UCI Road World Cup

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The UCI Road World Cup was a season-long road bicycle racing competition comprised to ten one-day events. The competition was inaugurated in 1989, and replaced the Super Prestige Pernod International. In the first three years, the competition was sponsored by Perrier. The competition determined a winning individual, and a winning team

The record number of wins was Paolo Bettini's three consecutive wins in 2002, 2003, and the last edition in 2004. Three riders won the competition twice: Maurizio Fondriest (1991 and 1993), Johan Museeuw (1995 and 1996) and Michele Bartoli (1997 and 1998).

The competition was run in parallel to the UCI Road World Rankings, which included all UCI sanctioned events. Both were replaced at the end of the 2004 season with the inaugration of the UCI ProTour and UCI Continental Circuits.

[edit] Palmarès

Rider Team 1989 Seán Kelly PDM 1990 Gianni Bugno Chateau D'Ax 1991 Maurizio Fondriest Panasonic 1992 Olaf Ludwig Panasonic 1993 Maurizio Fondriest Lampre 1994 Gianluca Bortolami Mapei 1995 Johan Museeuw Mapei 1996 Johan Museeuw Mapei

Rider Team 1997 Michele Bartoli MG-Maglificio 1998 Michele Bartoli Asics 1999 Andrei Tchmil Lotto 2000 Erik Zabel Team Telekom 2001 Erik Dekker Rabobank 2002 Paolo Bettini Mapei 2003 Paolo Bettini Quick Step-Davitamon 2004 Paolo Bettini Quick Step-Davitamon

[edit] See also

• UCI Women's Road World Cup

[edit] External links

• Official site (archives)

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Challenge Desgrange-Colombo (1948-1958) | Super Prestige Pernod International (1958-1988) | UCI Road World Rankings (1984-2004) | UCI Road World Cup (1989-2004) | UCI ProTour (2005-)
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