2021 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 26 September 2021 from Antwerp to Leuven, Belgium.^[1][2] Defending champion Julian Alaphilippe of France won the event in a solo victory.^[3]

Men's road race

2021 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates	26 September 2021
Stages	1 in Leuven, Belgium
Distance	268.3 km (166.7 mi)
Winning time	5h 56' 34"
Medalists
Gold  Julian Alaphilippe (FRA)    Silver  Dylan van Baarle (NED)    Bronze  Michael Valgren (DEN)
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Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 17 August 2021.^[4]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.^[5]

Criterium	Rank	Number of riders		Nations
		To enter	To start
UCI World Ranking by Nations	1–10	13	8	Belgium  Slovenia  France  Netherlands  Great Britain  Italy  Spain  Denmark  Australia  Colombia
	11–20	9	6	Germany  Ecuador  Switzerland  Portugal Russian Cycling Federation  Norway  Ireland  Poland  United States  Canada
	21–30	7	4	New Zealand  South Africa  Austria  Kazakhstan  Czech Republic  Estonia  Slovakia  Ukraine  Eritrea  Latvia
	31–50	2	1	Luxembourg  Belarus  Sweden  Algeria  Panama  Romania  Lithuania  Hungary  Greece  Mexico  Thailand  Guatemala  Mongolia  Japan  Uruguay  Chile  Finland  Venezuela  Puerto Rico  Albania
UCI World Ranking by Individuals (if not already qualified)	1–200			—

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Richard Carapaz	Ecuador	Olympic Champion
Julian Alaphilippe	France	Outgoing World Champion
Ryan Gibbons	South Africa	African Champion

Participating nations

194 cyclists from 45 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.^[6]

•  Albania (1)
•  Australia (8)
•  Austria (4)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (8)
•  Canada (6)
•  Colombia (8)
•  Czech Republic (4)
•  Denmark (8)
•  Ecuador (6)
•  Eritrea (4)
•  Estonia (4)
•  France (9)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Ireland (3)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (4)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  New Zealand (4)
•  Norway (6)
•  Panama (1)
•  Poland (6)
•  Portugal (5)
•  Romania (1)
• Russian Cycling Federation (6)
•  Slovakia (4)
•  Slovenia (8)
•  South Africa (4)
•  Spain (8)
•  Sweden (2)
•   Switzerland (6)
•  Thailand (1)
•  Ukraine (4)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  United States (6)
•  Venezuela (1)

Final classification

Podium of the men's elite road race

Of the race's 194 entrants, 68 riders completed the full distance of 268.3 kilometres (166.7 mi).^[7]

Rank Rider Country Time 1 Julian Alaphilippe  France 5h 56' 34" 2 Dylan van Baarle  Netherlands + 32" 3 Michael Valgren  Denmark + 32" 4 Jasper Stuyven  Belgium + 32" 5 Neilson Powless  United States + 32" 6 Tom Pidcock  Great Britain + 49" 7 Zdeněk Štybar  Czech Republic + 1' 06" 8 Mathieu van der Poel  Netherlands + 1' 18" 9 Florian Sénéchal  France + 1' 18" 10 Sonny Colbrelli  Italy + 1' 18" 11 Wout van Aert  Belgium + 1' 18" 12 Markus Hoelgaard  Norway + 1' 18" 13 Valentin Madouas  France + 1' 18" 14 Matej Mohorič  Slovenia + 4' 00" 15 Giacomo Nizzolo  Italy + 4' 05" 16 Nils Politt  Germany + 5' 25" 17 Guillaume Boivin  Canada + 5' 25" 18 Jan Polanc  Slovenia + 5' 25" 19 Benoît Cosnefroy  France + 5' 30" 20 Victor Campenaerts  Belgium + 5' 30" 21 Alexander Kristoff  Norway + 6' 27" 22 Mike Teunissen  Netherlands + 6' 27" 23 Iván García Cortina  Spain + 6' 27" 24 Diego Ulissi  Italy + 6' 27" 25 Michael Matthews  Australia + 6' 27" 26 Peter Sagan  Slovakia + 6' 27" 27 Dylan Teuns  Belgium + 6' 27" 28 Sebastian Schönberger  Austria + 6' 27" 29 Bauke Mollema  Netherlands + 6' 27" 30 Luka Mezgec  Slovenia + 6' 27" 31 Tiesj Benoot  Belgium + 6' 27" 32 Petr Vakoč  Czech Republic + 6' 27" 33 Sven Erik Bystrøm  Norway + 6' 27" 34 Vegard Stake Laengen  Norway + 6' 27" 35 Ethan Hayter  Great Britain + 6' 27" 36 Michał Kwiatkowski  Poland + 6' 27" 37 Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia + 6' 27" 38 Patrick Gamper  Austria + 6' 27" 39 Rui Oliveira  Portugal + 6' 27" 40 Artem Nych Russian Cycling Federation + 6' 31" 41 Stefan Küng   Switzerland + 6' 31" 42 Gorka Izagirre  Spain + 6' 31" 43 Imanol Erviti  Spain + 6' 31" 44 Gonzalo Serrano  Spain + 6' 31" 45 Silvan Dillier   Switzerland + 6' 31" 46 Cesare Benedetti  Poland + 6' 31" 47 João Almeida  Portugal + 6' 31" 48 Primož Roglič  Slovenia + 6' 31" 49 Yukiya Arashiro  Japan + 6' 31" 50 Merhawi Kudus  Eritrea + 6' 31" 51 Rasmus Tiller  Norway + 6' 31" 52 Emīls Liepiņš  Latvia + 6' 31" 53 Carlos Rodríguez  Spain + 6' 39" 54 Michael Gogl  Austria + 6' 40" 55 Nelson Oliveira  Portugal + 6' 40" 56 Arnaud Démare  France + 6' 48" 57 Lawson Craddock  United States + 6' 49" 58 Gianni Moscon  Italy + 6' 52" 59 Roger Adrià  Spain + 7' 04" 60 Toms Skujiņš  Latvia + 7' 07" 61 Yves Lampaert  Belgium + 7' 22" 62 Remco Evenepoel  Belgium + 7' 22" 63 Fabian Lienhard   Switzerland + 15' 43" 64 Esteban Chaves  Colombia + 15' 43" 65 Nelson Soto  Colombia + 17' 18" 66 Pascal Eenkhoorn  Netherlands + 17' 18" 67 Nikias Arndt  Germany + 17' 18" 68 Georg Zimmermann  Germany + 17' 18"

Rider Country Time Anthony Turgis  France DNF Danny van Poppel  Netherlands DNF Tim Declercq  Belgium DNF Dmitry Strakhov Russian Cycling Federation DNF Jake Stewart  Great Britain DNF Natnael Berhane  Eritrea DNF Caleb Ewan  Australia DNF Alex Aranburu  Spain DNF Sergey Chernetskiy Russian Cycling Federation DNF Rigoberto Urán  Colombia DNF Łukasz Owsian  Poland DNF Hugo Houle  Canada DNF Antoine Duchesne  Canada DNF Yevgeniy Gidich  Kazakhstan DNF Barnabás Peák  Hungary DNF Metkel Eyob  Eritrea DNF Nickolas Zukowsky  Canada DNF Jayde Julius  South Africa DNF Igor Boev Russian Cycling Federation DNF Byron Guamá  Ecuador DNF Fernando Gaviria  Colombia DNF Andreas Kron  Denmark DNF Mikkel Frølich Honoré  Denmark DNF Mads Pedersen  Denmark DNF Nathan Haas  Australia DNF Alex Kirsch  Luxembourg DNF Marco Haller  Austria DNF Joel Levi Burbano  Ecuador DNF Brandon McNulty  United States DNF Rafael Reis  Portugal DNF Harry Sweeny  Australia DNF Eduard-Michael Grosu  Romania DNF Kim Magnusson  Sweden DNF Eric Antonio Fagundez  Uruguay DNF Juraj Sagan  Slovakia DNF Andriy Kulyk  Ukraine DNF Pascal Ackermann  Germany DNF Mykhaylo Kononenko  Ukraine DNF Juan Sebastián Molano  Colombia DNF Daniil Fominykh  Kazakhstan DNF Yuriy Natarov  Kazakhstan DNF Kevin Geniets  Luxembourg DNF Clément Russo  France DNF Reinardt Janse van Rensburg  South Africa DNF David Per  Slovenia DNF Lluís Mas  Spain DNF Ryan Mullen  Ireland DNF Pier-André Côté  Canada DNF Krists Neilands  Latvia DNF André Carvalho  Portugal DNF Quinn Simmons  United States DNF Oscar Riesebeek  Netherlands DNF Ben Perry  Canada DNF Andrea Bagioli  Italy DNF Domen Novak  Slovenia DNF Connor Swift  Great Britain DNF Patrik Tybor  Slovakia DNF Jan Tratnik  Slovenia DNF Mārtiņš Pluto  Latvia DNF Michał Gołaś  Poland DNF Matteo Trentin  Italy DNF Alessandro De Marchi  Italy DNF Marc Hirschi   Switzerland DNF Ryan Gibbons  South Africa DNF Maciej Bodnar  Poland DNF Luke Durbridge  Australia DNF Mads Würtz Schmidt  Denmark DNF Connor Brown  New Zealand DNF Ben Swift  Great Britain DNF Mark Cavendish  Great Britain DNF Magnus Cort  Denmark DNF Eddie Dunbar  Ireland DNF Mikkel Bjerg  Denmark DNF Erik Baška  Slovakia DNF Pavel Kochetkov Russian Cycling Federation DNF Oleksandr Prevar  Ukraine DNF Petr Rikunov Russian Cycling Federation DNF Odd Christian Eiking  Norway DNF Jambaljamts Sainbayar  Mongolia DNF Sergio Higuita  Colombia DNF Jack Bauer  New Zealand DNF Leonidas Sebastián Novoa  Ecuador DNF Michael Schär   Switzerland DNF Miles Scotson  Australia DNF Lucas Eriksson  Sweden DNF Ylber Sefa  Albania DNF Oskar Nisu  Estonia DNF Max Schachmann  Germany DNF Stefan Bissegger   Switzerland DNF Tom Scully  New Zealand DNF Evaldas Šiškevičius  Lithuania DNF Orluis Aular  Venezuela DNF Matteo Jorgenson  United States DNF Wilson Haro  Ecuador DNF Fred Wright  Great Britain DNF Cristian Pita  Ecuador DNF Josef Černý  Czech Republic DNF Norman Vahtra  Estonia DNF Karl Patrick Lauk  Estonia DNF Dmitriy Gruzdev  Kazakhstan DNF Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands DNF Gustav Basson  South Africa DNF Álvaro Hodeg  Colombia DNF Sarawut Sirironnachai  Thailand DNF Rory Townsend  Ireland DNF Polychronis Tzortzakis  Greece DNF Stanisław Aniołkowski  Poland DNF Luke Rowe  Great Britain DNF Eder Frayre  Mexico DNF Robin Carpenter  United States DNF Martin Laas  Estonia DNF José Tito Hernández  Colombia DNF John Degenkolb  Germany DNF Anatoliy Budyak  Ukraine DNF Franklin Archibold  Panama DNF Aleksandr Riabushenko  Belarus DNF Nick Schultz  New Zealand DNF Michael Kukrle  Czech Republic DNF Rémi Cavagna  France DNF Dawit Yemane  Eritrea DNF Kasper Asgreen  Denmark DNF Shane Archbold  New Zealand DNF Robert Stannard  Australia DNF Davide Ballerini  Italy DNF Christophe Laporte  France DNF Benjamín Quinteros  Ecuador DNS