2019 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Cycling race

Cycling race
Men's road race
2019 UCI Road World Championships
The start of the race in Leeds
The start of the race in Leeds
Race details
Dates29 September 2019
Stages1
Distance260.7 km (162.0 mi)
Winning time6h 27' 28"[1]
Medalists
   Gold Denmark Mads Pedersen (DEN)
   Silver Italy Matteo Trentin (ITA)
   Bronze Switzerland Stefan Küng (SUI)
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The Men's road race of the 2019 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 29 September 2019 in Yorkshire, England.[2] The race was initially scheduled to be contested over 280 kilometres (170 miles),[3] but due to flooding on the course,[4] the race was reduced to 260.7 kilometres (162.0 miles).[1] The wet weather also meant there was a limited broadcast coverage of the race.

For the first time in the race's history, a Danish rider won the world title as Mads Pedersen out-sprinted two other riders at the finish in Harrogate to take the rainbow jersey.[5] The silver medal went to Italy's Matteo Trentin, while the bronze medal went to Stefan Küng of Switzerland.[6]

Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 11 August 2019.[7]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.[8]

Criterium Rank Number of riders Nations
To enter To start
UCI World Ranking by Nations 1–10 13 8
  •  France
  •  Belgium
  •  Italy
  •  Netherlands
  •  Spain
11–20 9 6
21–30 7 4
31–50 2 1
UCI World Ranking by Individuals
(if not already qualified) 		1–200 —

Continental champions

Name Country Reason
Alejandro Valverde  Spain Outgoing World Champion
Mekseb Debesay  Eritrea African Champion
Yevgeniy Gidich  Kazakhstan Asian Champion
Jefferson Cepeda  Ecuador Panamerican Champion

Participating nations

197 cyclists from 42 nations were entered in the men's road race.[9] The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.

  •  Argentina (1)
  •  Australia (8)
  •  Austria (6)
  •  Belarus (2)
  •  Belgium (8)
  •  Canada (6)
  •  Colombia (7)
  •  Costa Rica (1)
  •  Croatia (1)
  •  Czech Republic (6)
  •  Denmark (8)
  •  Ecuador (4)
  •  Eritrea (4)
  •  Estonia (4)
  •  France (8)
  •  Germany (8)
  •  Great Britain (6)
  •  Greece (2)
  •  Hungary (2)
  •  Ireland (6)
  •  Italy (8)
  •  Japan (2)
  •  Kazakhstan (5)
  •  Latvia (3)
  •  Lithuania (2)
  •  Luxembourg (4)
  •  Namibia (1)
  •  Netherlands (8)
  •  New Zealand (4)
  •  Norway (6)
  •  Poland (6)
  •  Portugal (5)
  •  Romania (1)
  •  Russia (6)
  •  Slovakia (4)
  •  Slovenia (8)
  •  South Africa (4)
  •  Spain (9)
  •  Sweden (2)
  •   Switzerland (6)
  •  Ukraine (1)
  •  United States (4)

Results

Final classification

Mads Pedersen (pictured in 2017) won the race for Denmark.

Of the race's 197 entrants, 46 riders completed the full distance of 260.7 kilometres (162.0 miles).[1]

Rank Rider Country Time
1 Mads Pedersen  Denmark 6h 27' 28"
2 Matteo Trentin  Italy + 0"
3 Stefan Küng   Switzerland + 2"
4 Gianni Moscon  Italy + 17"
5 Peter Sagan  Slovakia + 43"
6 Michael Valgren  Denmark + 45"
7 Alexander Kristoff  Norway + 1' 10"
8 Greg Van Avermaet  Belgium + 1' 10"
9 Gorka Izagirre  Spain + 1' 10"
10 Rui Costa  Portugal + 1' 10"
11 Sonny Colbrelli  Italy + 1' 10"
12 Jakob Fuglsang  Denmark + 1' 10"
13 Zdeněk Štybar  Czech Republic + 1' 10"
14 Carlos Betancur  Colombia + 1' 10"
15 John Degenkolb  Germany + 1' 10"
16 Ion Izagirre  Spain + 1' 14"
17 Amund Grøndahl Jansen  Norway + 1' 14"
18 Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia + 1' 14"
19 Nils Politt  Germany + 1' 22"
20 Niki Terpstra  Netherlands + 1' 22"
21 Toms Skujiņš  Latvia + 1' 46"
22 Michael Albasini   Switzerland + 1' 48"
23 Tony Gallopin  France + 1' 50"
24 Michael Matthews  Australia + 1' 57"
25 Alberto Bettiol  Italy + 1' 57"
26 Tao Geoghegan Hart  Great Britain + 2' 20"
27 Marc Hirschi   Switzerland + 2' 20"
28 Julian Alaphilippe  France + 2' 26"
29 Daniel Felipe Martínez  Colombia + 3' 59"
30 Felix Großschartner  Austria + 3' 59"
31 Ben Swift  Great Britain + 6' 38"
32 Yves Lampaert  Belgium + 7' 48"
33 Oliver Naesen  Belgium + 8' 07"
34 Sven Erik Bystrøm  Norway + 8' 07"
35 Tim Wellens  Belgium + 8' 07"
36 Mike Teunissen  Netherlands + 8' 07"
37 Dylan Teuns  Belgium + 8' 07"
38 Esteban Chaves  Colombia + 8' 07"
39 Andrey Amador  Costa Rica + 8' 07"
40 Chad Haga  United States + 10' 27"
41 Neilson Powless  United States + 10' 27"
42 Benoît Cosnefroy  France + 10' 52"
43 Mathieu van der Poel  Netherlands + 10' 52"
44 Imanol Erviti  Spain + 14' 48"
45 Lucas Eriksson  Sweden + 14' 48"
46 Petr Vakoč  Czech Republic + 19' 25"

Failed to finish

149 riders failed to finish, while South Africa's Jay Thomson and Ukraine's Mark Padun failed to start.[1]

Rider Country
Jack Haig  Australia
Lukas Pöstlberger  Austria
Florian Sénéchal  France
Dylan van Baarle  Netherlands
Adam Yates  Great Britain
Patrick Konrad  Austria
Marco Haller  Austria
Bauke Mollema  Netherlands
Luka Pibernik  Slovenia
Alexandr Riabushenko  Belarus
Nikias Arndt  Germany
Davide Cimolai  Italy
Juraj Sagan  Slovakia
Magnus Cort  Denmark
Álvaro Hodeg  Colombia
Edvald Boasson Hagen  Norway
Michael Woods  Canada
Christophe Laporte  France
Michał Gołaś  Poland
Nathan Haas  Australia
Marc Soler  Spain
Pascal Ackermann  Germany
Ruben Guerreiro  Portugal
Alex Kirsch  Luxembourg
Alo Jakin  Estonia
Lawson Craddock  United States
Simon Clarke  Australia
Luke Durbridge  Australia
Hermann Pernsteiner  Austria
Giovanni Visconti  Italy
Alexey Lutsenko  Kazakhstan
Grega Bole  Slovenia
Simon Geschke  Germany
Geraint Thomas  Great Britain
Michael Mørkøv  Denmark
Jonathan Caicedo  Ecuador
Rémi Cavagna  France
Luis León Sánchez  Spain
Salvatore Puccio  Italy
Christopher Juul-Jensen  Denmark
Jack Bauer  New Zealand
Pieter Weening  Netherlands
Rafał Majka  Poland
Paweł Poljański  Poland
Jasha Sütterlin  Germany
Łukasz Wiśniowski  Poland
Jonathan Castroviejo  Spain
Josef Černý  Czech Republic
Kasper Asgreen  Denmark
Sam Bennett  Ireland
Rider Country
Danilo Wyss   Switzerland
Ben Perry  Canada
Eduard-Michael Grosu  Romania
Emīls Liepiņš  Latvia
Rory Townsend  Ireland
Matej Mohorič  Slovenia
Anthony Roux  France
Diego Ulissi  Italy
Bob Jungels  Luxembourg
José Joaquín Rojas  Spain
Yukiya Arashiro  Japan
Jonas Koch  Germany
Mitchell Docker  Australia
Michael Schär   Switzerland
Casper Pedersen  Denmark
Pavel Sivakov  Russia
Eduardo Sepúlveda  Argentina
Sebastián Henao  Colombia
Carl Fredrik Hagen  Norway
Dion Smith  New Zealand
Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands
Marcus Burghardt  Germany
Aleksandr Vlasov  Russia
Hugo Houle  Canada
Owain Doull  Great Britain
Alejandro Valverde  Spain
Tim Declercq  Belgium
Alex Howes  United States
Sergey Chernetskiy  Russia
Zhandos Bizhigitov  Kazakhstan
Nairo Quintana  Colombia
Gediminas Bagdonas  Lithuania
Conor Dunne  Ireland
Michael Gogl  Austria
Erik Baška  Slovakia
James Piccoli  Canada
Jan Polanc  Slovenia
Stylianos Farantakis  Greece
Tanel Kangert  Estonia
Kim Magnusson  Sweden
Eddie Dunbar  Ireland
José Gonçalves  Portugal
Remco Evenepoel  Belgium
Stepan Kurianov  Russia
Julien Bernard  France
David Per  Slovenia
Yevgeniy Gidich  Kazakhstan
Dmitriy Gruzdev  Kazakhstan
Ben Gastauer  Luxembourg
Silvan Dillier   Switzerland
Rider Country
Nicholas Dlamini  South Africa
Rui Oliveira  Portugal
Maciej Bodnar  Poland
Rein Taaramäe  Estonia
Ian Stannard  Great Britain
Krists Neilands  Latvia
Vegard Stake Laengen  Norway
Evaldas Šiškevičius  Lithuania
Shane Archbold  New Zealand
Jan Bárta  Czech Republic
Hideto Nakane  Japan
Primož Roglič  Slovenia
Philippe Gilbert  Belgium
Jos van Emden  Netherlands
Dan Martin  Ireland
Yuriy Natarov  Kazakhstan
Guillaume Boivin  Canada
Rory Sutherland  Australia
Daryl Impey  South Africa
Mihkel Räim  Estonia
Nelson Oliveira  Portugal
Richard Carapaz  Ecuador
František Sisr  Czech Republic
Tom Wirtgen  Luxembourg
Juan Sebastián Molano  Colombia
Polychronis Tzortzakis  Greece
Antoine Duchesne  Canada
Antonio Barać  Croatia
Ján Andrej Cully  Slovakia
Péter Kusztor  Hungary
Roman Kreuziger  Czech Republic
Dmitry Strakhov  Russia
Jhonatan Narváez  Ecuador
Jefferson Cepeda  Ecuador
Stefan de Bod  South Africa
Ryan Mullen  Ireland
Rohan Dennis  Australia
Iván García  Spain
Jan Tratnik  Slovenia
Łukasz Owsian  Poland
Alexander Evtushenko  Russia
Natnael Berhane  Eritrea
Mekseb Debesay  Eritrea
Merhawi Kudus  Eritrea
Daniel Teklehaimanot  Eritrea
Patrick Bevin  New Zealand
Vasil Kiryienka  Belarus
Márton Dina  Hungary
Dirk Coetzee  Namibia

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Final Results / Résultat final: Men Elite Road Race / Course en ligne Hommes Elite". Tissot Timing. Tissot. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  2. ^ "86th World Championships – Road Race (WC)". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Timings: Men Elite Road Race" (PDF). Yorkshire 2019 UCI Road World Championships. Yorkshire 2019 Limited. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  4. ^ Howes, Nick (29 September 2019). "Men Elite Road Race re-routed". Yorkshire 2019 UCI Road World Championships. Yorkshire 2019 Limited. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  5. ^ "World Championships: Mads Pedersen wins elite men's rainbow jersey". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  6. ^ Skelton, Jack (29 September 2019). "Road World Championship: Denmark's Mads Pedersen claims shock elite men's road race title". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Qualification System for the 2019 UCI Road World Championships" (PDF). UCI Road World Championships - Official Documents. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 September 2020.
  8. ^ "UCI Road World Championships-2019 Yorkshire Quota Allocation" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 26 August 2019. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Start List : Men Elite Road Race" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

External links

  • Men's road race page at the Yorkshire 2019 website
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