The Men's junior road race of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships took place in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States on September 26, 2015. The course of the race was eight laps over a circuit making with the start and finish in Richmond.
Austria's Felix Gall attacked with remaining and managed to stay clear at the head of the race to win the gold medal, holding off a fast-finishing Clément Bétouigt-Suire of France, in a two-up sprint finish. One second behind, Danish rider Rasmus Pedersen completed the podium with the bronze medal.
Qualification
Qualification was based mainly on the final UCI Juniors Nations' Cup ranking as of August 15, 2015. The first ten nations in this classification qualified six riders to start, the next five nations qualified five riders to start and the next five nations qualified four riders to start. The United States, as the organising nation, were entitled five riders to start. Other nations and non ranked nations had the opportunity to send three riders to start. Moreover continental champions were qualified to take part in the race, on top of the nation numbers. The outgoing World Champion, Mathieu van der Poel, did not compete as he was no longer eligible to contest junior races.
Tour Position Number of riders Nations UCI Juniors Nations' Cup ranking1–1012 to enter, 6 to start 11–1510 to enter, 5 to start 16–208 to enter, 4 to start 6 to enter, 3 to startOther nations ChampionName African Champion Pan American Champion Asian Champion European Champion Oceanian Champion
Course
The junior men rode eight laps on the road race circuit. The length of the circuit was and had a total elevation of . All road races took place on a challenging, technical and inner-city road circuit. 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 Rocketts 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.
Schedule All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). Date Time EventSeptember 26, 2015 09:00–12:15 Men's junior road race
Participating nations 165 cyclists from 51 nations took part in the men's junior road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Prize money The UCI assigned premiums for the top 3 finishers with a total prize money of €3,450. Position 1st 2nd 3rd Total Amount €1,533 €1,150 €767 €3,450
Final classification Of the race's 165 entrants, 114 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Felix Gall 2 Clément Bétouigt-Suire 3 Rasmus Pedersen + 1" 4 Reto Müller + 10" 5 Martin Salmon + 10" 6 Nicola Conci + 10" 7 Mathias Norsgaard + 13" 8 Nathan Draper + 13" 9 Marc Hirschi + 13" 10 Pit Leyder + 20" 11 Thomas Vereecken + 21" 12 Alexys Brunel + 23" 13 Anthon Charmig + 26" 14 Max Kanter + 36" 15 Matteo Sobrero + 36" 16 Michael Storer + 36" 17 Gino Mäder + 36" 18 Adrien Costa + 36" 19 Joey Walker + 36" 20 Kevin Geniets + 36" 21 Jaka Primožič + 39" 22 Bjorg Lambrecht + 45" 23 Tanguy Turgis + 45" 24 Nils Eekhoff + 45" 25 Marcel Neuhäuser + 45" 26 Vadim Pronskiy + 45" 27 Keagan Girdlestone + 45" 28 Leo Appelt + 45" 29 Dušan Rajović + 45" 30 Patrick Haller + 45" 31 Alexandr Kulikovskiy + 45" 32 Mario Spengler + 45" 33 André Carvalho + 45" 34 Kristo Enn Vaga + 45" 35 Robin Froidevaux + 45" 36 Markus Wildauer + 54" 37 Jasper Philipsen + 54" 38 Luis Villalobos + 58" 39 Dennis van der Horst + 1' 00" 40 Stefan Bissegger + 1' 00" 41 Michael O'Loughlin + 1' 04" 42 Gorazd Per + 1' 07" 43 Karl Patrick Lauk + 1' 09" 44 Alejandro Gómiz + 1' 12" 45 Derek Gee + 1' 12" 46 Luc Wirtgen + 1' 12" 47 Jakub Otruba + 1' 12" 48 Jhonatan Narváez + 1' 12" 49 Robbe Ghys + 1' 12" 50 Max Singer + 1' 12" 51 Jorge Magalhães + 1' 12" 52 Pascal Eenkhoorn + 1' 12" 53 Georg Zimmermann + 1' 12" 54 Sam Jenner + 1' 19" 55 Marco Friedrich + 1' 25" 56 Bram Welten + 1' 27" 57 Théo Menant + 1' 33" 58 Alejandro Regueiro + 1' 33" 59 Alan Banaszek + 1' 40" 60 Sergey Rostovtsev + 1' 40" 61 Riccardo Verza + 1' 40" 62 Christopher Blevins + 2' 05" 63 Niklas Larsen + 2' 05" 64 Louis Louvet + 2' 12" 65 Aleksander Borisov + 2' 18" 66 Robert Stannard + 2' 30" 67 Pablo Alonso + 2' 38" 68 Stan Dewulf + 3' 04" 69 Patrick Gamper + 3' 16" 70 Masahiro Ishigami + 3' 18" 71 Daniel Savini + 3' 25" 72 Tommaso Fiaschi + 3' 25" 73 Willem Boersma + 3' 29" 74 Marten Kooistra + 3' 32" 75 Szymon Sajnok + 3' 34" 76 Aaron Verwilst + 3' 34" 77 Torjus Sleen + 3' 39" 78 Hans Kristian Rudland + 3' 39" 79 Lars Saugstad + 4' 29" 80 Petter Fagerhaug + 4' 29" 81 Simm Kiskonen + 5' 17" 82 Dávid Kovács + 5' 17" 83 Tobias Foss + 5' 26"
Rank Rider Country Time 84 Samuel Oros + 6' 07" 85 Martin Spudil + 6' 33" 86 Vitor Schizzi + 6' 51" 87 Julián Cardona + 6' 52" 88 Jack Maddux + 7' 16" 89 Adam Stenson + 7' 25" 90 Vincent Andersson + 7' 33" 91 Tiago Da Silva + 11' 43" 92 El Mehdi Chokri + 12' 30" 93 Keitaro Sawada + 12' 30" 94 Barnabás Peák + 15' 59" 95 Adrián Bustamante + 16' 01" 96 Javier Montoya + 16' 01" 97 Itamar Einhorn + 16' 08" 98 Adrian Foltan + 16' 19" 99 Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev + 16' 32" 100 Erik Sierra + 16' 33" 101 Melvin Boron + 16' 33" 102 Mohcine El Kouraji + 16' 33" 103 Oussama Mansouri + 16' 36" 104 Joel Taylor + 16' 48" 105 Erik Sandersson + 17' 09" 106 Daniel Viegas + 18' 14" 107 João Almeida + 18' 14" 108 Antonio Barać + 19' 08" 109 Patompob Phonarjthan + 19' 18" 110 Ethan Reynolds + 19' 41" 111 Jonathan Brown + 19' 41" 112 Jake Gray + 19' 41" 113 Yuttana Mano + 19' 41" 114 Islam Mansouri + 21' 04" Nicolas Nesi Denis Nekrasov DNF Brandon McNulty DNF Simon Tuomey DNF Nikita Sokolov DNF James Fouché DNF Amine Belabessi DNF Alexandros Agrotis DNF Bryan Mendoza DNF Fredy Toc DNF Joe Holt DNF Saar Hershler DNF Adam Roberge DNF Nikolay Ilichev DNF Andreas Stokbro DNF Tadej Pogačar DNF Michal Brázda DNF Norbert Banaszek DNF Juraj Michalička DNF Kanan Gahramanli DNF Gustaf Andersson DNF Dmitriy Ponkratov DNF Tarlan Mammadov DNF Gunyaidin Khaji DNF Kotaro Ono DNF Santiago Yeri DNF Ilya Gorbushin DNF Kyle De Wet DNF Ayumu Watanabe DNF Jarno Mobach DNF Bryan Portilla DNF Jarrod Hattingh DNF Erik Relanto DNF Damian Sławek DNF Dawid Gieracki DNF Márcio Oliveira DNF Tegsh-Bayar Batsaikhan DNF Mário Rojas DNF Pavel Sivakov DNF Mathieu Burgaudeau] DNF Ēriks Toms Gavars DNF Darragh O'Mahoney DNF Pédro Martins DNF Harry Sweeny DNF Ahulee Rivera DNF Merrill Chua DNF Žiga Jerman DNF Sam Dobbs DNF Michel Ries DNF Musa Mikayilzade DNF Jaakko Hänninen
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