2015 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race


The Men's road race of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on September 27, 2015 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was the 82nd edition of the championship, and Poland's Michał Kwiatkowski was the defending champion.
Peter Sagan of Slovakia attacked on the final climb up 23rd Street and managed to stay clear of the field to take his first world title. Three seconds behind, Australian rider Michael Matthews and Lithuania's Ramūnas Navardauskas led home a 24-rider group to take the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Course

All road races took place on a challenging, technical and inner-city road circuit, in length. The elite men's race consisted of 15 laps – plus a start lap of – for a total of.
The circuit headed west from Downtown Richmond, working its way onto Monument Avenue, a paver-lined, historic boulevard that's been named one of the "10 Great Streets in America". Cyclists took a 180-degree turn at the Jefferson Davis monument and then maneuvered through the Uptown district and Virginia Commonwealth University. Halfway through the circuit, the race headed down into Shockoe Bottom before following the canal and passing Great Shiplock Park, the start of the Virginia Capital Trail. A sharp, off-camber turn at Rocketts Landing brought the riders to the narrow, twisty, cobbled climb up to Libby Hill Park in the historic Church Hill neighborhood. A quick descent, followed by three hard turns led to a climb up 23rd Street. Once atop this steep cobbled hill, riders descended into Shockoe Bottom. This led them to the final climb on Governor Street. At the top, the riders had to take a sharp left turn onto the false-flat finishing straight, to the finish.

Qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2015. Results from January to the middle of August counted towards the qualification criteria on both the 2015 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 August 15, 2015.
The following 51 nations qualified.
Number of ridersNations
14 to enter, 9 to start,,,,,,,,
9 to enter, 6 to start,,,,,,,,,,,
5 to enter, 3 to start,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
2 to enter, 1 to start,,,,,,,,,

The qualification process became subject to criticism after several nations, including Iran, Turkey and Morocco did not take up their allocation.

Schedule

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time.
DateTimeEvent
September 27, 20159:00–15:40Men's road race

Final classification

Of the race's 192 entrants, 110 riders completed the full distance of.
RankRiderCountryTime
1Peter Sagan
2Michael Matthews+ 3"
3Ramūnas Navardauskas+ 3"
4Alexander Kristoff+ 3"
5Alejandro Valverde+ 3"
6Simon Gerrans+ 3"
7Tony Gallopin+ 3"
8Michał Kwiatkowski+ 3"
9Rui Costa+ 3"
10Philippe Gilbert+ 3"
11Tom Dumoulin+ 3"
12Alex Howes+ 3"
13Niki Terpstra+ 3"
14Rein Taaramäe+ 3"
15Vyacheslav Kuznetsov+ 3"
16Nelson Oliveira+ 3"
17Yukiya Arashiro+ 3"
18Giacomo Nizzolo+ 3"
19Brent Bookwalter+ 3"
20Edvald Boasson Hagen+ 3"
21Nacer Bouhanni+ 3"
22Ben Swift+ 3"
23Greg Van Avermaet+ 3"
24Tanel Kangert+ 3"
25Andrey Amador+ 3"
26Marco Haller+ 12"
27Daniel Moreno+ 12"
28Silvan Dillier+ 12"
29John Degenkolb+ 15"
30Luis León Sánchez+ 15"
31Steve Cummings+ 15"
32Rigoberto Urán+ 18"
33Matti Breschel+ 21"
34Matteo Trentin+ 21"
35Tom Boonen+ 21"
36Pavel Brutt+ 21"
37Alexey Tsatevich+ 28"
38Arnaud Démare+ 32"
39Tomasz Marczyński+ 40"
40Sam Bennett+ 40"
41Karel Hník+ 40"
42Vincenzo Nibali+ 40"
43Zdeněk Štybar+ 40"
44Heinrich Haussler+ 40"
45Lars Bak+ 55"
46Andriy Hryvko+ 55"
47Luka Pibernik+ 55"
48Luka Mezgec+ 55"
49Mykhaylo Kononenko+ 55"
50Daryl Impey+ 55"
51Ian Stannard+ 55"
52Juan José Lobato+ 55"
53Ben King+ 55"
54Michał Gołaś+ 55"
55Sergey Lagutin+ 55"
56Jon Izagirre+ 55"
57Adam Yates+ 55"
58Greg Henderson+ 55"
59Maciej Paterski+ 1' 10"
60Kanstantsin Sivtsov+ 1' 38"
61Antoine Duchesne+ 1' 50"
62Ilnur Zakarin+ 1' 55"
63Alexey Lutsenko+ 2' 02"
64Sep Vanmarcke+ 2' 08"
65Maximiliano Richeze+ 2' 09"
66Michael Albasini+ 2' 15"
67Michael Valgren+ 2' 50"
68Carlos Quintero+ 2' 50"
69Bauke Mollema+ 2' 50"
70Arman Kamyshev+ 2' 50"
71Jens Keukeleire+ 2' 50"
72Vegard Stake Laengen+ 2' 50"
73Adam Hansen+ 2' 50"
74Rafał Majka+ 2' 50"
75Mickaël Delage+ 2' 50"
76Grégory Rast+ 2' 50"
77Mathew Hayman+ 2' 50"
78Michael Mørkøv+ 2' 50"
79Tyler Farrar+ 3' 00"
80Tiesj Benoot+ 3' 35"
81Lars Boom+ 3' 35"
82Manuel Quinziato+ 3' 41"
83Daniele Bennati+ 3' 41"
84Fabio Felline+ 3' 41"
85Taylor Phinney+ 3' 41"
86Grega Bole+ 3' 45"
87Sebastian Langeveld+ 3' 45"
88Tony Martin+ 4' 00"
89Elia Viviani+ 5' 18"
90Simon Geschke+ 5' 23"
91Robert Gesink+ 6' 43"
92Stijn Vandenbergh+ 6' 43"
93Ryan Anderson+ 6' 43"
94Michael Woods+ 6' 43"
95Sergey Chernetskiy+ 6' 43"
96Dylan van Baarle+ 6' 43"

RankRiderCountryTime
97Jan Bárta+ 6' 43"
98Jiří Polnický+ 6' 43"
99Pim Ligthart+ 6' 43"
100Cyril Lemoine+ 6' 43"
101Scott Thwaites+ 6' 43"
102Diego Ulissi+ 6' 43"
103Paul Voss+ 8' 12"
104Paul Martens+ 10' 47"
105André Greipel+ 10' 47"
106Marcel Sieberg+ 10' 47"
107Guillaume Boivin+ 11' 11"
108Radoslav Rogina+ 11' 11"
109Lawson Craddock+ 12' 56"
110Gatis Smukulis+ 13' 58"
Joaquim Rodríguez
Florian VachonDNF
Simon ClarkeDNF
Mitchell DockerDNF
Kristijan ĐurasekDNF
Georg PreidlerDNF
Christian KneesDNF
Reinardt Janse van RensburgDNF
Jay McCarthyDNF
Luke DurbridgeDNF
Roman KreuzigerDNF
Luke RoweDNF
Christopher Juul-JensenDNF
Rasmus GuldhammerDNF
Nikolas MaesDNF
Imanol ErvitiDNF
Rubén PlazaDNF
Denys KostyukDNF
Lars Petter NordhaugDNF
Kohei UchimaDNF
Ruslan TleubayevDNF
Sébastien MinardDNF
Juraj SaganDNF
Michael KolářDNF
Kristijan KorenDNF
Lluís MasDNF
Borut BožičDNF
Vasil KiryienkaDNF
Juan Carlos Rojas VillegasDNF
Ryan RothDNF
Jarlinson PantanoDNF
Johannes FröhlingerDNF
Gediminas BagdonasDNF
Petr VakočDNF
Sven Erik BystrømDNF
Iljo KeisseDNF
José GonçalvesDNF
Winner AnaconaDNF
Alex CanoDNF
Mekseb DebesayDNF
Manuel RodasDNF
Julien SimonDNF
Vitaliy ButsDNF
Andrew FennDNF
Lukas PöstlbergerDNF
Julian AlaphilippeDNF
Maciej BodnarDNF
Oleksandr PolivodaDNF
Polychronis TzortzakisDNF
Edwin ÁvilaDNF
Conor DunneDNF
Evaldas ŠiškevičiusDNF
Byron GuamáDNF
Kléber RamosDNF
Fumiyuki BeppuDNF
Miguel Ángel LópezDNF
Hugo HouleDNF
Alex DowsettDNF
Jesse SergentDNF
Carlos AlzateDNF
Tomáš BucháčekDNF
Serghei ȚvetcovDNF
Sam BewleyDNF
Laurent DidierDNF
Daniel JaramilloDNF
Marko KumpDNF
Vegard BreenDNF
Yauheni HutarovichDNF
Jos van EmdenDNF
Jempy DruckerDNF
Ivan StevićDNF
Daniel OssDNF
Andriy KhriptaDNF
Nikolay MihaylovDNF
Park Sung-baekDNF
Gonzalo GarridoDNF
Alex KirschDNF
Daniel DíazDNF
Seo Joon-yongDNF
Antonio GarneroDNF
Cesar Rojas VillegasDNF
Jaco Venter