The Men's road race of the 2019 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 29 September 2019 in Yorkshire, England. The race was initially scheduled to be contested over , but due to flooding on the course, the race was reduced to . The wet weather also meant there was a limited broadcast coverage of the race.
For the first time in the race's history, a Danish rider won the world title as Mads Pedersen out-sprinted two other riders at the finish in Harrogate to take the rainbow jersey. The silver medal went to Italy's Matteo Trentin, while the bronze medal went to Stefan Küng of Switzerland.
Qualification Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 11 August 2019.
UCI World Rankings The following nations qualified.
Criterium Rank Number of riders Nations To enter To start UCI World Ranking by Nations 1–10 13 8 11–20 9 6 21–30 7 4 31–50 2 1 UCI World Ranking by Individuals(if not already qualified) 1–200
Continental champions Name Country Reason Alejandro Valverde Outgoing World Champion Mekseb Debesay African Champion Yevgeniy Gidich Asian Champion Jefferson Cepeda Panamerican Champion
Participating nations 197 cyclists from 42 nations were entered in the men's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Results Final classification
Of the race's 197 entrants, 46 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Mads Pedersen 6h 27' 28" 2 Matteo Trentin + 0" 3 Stefan Küng + 2" 4 Gianni Moscon + 17" 5 Peter Sagan + 43" 6 Michael Valgren + 45" 7 Alexander Kristoff + 1' 10" 8 Greg Van Avermaet + 1' 10" 9 Gorka Izagirre + 1' 10" 10 Rui Costa + 1' 10" 11 Sonny Colbrelli + 1' 10" 12 Jakob Fuglsang + 1' 10" 13 Zdeněk Štybar + 1' 10" 14 Carlos Betancur + 1' 10" 15 John Degenkolb + 1' 10" 16 Ion Izagirre + 1' 14" 17 Amund Grøndahl Jansen + 1' 14" 18 Tadej Pogačar + 1' 14" 19 Nils Politt + 1' 22" 20 Niki Terpstra + 1' 22" 21 Toms Skujiņš + 1' 46" 22 Michael Albasini + 1' 48" 23 Tony Gallopin + 1' 50" 24 Michael Matthews + 1' 57" 25 Alberto Bettiol + 1' 57" 26 Tao Geoghegan Hart + 2' 20" 27 Marc Hirschi + 2' 20" 28 Julian Alaphilippe + 2' 26" 29 Daniel Martínez + 3' 59" 30 Felix Großschartner + 3' 59" 31 Ben Swift + 6' 38" 32 Yves Lampaert + 7' 48" 33 Oliver Naesen + 8' 07" 34 Sven Erik Bystrøm + 8' 07" 35 Tim Wellens + 8' 07" 36 Mike Teunissen + 8' 07" 37 Dylan Teuns + 8' 07" 38 Esteban Chaves + 8' 07" 39 Andrey Amador + 8' 07" 40 Chad Haga + 10' 27" 41 Neilson Powless + 10' 27" 42 Benoît Cosnefroy + 10' 52" 43 Mathieu van der Poel + 10' 52" 44 Imanol Erviti + 14' 48" 45 Lucas Eriksson + 14' 48" 46 Petr Vakoč + 19' 25"
Failed to finish 149 riders failed to finish, while South Africa's Jay Thomson and Ukraine's Mark Padun failed to start.
Rider Country Jack Haig Lukas Pöstlberger Florian Sénéchal Dylan van Baarle Adam Yates Patrick Konrad Marco Haller Bauke Mollema Luka Pibernik Alexandr Riabushenko Nikias Arndt Davide Cimolai Juraj Sagan Magnus Cort Álvaro Hodeg Edvald Boasson Hagen Michael Woods Christophe Laporte Michał Gołaś Nathan Haas Marc Soler Pascal Ackermann Ruben Guerreiro Alex Kirsch Alo Jakin Lawson Craddock Simon Clarke Luke Durbridge Hermann Pernsteiner Giovanni Visconti Alexey Lutsenko Grega Bole Simon Geschke Geraint Thomas Michael Mørkøv Jonathan Caicedo Rémi Cavagna Luis León Sánchez Salvatore Puccio Christopher Juul-Jensen Jack Bauer Pieter Weening Rafał Majka Paweł Poljański Jasha Sütterlin Łukasz Wiśniowski Jonathan Castroviejo Josef Černý Kasper Asgreen Sam Bennett
Rider Country Danilo Wyss Ben Perry Eduard-Michael Grosu Emīls Liepiņš Rory Townsend Matej Mohorič Anthony Roux Diego Ulissi Bob Jungels José Joaquín Rojas Yukiya Arashiro Jonas Koch Mitchell Docker Michael Schär Casper Pedersen Pavel Sivakov Eduardo Sepúlveda Sebastián Henao Carl Fredrik Hagen Dion Smith Sebastian Langeveld Marcus Burghardt Aleksandr Vlasov Hugo Houle Owain Doull Alejandro Valverde Tim Declercq Alex Howes Sergey Chernetskiy Zhandos Bizhigitov Nairo Quintana Gediminas Bagdonas Conor Dunne Michael Gogl Erik Baška James Piccoli Jan Polanc Stylianos Farantakis Tanel Kangert Kim Magnusson Eddie Dunbar José Gonçalves Remco Evenepoel Stepan Kurianov Julien Bernard David Per Yevgeniy Gidich Dmitriy Gruzdev Ben Gastauer Silvan Dillier
Rider Country Nicholas Dlamini Rui Oliveira Maciej Bodnar Rein Taaramäe Ian Stannard Krists Neilands Vegard Stake Laengen Evaldas Šiškevičius Shane Archbold Jan Bárta Hideto Nakane Primož Roglič Philippe Gilbert Jos van Emden Dan Martin Yuriy Natarov Guillaume Boivin Rory Sutherland Daryl Impey Mihkel Räim Nelson Oliveira Richard Carapaz František Sisr Tom Wirtgen Juan Sebastián Molano Polychronis Tzortzakis Antoine Duchesne Antonio Barać Ján Andrej Cully Péter Kusztor Roman Kreuziger Dmitry Strakhov Jhonatan Narváez Jefferson Cepeda Stefan de Bod Ryan Mullen Rohan Dennis Iván García Jan Tratnik Łukasz Owsian Alexander Evtushenko Natnael Berhane Mekseb Debesay Merhawi Kudus Daniel Teklehaimanot Patrick Bevin Vasil Kiryienka Márton Dina Dirk Coetzee
References
External links Men's road race page at the Yorkshire 2019 website