2019 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

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.

Men's road race

2019 UCI Road World Championships
The start of the race in Leeds
Race details
Dates	29 September 2019
Stages	1
Distance	260.7 km (162.0 mi)
Winning time	6h 27' 28"^[1]
Medalists
Gold  Mads Pedersen (DEN)    Silver  Matteo Trentin (ITA)    Bronze  Stefan Küng (SUI)
← 2018 2020 →

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   Colombia   Germany   Australia   Slovenia   Denmark
	11–20	9	6	Great Britain   Norway   Austria   Poland   Czech Republic   Switzerland   Russia   Portugal   Ireland   Canada
	21–30	7	4	Kazakhstan   South Africa   Ecuador   United States   Slovakia   Estonia   Eritrea   New Zealand   Luxembourg   Latvia
	31–50	2	1	Ukraine   Belarus   Turkey   Algeria   Japan   Romania   Greece   Lithuania   Iran   Hungary   Venezuela   Costa Rica   Mexico   Sweden   Argentina   Morocco   Guatemala   South Korea   Rwanda   Croatia
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

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