The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2012 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 23 September in the province of Limburg, Netherlands.
The race was won by Belgium's Philippe Gilbert, after he made a late attack on the final ascent of the Cauberg climb and advanced clear of the rest of the field to win his first world title and the first by a Belgian since Tom Boonen won in Madrid in 2005. He finished four seconds clear of Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen, who claimed the silver medal, while the bronze medal went to Spain's Alejandro Valverde, who finished a second further behind. When the announcement was made of the course, Gilbert was the instant favourite and rode all year with this pressure. Leading into the worlds he had won only two races all season.
Route The race started in Maastricht and ended in Valkenburg. The first was contested through a number of Limburg cities before the riders entered a circuit to be completed on ten occasions. The finish was beyond the summit of the Cauberg hill in Valkenburg – where the Amstel Gold Race had finished from 2003 to 2013, and hosted the finish of stage 3 of the 2006 Tour de France – a long climb with a maximum gradient of 12%.
Final classification Of the race's 207 entrants, 122 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time Philippe Gilbert Edvald Boasson Hagen + 4" Alejandro Valverde + 5" 4 John Degenkolb + 5" 5 Lars Boom + 5" 6 Allan Davis + 5" 7 Thomas Voeckler + 5" 8 Ramūnas Navardauskas + 5" 9 Sergio Henao + 5" 10 Óscar Freire + 5" 11 Rui Costa + 5" 12 Tom Boonen + 5" 13 Oscar Gatto + 5" 14 Peter Sagan + 5" 15 Fredrik Kessiakoff + 5" 16 Koen de Kort + 5" 17 Michael Albasini + 5" 18 Assan Bazayev + 5" DQ Jonathan Tiernan-Locke + 5" 19 Lars Petter Nordhaug + 5" 20 Simon Gerrans + 5" 21 Not allocated 22 Stefan Denifl + 5" 23 Rigoberto Urán + 5" 24 Daniel Moreno + 5" 25 Greg Van Avermaet + 5" 26 Björn Leukemans + 5" 27 Fabian Wegmann + 5" 28 Alexandr Kolobnev + 5" 29 Vincenzo Nibali + 5" 30 André Cardoso + 17" 31 Andriy Hryvko + 17" 32 Robert Gesink + 17" 33 Dan Martin + 17" 34 Nicolas Roche + 17" 35 Jürgen Roelandts + 17" 36 Ian Stannard + 53" 37 Paul Martens + 53" 38 Alberto Contador + 53" 39 Joaquim Rodríguez + 53" 40 Yuri Trofimov + 1' 01" 41 Samuel Sánchez + 1' 37" 42 David Tanner + 1' 37" 43 Andrew Talansky + 1' 54" 44 Rene Mandri + 2' 21" 45 Gustav Larsson + 2' 21" 46 Marek Rutkiewicz + 2' 21" 47 Carlos Betancur + 2' 21" 48 Bauke Mollema + 2' 21" 49 Rafael Andriato + 2' 21" 50 Michael Schär + 2' 21" 51 Gatis Smukulis + 2' 21" 52 Chris Anker Sørensen + 2' 21" 53 Jarosław Marycz + 2' 21" 54 Takashi Miyazawa + 2' 21" 55 Karsten Kroon + 2' 21" 56 Tom-Jelte Slagter + 2' 21" 57 Sylvain Chavanel + 2' 21" 58 Radoslav Rogina + 2' 21" 59 Jan Bárta + 2' 21" 60 Ben Swift + 2' 21" 61 Michał Gołaś + 2' 21" 62 Jempy Drucker + 2' 21" 63 Mathias Frank + 2' 21" 64 Alex Howes + 2' 21" 65 Vladimir Gusev + 2' 21" 66 Niki Terpstra + 2' 21" 67 Steve Morabito + 2' 21" 68 Winner Anacona + 2' 21" 69 Nairo Quintana + 2' 21" 70 Steve Cummings + 2' 21" 71 Sérgio Paulinho + 2' 21" 72 Simon Geschke + 2' 21" 73 Heinrich Haussler + 2' 21" 74 Moreno Moser + 2' 34" 75 Luca Paolini + 2' 46" 76 Rinaldo Nocentini + 2' 46" 77 Marco Marcato + 2' 46" 78 Simon Clarke + 2' 53" 79 Johannes Fröhlinger + 2' 53" 80 Christian Knees + 2' 53" 81 Juan Antonio Flecha + 2' 53" 82 Borut Božič + 2' 53" 83 David Veilleux + 2' 53" 84 Mickaël Delage + 2' 53" 85 Diego Ulissi + 2' 53" 86 Eduard Vorganov + 2' 53" 87 Oleksandr Polivoda + 3' 11" 88 Luke Rowe + 5' 46" 89 Vladimir Isaichev + 5' 46" 90 Gianni Meersman + 8' 10" 91 Matej Jurčo + 8' 55" 92 Carlos Oyarzun + 8' 55" 93 Aleksandr Kuschynski + 8' 55" 94 Siarhei Papok + 8' 55" 95 Stefan Hristov + 8' 55" 96 Evaldas Šiškevičius + 8' 55" 97 Carlos José Ochoa + 8' 55" 98 Taylor Phinney + 8' 55" 99 Péter Kusztor + 8' 55" 100 Bert-Jan Lindeman + 8' 55" 101 Przemysław Niemiec + 8' 55" 102 Jacek Morajko + 8' 55" 103 Brent Bookwalter + 8' 55" 104 František Raboň + 8' 55"
Rank Rider Country Time 105 Ronan McLaughlin + 8' 55" 106 Matthias Brändle + 8' 55" 107 Milan Kadlec + 8' 55" 108 Ryder Hesjedal + 8' 55" 109 Georgi Georgiev + 8' 55" 110 François Parisien + 8' 55" 111 Marcus Burghardt + 8' 55" 112 Thomas Löfkvist + 8' 55" 113 Leopold König + 8' 55" 114 Tanel Kangert + 8' 55" 115 Jure Kocjan + 8' 55" 116 Zdeněk Štybar + 8' 55" 117 Kristijan Đurasek + 8' 55" 118 Jacques Janse van Rensburg + 8' 55" 119 Laurens ten Dam + 8' 55" 120 Matteo Trentin + 9' 44" 121 Andrey Amador + 10' 23" 122 Jonathan Castroviejo + 10' 23" Jakob Fuglsang Kristijan Koren DNF Janez Brajkovič DNF Grega Bole DNF Vasil Kiryienka DNF Sergey Firsanov DNF Dimitry Muravyev DNF Dario Cataldo DNF Pablo Lastras DNF Rein Taaramäe DNF Jay Thomson DNF Wesley Sulzberger DNF Adam Hansen DNF Jérôme Coppel DNF Vincent Jérôme DNF Yukiya Arashiro DNF Chris Horner DNF Tejay van Garderen DNF Tony Gallopin DNF Kevin De Weert DNF Ignatas Konovalovas DNF Gabriel Rasch DNF Jonathan Monsalve DNF Maxime Bouet DNF Martin Grashev DNF Grégory Rast DNF Oliver Zaugg DNF Bruno Pires DNF Roman Kreuziger DNF Miguel Ángel Rubiano DNF Fabio Duarte DNF Arthur Vichot DNF Richie Porte DNF Timmy Duggan DNF Michael Matthews DNF Yeung Ying-Hon DNF Johan Vansummeren DNF Matthew Busche DNF Vladimir Miholjević DNF Marko Kump DNF Fabricio Ferrari DNF Julian Dean DNF Yaroslav Popovych DNF Reinardt Janse van Rensburg DNF Vitaliy Buts DNF Denys Kostyuk DNF Daniel Schorn DNF Alexsandr Dyachenko DNF Luka Mezgec DNF Hayden Roulston DNF Fumiyuki Beppu DNF Lucas Euser DNF Jorge Martín Montenegro DNF Dmytro Krivtsov DNF Juraj Sagan DNF Maroš Kováč DNF Tomasz Marczyński DNF Alexandre Pliuschin DNF Ben Gastauer DNF Jérémy Roy DNF Peter Velits DNF Matti Breschel DNF Chris Froome DNF Bradley Wiggins DNF Jesse Sergent DNF Tomás Gil DNF Stanislav Kozubek DNF Maximiliano Richeze DNF Dries Devenyns DNF Laurent Didier DNF Enzo Moyano DNF Shinichi Fukushima DNF Yukihiro Doi DNF Alex Dowsett DNF Aleksejs Saramotins DNF Mauricio Muller DNF Hichem Chaabane DNF Mark Cavendish DNF Yusuke Hatanaka DNF Amir Rusli DNF Svein Tuft DNF Loh Sea Keong DNF Martin Velits DNF Nebojša Jovanović DNF Elchin Asadov DNF
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