The Women's Individual Time Trial at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships

2007 UCI Road World Championships

The 2007 UCI Road World Championships took place in Stuttgart, Germany, between September 25 and September 30, 2007. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23...

 took place on September 26. The Championships were hosted by the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 city of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, and featured two laps of an urban circuit, amounting to 25.1 kilometres of racing against the clock.

Three-time world cyclo-cross champion Hanka Kupfernagel

Hanka Kupfernagel

Hanka Kupfernagel is a German professional cycle racer. Currently her primary focus is cyclocross racing, however, she has won major road, track and mountain bike races...

 bested defending world time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong

Kristin Armstrong

Kristin Armstrong is a professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist, the winner of the Women's Time Trial at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Before temporarily retiring to start a family in 2009, she rode for in women's elite professional events on the National Racing Calendar ...

 and the rest of the field. Kupfernagel went off as part of the first wave of riders, starting tenth, and smashed the initial time checks, ending her effort 2 minutes 8.69 seconds of previous leader Martina Ruzicková (Czech Republic). She had to endure an extremely nervous wait, though, with the top-seeded riders to follow and defending champion Armstrong not starting until two hours after the German.

In the end, her average speed of 43.432 km/h around the tough 25.1 kilometre course eventually saw her finish 23.47 seconds clear of Armstrong, with Christiane Soeder

Christiane Soeder

Christiane Soeder is a German-born Austrian road racing cyclist and former duathlete who now lives in Vienna. She finished 4th in Olympic road race with a time of 3h 32′ 28...

(Austria) 41.53 seconds down in third.

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Time	Time behind
		00:34:43.79
		00:35:07.26	+ 23,47
		00:35:25.32	+ 41,53
4		00:35:46.58	+ 1.02,79
5		00:35:54.87	+ 1.11,08
6		00:36:05.01	+ 1.21,22
7		00:36:05.60	+ 1.21,81
8		00:36:16.39	+ 1.32,60
9		00:36:19.00	+ 1.35,21
10		00:36:21.57	+ 1.37,78
11		00:36:33.51	+ 1.49,7
12		00:36:34.29	+ 1.50,5
13		00:36:39.14	+ 1.55,3
14		00:36:39.31	+ 1.55,5
15		00:36:46.71	+ 2.02,9
16		00:36:52.48	+ 2.08,7
17		00:36:57.39	+ 2.13,6
18		00:36:58.59	+ 2.14,8
19		00:37:04.58	+ 2.20,8
20		00:37:05.93	+ 2.22,1
21		00:37:06.18	+ 2.22,4
22		00:37:09.31	+ 2.25,5
23		00:37:13.95	+ 2.30,2
24		00:37:19.36	+ 2.35,6
25		00:37:23.78	+ 2.40,0
26		00:37:25.30	+ 2.41,5
27		00:37:35.27	+ 2.51,5
28		00:37:43.92	+ 3.00,1
29		00:37:47.64	+ 3.03,8
30		00:37:55.97	+ 3.12,2
31		00:37:57.63	+ 3.13,8
32		00:38:00.55	+ 3.16,7
33		00:38:01.99	+ 3.18,2
34		00:38:02.52	+ 3.18,7
35		00:38:03.71	+ 3.19,9
36		00:38:08.35	+ 3.24,6
37		00:38:22.51	+ 3.38,7
38		00:38:40.71	+ 3.56,9
39		00:38:47.35	+ 4.03,5
40		00:38:49.30	+ 4.05,5
41		00:38:54.96	+ 4.11,2
42		00:39:14.89	+ 4.31,1
43		00:39:20.83	+ 4.37,0
44		00:39:47.07	+ 5.03,3
45		00:39:48.28	+ 5.04,5
46		00:40:29.25	+ 5.45,4
47		00:40:41.60	+ 5.57,8
48		00:40:51.43	+ 6.07,6
49		00:42:12.09	+ 7.28,3