The Men's road race of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 24 September 2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was the 84th edition of the championship, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the two times defending champion.
After a late move from France's Julian Alaphilippe was brought back within the final kilometres, Sagan outsprinted his rivals to win a third consecutive world title, the first male rider to do so. As well as this, he became the fifth man – after Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx and Óscar Freire – to win three elite road world championship titles. European champion Alexander Kristoff from Norway took the silver medal, while the bronze medal went to Australian Michael Matthews.
Course The race started in Rong and traversed before reaching the finishing circuit in Bergen. After a further , the riders crossed the finish line on the Festplassen for the first time, with the riders completing eleven full laps of the circuit in length. The main feature of the circuit was the climb of Salmon Hill, about into the lap; the climb was long at an average gradient of 6.4%. At , the 2017 men's road race was the longest in the championships since were covered in 2013.
Qualification Qualification were based on performances on the UCI World Ranking on August 15, 2017.
UCI World Rankings The following nations qualified.
Criterium Rank Number of riders Nations To enter To start UCI World Ranking by Nations 1–10 14 9 11–20 9 6 21–30 6 3 31–50 2 1 UCI World Ranking by Individuals(if not already qualified) 1–200
Additional places , , , , , , , , , and have chosen not to use (all of their) quota places. , , , , , and have received additional quota places.
Participating nations 196 cyclists from 44 nations were entered in the men's road race, however Irish representative Damien Shaw did not start the race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Final classification Of the race's 196 entrants, 132 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Peter Sagan 6h 28' 11" 2 Alexander Kristoff + 0" 3 Michael Matthews + 0" 4 Matteo Trentin + 0" 5 Ben Swift + 0" 6 Greg Van Avermaet + 0" 7 Michael Albasini + 0" 8 Fernando Gaviria + 0" 9 Alexey Lutsenko + 0" 10 Julian Alaphilippe + 0" 11 Michał Kwiatkowski + 0" 12 Søren Kragh Andersen + 0" 13 Tony Gallopin + 0" 14 Zdeněk Štybar + 0" 15 Vasil Kiryienka + 0" 16 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov + 0" 17 Philippe Gilbert + 0" 18 Sergey Chernetskiy + 0" 19 Rui Costa + 0" 20 Simon Geschke + 0" 21 Michael Valgren + 0" 22 Lukas Pöstlberger + 0" 23 Ilnur Zakarin + 0" 24 Niki Terpstra + 0" 25 Tom Dumoulin + 0" 26 Dan Martin + 0" 27 Rigoberto Urán + 5" 28 Alberto Bettiol + 5" 29 Magnus Cort + 27" 30 Edvald Boasson Hagen + 1' 04" 31 Jonathan Castroviejo + 1' 04" 32 Julien Simon + 1' 04" 33 Nicolas Roche + 1' 04" 34 Bauke Mollema + 1' 20" 35 Guillaume Boivin + 1' 20" 36 Peter Kennaugh + 1' 22" 37 Warren Barguil + 1' 23" 38 Diego Ulissi + 1' 23" 39 Reinardt Janse van Rensburg + 2' 32" 40 Nikias Arndt + 2' 32" 41 Michael Schär + 2' 32" 42 Luka Pibernik + 2' 32" 43 Aleksejs Saramotins + 2' 32" 44 Stefan Küng + 2' 32" 45 Juraj Sagan + 2' 32" 46 Yukiya Arashiro + 2' 32" 47 Marcus Burghardt + 2' 32" 48 Roman Kreuziger + 2' 32" 49 Daryl Impey + 2' 32" 50 Silvan Dillier + 2' 32" 51 Tobias Ludvigsson + 2' 32" 52 Michał Gołaś + 2' 32" 53 Alex Howes + 2' 32" 54 Imanol Erviti + 2' 32" 55 Nelson Oliveira + 2' 32" 56 Odd Christian Eiking + 2' 32" 57 Elia Viviani + 2' 32" 58 José Joaquín Rojas + 2' 32" 59 Sonny Colbrelli + 2' 32" 60 Simon Clarke + 2' 32" 61 Jan Polanc + 2' 32" 62 Mitchell Docker + 2' 32" 63 Eduardo Sepúlveda + 2' 32" 64 Tiago Machado + 2' 32" 65 Ricardo Vilela + 2' 32" 66 Luis León Sánchez + 2' 32" 67 Jarlinson Pantano + 2' 32" 68 Stefan Denifl + 2' 32" 69 Tony Martin + 2' 32" 70 David de la Cruz + 2' 32" 71 Bob Jungels + 2' 32" 72 Dylan Teuns + 2' 32" 73 Oliver Naesen + 2' 32" 74 Sebastian Langeveld + 2' 32" 75 Michael Mørkøv + 2' 32" 76 Christopher Juul-Jensen + 2' 32" 77 Vegard Stake Laengen + 2' 32" 78 Andriy Hrivko + 3' 13" 79 Jan Bárta + 3' 13" 80 Zhandos Bizhigitov + 3' 13" 81 Hugo Houle + 3' 13" 82 Paweł Poljański + 3' 13" 83 Natnael Berhane + 3' 13" 84 Anthony Roux + 3' 13" 85 Lilian Calmejane + 3' 13" 86 Cyril Gautier + 3' 13" 87 Jens Keukeleire + 3' 13" 88 Salvatore Puccio + 3' 13" 89 Jasper Stuyven + 5' 49" 90 Paul Martens + 5' 49" 91 Matej Mohorič + 5' 49" 92 Luka Mezgec + 5' 49" 93 Heinrich Haussler + 5' 49" 94 Jack Haig + 5' 49" 95 Tiesj Benoot + 6' 33" 96 Łukasz Wiśniowski + 6' 37" 97 Scott Thwaites + 7' 33" 98 Mark Christian + 7' 33"
Rank Rider Country Time 99 Rick Zabel + 7' 33" 100 Fabian Lienhard + 7' 33" 101 Amund Grøndahl Jansen + 7' 33" 102 Ignatas Konovalovas + 7' 33" 103 Lluís Mas + 7' 33" 104 Lars Boom + 7' 35" 105 Daniele Bennati + 7' 35" 106 Jesús Herrada + 7' 35" 107 Gorka Izagirre + 7' 35" 108 Marc Soler + 7' 35" 109 Kiel Reijnen + 7' 35" 110 Tim Wellens + 9' 21" 111 Grégory Rast + 9' 24" 112 Marco Haller + 9' 24" 113 Alessandro De Marchi + 9' 26" 114 Nils Politt + 10' 21" 115 Sergio Henao + 10' 21" 116 Jasha Sütterlin + 10' 21" 117 Tao Geoghegan Hart + 10' 21" 118 Johannes Fröhlinger + 10' 21" 119 Koen de Kort + 10' 21" 120 Antoine Duchesne + 10' 21" 121 Primož Roglič + 10' 21" 122 Olivier Le Gac + 10' 21" 123 Mihkel Räim + 11' 53" 124 Joey Rosskopf + 11' 53" 125 Daniel Hoelgaard + 11' 53" 126 Ryan Mullen + 11' 53" 127 Jiří Polnický + 11' 53" 128 Dmitriy Gruzdev + 11' 53" 129 Dion Smith + 11' 53" 130 José Gonçalves + 11' 53" 131 Maximiliano Richeze + 11' 53" 132 Jempy Drucker + 11' 53" Truls Korsæth Michael Kolář DNF Jack Bauer DNF Luke Durbridge DNF Wout Poels DNF Conor Dunne DNF Andrey Amador DNF Nairo Quintana DNF Stanislau Bazhkou DNF Ruben Guerreiro DNF Tejay van Garderen DNF Krists Neilands DNF Maciej Paterski DNF Jos van Emden DNF Rory Sutherland DNF Juan Sebastián Molano DNF Jay McCarthy DNF Alexey Vermeulen DNF Erik Baška DNF Marek Čanecký DNF Maciej Bodnar DNF Sebastián Henao DNF Alex Kirsch DNF Alexander Porsev DNF Willie Smit DNF Jan Tratnik DNF Alexis Gougeard DNF Adam Blythe DNF Owain Doull DNF Jonathan Dibben DNF Sean McKenna DNF Julien Vermote DNF Kim Magnusson DNF Petr Vakoč DNF Kristoffer Skjerping DNF August Jensen DNF Maxim Belkov DNF Nelson Soto DNF Jhonatan Restrepo DNF Danny van Poppel DNF Alo Jakin DNF Aksel Nõmmela DNF Serghei Țvetcov DNF Mads Pedersen DNF Charalampos Kastrantas DNF Salah Eddine Mraouni DNF Patrik Tybor DNF Ian Stannard DNF Ivan Savitskiy DNF Josef Černý DNF Elchin Asadov DNF Kostyantyn Rybaruk DNF Nathan Brown DNF Valens Ndayisenga DNF Mekseb Debesay DNF Eugert Zhupa DNF Yauhen Sobal DNF Cheung King Lok DNF Patrick Bevin DNF Matti Manninen DNF Mathew Hayman DNF Amanuel Gebrezgabihier DNF Gianni Moscon Damien Shaw
References
External links Men's road race page at Bergen 2017 website