2003 UCI Road World Championships
Hamilton is located in Southern Ontario
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hamilton is located in Canada
Hamilton
Hamilton
VenueHamilton, Ontario, Canada
Date(s) (2003-10-07 - 2003-10-12)712 October 2003
Coordinates43°15′24″N 79°52′09″W / 43.25667°N 79.86917°W / 43.25667; -79.86917
Events10

The 2003 UCI Road World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, between October 7 and October 12, 2003. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.

David Millar was handed a two-year ban and stripped of his world time trial title by the British cycling federation for taking the banned performance enhancer EPO.[1] Following this disqualification, the UCI declared Michael Rogers as the winner with the silver medal going to Uwe Peschel and the bronze to Michael Rich.[2]

Events summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Events
Men's road race
Igor Astarloa
 Spain
6h30'19" Alejandro Valverde
 Spain
+ 5" Peter van Petegem
 Belgium
s.t.
Men's time trial
David Millar
 Great Britain
51'17" (Stripped of title) Michael Rogers
 Australia
+ 1'25" Uwe Peschel
 Germany
s.t.
Women's Events
Women's road race
Susanne Ljungskog
 Sweden
3h16'06" Mirjam Melchers
 Netherlands
+ 10" Nicole Cooke
 Great Britain
+ 12"
Women's time trial
Joane Somarriba
 Spain
28'23" Judith Arndt
 Germany
+ 11" Zulfiya Zabirova
 Russia
+ 26"
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 road race
Sergey Lagutin
 Uzbekistan
4h14'05" Johan Van Summeren
 Belgium
s.t. Thomas Dekker
 Netherlands
s.t.
Men's under-23 time trial
Marcus Fothen
 Germany
38'35" Niels Scheuneman
 Netherlands
+ 18" Alexandr Bespalov
 Russia
+ 21"
Men's Junior Events
Men's Junior Road Race
Kai Reus
 Netherlands
3h01'30" Anders Lund
 Denmark
+ 14" Lukaz Fus
 Czech Republic
s.t.
Men's Junior Time Trial
Mikhail Ignatiev
 Russia
27'01" Dmytro Grabovskyy
 Ukraine
+ 21" Viktor Renäng
 Sweden
+ 22"
Women's Junior Events
Women's Junior Road Race
Loes Markerink
 Netherlands
2h05'39" Irina Tolmacheva
 Russia
s.t. Sabine Fischer
 Germany
s.t.
Women's Junior Time Trial
Bianca Knöpfle
 Germany
22'17" Loes Markerink
 Netherlands
+ 16" Iris Slappendel
 Netherlands
+ 30"

References

  1. "Millar has '03 title taken, fined $1,600". hsports.espn.go.com. 4 August 2004. Retrieved 24 December 2007.
  2. "Rogers confirmed as world champion". mywire.com. 8 September 2004. Retrieved 24 December 2007.


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