2024 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race of the 2024 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling race that took place on 29 September 2024 in Zürich, Switzerland.^[1] It was won by Tadej Pogačar, who went on the attack 100km from the finish line.^[2]

Men's road race

2024 UCI Road World Championships
The race podium
Race details
Dates	29 September 2024
Stages	1 in Zürich, Switzerland
Winning time	6h 27' 30"
Medalists
Gold  Tadej Pogačar  (SLO)    Silver  Ben O'Connor (AUS)    Bronze  Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
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Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 20 August 2024.^[3]

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.^[4]

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

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Mathieu van der Poel	Netherlands	Incumbent World Champion
Leangel Linarez	Venezuela	Panamerican Champion
Kim Eu-ro	South Korea	Asian Champion

Final classification

Source: ^[5]

Rank Rider Country Time 1 Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia 6h 27' 30" 2 Ben O'Connor  Australia + 34" 3 Mathieu van der Poel  Netherlands + 58" 4 Toms Skujiņš  Latvia + 58" 5 Remco Evenepoel  Belgium + 58" 6 Marc Hirschi   Switzerland + 58" 7 Ben Healy  Ireland + 1' 00" 8 Enric Mas  Spain + 1' 01" 9 Quinn Simmons  United States + 2' 18" 10 Romain Bardet  France + 2' 18" 11 Roger Adrià  Spain + 2' 18" 12 Bauke Mollema  Netherlands + 2' 18" 13 Mads Pedersen  Denmark + 3' 52" 14 Markus Hoelgaard  Norway + 3' 52" 15 Georg Zimmermann  Germany + 3' 52" 16 Oscar Onley  Great Britain + 3' 52" 17 Brandon McNulty  United States + 3' 52" 18 Jai Hindley  Australia + 3' 52" 19 Kevin Vermaerke  United States + 3' 52" 20 Mathias Vacek  Czech Republic + 3' 52" 21 Archie Ryan  Ireland + 6' 04" 22 Valentin Madouas  France + 6' 04" 23 Frederik Wandahl  Denmark + 6' 04" 24 Magnus Cort  Denmark + 6' 36" 25 Giulio Ciccone  Italy + 6' 36" 26 Juan Ayuso  Spain + 6' 36" 27 Attila Valter  Hungary + 6' 36" 28 Florian Lipowitz  Germany + 6' 36" 29 Felix Großschartner  Austria + 6' 36" 30 Adam Yates  Great Britain + 6' 36" 31 Wilco Kelderman  Netherlands + 6' 36" 32 Aleksandr Vlasov  [[ at the UCI Road World Championships|]] + 6' 36" 33 David Gaudu  France + 6' 36" 34 Matteo Jorgenson  United States + 6' 36" 35 Pavel Sivakov  France + 6' 40" 36 Simon Geschke  Germany + 7' 01" 37 Stefan Küng   Switzerland + 7' 01" 38 Romain Grégoire  France + 7' 01" 39 Neilson Powless  United States + 12' 09" 40 Harold Tejada  Colombia + 12' 09" 41 Tobias Halland Johannessen  Norway + 12' 09" 42 Rui Costa  Portugal + 12' 09" 43 Lorenzo Rota  Italy + 12' 09" 44 Pier-André Côté  Canada + 12' 09" 45 Edoardo Zambanini  Italy + 12' 09" 46 Nick Schultz  Australia + 12' 09" 47 Magnus Sheffield  United States + 12' 09" 48 Diego Ulissi  Italy + 12' 09" 49 Sam Oomen  Netherlands + 12' 09" 50 Georg Steinhauser  Germany + 12' 09" 51 Maxim Van Gils  Belgium + 12' 09" 52 Mikkel Honoré  Denmark + 12' 09" 53 Natnael Tesfatsion  Eritrea + 12' 09" 54 Michael Woods  Canada + 12' 09" 55 Nelson Oliveira  Portugal + 12' 09" 56 Johannes Staune-Mittet  Norway + 12' 09" 57 tom Pidcock  Great Britain + 12' 09" 58 Alex Aranburu  Spain + 12' 09" 59 Carlos Rodríguez  Spain + 12' 09" 60 Daniel Martínez  Colombia + 12' 09" 61 Rudy Molard  France + 12' 09" 62 Pablo Castrillo  Spain + 12' 09" 63 Mattia Cattaneo  Italy + 12' 09" 64 Primož Roglič  Slovenia + 12' 09" 65 Bob Jungels  Luxembourg + 12' 09" 66 Filippo Zana  Italy + 12' 09" 67 Eddie Dunbar  Ireland + 12' 09" 68 Simon Yates  Great Britain + 12' 09" 69 Antonio Tiberi  Italy + 17' 39" 70 Lawrence Warbasse  United States + 17' 39" 71 Krists Neilands  Latvia + 17' 39" 72 Lukáš Kubiš  Slovakia + 19' 23" 73 Reuben Thompson  New Zealand + 19' 23" 74 Edgar Cadena  Mexico + 19' 23" 75 Andreas Leknessund  Norway + 19' 23" 76 Sebastian Schönberger  Austria + 19' 23" 77 Lukasz Owsian  Poland + 19' 23" 78 Márton Dina  Hungary + 19' 23" 79 Einer Rubio  Colombia + 19' 23" 80 Guillermo Thomas Silva  Uruguay + 19' 23" 81 Eric Fagúndez  Uruguay + 19' 23"

Rank Rider Country Time Marco Brenner  Germany DNF Michael Matthews  Australia DNF Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier  Eritrea DNF Bart Lemmen  Netherlands DNF Piotr Pękala  Poland DNF Luc Wirtgen  Luxembourg DNF Silvan Dillier   Switzerland DNF Frank van den Broek  Netherlands DNF Michael Gogl  Austria DNF Johan Jacobs   Switzerland DNF Henok Mulubrhan  Eritrea DNF Emanuel Zangerle [fr]  Austria DNF Fabian Lienhard   Switzerland DNF Marcin Budziński  Poland DNF Michael Boroš  Czech Republic DNF Ivo Oliveira  Portugal DNF Tobias Bayer  Austria DNF Nadav Raisberg  Israel DNF Felix Gall  Austria DNF Conn McDunphy  Ireland DNF Kaden Hopkins  Bermuda DNF Jan Tratnik  Slovenia DNF Rui Oliveira  Portugal DNF Tobias Foss  Norway DNF Stephen Williams  Great Britain DNF Laurens De Plus  Belgium DNF Jay Vine  Australia DNF Daan Hoole  Netherlands DNF Julien Bernard  France DNF Harry Sweeny  Australia DNF Quinten Hermans  Belgium DNF Mauro Schmid   Switzerland DNF Tim Wellens  Belgium DNF Tiesj Benoot  Belgium DNF James Knox  Great Britain DNF George Bennett  New Zealand DNF Michael Storer  Australia DNF Finn Fisher-Black  New Zealand DNF Andrea Bagioli  Italy DNF Victor Campenaerts  Belgium DNF Andrea Mifsud  Malta DNF Jaka Primožič  Slovenia DNF Louis Meintjes  South Africa DNF Michel Ries  Luxembourg DNF Oscar Riesebeek  Netherlands DNF Jasper Stuyven  Belgium DNF Sjoerd Bax  Netherlands DNF Kasper Asgreen  Denmark DNF Jakob Fuglsang  Denmark DNF Michael Valgren  Denmark DNF Biniam Girmay  Eritrea DNF Madis Mihkels  Estonia DNF Lucas Eriksson  Sweden DNF Kévin Geniets  Luxembourg DNF Derek Gee  Canada DNF Jefferson Alexander Cepeda  Ecuador DNF Emīls Liepiņš  Latvia DNF Chris Hamilton  Australia DNF Yevgeniy Fedorov  Kazakhstan DNF Gleb Brussenskiy  Kazakhstan DNF Santiago Buitrago  Colombia DNF Miguel Díaz  Mexico DNF Periklis Ilias  Greece DNF Iustin-Ioan Vaidian [fr]  Romania DNF Domen Novak  Slovenia DNF Pello Bilbao  Spain DNF Matevž Govekar  Slovenia DNF Jake Stewart  Great Britain DNF Mark Donovan  Great Britain DNF Afonso Eulálio  Portugal DNF Maximilian Schachmann  Germany DNF Victor Langellotti  Monaco DNF Ulises Alfredo Castillo  Mexico DNF Riley Sheehan  United States DNF Francisco Joel Peñuela  Venezuela DNF Eder Frayre  Mexico DNF Roberto González  Panama DNF Sergio Chumil  Guatemala DNF Dawit Yemane  Eritrea DNF Jonathan Caicedo  Ecuador DNF Alexandre Mayer  Mauritius DNF Xianjing Lyu  China DNF Walter Vargas  Colombia DNF Jonas Abrahamsen  Norway DNF Callum Ormiston  South Africa DNF Luka Mezgec  Slovenia DNF Erik Fetter  Hungary DNF Filip Maciejuk  Poland DNF Jambaljamts Sainbayar  Mongolia DNF Markus Pajur  Estonia DNF Anton Kuzmin  Kazakhstan DNF Alekss Krasts  Latvia DNF Jakub Otruba  Czech Republic DNF Michal Schlegel  Czech Republic DNF Carlos Oyarzún  Chile DNF Cory Williams  Belize DNF Amir Arslan Ansari  Refugee Nation DNF Fredd Matute  Honduras DNF Rien Schuurhuis  Vatican City DNF Ahmad Wais  Refugee Nation DNF Matic Žumer  Slovenia DNF Yukiya Arashiro  Japan DNF Mattias Skjelmose  Denmark DNF Anderson Timoteo Paredes  Venezuela DNF Armando Reis Da Costa Camargo Filho  Brazil DNF Mikel Landa  Spain DNF Hamza Mansouri  Algeria DNF Leangel Linarez  Venezuela DNF Dmitriy Bocharov  Uzbekistan DNF Julian Alaphilippe  France DNF João Almeida  Portugal DNF Igor Chzhan  Kazakhstan DNF Tullatorn Sosalam  Thailand DNF Fadhel Al Khater  Qatar DNF Guillaume Boivin  Canada DNS