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2008 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

Field	Value
name	Women's road race
image	Jersey rainbow.svg
image_caption	Rainbow jersey
image_size	150px
series	2008 UCI Road World Championships
date	27 September 2008
stages	1 in ITA Varese (ITA)
distance	138.8
unit	km
time	3h 42' 11"
type	medals
first	Nicole Cooke
second	Marianne Vos
third	Judith Arndt
previous	2007 Stuttgart
next	Mendrisio 2009

The women's road race of the 2008 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 27 September in Varese, Italy. The course comprised eight laps around a 17.35-kilometre route, making a total distance of 138.8 km. Each lap featured two ascents: the first at Montello (6.5% gradient for 1.15 kilometres); and the second at Ronchi, Gallarate (4.5% for 3.13 kilometres). The race included a total of 1,937 metres of climbing.

Pre-race favourites included Varese local rider Noemi Cantele and her teammates Tatiana Guderzo and Giorgia Bronzini, Marianne Vos of the Netherlands, Judith Arndt of Germany (champion in 2004), reigning Olympic champion Nicole Cooke and silver medallist Emma Johansson. Notably missing from the start list was Marta Bastianelli, reigning champion from 2007, who was awaiting a verdict on a non-negative drug test result in July 2008.

The race was won by Great Britain's Nicole Cooke, with Marianne Vos and Judith Arndt finishing with the same time, second and third respectively. Cooke was the first British woman to win the race since Mandy Jones in 1982.

The race

Not long after the race began, a Swedish rider brought down the front row of the peloton when her tyres slipped on some painted letters on the road. Christine Thorburn was also brought down in a crash, when she was squeezed up against a fence. Although she was not severely injured and did attempt to chase the bunch, she failed to make contact and did not finish.

A group of thirteen riders soon broke away from the main group, driven mainly by the American Kristin Armstrong. They gained 25 seconds on the field but were pulled back by the Dutch and British teams with one lap to go. As soon as the break was caught, Marianne Vos launched a counter-attack on the Montello climb, Nicole Cooke, Judith Arndt, Trixi Worrack and Emma Johansson, and Susanne Ljungskog joined her in what was to become the winning break. Ljungskog's chances ended when she punctured, leaving five in the break.

Worrack and Vos attacked on the final hill, but were brought back to the break with 2 km to go. The race finished with a sprint, Vos took the lead before being overtaken by Cooke just before the finish line. Arndt struggled to match their speed in the sprint, she was nearly caught out by a late surge by Johansson, but eventually crossed the line in third place.

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
[[Image:gold medal icon.svg	1]]	Nicole Cooke	GBR	3h 42'11"
[[Image:silver medal icon.svg	1]]	Marianne Vos	NED	s.t.
[[Image:bronze medal icon.svg	1]]	Judith Arndt	GER	s.t.
4	Emma Johansson	SWE	at 5"
5	Trixi Worrack	GER	at 11"
6	Diana Žiliūtė	LTU	at 1'47"
7	Marta Vilajosana Andreu	ESP	s.t.
8	Joanne Kiesanowski	NZL	s.t.
9	Alex Wrubleski	CAN	s.t.
10	Yuliya Martisova	RUS	s.t.
11	Claudia Häusler	GER	s.t.
12	Chantal Beltman	NED	s.t.
13	Linda Villumsen	DEN	s.t.
14	Giorgia Bronzini	ITA	s.t.
15	Nikki Egyed	AUS	s.t.
16	Grace Verbeke	BEL	s.t.
17	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	FRA	s.t.
18	Edita Pučinskaitė	LTU	s.t.
19	Christiane Soeder	AUT	s.t.
20	Maryline Salvetat	FRA	s.t.
21	Kaytee Boyd	NZL	s.t.
22	Amber Neben	USA	s.t.
23	Małgorzata Jasińska	POL	s.t.
24	Siobhan Dervan	IRL	s.t.
25	Laura Lorenza Morfin Macouzet	MEX	s.t.
26	Monia Baccaille	ITA	s.t.
27	Rasa Polikevičiūtė	LTU	s.t.
28	Sharon Laws	GBR	s.t.
29	Tatiana Guderzo	ITA	s.t.
30	Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel	NED	s.t.
31	Susanne Ljungskog	SWE	s.t.
32	Modesta Vžesniauskaitė	LTU	at 1'56"
33	Natalia Boyarskaya	RUS	s.t.
34	Jolanta Polikevičiūtė	LTU	s.t.
35	Emma Pooley	GBR	s.t.
36	Anna Sanchis Chafer	ESP	s.t.
37	Noemi Cantele	ITA	at 1'59"
38	Zinaida Stahurskaya	BLR	at 4'54"
39	Kristin Armstrong	USA	at 4'56"
40	Alexandra Burchenkova	RUS	at 5"24"
41	Elizabeth Armitstead	GBR	s.t.
42	Rosane Kirch	BRA	at 6'08"
43	Grete Treier	EST	at 6'11"
44	Maja Adamsen	DEN	s.t.
45	Oxana Kozonchuk	RUS	s.t.
46	Clemilda Fernandes Silva	BRA	s.t.

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
47	Karine Gautard	FRA	s.t.
48	Erinne Willock	CAN	s.t.
49	Lieselot Decroix	BEL	s.t.
50	Sereina Trachsel	SUI	s.t.
51	Martina Růžičková	CZE	s.t.
52	Eneritz Iturriaga Echevarria	ESP	s.t.
53	Vicki Whitelaw	AUS	s.t.
54	Edwige Pitel	FRA	s.t.
55	Paulina Brzeźna	POL	s.t.
56	Marissa van der Merwe	RSA	s.t.
57	Monika Grzebinoga	POL	s.t.
58	Liesbet De Vocht	BEL	s.t.
59	Daniela Pintarelli	AUT	s.t.
60	Julie Beveridge	CAN	s.t.
61	Jessica Allen	GBR	s.t.
62	Suzanne de Goede	NED	s.t.
63	Oenone Wood	AUS	s.t.
64	Carla Ryan	AUS	s.t.
65	Tatiana Antoshina	RUS	s.t.
66	Patricia Schwager	SUI	s.t.
67	Kori Kelley Seehafer	USA	s.t.
68	Monika Schachl	AUT	at 6'16"
69	Rosara Joseph	NZL	s.t.
70	Fabiana Luperini	ITA	s.t.
71	Charlotte Becker	GER	s.t.
72	Luise Keller	GER	s.t.
73	Oksana Kashchyshyna	UKR	at 9'22"
74	Verónica Leal Balderas	MEX	s.t.
75	Sylwia Kapusta	POL	at 12'14"
76	Anriette Schoeman	RSA	at 13'17"
77	Sigrid Corneo	SLO	s.t.
78	Felicia Greer	CAN	s.t.
79	Jennifer Hohl	SUI	s.t.
80	Élodie Touffet	FRA	s.t.
81	Rasa Leleivytė	LTU	s.t.
82	Miho Oki	JPN	at 17'50"
83	Yevheniya Vysotska	UKR	at 20'20"
84	Laure Werner	BEL	at 22'02"
85	Mirjam Hauser-Senn	SUI	s.t.
86	Julie Krasniak	FRA	at 27'51"
87	Chrissie Viljoen	RSA	at 28'39"
88	Lynette Burger	RSA	s.t.
89	Magdalena Zamolska	POL	s.t.
90	Inga Čilvinaitė	LTU	s.t.
91	Alyona Andruk	UKR	s.t.

Did not finish

45 riders failed to finish the race. Mayuko Hagiwara of Japan was disqualified, and Grassi Herrera of Mexico did not start the race.

Rider	Country
Karin Thürig	SUI
Anne Samplonius	CAN
Irene van den Broek	NED
Christine Thorburn	USA
Angela Brodtka	GER
Rochelle Gilmore	AUS
Anita Valen De Vries	NOR
Hanna Taukanitsa	BLR
Yuka Yamashima	JPN
Maria Briceno Jimenez	VEN
Eva Lechner	ITA
Brooke Miller	USA
Emma Rickards	AUS
Katheryn Curi Mattis	USA
Andrea Thürig	SUI
Iosune Murillo Elkano	ESP
Regina Bruins	NED
Jarmila Machačová	CZE
Yulia Blindyuk	RUS
Louise Moriarty	IRL
Leticia Gil Parra	ESP
Olivia Dillon	IRL
Garcia Buittrago	VEN

Rider	Country
Kathryn Bertine	SKN
Monica Holler	SWE
Christine Majerus	LUX
Karin Aune	SWE
Anna Harkowska	POL
Robyn de Groot	RSA
Cherise Taylor	RSA
Uênia Fernandes de Souza	BRA
Emilia Fahlin	SWE
Nathalie Bates	AUS
Yolandi Du Toit	RSA
Janildes Fernandes Silva	BRA
Gema Pascual Torrecilla	ESP
Marie Lindberg	SWE
Heather Wilson	IRL
Alena Sits Ko	BLR
Polona Batagelj	SLO
Nathalie Lamborelle	LUX
Laura Lepasalu	EST
Katarína Uhláriková	SVK
Adriana Lovera Varela	VEN
Mariya Slokotovich	KAZ

References

"Courses – Road Races". Varese2008.org.
(2008-09-22). "Cooke leads GB Worlds challenge". BBC Sport.
(2008-09-20). "World Championships countdown, Varese, Italy : Home girls favourites in Varese". Cyclingnews.
(2008-09-27). "75th World Championships – CM – Varese, Italy, September 23–28, 2008". Cyclingnews.
(2008-09-27). "Cooke strikes gold again". VeloNews.

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