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 Rockets 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 riders Nations14 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 (UTC−4). Date Time EventSeptember 27, 2015 9:00–15:40 Men's road race

Final classification Of the race's 192 entrants, 110 riders completed the full distance of .

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

Rank Rider Country Time 97 Jan Bárta + 6' 43" 98 Jiří Polnický + 6' 43" 99 Pim Ligthart + 6' 43" 100 Cyril Lemoine + 6' 43" 101 Scott Thwaites + 6' 43" 102 Diego Ulissi + 6' 43" 103 Paul Voss + 8' 12" 104 Paul Martens + 10' 47" 105 André Greipel + 10' 47" 106 Marcel Sieberg + 10' 47" 107 Guillaume Boivin + 11' 11" 108 Radoslav Rogina + 11' 11" 109 Lawson Craddock + 12' 56" 110 Gatis Smukulis + 13' 58" Joaquim Rodríguez Florian Vachon DNF Simon Clarke DNF Mitchell Docker DNF Kristijan Đurasek DNF Georg Preidler DNF Christian Knees DNF Reinardt Janse van Rensburg DNF Jay McCarthy DNF Luke Durbridge DNF Roman Kreuziger DNF Luke Rowe DNF Christopher Juul-Jensen DNF Rasmus Guldhammer DNF Nikolas Maes DNF Imanol Erviti DNF Rubén Plaza DNF Denys Kostyuk DNF Lars Petter Nordhaug DNF Kohei Uchima DNF Ruslan Tleubayev DNF Sébastien Minard DNF Juraj Sagan DNF Michael Kolář DNF Kristijan Koren DNF Lluís Mas DNF Borut Božič DNF Vasil Kiryienka DNF Juan Carlos Rojas Villegas DNF Ryan Roth DNF Jarlinson Pantano DNF Johannes Fröhlinger DNF Gediminas Bagdonas DNF Petr Vakoč DNF Sven Erik Bystrøm DNF Iljo Keisse DNF José Gonçalves DNF Winner Anacona DNF Alex Cano DNF Mekseb Debesay DNF Manuel Rodas DNF Julien Simon DNF Vitaliy Buts DNF Andrew Fenn DNF Lukas Pöstlberger DNF Julian Alaphilippe DNF Maciej Bodnar DNF Oleksandr Polivoda DNF Polychronis Tzortzakis DNF Edwin Ávila DNF Conor Dunne DNF Evaldas Šiškevičius DNF Byron Guamá DNF Kléber Ramos DNF Fumiyuki Beppu DNF Miguel Ángel López DNF Hugo Houle DNF Alex Dowsett DNF Jesse Sergent DNF Carlos Alzate DNF Tomáš Bucháček DNF Serghei Țvetcov DNF Sam Bewley DNF Laurent Didier DNF Daniel Jaramillo DNF Marko Kump DNF Vegard Breen DNF Yauheni Hutarovich DNF Jos van Emden DNF Jempy Drucker DNF Ivan Stević DNF Daniel Oss DNF Andriy Khripta DNF Nikolay Mihaylov DNF Park Sung-baek DNF Gonzalo Garrido DNF Alex Kirsch DNF Daniel Díaz DNF Seo Joon-yong DNF Antonio Garnero DNF César Rojas Villegas DNF Jaco Venter

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