The 2007 UCI Road World Championships - Men's Road Race took place on September 30, 2007. The Championship was won for a second year in succession by the Italian Paolo Bettini, who outsprinted the rest of a five-man group in the final 500 metres. The Russian Alexandr Kolobnev took the silver medal and Stefan Schumacher of Germany captured third place for the bronze medal.
The Championships were hosted by the Germany city of Stuttgart, and featured several laps of a tough circuit, amounting to almost 270 kilometres of racing.
Final classification September 30, 2007: Stuttgart, 267.4 km (14 laps of 19.1 km each)
Rank Rider Country TimePaolo Bettini6h 44'43"Alexandr Kolobnevs.t.Stefan Schumachers.t.4Fränk Schlecks.t.5Cadel Evanss.t.6Davide Rebellinat 6"7Samuel Sánchezat 8"8Philippe Gilberts.t.9Fabian Wegmanns.t.10Martin Elmigers.t.11Thomas Dekker s.t.12Michael Boogerd at 14"13Björn Leukemans at 15"14Óscar Freire at 49"15Aleksandr Kuschynski s.t.16Alexandre Usov s.t.17Beat Zberg s.t.18Erik Zabel s.t.19Thor Hushovd s.t.20Radoslav Rogina s.t.21Murilo Fischer s.t.22Matej Mugerli s.t.23George Hincapie s.t.24Marcus Ljungqvist s.t.25Chris Anker Sørensen s.t.26Jurgen Van Goolen s.t.27Leonardo Duque s.t.28Rene Mandri s.t.29Gustav Larsson s.t.30Pierrick Fédrigo s.t.31Thomas Löfkvist s.t.32Alexander Efimkin s.t.33Tomasz Marczyński s.t.34Ján Valach s.t.35Sebastian Langeveld s.t.36Christian Vande Velde s.t.
Rank Rider Country Time37Nuno Ribeiro s.t.38Christian Pfannberger s.t.39Unai Etxebarria Arana s.t.40David George s.t.41Ludovic Turpin s.t.42Kurt Asle Arvesen s.t.43Vladimir Efimkin s.t.44Sergey Lagutin s.t.45Mario Aerts s.t.46Vladimir Karpets s.t.47Denis Menchov s.t.48Przemysław Niemiec s.t.49Manuel Beltrán Martinez s.t.50Damiano Cunego at 57"51Filippo Pozzato s.t.52Alessandro Ballan s.t.53Allan Davis at 1'05"54David Millar s.t.55Matthew Lloyd at 1'10"56Karsten Kroon at 1'24"57Alejandro Valverde at 2'47"58Matija Kvasina at 3'10"59Kristjan Fajt at 3'38"60Gorazd Štangelj at 3'41"61Kanstantsin Siutsou at 5'17"62Alessandro Bertolini at 6'01"63Greg Van Avermaet at 6'34"64Maxime Monfort at 6'52"65Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver at 7'52"66Simon Gerrans at 8'09"67Sylvain Chavanel s.t.68Thomas Voeckler at 15'51"69Erki Pütsep s.t.70László Bodrogi at 17'10"71Vladimir Tuychiev at 21'57"72Hossein Askari s.t.
Did not finish 124 riders failed to finish the race. Marzio Bruseghin of Italy was disqualified, and José Rodrigues of Portugal did not start the race.
Rider CountryCarlos Sastre Stéphane Goubert Robert Gesink Carlos Barredo Sergei Yakovlev Hernâni Brôco Marcus Burghardt Fabian Cancellara Andy Schleck Philip Deignan Jens Voigt Gerald Ciolek Amaël Moinard Vladimir Zagorodniy Laurens ten Dam Bobby Julich Jason McCartney Christian Knees Johan Van Summeren Dominique Rollin Andriy Hrivko Evgeny Petrov Assan Bazayev James Lewis Perry Matti Breschel Juan Antonio Flecha Xavier Florencio Tomislav Dančulović Jure Golčer Romain Feillu Sandy Casar Hrvoje Miholjević Martin Mareš Andrea Tonti Matteo Tosatto William Walker Piotr Zielinski Li Fuyu Petr Benčík Maroš Kováč Glen Chadwick Matej Jurčo Yukiya Arashiro Takashi Miyazawa Vladislav Borisov Dmitry Fofonov Bruno Neves Marcin Sapa Roman Kreuziger Kim Kirchen Robert Kišerlovski Michael Rogers Luis Felipe Laverde Krzysztof Szczawinski Romas Sinicinas Matej Stare Hugo Sabido Martín Garrido Frederik Willems Danail Petrov Vladimir Gusev Roger Hammond John Devine Tyler Farrar Ronny Scholz David Kopp Volodymyr Bileka
Rider CountryDmytro Grabovskyy Scott Davis Jacek Morajko Hayden Roulston Maarten den Bakker Richard Ochoa José Serpa Martin Riška Svein Tuft Stéphane Augé Bram Tankink Matías Médici Nebojša Jovanović Stijn Devolder Juan Pablo Dotti Muradjan Khalmuratov Darren Lill Bernhard Kohl Mauricio Ardila Mathew Hayman Luis Ministro Moyano Maximiliano Richeze Borut Božič Mark Cavendish Daryl Impey Fumiyuki Beppu Roman Broniš Andris Hernández Koos Moerenhout Trent Lowe Dainius Kairelis Mehdi Sohrabi Jeremy Vennell Cameron Evans Christian Poos Kristijan Đurasek Lars Ytting Bak Ruslan Podgornyy Sergey Kolesnikov Juan José Haedo Gerrit Glomser Marlon Pérez Arango Žolt Dér Mads Kaggestad Laurent Didier Mostafa Seyed-Rezaei Alex Cano David Zabriskie Renato Seabra Ricardo Martins Aleksejs Saramotins Medhi Fahridi Kovij Ján Šipeky Dragan Spasic Luciano Pagliarini Robert Hunter Mikhaylo Khalilov
Nation qualification
14 to be enrolled, 9 to start9 to be enrolled, 6 to start5 to be enrolled, 3 to start2 to be enrolled, 1 to start
External links Race website
References
de:Straßen-Radweltmeisterschaft 2007