Spain at the UCI Road World Championships
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Spain at the UCI Road World Championships is an overview of the Spanish results at the UCI Road World Championships. The Spanish competitors are selected by coaches of the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation. Apart from cycling events at the four-yearly Summer Olympics, the only times that road cyclists appear in proper national selections (instead of in commercial cycling teams) of one or multiple athletes are the yearly UCI Road World Championships. Because of this, all Spanish national road cycling teams (either elite, amateur or younger teams) only compete as such during one day per year. The nation's first medal, a silver, was earned by Luciano Montero in the men's road race in 1935.
List of medalists
[edit]This is a list of all Spanish medals (including elite, amateur, under-23 and junior races). Since the 2012 UCI Road World Championships there is the men's and women's team time trial event for trade teams and these medals are included under the UCI registration country of the team. Note that in these events also foreign cyclists can belong to the "national" team.
Most successful Spanish competitors
[edit]The list don't include the men's amateur events
| Name | Medals | Championships |
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| Óscar Freire | 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze |  1999 Treviso-Verona – Men's road race
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| Abraham Olano | 2 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze | 1995 Duitama – Men's road race
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| Alejandro Valverde | 1 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze | 2018 Innsbruck – Men's road race
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| Miguel Indurain | 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze | 1995 Duitama – Men's time trial
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| Joane Somarriba | 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze | 2003 Hamilton – Women's time trial
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Medals by discipline
[edit]Updated after 2018 UCI Road World Championships
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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| Men's (professional) road race | 6 | 6 | 12 | 24 | |
| Men's time trial | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Women's time trial | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Men's under-23 road race | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Men's team time trial | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Men's amateur road race | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Men's under-23 time trial | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 100 km mountains race | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Women's road race | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Women's junior time trial | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | 15 | 19 | 44 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Road World Championships - Road Race". UCI. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Road World Championships - Time Trial". UCI. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2013.