The Course for Road Races

The elite Road Race World Championship 2011 starts at Copenhagen City Hall Square with a 30 kilometer stretch before the riders enter the first of eighteen laps at fourteen kilometers each in the Municipal north of Copenhagen at Rudersdal.

All other Road races, apart from the Elite Men's Road Race, starts and finishes on the fourteen kilometers Circuit, with the finish line at Geels Hill on Kongevejen. The riders will climb 105 meters in altitude on each lap, which besides from the final climb contains at the 3,9 km. Slotsbakken closely followed by a climb on Attermosevej. Slotsbakken is the highest point on the Circuit at 59 meters above sea level, while the lowest point at 17 meters is after 7,7 kilometer. The riders will enjoy a beautiful landscape throughout the route in Rudersdal.

"We have designed an interesting and demanding route for the road race going up Geels Bakke. We are convinced that it will be a very tough and varied World Championship in Denmark 2011," says Danish Cycling Federation´s director Jesper Worre.