Britain leads the medal count for the 2022 UCI Road World Championships, with junior sensation Zoe Backstedt enjoying her most successful season ever.

Backstedt won two gold medals in the women's junior category, a road race and time trial double, while her Welsh compatriot Josh Tarling won a third gold in the junior men's time trial.

Leo Hayter won bronze in the U23 men's time trial, and Pfeiffer Georgi took silver in the U23 women's road race.

With the introduction of the U23 women's category, more medals were won at the 2022 World Championships than ever before, albeit within the framework of an elite race rather than a standalone event.

A total of 36 medals were awarded in 13 categories, shared among 13 countries.

Belgium won the most medals, with six. However, with only one gold medal, they had to settle for fourth place in the final medal count ranking, with the Netherlands in second place and Norway in third.

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The Netherlands won double gold medals in the elite women's road race and time trial with Annemiek van Grooten and Ellen van Dijk, respectively; Shirin van Anluj won silver in the U23 women's time trial; and junior women's road race, Nienke Vinke took the bronze medal.

It was a decent result for the Netherlands, but a disappointing World Championships for the Netherlands, whose defense of the mixed relay TTT world title was thwarted by Van Vleuten's accidental crash, and who lost men's road race favorite Mathieu Van der Pol to a legal violation. Championships.

Norway showed promise with Tobias Foss winning the elite men's race and Søren Werenskjold winning gold in the U23 men's race. The latter won bronze in the U23 road race, giving Norway three medals.

The other six countries won one gold medal, while Belgium took two silver and three bronze. The gold medal was won by Remco Evenpole's solo victory in the elite men's road race on the final day, and if Van Vleuten had not slipped up in the women's road race, he could have won a double, but Lotte Kopecky ended up with a disappointing silver medal.

Alec Segert took his second silver medal in the U23 men's time trial, Evenpoel won bronze in the elite men's TT, and Vlad van Megeren and Phoebe Yori finished third in the junior road race. After last year's controversial local success, even Belgium's harshest critics will not be disappointed by the resurgence.

Germany won five medals, including a dramatic victory by Emil Herzog in the junior men's road race, and Italy and Switzerland both won medals, the former by Vittoria Guazzini for her first U23 women's road race title and the latter in the mixed relay team time trial victory.

Kazakhstan won gold in the U23 men's road race by Evgeny Fedorov and New Zealand won gold in the U23 women's road race by Niamh Fisher-Black.

Their home country, Australia, came close to a gold medal, but took two silver and two bronze medals.

Meanwhile, the U.S. had a dismal World Championships, failing to win a single medal. Similarly, Spain was one of the major cycling nations that departed empty-handed, even though its elite men's squad was depleted by fitness issues and riders not released from the trade teams.