2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race


The Men's road race of the 2014 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 28 September 2014 in Ponferrada, Spain. It was the 81st edition of the championship, and Portugal's Rui Costa was the defending champion.
After attacking with around remaining, Poland's Michał Kwiatkowski held off the rest of the field to become his country's first world road race champion. Kwiatkowski held on by a second to beat Australia's Simon Gerrans, while Spain's Alejandro Valverde finished in third place for the third successive world championships.

Qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2014. Results from January to the middle of August counted towards the qualification criteria on both the 2014 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 2014.
The following 48 nations qualified.
Number of ridersNations
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Course

The race was held on the same circuit as the other road races and consisted of 14 laps. The circuit was long and included two hills. The total climbing was per lap and the maximum incline was 10.7%.
The first were flat, after which the climb to Alto de Montearenas started, with an average gradient of 8%. After a few hundred metres the ascent flattened and the remaining were at an average gradient of 3.5%. Next was a descent, with the steepest point after at a 16% negative gradient.
The Alto de Compostilla was a short climb of, at an average gradient is 6.5% with some of the steepest parts at 11%. The remaining distance of was downhill thereafter, prior to the finish in Ponferrada.

Schedule

All times are in Central European Time.
DateTimeEvent
28 September 201410:00–16:35Men's road race
28 September 201416:55Victory ceremony

Participating nations

204 cyclists from 44 nations started the men's road race. The numbers of cyclists per nation are shown in parentheses.
The UCI assigned premiums for the top 3 finishers, with a total prize money of €16,101.
Position1st2nd3rdTotal
Amount€7,667€5,367€3,067€16,101

Results

Final classification

Of the race's 204 entrants, 95 riders completed the full distance of.
RankRiderCountryTime
1Michał Kwiatkowski
2Simon Gerrans+ 1"
3Alejandro Valverde+ 1"
4Matti Breschel+ 1"
5Greg Van Avermaet+ 1"
6Tony Gallopin+ 1"
7Philippe Gilbert+ 4"
8Alexander Kristoff+ 7"
9John Degenkolb+ 7"
10Nacer Bouhanni+ 7"
11Fabian Cancellara+ 7"
12Ben Swift+ 7"
13Sonny Colbrelli+ 7"
14Michael Matthews+ 7"
15Ramūnas Navardauskas+ 7"
16Daryl Impey+ 7"
17Maciej Paterski+ 7"
18Bauke Mollema+ 7"
19Warren Barguil+ 7"
20Michael Valgren+ 7"
21Daniele Bennati+ 7"
22Tom Dumoulin+ 7"
23Rui Costa+ 7"
24Jon Izagirre+ 7"
25Brent Bookwalter+ 7"
26Nicolas Roche+ 7"
27Rigoberto Urán+ 7"
28Edvald Boasson Hagen+ 7"
29Petr Vakoč+ 14"
30Alex Howes+ 14"
31Chris Anker Sørensen+ 14"
32Giovanni Visconti+ 14"
33Joaquim Rodríguez+ 17"
34Fabio Aru+ 17"
35Yuri Trofimov+ 17"
36Daniel Moreno+ 17"
37Lars Petter Nordhaug+ 17"
38Dominik Nerz+ 21"
39Simon Geschke+ 24"
40Vincenzo Nibali+ 27"
41Giampaolo Caruso+ 31"
42Grega Bole+ 38"
43Peter Sagan+ 42"
44Andriy Hryvko+ 50"
45Alessandro De Marchi+ 1' 03"
46Alexandr Kolobnev+ 1' 05"
47Kristijan Đurasek+ 1' 05"
48Jan Bakelants+ 1' 05"

RankRiderCountryTime
49Tom Boonen+ 1' 05"
50Sergey Chernetskiy+ 1' 05"
51Jonathan Castroviejo+ 1' 05"
52Ben Gastauer+ 1' 05"
53Matthias Brändle+ 1' 27"
54Tiago Machado+ 1' 32"
55Simon Clarke+ 2' 10"
56Ben Hermans+ 2' 10"
57Wout Poels+ 2' 19"
58Michał Gołaś+ 2' 31"
59Vasil Kiryienka+ 2' 32"
60Cyril Gautier+ 2' 36"
61Jean-Christophe Péraud+ 2' 36"
62Romain Bardet+ 2' 36"
63Paul Martens+ 2' 39"
64Sep Vanmarcke+ 3' 42"
65Imanol Erviti+ 4' 08"
66Michael Albasini+ 5' 12"
67Nelson Oliveira+ 5' 12"
68Georg Preidler+ 5' 12"
69Danilo Wyss+ 5' 12"
70Esteban Chaves+ 5' 12"
71Christopher Juul-Jensen+ 5' 12"
72Kristjan Fajt+ 6' 11"
73Reinardt Janse van Rensburg+ 6' 11"
74Damiano Caruso+ 6' 11"
75Ilnur Zakarin+ 6' 11"
76Jonathan Monsalve+ 6' 11"
77Sylvain Chavanel+ 6' 11"
78Alexsandr Dyachenko+ 6' 11"
79Jesús Herrada+ 6' 11"
80Manuel Quinziato+ 6' 11"
81Adam Hansen+ 6' 11"
82Peter Kennaugh+ 6' 14"
83Zdeněk Štybar+ 7' 01"
84Dan Martin+ 8' 25"
85Andrey Amador+ 11' 59"
86Jack Bauer+ 13' 43"
87Peter Velits+ 13' 43"
88Andrey Zeits+ 14' 53"
89Johan Vansummeren+ 14' 53"
90Stef Clement+ 15' 23"
91Jan Bárta+ 15' 23"
92Mykhaylo Kononenko+ 15' 23"
93Andriy Khripta+ 15' 34"
94Miyataka Shimizu+ 20' 22"
95George Bennett+ 20' 22"

Riders who failed to finish

109 riders failed to finish the race.
RiderCountry
Jelle Vanendert
Luis León Sánchez
Sérgio Paulinho
Nicki Sørensen
Tony Martin
Luke Rowe
Michael Mørkøv
Daniel Navarro
Tim Wellens
Mathew Hayman
Paweł Poljański
Cadel Evans
Andrei Solomennikov
Philip Deignan
Steven Kruijswijk
Janier Acevedo
Jacques Janse van Rensburg
Ryan Anderson
Toms Skujiņš
Rein Taaramäe
Luka Mezgec
Winner Anacona
Yukiya Arashiro
Rory Sutherland
Wilco Kelderman
Simon Yates
Emanuel Kišerlovski
Geoffrey Soupe
Juan Carlos Rojas
Patrick Konrad
Kévin Reza
Martin Velits
Eduardo Sepúlveda
Carlos Quintero
Bartosz Huzarski
Oleksandr Polivoda
Kristijan Koren

RiderCountry
Tom-Jelte Slagter
Žydrūnas Savickas
Julián Arredondo
Matija Kvasina
Jan Polanc
Aleksejs Saramotins
Ignatas Konovalovas
Jure Kocjan
Greg Henderson
André Cardoso
José Mendes
Gatis Smukulis
Roman Maikin
Michael Woods
Riccardo Zoidl
Tobias Ludvigsson
Marco Haller
Murilo Fischer
David Millar
Sebastián Henao
Rafael Andriato
Bernhard Eisel
Andrew Talansky
Geraint Thomas
Kiel Reijnen
Miguel Ángel Rubiano
Eric Marcotte
Daniil Fominykh
Cristian Egídio
Paul Voss
Pieter Weening
Dylan van Baarle
Chris Froome
Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Adam Yates
Heinrich Haussler

RiderCountry
Carlos Betancur
Maximiliano Richeze
Yukihiro Doi
Natnael Berhane
Dmytro Krivtsov
Andrei Nechita
Przemysław Niemiec
Michał Podlaski
Alo Jakin
Bartłomiej Matysiak
Maciej Bodnar
Yauheni Hutarovich
Mekseb Debesay
Gert Jõeäär
Carlos Gálviz
Johannes Fröhlinger
Christian Knees
Tejay van Garderen
Sergiy Lagkuti
André Greipel
Rohan Dennis
Serghei Tvetcov
Steve Cummings
Carlos José Ochoa
Azzedine Lagab
Segundo Navarrete
Errafai Mohammed Amine
Lucas Gaday
Tarik Chaoufi
Georgios Bouglas
Abdelatif Saadoune
Oleg Berdos
Xavier Quevedo
Mouhssine Lahsaini
Christian Meier
Essaïd Abelouache