- A1. American Greg Lemond, back in 1989, in Chambéry, France! After winning the closest Tour in history, defeating Laurent Fignon, he beat Russian Dmitry Konyshev (silver) and the Irishman Sean Kelly (bronze) to take his second World Road Race Championship jersey, after winning at Altenrhein, Switzerland in 1983.
- A2. Italian Alessandro Ballan triumphed in Varese, Italy in 2008.
- A3. This happened last in 2012 in Valkenberg of the Netherlands when Dutch ace Marianne Vos, widely heralded as the greatest women’s racer of all time triumphed atop the Cauberg climb in front of a partisan crowd. This began a streak of Dutch domination of the event with only four of the last eleven Worlds not going to the Orange clad women of Holland!
- A4. 2015! It’s been a while! Megan Guarnier scored bronze in Richmond, Virginia in front of a boisterous home crowd behind winner Lizzie Armitstead of Great Britain.
- A5. 1995 in Colombia. The Road events were held in Duitama and the Track events in Bogota. The following year’s road races were in Lugano, Switzerland but the Track events were held in Manchester, England and at a completely different time.
- Bonus Answer: Moreno Argentin (Italy) took the Men’s Road Race, while Jeannie Longo (France) won the Women’s event. Uwe Ampler (East Germany) won the Amateur title.
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