2017 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race


The Men's road race of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 24 September 2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was the 84th edition of the championship, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the two times defending champion.
After a late move from France's Julian Alaphilippe was brought back within the final kilometres, Sagan outsprinted his rivals to win a third consecutive world title, the first male rider to do so. As well as this, he became the fifth man – after Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx and Óscar Freire – to win three elite road world championship titles. European champion Alexander Kristoff from Norway took the silver medal, while the bronze medal went to Australian Michael Matthews.

Course

The race started in Rong and traversed before reaching the finishing circuit in Bergen. After a further, the riders crossed the finish line on the :no:Festplassen|Festplassen for the first time, with the riders completing eleven full laps of the circuit in length. The main feature of the circuit was the climb of Salmon Hill, about into the lap; the climb was long at an average gradient of 6.4%. At, the 2017 men's road race was the longest in the championships since were covered in 2013.

Qualification

Qualification were based on performances on the UCI World Ranking on August 15, 2017.

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.

Additional places

,,,,,,,,, and have chosen not to use quota places.,,,,, and have received additional quota places.

Participating nations

196 cyclists from 44 nations were entered in the men's road race, however Irish representative Damien Shaw did not start the race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Of the race's 196 entrants, 132 riders completed the full distance of.
RankRiderCountryTime
1Peter Sagan6h 28' 11"
2Alexander Kristoff+ 0"
3Michael Matthews+ 0"
4Matteo Trentin+ 0"
5Ben Swift+ 0"
6Greg Van Avermaet+ 0"
7Michael Albasini+ 0"
8Fernando Gaviria+ 0"
9Alexey Lutsenko+ 0"
10Julian Alaphilippe+ 0"
11Michał Kwiatkowski+ 0"
12Søren Kragh Andersen+ 0"
13Tony Gallopin+ 0"
14Zdeněk Štybar+ 0"
15Vasil Kiryienka+ 0"
16Vyacheslav Kuznetsov+ 0"
17Philippe Gilbert+ 0"
18Sergey Chernetskiy+ 0"
19Rui Costa+ 0"
20Simon Geschke+ 0"
21Michael Valgren+ 0"
22Lukas Pöstlberger+ 0"
23Ilnur Zakarin+ 0"
24Niki Terpstra+ 0"
25Tom Dumoulin+ 0"
26Dan Martin+ 0"
27Rigoberto Urán+ 5"
28Alberto Bettiol+ 5"
29Magnus Cort+ 27"
30Edvald Boasson Hagen+ 1' 04"
31Jonathan Castroviejo+ 1' 04"
32Julien Simon+ 1' 04"
33Nicolas Roche+ 1' 04"
34Bauke Mollema+ 1' 20"
35Guillaume Boivin+ 1' 20"
36Peter Kennaugh+ 1' 22"
37Warren Barguil+ 1' 23"
38Diego Ulissi+ 1' 23"
39Reinardt Janse van Rensburg+ 2' 32"
40Nikias Arndt+ 2' 32"
41Michael Schär+ 2' 32"
42Luka Pibernik+ 2' 32"
43Aleksejs Saramotins+ 2' 32"
44Stefan Küng+ 2' 32"
45Juraj Sagan+ 2' 32"
46Yukiya Arashiro+ 2' 32"
47Marcus Burghardt+ 2' 32"
48Roman Kreuziger+ 2' 32"
49Daryl Impey+ 2' 32"
50Silvan Dillier+ 2' 32"
51Tobias Ludvigsson+ 2' 32"
52Michał Gołaś+ 2' 32"
53Alex Howes+ 2' 32"
54Imanol Erviti+ 2' 32"
55Nelson Oliveira+ 2' 32"
56Odd Christian Eiking+ 2' 32"
57Elia Viviani+ 2' 32"
58José Joaquín Rojas+ 2' 32"
59Sonny Colbrelli+ 2' 32"
60Simon Clarke+ 2' 32"
61Jan Polanc+ 2' 32"
62Mitchell Docker+ 2' 32"
63Eduardo Sepúlveda+ 2' 32"
64Tiago Machado+ 2' 32"
65Ricardo Vilela+ 2' 32"
66Luis León Sánchez+ 2' 32"
67Jarlinson Pantano+ 2' 32"
68Stefan Denifl+ 2' 32"
69Tony Martin+ 2' 32"
70David de la Cruz+ 2' 32"
71Bob Jungels+ 2' 32"
72Dylan Teuns+ 2' 32"
73Oliver Naesen+ 2' 32"
74Sebastian Langeveld+ 2' 32"
75Michael Mørkøv+ 2' 32"
76Christopher Juul-Jensen+ 2' 32"
77Vegard Stake Laengen+ 2' 32"
78Andriy Hrivko+ 3' 13"
79Jan Bárta+ 3' 13"
80Zhandos Bizhigitov+ 3' 13"
81Hugo Houle+ 3' 13"
82Paweł Poljański+ 3' 13"
83Natnael Berhane+ 3' 13"
84Anthony Roux+ 3' 13"
85Lilian Calmejane+ 3' 13"
86Cyril Gautier+ 3' 13"
87Jens Keukeleire+ 3' 13"
88Salvatore Puccio+ 3' 13"
89Jasper Stuyven+ 5' 49"
90Paul Martens+ 5' 49"
91Matej Mohorič+ 5' 49"
92Luka Mezgec+ 5' 49"
93Heinrich Haussler+ 5' 49"
94Jack Haig+ 5' 49"
95Tiesj Benoot+ 6' 33"
96Łukasz Wiśniowski+ 6' 37"
97Scott Thwaites+ 7' 33"
98Mark Christian+ 7' 33"

RankRiderCountryTime
99Rick Zabel+ 7' 33"
100Fabian Lienhard+ 7' 33"
101Amund Grøndahl Jansen+ 7' 33"
102Ignatas Konovalovas+ 7' 33"
103Lluís Mas+ 7' 33"
104Lars Boom+ 7' 35"
105Daniele Bennati+ 7' 35"
106Jesús Herrada+ 7' 35"
107Gorka Izagirre+ 7' 35"
108Marc Soler+ 7' 35"
109Kiel Reijnen+ 7' 35"
110Tim Wellens+ 9' 21"
111Grégory Rast+ 9' 24"
112Marco Haller+ 9' 24"
113Alessandro De Marchi+ 9' 26"
114Nils Politt+ 10' 21"
115Sergio Henao+ 10' 21"
116Jasha Sütterlin+ 10' 21"
117Tao Geoghegan Hart+ 10' 21"
118Johannes Fröhlinger+ 10' 21"
119Koen de Kort+ 10' 21"
120Antoine Duchesne+ 10' 21"
121Primož Roglič+ 10' 21"
122Olivier Le Gac+ 10' 21"
123Mihkel Räim+ 11' 53"
124Joey Rosskopf+ 11' 53"
125Daniel Hoelgaard+ 11' 53"
126Ryan Mullen+ 11' 53"
127Jiří Polnický+ 11' 53"
128Dmitriy Gruzdev+ 11' 53"
129Dion Smith+ 11' 53"
130José Gonçalves+ 11' 53"
131Maximiliano Richeze+ 11' 53"
132Jempy Drucker+ 11' 53"
Truls Korsæth
Michael KolářDNF
Jack BauerDNF
Luke DurbridgeDNF
Wout PoelsDNF
Conor DunneDNF
Andrey AmadorDNF
Nairo QuintanaDNF
Stanislau BazhkouDNF
Ruben GuerreiroDNF
Tejay van GarderenDNF
Krists NeilandsDNF
Maciej PaterskiDNF
Jos van EmdenDNF
Rory SutherlandDNF
Juan Sebastián MolanoDNF
Jay McCarthyDNF
Alexey VermeulenDNF
Erik BaškaDNF
Marek ČaneckýDNF
Maciej BodnarDNF
Sebastián HenaoDNF
Alex KirschDNF
Alexander PorsevDNF
Willie SmitDNF
Jan TratnikDNF
Alexis GougeardDNF
Adam BlytheDNF
Owain DoullDNF
Jonathan DibbenDNF
Sean McKennaDNF
Julien VermoteDNF
Kim MagnussonDNF
Petr VakočDNF
Kristoffer SkjerpingDNF
August JensenDNF
Maxim BelkovDNF
Nelson SotoDNF
Jhonatan RestrepoDNF
Danny van PoppelDNF
Alo JakinDNF
Aksel NõmmelaDNF
Serghei ȚvetcovDNF
Mads PedersenDNF
Charalampos KastrantasDNF
Salah Eddine MraouniDNF
Patrik TyborDNF
Ian StannardDNF
Ivan SavitskiyDNF
Josef ČernýDNF
Elchin AsadovDNF
Kostyantyn RybarukDNF
Nathan BrownDNF
Valens NdayisengaDNF
Mekseb DebesayDNF
Eugert ZhupaDNF
Yauhen SobalDNF
Cheung King LokDNF
Patrick BevinDNF
Matti ManninenDNF
Mathew HaymanDNF
Amanuel GebrezgabihierDNF
Gianni Moscon
Damien Shaw