2023 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

The women's road race of the 2023 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 13 August 2023 in Balloch, Great Britain.^[1] The race was won by Belgian Lotte Kopecky for the first time.^[2]

Women's road race

2023 UCI Road World Championships
Race details
Dates	13 August 2023
Stages	1 in Balloch, Great Britain
Distance	154.1 km (95.75 mi)
Winning time	4h 02' 12"
Medalists
Gold  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)    Silver  Demi Vollering (NED)    Bronze  Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN)
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Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 30 June 2023.^[3]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.^[4]

Nations	Riders
Australia	7
Belgium
France
Italy
Netherlands
Canada	6
Denmark
Germany
Great Britain
New Zealand
Poland
South Africa
Spain
Switzerland
United States
Neutral athletes of Russian sporting nationality	5
Austria
Cuba
Norway
Uzbekistan

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Annemiek van Vleuten	Netherlands	Incumbent World Champion
Ese Ukpeseraye	Nigeria	African Champion
Skylar Schneider	United States	Panamerican Champion
Nguyễn Thị Thật	Vietnam	Asian Champion

Participating nations

210 cyclists from 71 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.^[5]

•  Argentina (2)
•  Algeria (1)
•  Australia (7)
•  Austria (5)
•  Belgium (7)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Brazil (1)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Burkina Faso (1)
•  Canada (6)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (3)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Denmark (6)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (7)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (6)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hong Kong (3)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Ireland (3)
•  Israel (2)
•  Italy (7)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Luxembourg (3)
•  Mauritius (3)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Namibia (2)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  New Zealand (5)
•  Nigeria (3)
•  Norway (5)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Poland (6)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Rwanda (3)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Slovenia (3)
•  South Africa (6)
•  Spain (5)
•  Sweden (3)
•   Switzerland (6)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (3)
•  United Arab Emirates (1)
•  United States (7)
•  Uzbekistan (5)
•  Venezuela (2)
•  Zimbabwe (2)

Final classification

Rank Rider Country Time 1 Lotte Kopecky  Belgium 4h 02' 12" 2 Demi Vollering  Netherlands + 7" 3 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig  Denmark + 7" 4 Marlen Reusser   Switzerland + 12" 5 Christina Schweinberger  Austria + 34" 6 Elizabeth Deignan  Great Britain + 34" 7 Elise Chabbey   Switzerland + 1' 24" 8 Annemiek van Vleuten  Netherlands + 2' 48" 9 Riejanne Markus  Netherlands + 3' 51" 10 Mavi García  Spain + 4' 05" 11 Kata Blanka Vas  Hungary + 4' 34" 12 Silvia Persico  Italy + 4' 34" 13 Shirin van Anrooij  Netherlands + 4' 34" 14 Agnieszka Skalniak  Poland + 4' 34" 15 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio  South Africa + 4' 34" 16 Juliette Labous  France + 4' 34" 17 Anna Shackley  Great Britain + 4' 34" 18 Lauren Stephens  United States + 4' 34" 19 Liane Lippert  Germany + 4' 34" 20 Chiara Consonni  Italy + 5' 13" 21 Marta Lach  Poland + 8' 11" 22 Justine Ghekiere  Belgium + 8' 26" 23 Lauretta Hanson  Australia + 8' 26" 24 Grace Brown  Australia + 8' 26" 25 Jelena Erić  Serbia + 8' 26" 26 Audrey Cordon-Ragot  France + 8' 26" 27 Paula Patiño  Colombia + 8' 26" 28 Pfeiffer Georgi  Great Britain + 8' 26" 29 Elisa Balsamo  Italy + 8' 26" 30 Elena Cecchini  Italy + 8' 29" 31 Soraya Paladin  Italy + 8' 29" 32 Simone Boilard  Canada + 9' 11" 33 Alison Jackson  Canada + 13' 47" 34 Olivia Baril  Canada + 13' 47" 35 Julie de Wilde  Belgium + 14' 42" 36 Megan Jastrab  United States + 14' 49" 37 Romy Kasper  Germany + 14' 49" 38 Kathrin Schweinberger  Austria + 14' 49" 39 Anastasia Carbonari  Latvia + 14' 49" 40 Marthe Goossens  Belgium + 14' 49" 41 Karolina Kumięga  Poland + 14' 49" 42 Eri Yonamine  Japan + 14' 49" 43 Dominika Wlodarczyk  Poland + 14' 49" 44 Linda Riedmann  Germany + 14' 49" 45 Loes Adegeest  Netherlands + 14' 49" 46 Sarah van Dam  Canada + 14' 49" 47 Marianne Vos  Netherlands + 14' 49" 48 Carina Schrempf  Austria + 14' 49" 49 Sandra Alonso  Spain + 14' 15" 50 Teniel Campbell  Trinidad and Tobago + 14' 49" 51 Ella Wyllie  New Zealand + 14' 49" 52 Franziska Koch  Poland + 14' 49" 53 Arlenis Sierra  Cuba + 14' 49" 54 Eugenia Bujak  Slovenia + 14' 18" 55 Niamh Fisher-Black  New Zealand + 14' 18" 56 Tereza Neumanová  Czech Republic + 14' 18" 57 Alexandra Manly  Australia + 14' 18" 58 Emilia Fahlin  Sweden + 14' 18" 57 Claire Steels  Great Britain + 14' 49" 57 Marie Schreiber  Luxembourg + 14' 49" 57 Noëlle Rüetschi   Switzerland + 14' 49" 62 Eliška Kvasničková  Czech Republic + 14' 49" 63 Maggie Coles-Lyster  Australia + 14' 49" 64 Kimberley Le Court de Billot  Mauritius + 14' 49" 65 Zeng Luyao  China + 14' 49" 66 Marthe Truyen  Belgium + 14' 49" 67 Ricarda Bauernfeind  Germany + 14' 49" 68 Lara Gillespie  Ireland + 14' 49" 69 Sanne Cant  Belgium + 14' 49" 70 Elena Hartmann   Switzerland + 14' 58" 71 Rasa Leleivytė  Lithuania + 14' 58" 72 Leun Wing Yee  Singapore + 14' 58" 73 Léa Curinier  France + 14' 58" 74 Antonia Niedermaier  Germany + 15' 01" 75 Lilibeth Chacón  Venezuela + 15' 01" 76 Amalie Lutro  Norway + 15' 04" 77 Yanina Kuskova  Uzbekistan + 15' 04" 78 Kim Cadzow  New Zealand + 15' 05" 79 Megan Armitage  Ireland + 15' 05" 80 Olha Kulynych  Ukraine + 15' 05" 81 Diana Peñuela  Colombia + 15' 05" 82 Marcela Prieto  Mexico + 15' 05" 83 Sara Poidevin  Canada + 15' 09" 84 Mischa Bredewold  Netherlands + 15' 21" 85 Marte Berg Edseth  Norway + 19' 46" 86 Julia Borgström  Sweden + 19' 46"

Rank Rider Country Time Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini  Italy DNF Ingvild Gaskjenn  Norway DNF Alice Sharpe  Ireland DNF Ally Wollaston  New Zealand DNF Nina Berton  Luxembourg DNF Miryam Núñez  Ecuador DNF Anna Henderson  Great Britain DNF Aude Biannic  France DNF Clara Copponi  France DNF Amanda Spratt  Australia DNF Urška Žigart  Slovenia DNF Tiffany Keep  South Africa DNF Katrine Aalerud  Norway DNF Olga Zabelinskaya  Uzbekistan DNF Yuliia Biriukova  Ukraine DNF Anabel Yapura  Argentina DNF Amalie Dideriksen  Denmark DNF Linda Zanetti   Switzerland DNF Julie van de Velde  Belgium DNF Sara Martín  Spain DNF Noemi Rüegg   Switzerland DNF Rebecca Koerner  Denmark DNF Anniina Ahtosalo  Finland DNF Solbjørk Minke Anderson  Denmark DNF Christine Majerus  Luxembourg DNF Daniela Campos  Portugal DNF Diane Ingabire  Rwanda DNF Heidi Franz  United States DNF Agua Marina Espínola  Paraguay DNF Lily Williams  United States DNF Alba Teruel  Spain DNF Nora Jenčušová  Slovakia DNF Nofar Maoz  Israel DNF Makhabbat Umutzhanova  Kazakhstan DNF Andrea Ramírez  Mexico DNF Andrea Alzate  Colombia DNF Tang Xin  China DNF Selam Amha  Ethiopia DNF Maude Le Roux  South Africa DNF Antri Christoforou  Cyprus DNF Margarita Misyurina  Uzbekistan DNF Caitlin Conyers  Bermuda DNF Petra Zsankó  Hungary DNF Malin Eriksen  Norway DNF Skye Davidson  Zimbabwe DNF Fariba Hashimi  Afghanistan DNF Brodie Chapman  Australia DNF Lorena Wiebes  Netherlands DNF Akari Kobayashi  Japan DNS Michaela Drummond  New Zealand DNF Georgia Baker  Australia DNF Urška Pintar  Slovenia DNF Elisa Winter  Austria DNF Leila Gschwentner  Austria DNF Catalina Soto  Chile DNF Barbara Guarischi  Italy DNF Sarah Roy  Australia DNF Victoire Berteau  France DNF Cédrine Kerbaol  France DNF Lizzie Holden  Great Britain DNF Marta Jaskulska  Poland DNF Marita Jensen  Denmark DNF Emma Norsgaard Jørgensen  Denmark DNF Coryn Labecki  United States DNF Skylar Schneider  United States DNF Sheyla Gutierrez  Spain DNF Frances Janse van Rensburg  South Africa DNF Hayley Preen  South Africa DNF Sofiya Karimova  Uzbekistan DNF Nafosat Kozieva  Uzbekistan DNF Olga Shekel  Ukraine DNF Kristýna Burlová  Czech Republic DNF Jazilla Mwamikazi  Rwanda DNF Xaveline Nirere  Rwanda DNF Chaniporn Batriya  Thailand DNF Kamonrada Khaoplot  Thailand DNF Sun Jiajun  China DNF Vera Vilaça  Portugal DNF Aurélie Halbwachs  Mauritius DNF Raphaëlle Lamusse  Mauritius DNF Nesrine Houili  Algeria DNF Monique du Plessis  Namibia DNF Melissa Hinz  Namibia DNF Ana Vitória Magalhães  Brazil DNF Rotem Gafinovitz  Israel DNF Ayustina Delia Priatna  India DNF Safia Al Sayegh  United Arab Emirates DNF Faina Potapova  Kazakhstan DNF Rinata Sultanova  Kazakhstan DNF Lee Sze Wing  Hong Kong DNF Yang Qianyu  Hong Kong DNF Tombrapa Grikpa  Nigeria DNF Mary Samuel  Nigeria DNF Ese Ukpeseraye  Nigeria DNF Vanessa Santeliz  Venezuela DNF Dana Rožlapa  Latvia DNF Raja Chakir  Morocco DNF Helen Mitchell  Zimbabwe DNF Aikaterini Eleftheriadou  Greece DNF Ebtissam Mohamed  Egypt DNF Yareli Acevedo  Mexico DNF Faranak Partoazar  Iran DNF Silja Jóhannesdóttir  Iceland DNF Hafdís Sigurðardóttir  Iceland DNF Kristin Edda Sveinsdóttir  Iceland DNF Dunja Ivanova  North Macedonia DNF Elena Petrova  North Macedonia DNF Yulduz Hashimi  Afghanistan DNF Zahra Rezayee  Afghanistan DNF Olympia Maduro Fahie  British Virgin Islands DNF Luciana Roland  Argentina DNF Bucumi Beolyne  Burundi DNF Emmanuella Rukundo  Burundi DNF Julia Mirigu  Kenya DNF Florence Nakagwa  Kenya DNF Fanny Cauchois One  Laos DNF Awa Bamogo  Burkina Faso DNF Katarzyna Niewiadoma  Poland DNS Chloé Dygert  United States DNS Zanri Rossouw  South Africa DNS Jenny Rissveds  Sweden DNS