The Men's time trial of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships is a cycling event that took place on September 23, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was the 22nd edition of the championship. Bradley Wiggins was the outgoing champion but did not defend his title.
Vasil Kiryienka won the gold medal for Belarus, recording a time 9.08 seconds quicker than his closest rival, Italian rider Adriano Malori. The podium was completed by France's Jérôme Coppel, 26.62 seconds behind Kiryienka's winning time.
Course The riders began their race 20 miles north of Richmond at Kings Dominion, Virginia's premier amusement park in Hanover County. Racers then went past Meadow Event Park, home to the State Fair of Virginia and the birthplace of thoroughbred racing legend Secretariat. Racers headed south on long, open straights past the Hanover County Courthouse, the third oldest courthouse still in use in the U.S. and dating back to about 1740. Long hills on Brook and Wilkinson roads brought the racers back into the city through Virginia Union University before turning downtown. Nearly half the turns of the entire route fell within the closing kilometers, the second to last of which was to ascend 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 for the event All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.
Champion Name Participation Outgoing World Champion Did not participate African Champion Pan American Champion Asian Champion Oceanian Champion Scheduled to participate
Olympic qualification This time trial was also part of the qualification of the men's time trial at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The first ten nations in the time trial qualified one athlete.
Schedule All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). Date Time EventSeptember 23, 2015 13:00–15:35 Men's individual time trial
Start list The following riders were confirmed by their respective nations.
No. Rider Country 1 Tony Martin 2 Tom Dumoulin 3 Vasil Kiryienka 4 Rohan Dennis 5 Adriano Malori 6 Matthias Brändle 7 Jonathan Castroviejo 8 Maciej Bodnar 9 Stefan Küng 10 Alex Dowsett 11 Jan Bárta 12 Nelson Oliveira 13 Jesse Sergent 14 Taylor Phinney 15 Jurgen Van den Broeck 16 Christopher Juul-Jensen 17 Jérôme Coppel 18 Ramūnas Navardauskas 19 Artem Ovechkin 20 Andreas Vangstad 21 Rigoberto Urán 22 Andriy Hryvko 23 Hugo Houle 24 Mekseb Debesay
No. Rider Country 25 Alexey Lutsenko 26 Tanel Kangert 27 Segundo Navarrete 28 Gatis Smukulis 29 Gustav Larsson 30 Polychronis Tzortzakis 31 Adrien Niyonshuti 32 Serghei Țvetcov 33 Nikolay Mihaylov 34 Manuel Rodas 35 Muradjan Khalmuratov 36 Tuguldur Tuulkhangai 37 Juan Martinez 38 Alexandre Pliușchin 39 Gorgi Popstefanov 40 Norlandis Taveras 41 Ahmed Albourdainy 42 David Albós 43 Nikias Arndt 44 Wilco Kelderman 45 Kanstantsin Sivtsov 46 Luke Durbridge 47 Moreno Moser
No. Rider Country 48 Lukas Pöstlberger 49 Luis León Sánchez 50 Marcin Białobłocki 51 Silvan Dillier 52 Steven Cummings 53 Petr Vakoč 54 Sam Bewley 55 Lawson Craddock 56 Yves Lampaert 57 Rasmus Quaade 58 Romain Sicard 59 Gediminas Bagdonas 60 Ilnur Zakarin 61 Vegard Stake Laengen 62 Ryan Roth 63 Daniil Fominykh 64 Rein Taaramäe 65 Carlos Quishpe 66 Aleksejs Saramotins 67 Tobias Ludvigsson 68 Neofytos Sakellaridis 69 Rafael German 70 Michael Hepburn
Final classification
Rank Rider Time 1 1h 02' 29.45" 2 + 9.08" 3 + 26.62" 4 + 29.36" 5 + 1' 01.51" 6 + 1' 07.96" 7 + 1' 16.73" 8 + 1' 17.33" 9 + 1' 22.42" 10 + 1' 31.61" 11 + 1' 34.04" 12 + 1' 36.99" 13 + 1' 52.38" 14 + 1' 58.89" 15 + 1' 59.20" 16 + 1' 59.88" 17 + 2' 06.56" 18 + 2' 15.91" 19 + 2' 17.63" 20 + 2' 18.22" 21 + 2' 19.17" 22 + 2' 27.34" 23 + 2' 31.18" 24 + 2' 32.28" 25 + 2' 35.87" 26 + 2' 45.17" 27 + 2' 47.95" 28 + 2' 56.12" 29 + 2' 56.13" 30 + 2' 56.78" 31 + 2' 59.52" 32 + 3' 01.21" 33 + 3' 07.22" 34 + 3' 13.15" 35 + 3' 13.59" 36 + 3' 23.83" 37 + 3' 25.51" 38 + 3' 25.79" 39 + 3' 26.67" 40 + 3' 30.20" 41 + 3' 30.59" 42 + 3' 43.23" 43 + 3' 44.22" 44 + 3' 51.14" 45 + 3' 55.26" 46 + 3' 56.61" 47 + 4' 00.34" 48 + 4' 18.12" 49 + 4' 20.33" 50 + 4' 20.38" 51 + 4' 40.65" 52 + 4' 47.00" 53 + 5' 01.26" 54 + 5' 38.95" 55 + 5' 47.86" 56 + 5' 53.85" 57 + 6' 45.70" 58 + 7' 05.06" 59 + 7' 06.79" 60 + 8' 50.76" 61 + 9' 45.89" 62 + 11' 55.93" 63 + 13' 05.52" 64 + 13' 43.53" 65 + 14' 14.66"
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