2013 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The Men's road race of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took take place on 29 September 2013 in the region of Tuscany, Italy.

Men's road race

2013 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates	29 September 2013
Stages	1
Distance	272.26 km (169.2 mi)
Winning time	7h 25' 44"^[1]
Medalists
Gold  Rui Costa (Portugal)    Silver  Joaquim Rodríguez (Spain)    Bronze  Alejandro Valverde (Spain)
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The course of the race was 272.26 km (169.17 mi) from the town of Lucca to the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence.^[2][3] As in previous years, the race was the final event of the Road World Championships. The race was won by Rui Costa who beat Joaquim Rodríguez in a sprint finish, with a total time of 7h 25min 44s, the second highest time in UCI Road World Championships history.^[4][5]

Route

The race started in Lucca and ended in the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence.^[3] The early part of the route was identified as particularly difficult,^[6] with climbs up the Montecatini Alto at 30 km (19 mi) and the San Baronto at 66 km (41 mi).^[7] The final run-in of the race around Florence was also hilly, with the ride up to Fiesole and the via Bolognese in Florence being particularly steep.^[6] This run-in was similar to that of stage 9 of the 2013 Giro d'Italia.^[8]

National qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2013. Results from January to the middle of August would count towards the qualification criteria on both the 2013 UCI World Tour and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous tour rankings on 15 August 2013.^[9]

Schedule

Date	Time	Event
29 September 2013	10:00–16:45	Men's road race
29 September 2013	17:05	Victory ceremony

Source^[10]

Results

Final classification

Of the race's 208 entrants, 61 riders completed the full distance of 272.26 km (169.17 mi).^[1]

 

Peloton during the race

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
	Rui Costa	Portugal	7h 25' 44"
	Joaquim Rodríguez	Spain	s.t.
	Alejandro Valverde	Spain	+ 15"
4	Vincenzo Nibali	Italy	+ 15"
5	Andriy Hryvko	Ukraine	+ 31"
6	Peter Sagan	Slovakia	+ 34"
7	Simon Clarke	Australia	+ 34"
8	Maxim Iglinsky	Kazakhstan	+ 34"
9	Philippe Gilbert	Belgium	+ 34"
10	Fabian Cancellara	Switzerland	+ 34"
11	Bauke Mollema	Netherlands	+ 34"
12	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Norway	+ 34"
13	Daniel Moreno	Spain	+ 34"
14	Simon Geschke	Germany	+ 34"
15	Sergio Henao	Colombia	+ 34"
16	Michele Scarponi	Italy	+ 34"
17	Filippo Pozzato	Italy	+ 1' 05"
18	Arthur Vichot	France	+ 1' 05"
19	Maciej Paterski	Poland	+ 1' 05"
20	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Norway	+ 1' 05"
21	Jakob Fuglsang	Denmark	+ 1' 05"
22	Ignatas Konovalovas	Lithuania	+ 1' 26"
23	Greg Van Avermaet	Belgium	+ 1' 26"
24	Yuri Trofimov	Russia	+ 1' 26"
25	Pieter Weening	Netherlands	+ 1' 44"
26	Zdeněk Štybar	Czech Republic	+ 1' 59"
27	Aleksejs Saramotins	Latvia	+ 2' 01"
28	Romain Bardet	France	+ 2' 01"
29	Serge Pauwels	Belgium	+ 2' 01"
30	Matija Kvasina	Croatia	+ 2' 01"
31	Alex Howes	United States	+ 2' 01"
32	Chris Anker Sørensen	Denmark	+ 2' 01"
33	Michał Gołaś	Poland	+ 2' 01"
34	Darwin Atapuma	Colombia	+ 2' 01"
35	Carlos Betancur	Colombia	+ 2' 01"
36	Tiago Machado	Portugal	+ 2' 01"
37	Peter Stetina	United States	+ 2' 01"
38	Stefan Denifl	Austria	+ 2' 05"
39	Marcus Burghardt	Germany	+ 3' 40"
40	Jan Polanc	Slovenia	+ 3' 40"
41	Rigoberto Urán	Colombia	+ 4' 27"
42	John Degenkolb	Germany	+ 4' 53"
43	Sergey Chernetskiy	Russia	+ 4' 55"
44	Anthony Roux	France	+ 4' 55"
45	Grégory Rast	Switzerland	+ 6' 24"
46	Thomas Löfkvist	Sweden	+ 7' 27"
47	Andrei Nechita	Romania	+ 8' 06"
48	Jonathan Castroviejo	Spain	+ 8' 06"
49	Paul Martens	Germany	+ 8' 06"
50	Thibaut Pinot	France	+ 9' 09"
51	Giovanni Visconti	Italy	+ 9' 15"
52	Bartosz Huzarski	Poland	+ 9' 36"
53	Danilo Wyss	Switzerland	+ 11' 20"
54	Jan Bárta	Czech Republic	+ 11' 20"
55	Fabian Wegmann	Germany	+ 11' 20"
56	Amaël Moinard	France	+ 11' 20"
57	Jan Bakelants	Belgium	+ 11' 20"
58	Rafał Majka	Poland	+ 12' 55"
59	Cyril Gautier	France	+ 15' 11"
60	Wilco Kelderman	Netherlands	+ 15' 11"
61	Thomas Voeckler	France	+ 15' 11"

Riders who failed to finish

147 riders failed to finish the race.^[1]

Rider Country Georg Preidler   Austria Egoi Martínez   Spain Maxime Monfort   Belgium Michael Schär   Switzerland Alberto Contador   Spain Luis León Sánchez   Spain Johan Vansummeren   Belgium Robert Gesink   Netherlands Sébastien Reichenbach   Switzerland Tom-Jelte Slagter   Netherlands François Parisien   Canada Luca Paolini   Italy Tobias Ludvigsson   Sweden Yonder Godoy   Venezuela Juan Pablo Magallanes   Mexico Matthias Brändle   Austria Alessandro Vanotti   Italy Andrey Amador   Costa Rica Diego Ulissi   Italy Rinaldo Nocentini   Italy Miguel Ángel Rubiano   Colombia Sebastian Langeveld   Netherlands Borut Božič   Slovenia George Bennett   New Zealand Alexandr Kolobnev   Russia Matej Mugerli   Slovenia Andrey Zeits   Kazakhstan Mathew Hayman   Australia Spas Gyurov   Bulgaria Geraint Thomas   Great Britain Tomasz Marczyński   Poland Matej Jurčo   Slovakia Rafaâ Chtioui   Tunisia Thor Hushovd   Norway Bernhard Eisel   Austria Michael Albasini   Switzerland Rory Sutherland   Australia Cameron Meyer   Australia Tanel Kangert   Estonia Laurens ten Dam   Netherlands Ivan Santaromita   Italy Chris Froome   Great Britain Tom Dumoulin   Netherlands Christophe Riblon   France Johnny Hoogerland   Netherlands Markus Eibegger   Austria Janez Brajkovič   Slovenia Murilo Fischer   Brazil Ian Stannard   Great Britain

Rider Country Ramūnas Navardauskas   Lithuania Przemysław Niemiec   Poland Janier Acevedo   Colombia Cayetano Sarmiento   Colombia Nairo Quintana   Colombia Kristijan Koren   Slovenia Andriy Khripta   Ukraine Dan Martin   Ireland Péter Kusztor   Hungary Mathias Frank   Switzerland Björn Leukemans   Belgium Matthew Busche   United States Jakub Novák   Czech Republic Michael Matthews   Australia Pedro Sequera   Venezuela Rafael Andriato   Brazil Riccardo Zoidl   Austria Andrew Talansky   United States Gert Jõeäär   Estonia Gregory Brenes   Costa Rica José Herrada   Spain Youcef Reguigui   Algeria Kwok Ho Ting   Hong Kong Patrik Tybor   Slovakia Mykhaylo Kononenko   Ukraine Stanislav Kozubek   Czech Republic František Raboň   Czech Republic Fredrik Kessiakoff   Sweden Reinardt Janse van Rensburg   South Africa Steve Cummings   Great Britain Josh Edmondson   Great Britain Ioannis Tamouridis   Greece Sylwester Szmyd   Poland José Ragonessi   Ecuador Jussi Veikkanen   Finland Freddy Vargas   Venezuela Jackson Rodríguez   Venezuela Jonathan Monsalve   Venezuela Daniel Teklehaymanot   Eritrea Daryl Impey   South Africa Luke Rowe   Great Britain Richie Porte   Australia Viesturs Lukševics   Latvia Martin Elmiger   Switzerland Warren Barguil   France David Tanner   Australia Oliver Zaugg   Switzerland Cadel Evans   Australia Samuel Sánchez   Spain

Rider Country Dominik Nerz   Germany Michał Kwiatkowski   Poland Martin Hunal   Czech Republic Héctor Rangel   Mexico Taylor Phinney   United States Tejay van Garderen   United States Bob Jungels   Luxembourg Radoslav Rogina   Croatia Kristijan Đurasek   Croatia Carlos José Ochoa   Venezuela Sergiy Grechyn   Ukraine Rohan Dennis   Australia Matt Brammeier   Ireland Martin Velits   Slovakia Sam Bewley   New Zealand Meron Russom   Eritrea Nicolas Roche   Ireland Matti Breschel   Denmark Vitaliy Buts   Ukraine Alexey Lutsenko   Kazakhstan Winner Anacona   Colombia Enzo Moyano   Argentina Peter Velits   Slovakia Juraj Sagan   Slovakia Cheung King-lok   Hong Kong Serghei Țvetcov   Moldova Loh Sea Keong   Malaysia Bradley Wiggins   Great Britain Mark Cavendish   Great Britain Christian Meier   Canada Uri Martins   Mexico Jack Bauer   New Zealand Chris Horner   United States Andris Smirnovs   Latvia André Cardoso   Portugal Maciej Bodnar   Poland Yaroslav Popovych   Ukraine Sam Bennett   Ireland Gediminas Bagdonas   Lithuania Ivan Stević   Serbia Lahcen Saber   Morocco Adil Jelloul   Morocco Reda Aadel   Morocco Alo Jakin   Estonia Grega Bole   Slovenia Essaïd Abelouache   Morocco Ismail Ayoune   Morocco Jani Tewelde   Eritrea Kanstantsin Sivtsov   Belarus

References

•  Sports portal

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2013 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race.

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4. "Rui Costa edges Joaquim Rodríguez to win men's road race in Florence". Daily Telegraph. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
5. "Rui Costa wins men's road race world championship". Cycling News. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
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External links

• Men's road race: The route
• Men's road race: The riders