The 1982 UCI Road World Championships - Women's Road Race took place on the 4th of september 1982[1] around Goodwood, Sussex in the United Kingdom. It was 61 km in length.[2]
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| Dates | 4 September 1982 | |||||||||
| Stages | 1 in  Goodwood (GBR) | |||||||||
| Distance | 61 km (37.90 mi) | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1h 31' 00" | |||||||||
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Mandy Jones broke clear of the field to win by 10 seconds. She was the first British woman to win a world championship for 15 years.[3] She said:
- "I won by accident. It was just plain daft. We were going downhill and I just rode past them. Then I looked back, saw I had a gap and kept going. I was praying my legs wouldn't collapse. But with around half a lap to go, I started thinking 'Hey, I could win this!"[4]
Final classification edit
References edit
- ^ Cycling - World Championships - 1982 on TheSports.org
- ^ "World Championships – Road Race – Elite Women – History". Cyclingnews. 2004.
- ^ Golden Book of Cycling
- ^ Woodland, Les (2005), This Island Race, Mousehold Press, UK
- ^ Cycling - World Championships - 1982 on TheSports.org
- ^ Els Gottschal's name was cited in the article "Heerschappij Hennie Top staat nu wel vast", about the Dutch Championships in the newspaper Leidsch Dagblad, 28 juni 1982.
- ^ Els Gottschal (Groningen), cited in "Uitslagen Criteriums", Dames, Ochten, in the Dutch newspaper De Stem, 19 juli 1982, page: Sport/Tour '82
- ^ Zlatuše Hrnčířová on on procyclingstats.com