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
Dates29 September 2019
Stages1
Distance260.7 km (162.0 mi)
Winning time6h 27' 28"[1]
Medalists
   Gold  Mads Pedersen (DEN)
   Silver  Matteo Trentin (ITA)
   Bronze  Stefan Küng (SUI)
Events at the 2019 UCI
Road World Championships
Participating nations
Qualification
Elite events
Elite road racemenwomen
Elite time trialmenwomen
Elite team time trialmenwomen
Under-23 events
Under-23 road racemen
Under-23 time trialmen
Junior events
Junior road racemenwomen
Junior time trialmenwomen

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
11–20 9 6
21–30 7 4
31–50 2 1
UCI World Ranking by Individuals
(if not already qualified)		 1–200 N/A

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]

References
  1. "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. 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.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 11 August 2018. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  8. {{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/official-documents/2018-uci-road-world-championships/2019/quotas-rwc---yorkshire-2019.pdf%7Cformat=PDF|title=UCI Road World Championships-2019 Yorkshire Quota Allocation|work=Union Cycliste Internationale|date=26 August 2019|accessdate=16 August 2020|pages=2–3|
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