2013 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race


The Men's road race of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took take place on 29 September 2013 in the region of Tuscany, Italy.
The course of the race was from the town of Lucca to the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence. As in previous years, the race was the final event of the Road World Championships. The race was won by Rui Costa who beat Joaquim Rodríguez in a sprint finish, with a total time of 7h 25min 44s, the second highest time in UCI Road World Championships history.

Route

The race started in Lucca and ended in the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence. The early part of the route was identified as particularly difficult, with climbs up the Montecatini Alto at and the San Baronto at. The final run-in of the race around Florence was also hilly, with the ride up to Fiesole and the via Bolognese in Florence being particularly steep. This run-in was similar to that of stage 9 of the 2013 Giro d'Italia.

National qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2013. Results from January to the middle of August would count towards the qualification criteria on both the 2013 UCI World Tour and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous tour rankings on 15 August 2013.

Schedule

Source

Results

Final classification

Of the race's 208 entrants, 61 riders completed the full distance of.
RankRiderCountryTime
Rui Costa
Joaquim Rodríguez
Alejandro Valverde+ 15"
4Vincenzo Nibali+ 15"
5Andriy Hryvko+ 31"
6Peter Sagan+ 34"
7Simon Clarke+ 34"
8Maxim Iglinsky+ 34"
9Philippe Gilbert+ 34"
10Fabian Cancellara+ 34"
11Bauke Mollema+ 34"
12Lars Petter Nordhaug+ 34"
13Daniel Moreno+ 34"
14Simon Geschke+ 34"
15Sergio Henao+ 34"
16Michele Scarponi+ 34"
17Filippo Pozzato+ 1' 05"
18Arthur Vichot+ 1' 05"
19Maciej Paterski+ 1' 05"
20Edvald Boasson Hagen+ 1' 05"
21Jakob Fuglsang+ 1' 05"
22Ignatas Konovalovas+ 1' 26"
23Greg Van Avermaet+ 1' 26"
24Yuri Trofimov+ 1' 26"
25Pieter Weening+ 1' 44"
26Zdeněk Štybar+ 1' 59"
27Aleksejs Saramotins+ 2' 01"
28Romain Bardet+ 2' 01"
29Serge Pauwels+ 2' 01"
30Matija Kvasina+ 2' 01"
31Alex Howes+ 2' 01"
32Chris Anker Sørensen+ 2' 01"
33Michał Gołaś+ 2' 01"
34Darwin Atapuma+ 2' 01"
35Carlos Betancur+ 2' 01"
36Tiago Machado+ 2' 01"
37Peter Stetina+ 2' 01"
38Stefan Denifl+ 2' 05"
39Marcus Burghardt+ 3' 40"
40Jan Polanc+ 3' 40"
41Rigoberto Urán+ 4' 27"
42John Degenkolb+ 4' 53"
43Sergey Chernetskiy+ 4' 55"
44Anthony Roux+ 4' 55"
45Grégory Rast+ 6' 24"
46Thomas Löfkvist+ 7' 27"
47Andrei Nechita+ 8' 06"
48Jonathan Castroviejo+ 8' 06"
49Paul Martens+ 8' 06"
50Thibaut Pinot+ 9' 09"
51Giovanni Visconti+ 9' 15"
52Bartosz Huzarski+ 9' 36"
53Danilo Wyss+ 11' 20"
54Jan Bárta+ 11' 20"
55Fabian Wegmann+ 11' 20"
56Amaël Moinard+ 11' 20"
57Jan Bakelants+ 11' 20"
58Rafał Majka+ 12' 55"
59Cyril Gautier+ 15' 11"
60Wilco Kelderman+ 15' 11"
61Thomas Voeckler+ 15' 11"

Riders who failed to finish

147 riders failed to finish the race.
RiderCountry
Georg Preidler
Egoi Martínez
Maxime Monfort
Michael Schär
Alberto Contador
Luis León Sánchez
Johan Vansummeren
Robert Gesink
Sébastien Reichenbach
Tom-Jelte Slagter
François Parisien
Luca Paolini
Tobias Ludvigsson
Yonder Godoy
Juan Pablo Magallanes
Matthias Brändle
Alessandro Vanotti
Andrey Amador
Diego Ulissi
Rinaldo Nocentini
Miguel Ángel Rubiano
Sebastian Langeveld
Borut Božič
George Bennett
Alexandr Kolobnev
Matej Mugerli
Andrey Zeits
Mathew Hayman
Spas Gyurov
Geraint Thomas
Tomasz Marczyński
Matej Jurčo
Rafaâ Chtioui
Thor Hushovd
Bernhard Eisel
Michael Albasini
Rory Sutherland
Cameron Meyer
Tanel Kangert
Laurens ten Dam
Ivan Santaromita
Chris Froome
Tom Dumoulin
Christophe Riblon
Johnny Hoogerland
Markus Eibegger
Janez Brajkovič
Murilo Fischer
Ian Stannard

RiderCountry
Ramūnas Navardauskas
Przemysław Niemiec
Janier Acevedo
Cayetano Sarmiento
Nairo Quintana
Kristijan Koren
Andriy Khripta
Dan Martin
Péter Kusztor
Mathias Frank
Björn Leukemans
Matthew Busche
Jakub Novák
Michael Matthews
Pedro Sequera
Rafael Andriato
Riccardo Zoidl
Andrew Talansky
Gert Jõeäär
Gregory Brenes
José Herrada
Youcef Reguigui
Kwok Ho Ting
Patrik Tybor
Mykhaylo Kononenko
Stanislav Kozubek
František Raboň
Fredrik Kessiakoff
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
Steve Cummings
Josh Edmondson
Ioannis Tamouridis
Sylwester Szmyd
José Ragonessi
Jussi Veikkanen
Freddy Vargas
Jackson Rodríguez
Jonathan Monsalve
Daniel Teklehaymanot
Daryl Impey
Luke Rowe
Richie Porte
Viesturs Lukševics
Martin Elmiger
Warren Barguil
David Tanner
Oliver Zaugg
Cadel Evans
Samuel Sánchez

RiderCountry
Dominik Nerz
Michał Kwiatkowski
Martin Hunal
Héctor Rangel
Taylor Phinney
Tejay van Garderen
Bob Jungels
Radoslav Rogina
Kristijan Đurasek
Carlos José Ochoa
Sergiy Grechyn
Rohan Dennis
Matt Brammeier
Martin Velits
Sam Bewley
Meron Russom
Nicolas Roche
Matti Breschel
Vitaliy Buts
Alexey Lutsenko
Winner Anacona
Enzo Moyano
Peter Velits
Juraj Sagan
Cheung King-lok
Serghei Tvetcov
Loh Sea Keong
Bradley Wiggins
Mark Cavendish
Christian Meier
Uri Martins
Jack Bauer
Chris Horner
Andris Smirnovs
André Cardoso
Maciej Bodnar
Yaroslav Popovych
Sam Bennett
Gediminas Bagdonas
Ivan Stević
Lahcen Saber
Adil Jelloul
Reda Aadel
Alo Jakin
Grega Bole
Essaïd Abelouache
Ismail Ayoune
Jani Tewelde
Kanstantsin Sivtsov