Articles of category "Road bicycle racing"

The debut World Cycling Championship was organized in 1927 in Nurburgring, Germany and the winner was Italian cyclist Alfredo Binda. Since then on, the event has been held annually in different location with only 1939-1945 interruption due to World War Two. By this day, the event has been organized total 71 times and next championship is scheduled for 2006 to be held in Salzburg, Austria.

Collectively referred to as the Grand Tours, all three events, the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a Espagna, are all analogous in format. All events are multi-week road cycling tours with every day stages. The stages are a combination of long races with massed start (on occasion including hill and mountain climbs and descents), in addition to team and individual time trials and exhibitions as well as the rest days.