2013 UCI Road World Championships

The organizers showed the mascot for the event, Pinocchio the brainchild of Florentine writer Carlo Collodi, on 26 October 2012. The wooden figure is dressed in a rainbow sweater and a hat with the same motif. The choice of Pinocchio, whose nose grows when he lies, appeared to be significant after the cycling world was rocked by the doping case of Lance Armstrong. The decision for the mascot however, was taken much earlier according to the organizers.[7]

To promote the public transport, more trains ran during the Championships to Florence and a special ticket was produced to ride on all regional trains.[8][9] For safety reasons, all schools in Fiesole were closed on 27 and 28 September, because reaching schools was complicated.[10]

The finish of all events

On the first day, the team time trial events were for the second consecutive year won by Specialized–lululemon (women) and Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (men). The men's squad's victory in the men's team time trial came by 0.81 seconds over Orica–GreenEDGE. Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands, who won a gold medal in the women's team time trial, won her second gold medal in the women's time trial. Van Dijk won with an advantage of 24 seconds over Linda Villumsen, who finished on the podium for the fourth successive Championships. Van Dijk became the second Dutch woman to win in the discipline, after Leontien van Moorsel's victories in 1998 and 1999.[11] Tony Martin, who also won with his team a gold medal in the team time trial, won his third successive men's time trial gold medal, beating main rivals Bradley Wiggins and Fabian Cancellara. In the last weekend of the championships, Marianne Vos won her third gold and her eighth medal in the women's road race. With help from Anna van der Breggen who helped close down the breakaway attempts, Vos made her break on the final ascent of the 600 m (2,000 ft) long Via Salviati – with around 5 km (3.1 mi) to go – and soloed to a 15-second victory over Emma Johansson and Rossella Ratto.[12] On the last day of the Championships, Rui Costa from Portugal won the rain-soaked Men's road race as he beat Spain's Joaquim Rodríguez by a bike-length on the finish line, with Alejandro Valverde from Spain taking bronze.[13]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's road race[14]	Rui Costa (POR)	7h 25' 44"	Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP)	s.t.	Alejandro Valverde (ESP)	+ 15"
Men's time trial[15]	Tony Martin (GER)	1h 05' 36.65"	Bradley Wiggins (GBR)	+ 46.09"	Fabian Cancellara (SUI)	+ 48.34"
Men's team time trial[16]	Omega Pharma–Quick-Step	1h 04' 16.81"	Orica–GreenEDGE	+ 0.81"	Team Sky	+ 22.55"
	Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)  Michał Kwiatkowski (POL)  Tony Martin (GER)  Niki Terpstra (NED)  Kristof Vandewalle (BEL)  Peter Velits (SVK)		Luke Durbridge (AUS)  Michael Hepburn (AUS)  Daryl Impey (RSA)  Brett Lancaster (AUS)  Jens Mouris (NED)  Svein Tuft (CAN)		Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)  Chris Froome (GBR)  Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)  Richie Porte (AUS)  Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR)  Geraint Thomas (GBR)
Women's Events
Women's road race[17]	Marianne Vos (NED)	3h 44' 00"	Emma Johansson (SWE)	+ 15"	Rossella Ratto (ITA)	+ 15"
Women's time trial	Ellen van Dijk (NED)	27' 48.18"	Linda Villumsen (NZL)	+ 24.10"	Carmen Small (USA)	+ 28.74"
Women's team time trial[18]	Specialized–lululemon	51' 10.69"	Rabobank–Liv Giant	+ 1' 11.09"	Orica-AIS	+ 1' 33.83"
	Lisa Brennauer (GER)  Katie Colclough (GBR)  Carmen Small (USA)  Evelyn Stevens (USA)  Ellen van Dijk (NED)  Trixi Worrack (GER)		Lucinda Brand (NED)  Thalita de Jong (NED)  Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA)  Roxane Knetemann (NED)  Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)  Marianne Vos (NED)		Annette Edmondson (AUS)  Shara Gillow (AUS)  Loes Gunnewijk (NED)  Melissa Hoskins (AUS)  Emma Johansson (SWE)  Amanda Spratt (AUS)

After winning the women's junior time trial at the European Championships, Séverine Eraud won the women's junior time trial at the Road World Championships. European runner-up Igor Decraene won the gold medal in the men's junior time trial. In the women's junior road race won Amalie Dideriksen the sprint from Alexandria Nicholls and Alexandra Manly. The three riders escaped with one other rider on the first lap. Mathieu van der Poel won the men's junior road race. He attacked in the closing stage and soloed to the finish. It was van der Poel's first road world title, having previously won two junior world titles in cyclo-cross, in 2012 and 2013.[19]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Juniors Events
Men's junior road race	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	3h 33' 14"	Mads Pedersen (DEN)	+ 3"	Iltjan Nika (ALB)	+ 3"
Men's junior time trial	Igor Decraene (BEL)	26' 56.83"	Mathias Krigbaum (DEN)	+ 8.66"	Zeke Mostov (USA)	+ 20.97"
Women's Juniors Events
Women's junior road race	Amalie Dideriksen (DEN)	2h 32' 23"	Anastasiia Iakovenko (RUS)	s.t.	Olena Demydova (UKR)	+ 3"
Women's junior time trial	Séverine Eraud (FRA)	22' 42.63"	Alexandria Nicholls (AUS)	+ 2.69"	Alexandra Manly (AUS)	+ 8.17"