2023 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race of the 2023 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 6 August 2023 in Glasgow, Great Britain.^[1] Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel won the race after a crash in a high speed corner, racing solo, 16 km before the finish.^[2]

Men's road race

2023 UCI Road World Championships
Race details
Dates	6 August 2023
Stages	1 in Glasgow, Great Britain
Distance	271.1 km (168.5 mi)
Winning time	6h 07' 27"
Medalists
Gold  Mathieu van der Poel (NED)    Silver  Wout van Aert (BEL)    Bronze  Tadej Pogačar (SLO)
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Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 30 June 2023.^[3]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.^[4]

Nations	Riders
Australia	8
Belgium
Colombia
Denmark
France
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
Slovenia
Spain
Austria	6
Canada
Eritrea
Germany
Ireland
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Switzerland
United States
Algeria	4
Czechia
Ecuador
Estonia
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Luxembourg
Morocco
South Africa
Neutral athletes of Russian sporting nationality	1
Argentina
China
Costa Rica
Greece
Israel
Japan
Mauritius
Mongolia
Panama
Poland
Romania
Rwanda
Slovakia
Sweden
Thailand
Ukraine
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Remco Evenepoel	Belgium	Incumbent World Champion
Henok Mulubrhan	Eritrea	African Champion
Pier-André Côté	Canada	Panamerican Champion
Gleb Brussenskiy	Kazakhstan	Asian Champion

Participating nations

Main article: List of nations and cyclists in the 2023 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

195 cyclists from 58 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.^[5]

•  Anguilla (1)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Algeria (2)
•  Australia (8)
•  Austria (6)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Brazil (1)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Canada (6)
•  Cape Verde (1)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (1)
•  Colombia (7)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (4)
•  Denmark (8)
•  Ecuador (3)
•  Eritrea (3)
•  France (8)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Greece (1)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Ireland (6)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (5)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Malta (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  Morocco (4)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  New Zealand (5)
•  Norway (6)
•  Panama (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (4)
•  Rwanda (1)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  Slovenia (8)
•  South Africa (4)
•  Spain (8)
•  Sweden (1)
•   Switzerland (6)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (6)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Uzbekistan (1)
•  Vatican City (1)
•  Venezuela (1)

Final classification

Rank Rider Country Time 1 Mathieu van der Poel  Netherlands 6h 07' 27" 2 Wout van Aert  Belgium + 1' 37" 3 Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia + 1' 45" 4 Mads Pedersen  Denmark + 1' 45" 5 Stefan Küng   Switzerland + 3' 48" 6 Jasper Stuyven  Belgium + 3' 48" 7 Matthew Dinham  Australia + 3' 48" 8 Toms Skujiņš  Latvia + 3' 48" 9 Tiesj Benoot  Belgium + 3' 48" 10 Alberto Bettiol  Italy + 4' 03" 11 Neilson Powless  United States + 4' 20" 12 Dylan van Baarle  Netherlands + 4' 24" 13 Mauro Schmid   Switzerland + 5' 50" 14 Mattias Skjelmose  Denmark + 6' 22" 15 Valentin Madouas  France + 7' 53" 16 John Degenkolb  Germany + 8' 30" 17 Rasmus Tiller  Norway + 8' 30" 18 Owain Doull  Great Britain + 8' 30" 19 Alex Aranburu  Spain + 8' 30" 20 Kevin Vermaerke  United States + 8' 30" 21 Simon Clarke  Australia + 8' 30" 22 Patrick Gamper  Austria + 8' 30" 23 Krists Neilands  Latvia + 8' 55" 24 Petr Kelemen  Czech Republic + 10' 01" 25 Remco Evenepoel  Belgium + 10' 10" 26 Connor Swift  Great Britain + 13' 59" 27 Simone Velasco  Italy + 13' 59" 28 Lorenzo Rota  Italy + 13' 59" 29 Emīls Liepiņš  Latvia + 13' 59" 30 Iván García Cortina  Spain + 13' 59" 31 Marco Haller  Austria + 13' 59" 32 Lucas Eriksson  Sweden + 13' 59" 33 Matevž Govekar  Slovenia + 13' 59" 34 Kristian Sbaragli  Italy + 13' 59" 35 Michael Gogl  Austria + 13' 59" 36 Guillaume Boivin  Canada + 13' 59" 37 Michael Boroš  Czech Republic + 13' 59" 38 Sebastian Schönberger  Austria + 13' 59" 39 Andrea Bagioli  Italy + 13' 59" 40 Nickolas Zukowsky  Canada + 14' 06" 41 Jonas Rutsch  Germany + 14' 06" 42 Adam Ťoupalík  Czech Republic + 14' 06" 43 Silvan Dillier   Switzerland + 14' 06" 44 Yves Lampaert  Belgium + 14' 11" 45 Olav Kooij  Netherlands + 14' 11" 46 Nelson Oliveira  Portugal + 14' 13" 47 Benoît Cosnefroy  France + 14' 13" 48 Ryan Christensen  New Zealand + 14' 13" 49 Alexey Lutsenko  Kazakhstan + 14' 15" 50 Andreas Leknessund  Norway + 14' 18" 51 Tobias Halland Johannessen  Norway + 14' 18"

Rank Rider Country Time Jhonatan Narváez  Ecuador DNF Nathan Van Hooydonck  Belgium DNF João Almeida  Portugal DNF Lawson Craddock  United States DNF Michael Matthews  Australia DNF Julian Alaphilippe  France DNF Luke Rowe  Great Britain DNF Ion Izagirre  Spain DNF Bryan Coquard  France DNF Rory Townsend  Ireland DNF Santiago Buitrago  Colombia DNF Christophe Laporte  France DNF Matteo Trentin  Italy DNF Lukas Pöstlberger  Austria DNF Jonas Abrahamsen  Norway DNF Victor Campenaerts  Belgium DNF Michel Hessmann  Germany DNF Harold Tejada  Colombia DNF Søren Kragh Andersen  Denmark DNF Marc Hirschi   Switzerland DNF Michał Kwiatkowski  Poland DNF Ben Healy  Ireland DNF Florian Sénéchal  France DNF Mathias Vacek  Czech Republic DNF Jasper Philipsen  Belgium DNF Ruben Guerreiro  Portugal DNF Ryan Gibbons  South Africa DNF Jan Maas  Netherlands DNF Alexander Kristoff  Norway DNF Magnus Cort  Denmark DNF Gonzalo Serrano  Spain DNF Mikkel Frølich Honoré  Denmark DNF André Carvalho  Portugal DNF Roger Adrià  Spain DNF Corbin Strong  New Zealand DNF Kaden Groves  Australia DNF Harry Sweeny  Australia DNF Laurence Pithie  New Zealand DNF Andreas Miltiadis  Cyprus DNF Kevin Geniets  Luxembourg DNF Kasper Asgreen  Denmark DNF Fred Wright  Great Britain DNF Pascal Eenkhoorn  Netherlands DNF Ben Turner  Great Britain DNF Alex Kirsch  Luxembourg DNF Daniel Oss  Italy DNF Olivier Le Gac  France DNF Luka Mezgec  Slovenia DNF Stefan Bissegger   Switzerland DNS Rigoberto Urán  Colombia DNF Ben Swift  Great Britain DNF Peter Sagan  Slovakia DNF Nils Politt  Germany DNF Jake Stewart  Great Britain DNF George Bennett  New Zealand DNF Jaka Primožič  Slovenia DNF Jannik Steimle  Germany DNF Jesús Herrada  Spain DNF Mohcine El Kouraji  Morocco DNF Jonathan Caicedo  Ecuador DNF Edvald Boasson Hagen  Norway DNF James Oram  New Zealand DNF Nico Denz  Germany DNF Daan Hoole  Netherlands DNF Sean Quinn  United States DNF Rainer Kepplinger  Austria DNF Yukiya Arashiro  Japan DNF Márton Dina  Hungary DNF German Tivani  Argentina DNF Jefferson Alexander Cepeda  Ecuador DNF Sainbayaryn Jambaljamts  Mongolia DNF Omar El Gouzi  Morocco DNF Samuel Watson  Great Britain DNF Anatoliy Budyak  Ukraine DNF Derek Gee  Canada DNF Itamar Einhorn  Israel DNF Nicolas Sessler  Brazil DNF Gleb Brussenskiy  Kazakhstan DNF Rémi Cavagna  France DNF Larry Warbasse  United States DNF Georgios Bouglas  Greece DNF Charles Kagimu  Uganda DNF Adil El Arbaoui  Morocco DNF Jason Huertas  Costa Rica DNF Filippo Baroncini  Italy DNF Igor Chzhan  Kazakhstan DNF Matúš Štoček  Slovakia DNF Tom Wirtgen  Luxembourg DNF Charles-Étienne Chrétien  Canada DNF Ben Perry  Canada DNF Dmitriy Gruzdev  Kazakhstan DNF Will Barta  United States DNF Xabier Azparren  Spain DNF Cormac McGeough  Ireland DNF Jesús Ezquerra  Spain DNF Frederik Frison  Belgium DNF El Houcaine Sabbahi  Morocco DNF Muradjan Khalmuratov  Uzbekistan DNF Walter Vargas  Colombia DNF Michael Mørkøv  Denmark DNF Mick van Dijke  Netherlands DNF Hugo Houle  Canada DNF Domen Novak  Slovenia DNF Dillon Corkery  Ireland DNF Ryan Mullen  Ireland DNF Cedric Pries  Luxembourg DNF Oscar Riesebeek  Netherlands DNF Juan Sebastián Molano  Colombia DNF Anže Skok  Slovenia DNF Mārtiņš Pluto  Latvia DNF Alex Edmondson  Australia DNF Fabian Lienhard   Switzerland DNF Daryl Impey  South Africa DNF Kristijan Koren  Slovenia DNF Tilen Finkšt  Slovenia DNF Mikkel Bjerg  Denmark DNF Victor Langellotti  Monaco DNF Eric Manizabayo  Rwanda DNF Luke Plapp  Australia DNF Luke Durbridge  Australia DNF Manuel Lira  Chile DNF Aidan Buttigieg  Malta DNF Su Haoyu  China DNF Fernando Gaviria  Colombia DNF Jesús David Peña  Colombia DNF Sam Bennett  Ireland DNF Dawit Yemane  Eritrea DNF Henok Mulubrhan  Eritrea DNF Natnael Berhane  Eritrea DNF Callum Ormiston  South Africa DNF Morné van Niekerk  South Africa DNF Yacine Hamza  Algeria DNF Youcef Reguigui  Algeria DNF Eric Fagúndez  Uruguay DNF José Alarcón  Venezuela DNF Christopher Rougier-Lagane  Mauritius DNF Darel Christopher  British Virgin Islands DNF Cammie Adams  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines DNF Briton John  Guyana DNF Eliezer Soares  Cape Verde DNF Hasani Hennis  Anguilla DNF Rien Schuurhuis  Vatican City DNF Carlos Samudio  Panama DNF Yevgeniy Fedorov  Kazakhstan DNS