UCI Road World Championships

The UCI Road World Championships is an annunal world championship for bike racing which first took place in 1921 in Copenhagen and has been held annually except for a person when the Second World War stopped all sport.

History
The first Road World Championship in 1921 took place at Copenhagen and saw 17 riders compete from five nations with the maximum amount of riders being four per team. Gunnar Skoeld would go on to take the first road race in World Championship history as he finished ahead of Danish rider, Willum Nielsen and British rider, Charles Davey.