fifteen.
Women
Road race (126 km)
Regina Schleicher was in a perfectly organized Anfahrer - train piloted by their teammates to victory and won with a bike length ahead of the Briton Nicole Cooke. Your last Anfahrerin Trixi Worrack finished 10th, last year's world champion Judith Arndt fell back after a day's Anfahrarbeit and was 35
Individual time trial (22 km)
The German Judith Arndt last year's runner narrowly missed a medal with fourth place.
Men U23
Road race (168 km)
The German Carlo Westphal finished 33 seconds behind in fourth place. The German road champion Gerald Ciolek was ranked 17th
ITT ( 37.9 km )
The best German starter Paul Martens reached a seventeenth rank.