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)
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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 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