UCI B World Championships

The UCI B World Championships were the world championship for Level B bicycle road racing and bicycle time trials organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for nations with developing competitive cycling. The UCI B World Championships included events for both men and women in road cycling and track cycling. The first “B” World Championships were held in late 1997 in Ipoh, Malaysia. The event also served as a means of qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Both the road race and individual time trial events are competed by riders organized by national cycling teams as opposed to commercially sponsored or trade teams, which is the standard in professional cycling.

The B World Championships were discontinued after the 2007 championships, with the Olympic places previously allocated through this event assigned instead through the UCI Continental Championships and the UCI Continental Circuits.[1]

2007 Results
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Events
UCI B Cycling World Championship
Women's 14.9km Individual time trial
 Monrudee Chapookham
 Thailand		 Gu Sun-Geun
 South Korea		 Ilzi Bole
 South Africa
UCI B Cycling World Championships
Men's 26.8km Individual time trial
 Ma Haijun
 China		 Chris Froome
 Kenya		 Eugen Wacker
 Kyrgyzstan
UCI B Cycling World Championship
Women's 81km Road race
 Huang Xiaomei
 China		 Gao Min
 China		 Gu Sun-Geun
 South Korea
UCI B Cycling World Championship
Men's 161km Road race
 Ivan Stević
 Serbia		 Erik Hoffman
 Namibia		 Alexandre Pliuschin
 Moldova

References
  1. "Press release : Meeting of the UCI Management Committee". January 1, 2008. Archived from the original on September 23, 2012.


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