2022 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race of the 2022 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 25 September 2022 in Wollongong, Australia.^[1][2]

Men's road race

2022 UCI Road World Championships
Race details
Dates	25 September 2022
Stages	1 in Wollongong, Australia
Distance	266.9 km (165.8 mi)
Winning time	6h 16' 08"
Medalists
Gold  Remco Evenepoel (BEL)    Silver  Christophe Laporte (FRA)    Bronze  Michael Matthews (AUS)
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Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 16 August 2022.^[3]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.^[4]

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

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Julian Alaphilippe	France	Incumbent World Champion
Henok Mulubrhan	Eritrea	African Champion
Emiliano Contreras	Argentina	Panamerican Champion
Igor Chzhan	Kazakhstan	Asian Champion
James Fouché	New Zealand	Oceanian Champion

Participating nations

169 cyclists from 50 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.^[5]

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (8)
•  Austria (3)
•  Belgium (8)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Canada (4)
•  China (2)
•  Colombia (6)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Denmark (8)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Eritrea (6)
•  France (9)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Malta (1)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Norway (6)
•  Panama (2)
•  Poland (3)
•  Portugal (4)
•  Rwanda (2)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Slovakia (4)
•  Slovenia (6)
•  South Africa (3)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Spain (8)
•  Sweden (1)
•   Switzerland (6)
•  Thailand (2)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (2)
•  United States (5)
•  Uzbekistan (1)
•  Vatican City (1)

Final classification

Of the race's 169 entrants, 103 riders completed the full distance of 266.9-kilometre (165.8 mi).^[6][7]

Rank Rider Country Time 1 Remco Evenepoel  Belgium 6h 16' 08" 2 Christophe Laporte  France + 2' 21" 3 Michael Matthews  Australia + 2' 21" 4 Wout van Aert  Belgium + 2' 21" 5 Matteo Trentin  Italy + 2' 21" 6 Alexander Kristoff  Norway + 2' 21" 7 Peter Sagan  Slovakia + 2' 21" 8 Alberto Bettiol  Italy + 2' 21" 9 Ethan Hayter  Great Britain + 2' 21" 10 Mattias Skjelmose  Denmark + 2' 21" 11 Iván García Cortina  Spain + 2' 21" 12 Jan Tratnik  Slovenia + 2' 21" 13 Lorenzo Rota  Italy + 2' 21" 14 Ben Tulett  Great Britain + 2' 21" 15 Mikkel Frølich Honoré  Denmark + 2' 21" 16 Rasmus Tiller  Norway + 2' 21" 17 Mauro Schmid   Switzerland + 2' 21" 18 Neilson Powless  United States + 2' 21" 19 Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia + 2' 21" 20 Stefan Küng   Switzerland + 2' 21" 21 Kevin Geniets  Luxembourg + 2' 21" 22 Romain Bardet  France + 2' 21" 23 Attila Valter  Hungary + 2' 21" 24 Alexey Lutsenko  Kazakhstan + 2' 21" 25 Bauke Mollema  Netherlands + 2' 21" 26 Benoît Cosnefroy  France + 2' 21" 27 Dylan van Baarle  Netherlands + 2' 21" 28 Pascal Eenkhoorn  Netherlands + 2' 21" 29 Valentin Madouas  France + 2' 31" 30 Jan Polanc  Slovenia + 2' 31" 31 Sergio Higuita  Colombia + 2' 31" 32 Jhonatan Narváez  Ecuador + 2' 31" 33 Nicola Conci  Italy + 2' 31" 34 Quinten Hermans  Belgium + 2' 34" 35 Magnus Cort  Denmark + 3' 01" 36 Nickolas Zukowsky  Canada + 3' 01" 37 Sven Erik Bystrom  Norway + 3' 01" 38 Silvan Dillier   Switzerland + 3' 01" 39 Yukiya Arashiro  Japan + 3' 01" 40 Sebastian Schönberger  Austria + 3' 01" 41 Anders Skaarseth  Norway + 3' 01" 42 Zdeněk Štybar  Czech Republic + 3' 01" 43 Nathan Van Hooydonck  Belgium + 3' 01" 44 Nelson Oliveira  Portugal + 3' 01" 45 Bob Jungels  Luxembourg + 3' 01" 46 Andrea Bagioli  Italy + 3' 01" 47 Jasper Stuyven  Belgium + 3' 01" 48 Yves Lampaert  Belgium + 3' 01" 49 Jai Hindley  Australia + 3' 01" 50 Simon Clarke  Australia + 3' 01" 51 Julian Alaphilippe  France + 3' 01" 52 Nikias Arndt  Germany + 3' 08" 53 Fred Wright  Great Britain + 3' 08" 54 Biniam Girmay  Eritrea + 3' 08" 55 Michael Mørkøv  Denmark + 3' 08" 56 Jakob Fuglsang  Denmark + 3' 08" 57 Alexander Kamp  Denmark + 3' 28" 58 Emils Liepins  Latvia + 4' 50" 59 Michael Kukrle  Czech Republic + 4' 50" 60 João Almeida  Portugal + 5' 16" 61 Jan Maas  Netherlands + 6' 11" 62 Tobias Bayer  Austria + 6' 11" 63 Davide Ballerini  Italy + 6' 11" 64 Matúš Štoček  Slovakia + 6' 11" 65 Marek Čanecký  Slovakia + 6' 11" 66 Nairo Quintana  Colombia + 6' 11" 67 Heinrich Haussler  Australia + 6' 11" 68 Jaka Primožič  Slovenia + 6' 11" 69 Merhawi Kudus  Eritrea + 6' 17" 70 Anthon Charmig  Denmark + 6' 20" 70 Eduardo Sepúlveda  Argentina + 6' 20" 72 Jannik Steimle  Germany + 6' 20" 73 Keegan Swenson  United States + 6' 20" 74 Daryl Impey  South Africa + 6' 20" 75 Jesús Ezquerra  Spain + 6' 20" 76 Stanisław Aniołkowski  Poland + 6' 20" 77 Roger Adrià  Spain + 6' 20" 78 Magnus Sheffield  United States + 6' 20" 79 Ben Swift  Great Britain + 6' 20" 80 Quentin Pacher  France + 8' 10" 81 Wout Poels  Netherlands + 8' 10" 82 Marc Soler  Spain + 9' 31" 83 Ivo Oliveira  Portugal + 9' 31" 84 Tobias Foss  Norway + 9' 31" 85 Samuele Battistella  Italy + 9' 31" 86 Scott McGill  United States + 10' 23" 87 Eduard Prades  Spain + 10' 23" 88 Simon Pellaud   Switzerland + 11' 28" 89 Fabian Lienhard   Switzerland + 11' 28" 90 Florian Sénéchal  France + 11' 28" 91 Nick Schultz  Australia + 11' 28" 92 Mikkel Bjerg  Denmark + 11' 28" 93 Wilson Peña  Colombia + 11' 28" 94 Andreas Leknessund  Norway + 11' 28" 95 Luc Wirtgen  Luxembourg + 11' 28" 96 Łukasz Owsian  Poland + 11' 28" 97 Felix Gall  Austria + 11' 28" 98 Stan Dewulf  Belgium + 11' 28" 99 Daan Hoole  Netherlands + 11' 28" 100 Ben Turner  Great Britain + 11' 40" 101 Pavel Sivakov  France + 14' 28" 102 Jake Stewart  Great Britain + 15' 05" 103 Connor Swift  Great Britain + 15' 05"

Rank Rider Country Time Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier  Eritrea DNF Juan Sebastián Molano  Colombia DNF Henok Mulubrhan  Eritrea DNF Natnael Tesfatsion  Eritrea DNF Guy Sagiv  Israel DNF Rodrigo Contreras  Colombia DNF Bruno Armirail  France DNF Pieter Serry  Belgium DNF James Fouché  New Zealand DNF Luke Plapp  Australia DNF Pier-André Côté  Canada DNF Maciej Bodnar  Poland DNF Vadim Pronskiy  Kazakhstan DNF Ben O'Connor  Australia DNF Harold Tejada  Colombia DNF Jonas Koch  Germany DNF Venantas Lašinis  Lithuania DNF Sarawut Sirironnachai  Thailand DNF Domen Novak  Slovenia DNF Rui Oliveira  Portugal DNF Christofer Jurado  Panama DNF Juraj Sagan  Slovakia DNF Tobias Ludvigsson  Sweden DNF Luke Durbridge  Australia DNF Nicolas Sessler  Brazil DNF David Per  Slovenia DNF Luke Rowe  Great Britain DNF Kyle Murphy  United States DNF Derek Gee  Canada DNF Urko Berrade  Spain DNF Jan Hirt  Czech Republic DNF Miguel Heidemann  Germany DNF Gotzon Martín  Spain DNF Vitaliy Buts  Ukraine DNF Muradjan Khalmuratov  Uzbekistan DNF Gustav Basson  South Africa DNF Matteo Dal-Cin  Canada DNF Marc Oliver Pritzen  South Africa DNF Taco van der Hoorn  Netherlands DNF Bolivar Espinosa  Panama DNF Peerapol Chawchiangkwang  Thailand DNF Edoardo Affini  Italy DNF Georgios Bouglas  Greece DNF Lü Xianjing  China DNF Mustafa Sayar  Turkey DNF Georg Zimmermann  Germany DNF Yuriy Natarov  Kazakhstan DNF Nico Denz  Germany DNF Daniel Bonello  Malta DNS Achraf Ed Doghmy  Morocco DNF Ognjen Ilić  Serbia DNF Choy Hiu Fung  Hong Kong DNF Jambaljamts Sainbayar  Mongolia DNF Eric Manizabayo  Rwanda DNF Metkel Eyob  Eritrea DNF Oier Lazkano  Spain DNF Bilguunjargal Erdenebat  Mongolia DNF Rien Schuurhuis  Vatican City DNF Antoine Berlin  Monaco DNF Vitalii Novakovskyi  Ukraine DNF Moise Mugisha  Rwanda DNF Bieken Nazaerbieke  China DNF Stefan Bissegger   Switzerland DNF Jang Kyung-gu  South Korea DNF Colin Heiderscheid  Luxembourg DNF Mathieu van der Poel  Netherlands DNF