2013 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial

All National Federations may enter 4 riders of whom 2 may start. Besides of that, the outgoing World Champion and the continental champions may take part in addition to this number.[3]

Champion	Name	Note
Outgoing World Champion	Judith Arndt (GER)	Did not participate (retired)
African Champion	Ashleigh Moolman (RSA)	Did not participate
American Champion	Ingrid Drexel (MEX)	Did not participate
Asian Champion	Tüvshinjargalyn Enkhjargal (MGL)
European Champion (under-23)	Hanna Solovey (UKR)
Oceanian Champion	Taryn Heather (AUS)	Did not participate

32 nations participated in the women's time trial.[4]

Ellen van Dijk, the Dutch National time trial Champion and the number 5 in the time trial at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships was the absolute favourite. She won many time trials in the 2013 women's road season. Of the 10 time trials she rode she won eight of them including the time trial at the prestigious Giro d'Italia Femminile and a week before the championships the Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen. Van Dijk did not win two time trials, Emma Johansson from Sweden beat her in the Emakumeen Euskal Bira and Shara Gillow from Australia in the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen.

Hanna Solovey, a Ukrainian track cyslint, won the time trial at the European Road Championships, the only race she rode before the World Championships. With an average speed of over 47 km/h it was the fastest average speed in a time trial of the season. Linda Villumsen, who was on the podium in the last four editions, and Evelyn Stevens were other podium candidates.

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Danish mountain biker Annika Langvad, who finished 6th in the end, was the early leader after setting a time of 28' 27" and stayed in the hot seat for a long time. German Trixi Worrack, the first of the final 10 riders to finish, took over the lead after finishing in a time of 28' 19". The main favourites started last and showed some fast intermediate times at the two intermediate time points after 12.7 kilometres (7.9 miles) and 17.1 kilometres (10.6 miles). The Dutch Ellen van Dijk was the fastest from the start by riding 20 second faster than Linda Villumsen and 24 seconds faster than Carmen Small at the first time point. At the second split the gaps were 25 and 28 seconds respectively. Van Dijk lost one second to Villumsen in the final five kilometres but her margin was large enough to win her second world title of the championship after winning the team time trial with her Specialized–lululemon squad on Sunday. For Villumsen it was her fifth consecutive time on the world championship time trial podium, but never won the rainbow jersey.

The podium:
1) Ellen van Dijk (NED)
2) Linda Villumsen (NZL)
3) Carmen Small (USA)

Ellen van Dijk

Van Dijk lived up the expectations as main favourite and won the time trial by dominating the race. "I'm super happy. It's difficult to describe how I feel now," she said after the race. "I'm so excited because I dreamt so long of this one and the pressure was high to finish it off. It's great to have won. My intention was to start fast but I wanted to keep going a bit longer than I did. I maybe got over excited and a went too fast, but I maintained the time difference and so it was all ok."[6] This race was the seasons' main goal for Van Dijk. She had been tested on her time trial position during the season and found a better position which she was able to maintain for almost half an hour.[7] Van Dijk told she practiced the course twice in August at 5:00am to avoid traffic and made video recordings of the course to get to know the turns. She had watched the video over and over again until she could dream it.[8]

Linda Villumsen

Villumsen rode the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships in January before backing off until June. She rode the Giro Rosa and won La Route de France and the time trial at the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche before heading to World Championships. "It was a different year for me but a good year." She said in an interview. "I started late and with a different approach. I trained more at home and then did race after race. I enjoyed it. I was still there on the podium so I can thank my team for helping me this far." Villumsen, a former a Danish national road race champion, switched her nationality in 2010 from Danish to New Zealand. It was her fifth straight podium at the world championships in the time trial. She took her first bronze in 2009, 2010 and 2012, and won silver in her former home county in 2011. "It's not bad luck." Villumsen said. "If someone is better, they deserve to win. Ellen van Dijk has been riding very well all throughout the year, she has won all kinds of time trials, short ones, long ones. She really deserved to win. A place on the podium is still nice. I go close every year but something is missing. I'll try to work it out and go all the way to the top perhaps next year."[6][9]

Carmen Small

Small, American national time trial champions, considered retirement in 2012 before signing by Specialized–lululemon. She won her first medal at the World Championships. “I’m pretty surprised, I didn’t expect to actually podium. I thought top five would be a really good ride for me. Jim Miller (USA Cycling vice president of athletics) and I met before and I really wanted Jim in the car talking to me because he was in the car at Nationals with me when I won. I just buried myself in the last 500 meters. I knew it was going to hurt, but it hurts for everyone. With 100 meters to go I wanted to quit, but I did one more click down on my gears and I just counted the pedal strokes to get me to the finish. This hurt worse than I’ve ever hurt before."[10] She also felt sorry for Evelyn Stevens who missed a place on the podium by 0.04 seconds. "It's a very bittersweet feeling for me. Evelyn is a good friend, a teammate and a fellow countryman. We've spent a lot of time together this season and it's hard to have been beaten and have it be so close".[6]

Of the 48 riders on the starting list, 3 riders did not start.

Rank Rider Country Time Ellen van Dijk  Netherlands 27' 48.18" Linda Villumsen  New Zealand + 24.10" Carmen Small  United States + 28.74" 4 Evelyn Stevens  United States + 28.78" 5 Trixi Worrack  Germany + 31.66" 6 Annika Langvad  Denmark + 39.51" 7 Olga Zabelinskaya  Russia + 40.30" 8 Hanna Solovey  Ukraine + 42.48" 9 Tatiana Antoshina  Russia + 42.57" 10 Emma Johansson  Sweden + 52.98" 11 Lisa Brennauer  Germany + 1' 04.46" 12 Shara Gillow  Australia + 1' 20.39" 13 Elisa Longo Borghini  Italy + 1' 23.58" 14 Loes Gunnewijk  Netherlands + 1' 24.24" 15 Inga Čilvinaitė  Lithuania + 1' 42.98" 16 Eugenia Bujak  Poland + 1' 48.07" 17 Rossella Ratto  Italy + 1' 55.03" 18 Audrey Cordon  France + 1' 55.77" 19 Joëlle Numainville  Canada + 1' 58.59" 20 Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen  Norway + 2' 01.22" 21 Jutta Stienen   Switzerland + 2' 04.81" 22 Valeriya Kononenko  Ukraine + 2' 06.53" 23 Mélodie Lesueur  France + 2' 07.19" 24 Denise Ramsden  Canada + 2' 18.28" 25 Thea Thorsen  Norway + 2' 18.86" 26 Latoya Brulee  Belgium + 2' 22.67" 27 Eri Yonamine  Japan + 2' 27.38" 28 Mia Radotic  Croatia + 2' 29.24" 29 Martina Ritter  Austria + 2' 30.66" 30 Emilia Fahlin  Sweden + 2' 31.94" 31 Leire Olaberría  Spain + 2' 47.15" 32 Katazina Sosna  Lithuania + 2' 52.99" 33 Ana Teresa Casas Bonilla  Mexico + 2' 57.83" 34 Tüvshinjargalyn Enkhjargal  Mongolia + 3' 05.68" 35 Sari Saarelainen  Finland + 3' 09.31" 36 Alena Sitsko  Belarus + 3' 09.83" 37 Anna Sanchis Chafer  Spain + 3' 12.24" 38 Jacqueline Hahn  Austria + 3' 14.58" 39 Vita Heine  Latvia + 3' 17.40" 40 Sara Frece  Slovenia + 3' 02.83" 41 Clemilda Fernandes  Brazil + 3' 34.40" 42 Nontasin Chanpeng  Thailand + 4' 09.26" 43 Alenka Novak  Slovenia + 5' 00.64" 44 Supaksorn Nuntana  Thailand + 5' 30.72" 45 Samah Khaled  Jordan + 6' 32.30" - Lorena Maria Vargas Villamil  Colombia DNS - Aisha Kiwanuka Peace  Uganda DNS - Rebecca Nalubega  Uganda DNS DNS = did not start

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