2023 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Cycling race

Cycling race
Men's road race
2023 UCI Road World Championships
Race details
Dates6 August 2023
Stages1 in Glasgow, Great Britain
Distance271.1 km (168.5 mi)
Winning time6h 07' 27"
Medalists
   Gold Netherlands Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
   Silver Belgium Wout van Aert (BEL)
   Bronze Slovenia Tadej Pogačar (SLO)
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The men's road race of the 2023 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 6 August 2023 in Glasgow, Great Britain.[1] Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel won the race after a crash in a high speed corner, racing solo, 16 km before the finish.[2]

Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 30 June 2023.[3]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.[4]

Nations Riders
 Australia 8
 Belgium
 Colombia
 Denmark
 France
 Great Britain
 Italy
 Netherlands
 Slovenia
 Spain
 Austria 6
 Canada
 Eritrea
 Germany
 Ireland
 New Zealand
 Norway
 Portugal
  Switzerland
 United States
 Algeria 4
 Czechia
 Ecuador
 Estonia
 Hungary
 Kazakhstan
 Latvia
 Luxembourg
 Morocco
 South Africa
Neutral athletes of Russian sporting nationality 1
 Argentina
 China
 Costa Rica
 Greece
 Israel
 Japan
 Mauritius
 Mongolia
 Panama
 Poland
 Romania
 Rwanda
 Slovakia
 Sweden
 Thailand
 Ukraine
 Uruguay
 Uzbekistan
 Venezuela

Continental champions

Name Country Reason
Remco Evenepoel  Belgium Incumbent World Champion
Henok Mulubrhan  Eritrea African Champion
Pier-André Côté  Canada Panamerican Champion
Gleb Brussenskiy  Kazakhstan Asian Champion

Participating nations

195 cyclists from 58 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.[5]

  •  Anguilla (1)
  •  Argentina (1)
  •  Algeria (2)
  •  Australia (8)
  •  Austria (6)
  •  Belgium (9)
  •  Brazil (1)
  •  British Virgin Islands (1)
  •  Canada (6)
  •  Cape Verde (1)
  •  Chile (1)
  •  China (1)
  •  Colombia (7)
  •  Costa Rica (1)
  •  Cyprus (1)
  •  Czech Republic (4)
  •  Denmark (8)
  •  Ecuador (3)
  •  Eritrea (3)
  •  France (8)
  •  Germany (6)
  •  Great Britain (8)
  •  Greece (1)
  •  Guyana (1)
  •  Hungary (1)
  •  Ireland (6)
  •  Israel (1)
  •  Italy (8)
  •  Japan (1)
  •  Kazakhstan (5)
  •  Latvia (4)
  •  Luxembourg (4)
  •  Malta (1)
  •  Mauritius (1)
  •  Monaco (1)
  •  Mongolia (1)
  •  Morocco (4)
  •  Netherlands (8)
  •  New Zealand (5)
  •  Norway (6)
  •  Panama (1)
  •  Poland (1)
  •  Portugal (4)
  •  Rwanda (1)
  •  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
  •  Slovakia (2)
  •  Slovenia (8)
  •  South Africa (4)
  •  Spain (8)
  •  Sweden (1)
  •   Switzerland (6)
  •  Uganda (1)
  •  Ukraine (1)
  •  United States (6)
  •  Uruguay (1)
  •  Uzbekistan (1)
  •  Vatican City (1)
  •  Venezuela (1)

Final classification

Rank Rider Country Time
1 Mathieu van der Poel  Netherlands 6h 07' 27"
2 Wout van Aert  Belgium + 1' 37"
3 Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia + 1' 45"
4 Mads Pedersen  Denmark + 1' 45"
5 Stefan Küng   Switzerland + 3' 48"
6 Jasper Stuyven  Belgium + 3' 48"
7 Matthew Dinham  Australia + 3' 48"
8 Toms Skujiņš  Latvia + 3' 48"
9 Tiesj Benoot  Belgium + 3' 48"
10 Alberto Bettiol  Italy + 4' 03"
11 Neilson Powless  United States + 4' 20"
12 Dylan van Baarle  Netherlands + 4' 24"
13 Mauro Schmid   Switzerland + 5' 50"
14 Mattias Skjelmose  Denmark + 6' 22"
15 Valentin Madouas  France + 7' 53"
16 John Degenkolb  Germany + 8' 30"
17 Rasmus Tiller  Norway + 8' 30"
18 Owain Doull  Great Britain + 8' 30"
19 Alex Aranburu  Spain + 8' 30"
20 Kevin Vermaerke  United States + 8' 30"
21 Simon Clarke  Australia + 8' 30"
22 Patrick Gamper  Austria + 8' 30"
23 Krists Neilands  Latvia + 8' 55"
24 Petr Kelemen  Czech Republic + 10' 01"
25 Remco Evenepoel  Belgium + 10' 10"
26 Connor Swift  Great Britain + 13' 59"
27 Simone Velasco  Italy + 13' 59"
28 Lorenzo Rota  Italy + 13' 59"
29 Emīls Liepiņš  Latvia + 13' 59"
30 Iván García Cortina  Spain + 13' 59"
31 Marco Haller  Austria + 13' 59"
32 Lucas Eriksson  Sweden + 13' 59"
33 Matevž Govekar  Slovenia + 13' 59"
34 Kristian Sbaragli  Italy + 13' 59"
35 Michael Gogl  Austria + 13' 59"
36 Guillaume Boivin  Canada + 13' 59"
37 Michael Boroš  Czech Republic + 13' 59"
38 Sebastian Schönberger  Austria + 13' 59"
39 Andrea Bagioli  Italy + 13' 59"
40 Nickolas Zukowsky  Canada + 14' 06"
41 Jonas Rutsch  Germany + 14' 06"
42 Adam Ťoupalík  Czech Republic + 14' 06"
43 Silvan Dillier   Switzerland + 14' 06"
44 Yves Lampaert  Belgium + 14' 11"
45 Olav Kooij  Netherlands + 14' 11"
46 Nelson Oliveira  Portugal + 14' 13"
47 Benoît Cosnefroy  France + 14' 13"
48 Ryan Christensen  New Zealand + 14' 13"
49 Alexey Lutsenko  Kazakhstan + 14' 15"
50 Andreas Leknessund  Norway + 14' 18"
51 Tobias Halland Johannessen  Norway + 14' 18"
Rank Rider Country Time
Jhonatan Narváez  Ecuador DNF
Nathan Van Hooydonck  Belgium DNF
João Almeida  Portugal DNF
Lawson Craddock  United States DNF
Michael Matthews  Australia DNF
Julian Alaphilippe  France DNF
Luke Rowe  Great Britain DNF
Ion Izagirre  Spain DNF
Bryan Coquard  France DNF
Rory Townsend  Ireland DNF
Santiago Buitrago  Colombia DNF
Christophe Laporte  France DNF
Matteo Trentin  Italy DNF
Lukas Pöstlberger  Austria DNF
Jonas Abrahamsen  Norway DNF
Victor Campenaerts  Belgium DNF
Michel Hessmann  Germany DNF
Harold Tejada  Colombia DNF
Søren Kragh Andersen  Denmark DNF
Marc Hirschi   Switzerland DNF
Michał Kwiatkowski  Poland DNF
Ben Healy  Ireland DNF
Florian Sénéchal  France DNF
Mathias Vacek  Czech Republic DNF
Jasper Philipsen  Belgium DNF
Ruben Guerreiro  Portugal DNF
Ryan Gibbons  South Africa DNF
Jan Maas  Netherlands DNF
Alexander Kristoff  Norway DNF
Magnus Cort  Denmark DNF
Gonzalo Serrano  Spain DNF
Mikkel Frølich Honoré  Denmark DNF
André Carvalho  Portugal DNF
Roger Adrià  Spain DNF
Corbin Strong  New Zealand DNF
Kaden Groves  Australia DNF
Harry Sweeny  Australia DNF
Laurence Pithie  New Zealand DNF
Andreas Miltiadis  Cyprus DNF
Kevin Geniets  Luxembourg DNF
Kasper Asgreen  Denmark DNF
Fred Wright  Great Britain DNF
Pascal Eenkhoorn  Netherlands DNF
Ben Turner  Great Britain DNF
Alex Kirsch  Luxembourg DNF
Daniel Oss  Italy DNF
Olivier Le Gac  France DNF
Luka Mezgec  Slovenia DNF
Stefan Bissegger   Switzerland DNS
Rigoberto Urán  Colombia DNF
Ben Swift  Great Britain DNF
Peter Sagan  Slovakia DNF
Nils Politt  Germany DNF
Jake Stewart  Great Britain DNF
George Bennett  New Zealand DNF
Jaka Primožič  Slovenia DNF
Jannik Steimle  Germany DNF
Jesús Herrada  Spain DNF
Mohcine El Kouraji  Morocco DNF
Jonathan Caicedo  Ecuador DNF
Edvald Boasson Hagen  Norway DNF
James Oram  New Zealand DNF
Nico Denz  Germany DNF
Daan Hoole  Netherlands DNF
Sean Quinn  United States DNF
Rainer Kepplinger  Austria DNF
Yukiya Arashiro  Japan DNF
Márton Dina  Hungary DNF
German Tivani  Argentina DNF
Jefferson Alexander Cepeda  Ecuador DNF
Sainbayaryn Jambaljamts  Mongolia DNF
Omar El Gouzi  Morocco DNF
Samuel Watson  Great Britain DNF
Anatoliy Budyak  Ukraine DNF
Derek Gee  Canada DNF
Itamar Einhorn  Israel DNF
Nicolas Sessler  Brazil DNF
Gleb Brussenskiy  Kazakhstan DNF
Rémi Cavagna  France DNF
Larry Warbasse  United States DNF
Georgios Bouglas  Greece DNF
Charles Kagimu  Uganda DNF
Adil El Arbaoui  Morocco DNF
Jason Huertas  Costa Rica DNF
Filippo Baroncini  Italy DNF
Igor Chzhan  Kazakhstan DNF
Matúš Štoček  Slovakia DNF
Tom Wirtgen  Luxembourg DNF
Charles-Étienne Chrétien  Canada DNF
Ben Perry  Canada DNF
Dmitriy Gruzdev  Kazakhstan DNF
Will Barta  United States DNF
Xabier Azparren  Spain DNF
Cormac McGeough  Ireland DNF
Jesús Ezquerra  Spain DNF
Frederik Frison  Belgium DNF
El Houcaine Sabbahi  Morocco DNF
Muradjan Khalmuratov  Uzbekistan DNF
Walter Vargas  Colombia DNF
Michael Mørkøv  Denmark DNF
Mick van Dijke  Netherlands DNF
Hugo Houle  Canada DNF
Domen Novak  Slovenia DNF
Dillon Corkery  Ireland DNF
Ryan Mullen  Ireland DNF
Cedric Pries  Luxembourg DNF
Oscar Riesebeek  Netherlands DNF
Juan Sebastián Molano  Colombia DNF
Anže Skok  Slovenia DNF
Mārtiņš Pluto  Latvia DNF
Alex Edmondson  Australia DNF
Fabian Lienhard   Switzerland DNF
Daryl Impey  South Africa DNF
Kristijan Koren  Slovenia DNF
Tilen Finkšt  Slovenia DNF
Mikkel Bjerg  Denmark DNF
Victor Langellotti  Monaco DNF
Eric Manizabayo  Rwanda DNF
Luke Plapp  Australia DNF
Luke Durbridge  Australia DNF
Manuel Lira  Chile DNF
Aidan Buttigieg  Malta DNF
Su Haoyu  China DNF
Fernando Gaviria  Colombia DNF
Jesús David Peña  Colombia DNF
Sam Bennett  Ireland DNF
Dawit Yemane  Eritrea DNF
Henok Mulubrhan  Eritrea DNF
Natnael Berhane  Eritrea DNF
Callum Ormiston  South Africa DNF
Morné van Niekerk  South Africa DNF
Yacine Hamza  Algeria DNF
Youcef Reguigui  Algeria DNF
Eric Fagúndez  Uruguay DNF
José Alarcón  Venezuela DNF
Christopher Rougier-Lagane  Mauritius DNF
Darel Christopher  British Virgin Islands DNF
Cammie Adams  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines DNF
Briton John  Guyana DNF
Eliezer Soares  Cape Verde DNF
Hasani Hennis  Anguilla DNF
Rien Schuurhuis  Vatican City DNF
Carlos Samudio  Panama DNF
Yevgeniy Fedorov  Kazakhstan DNS

References

  1. ^ "90th World Championships – Road Race". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Mathieu van der Poel becomes world road cycling champion in Glasgow". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "Qualification System for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Road" (PDF). Union Cycliste International. Union Cycliste International. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  4. ^ "2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Road Quota Allocation" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Road Race Men's Elite 2023 Start List". ProcyclingStats. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
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