The 2001 UCI Road World Championships took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 9 to 14 October 2001. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's road race details	Óscar Freire  Spain	6h07'21"	Paolo Bettini  Italy	s.t.	Andrej Hauptman  Slovenia	s.t.
Men's time trial details	Jan Ullrich  Germany	51'50"	David Millar  Great Britain	+ 6"	Santiago Botero  Colombia	+ 17"
Women's Events
Women's road race details	Rasa Polikevičiūtė  Lithuania	3h12'05"	Edita Pučinskaitė  Lithuania	s.t.	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli  France	s.t.
Women's time trial details	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli  France	29'08"	Nicole Brändli  Switzerland	s.t.	Teodora Ruano  Spain	+ 44"
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 road race details	Yaroslav Popovych  Ukraine	3h36'28"	Giampaolo Caruso  Italy	+ 17"	Ruslan Gryschenko  Ukraine	+ 1'24"
Men's under-23 time trial details	Danny Pate  United States	46'29"	Sebastian Lang  Germany	+ 38"	James Lewis Perry  South Africa	+ 39"
Men's Junior Events
Men's Junior Road Race details	Oleksandr Kvachuk  Ukraine	2h58'43"	Niels Scheuneman  Netherlands	+ 7"	Mathieu Perget  France	s.t.
Men's Junior Time Trial details	Jurgen van den Broeck  Belgium	27'28"	Oleksandr Kvachuk  Ukraine	s.t.	Niels Scheuneman  Netherlands	+ 1"
Women's Junior Events
Women's Junior Road Race details	Nicole Cooke  Great Britain	2h01'25"	Pleuni Mohlmann  Netherlands	+ 17"	Maja Włoszczowska  Poland	+ 29"
Women's Junior Time Trial details	Nicole Cooke  Great Britain	18'45"	Natalia Bojarskaja  Russia	+ 9"	Diana Elmentaite  Lithuania	+ 10"

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