2007 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The 2007 UCI Road World Championships - Men's Road Race took place on September 30, 2007. The Championship was won for a second year in succession by the Italian Paolo Bettini, who outsprinted the rest of a five-man group in the final 500 metres. The Russian Alexandr Kolobnev took the silver medal and Stefan Schumacher of Germany captured third place for the bronze medal.

Men's Individual Road Race

2007 UCI Road World Championships
Finish line in Stuttgart
Race details
Dates	September 30, 2007
Stages	1
Distance	267.4 km (166.2 mi)
Winning time	06h 44' 43"
Medalists
Gold  Paolo Bettini (ITA) (Italy)    Silver  Alexandr Kolobnev (RUS) (Russia)    Bronze  Stefan Schumacher (GER) (Germany)
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The Championships were hosted by the Germany city of Stuttgart, and featured several laps of a tough circuit, amounting to almost 270 kilometres of racing.

Final classification

September 30, 2007: Stuttgart, 267.4 km (14 laps of 19.1 km each)

Rank Rider Country Time Paolo Bettini  Italy 6h 44'43" Alexandr Kolobnev  Russia s.t. Stefan Schumacher  Germany s.t. 4 Fränk Schleck  Luxembourg s.t. 5 Cadel Evans  Australia s.t. 6 Davide Rebellin  Italy at 6" 7 Samuel Sánchez  Spain at 8" 8 Philippe Gilbert  Belgium s.t. 9 Fabian Wegmann  Germany s.t. 10 Martin Elmiger   Switzerland s.t. 11 Thomas Dekker  Netherlands s.t. 12 Michael Boogerd  Netherlands at 14" 13 Björn Leukemans  Belgium at 15" 14 Óscar Freire  Spain at 49" 15 Aleksandr Kuschynski  Belarus s.t. 16 Alexandre Usov  Belarus s.t. 17 Beat Zberg   Switzerland s.t. 18 Erik Zabel  Germany s.t. 19 Thor Hushovd  Norway s.t. 20 Radoslav Rogina  Croatia s.t. 21 Murilo Fischer  Brazil s.t. 22 Matej Mugerli  Slovenia s.t. 23 George Hincapie  United States s.t. 24 Marcus Ljungqvist  Sweden s.t. 25 Chris Anker Sørensen  Denmark s.t. 26 Jurgen Van Goolen  Belgium s.t. 27 Leonardo Duque  Colombia s.t. 28 Rene Mandri  Estonia s.t. 29 Gustav Larsson  Sweden s.t. 30 Pierrick Fédrigo  France s.t. 31 Thomas Löfkvist  Sweden s.t. 32 Alexander Efimkin  Russia s.t. 33 Tomasz Marczyński  Poland s.t. 34 Ján Valach  Slovakia s.t. 35 Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands s.t. 36 Christian Vande Velde  United States s.t.

Rank Rider Country Time 37 Nuno Ribeiro  Portugal s.t. 38 Christian Pfannberger  Austria s.t. 39 Unai Etxebarria Arana  Venezuela s.t. 40 David George  South Africa s.t. 41 Ludovic Turpin  France s.t. 42 Kurt Asle Arvesen  Norway s.t. 43 Vladimir Efimkin  Russia s.t. 44 Sergey Lagutin  Uzbekistan s.t. 45 Mario Aerts  Belgium s.t. 46 Vladimir Karpets  Russia s.t. 47 Denis Menchov  Russia s.t. 48 Przemysław Niemiec  Poland s.t. 49 Manuel Beltrán Martinez  Spain s.t. 50 Damiano Cunego  Italy at 57" 51 Filippo Pozzato  Italy s.t. 52 Alessandro Ballan  Italy s.t. 53 Allan Davis  Australia at 1'05" 54 David Millar  Great Britain s.t. 55 Matthew Lloyd  Australia at 1'10" 56 Karsten Kroon  Netherlands at 1'24" 57 Alejandro Valverde  Spain at 2'47" 58 Matija Kvasina  Croatia at 3'10" 59 Kristjan Fajt  Slovenia at 3'38" 60 Gorazd Štangelj  Slovenia at 3'41" 61 Kanstantsin Siutsou  Belarus at 5'17" 62 Alessandro Bertolini  Italy at 6'01" 63 Greg Van Avermaet  Belgium at 6'34" 64 Maxime Monfort  Belgium at 6'52" 65 Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver  Spain at 7'52" 66 Simon Gerrans  Australia at 8'09" 67 Sylvain Chavanel  France s.t. 68 Thomas Voeckler  France at 15'51" 69 Erki Pütsep  Estonia s.t. 70 László Bodrogi  Hungary at 17'10" 71 Vladimir Tuychiev  Uzbekistan at 21'57" 72 Hossein Askari  Iran s.t.

Did not finish

124 riders failed to finish the race. Marzio Bruseghin of Italy was disqualified, and José Rodrigues of Portugal did not start the race.

Rider Country Carlos Sastre  Spain Stéphane Goubert  France Robert Gesink  Netherlands Carlos Barredo  Spain Sergei Yakovlev  Kazakhstan Hernâni Brôco  Portugal Marcus Burghardt  Germany Fabian Cancellara   Switzerland Andy Schleck  Luxembourg Philip Deignan  Ireland Jens Voigt  Germany Gerald Ciolek  Germany Amaël Moinard  France Vladimir Zagorodniy  Ukraine Laurens ten Dam  Netherlands Bobby Julich  United States Jason McCartney  United States Christian Knees  Germany Johan Van Summeren  Belgium Dominique Rollin  Canada Andriy Hrivko  Ukraine Evgeny Petrov  Ireland Assan Bazayev  Kazakhstan James Lewis Perry  South Africa Matti Breschel  Denmark Juan Antonio Flecha  Spain Xavier Florencio  Spain Tomislav Dančulović  Croatia Jure Golčer  Slovenia Romain Feillu  France Sandy Casar  France Hrvoje Miholjević  Croatia Martin Mareš  Czech Republic Andrea Tonti  Italy Matteo Tosatto  Italy William Walker  Australia Piotr Zielinski  Poland Li Fuyu  China Petr Benčík  Czech Republic Maroš Kováč  Slovakia Glen Chadwick  New Zealand Matej Jurčo  Slovakia Yukiya Arashiro  Japan Takashi Miyazawa  Japan Vladislav Borisov  Russia Dmitry Fofonov  Kazakhstan Bruno Neves  Portugal Marcin Sapa  Poland Roman Kreuziger  Czech Republic Kim Kirchen  Luxembourg Robert Kišerlovski  Croatia Michael Rogers  Australia Luis Felipe Laverde  Colombia Krzysztof Szczawinski  Poland Romas Sinicinas  Lithuania Matej Stare  Slovenia Hugo Sabido  Portugal Martín Garrido  Argentina Frederik Willems  Belgium Danail Petrov  Bulgaria Vladimir Gusev  Russia Roger Hammond  Great Britain John Devine  United States Tyler Farrar  United States Ronny Scholz  Germany David Kopp  Germany Volodymyr Bileka  Ukraine

Rider Country Dmytro Grabovskyy  Ukraine Scott Davis  Australia Jacek Morajko  Poland Hayden Roulston  New Zealand Maarten den Bakker  Netherlands Richard Ochoa  Venezuela José Serpa  Colombia Martin Riška  Slovakia Svein Tuft  Canada Stéphane Augé  France Bram Tankink  Netherlands Matías Médici  Argentina Nebojša Jovanović  Serbia Stijn Devolder  Belgium Juan Pablo Dotti  Argentina Muradjan Khalmuratov  Uzbekistan Darren Lill  South Africa Bernhard Kohl  Austria Mauricio Ardila  Colombia Mathew Hayman  Australia Luis Ministro Moyano  Argentina Maximiliano Richeze  Argentina Borut Božič  Slovenia Mark Cavendish  Great Britain Daryl Impey  South Africa Fumiyuki Beppu  Japan Roman Broniš  Slovakia Andris Hernández  Venezuela Koos Moerenhout  Netherlands Trent Lowe  Australia Dainius Kairelis  Lithuania Mehdi Sohrabi  Iran Jeremy Vennell  New Zealand Cameron Evans  Canada Christian Poos  Luxembourg Kristijan Đurasek  Croatia Lars Ytting Bak  Denmark Ruslan Podgornyy  Ukraine Sergey Kolesnikov  Russia Juan José Haedo  Argentina Gerrit Glomser  Austria Marlon Pérez Arango  Colombia Žolt Dér  Serbia Mads Kaggestad  Norway Laurent Didier  Luxembourg Mostafa Seyed-Rezaei  Iran Alex Cano  Colombia David Zabriskie  United States Renato Seabra  Brazil Ricardo Martins  Portugal Aleksejs Saramotins  Latvia Medhi Fahridi Kovij  Iran Ján Šipeky  Slovakia Dragan Spasic  Serbia Luciano Pagliarini  Brazil Robert Hunter  South Africa Mikhaylo Khalilov  Ukraine

Nation qualification

14 to be enrolled, 9 to start

Italy

Spain

Australia

Luxembourg

Germany

Russia

Belgium

United States

Netherlands

France

9 to be enrolled, 6 to start

South Africa

Colombia

Argentina

Iran

Poland

Slovenia

Portugal

Ukraine

Slovakia

Croatia

5 to be enrolled, 3 to start

Tunisia

Brazil

Canada

Venezuela

Japan

Kazakhstan

Denmark

Norway

Austria

Belarus

Estonia

Czech Republic

Switzerland

Latvia

Serbia

Lithuania

New Zealand

Great Britain

Sweden

2 to be enrolled, 1 to start

China

Hungary

Ireland

Libya

Costa Rica

Cuba

Chile

Bulgaria

External links

• Race website