The men's road race of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 26 September 2021 from Antwerp to Leuven, Belgium. Defending champion Julian Alaphilippe of France won the event in a solo victory.
Qualification Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 17 August 2021.
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 Richard Carapaz Olympic Champion Julian Alaphilippe Outgoing World Champion Ryan Gibbons African Champion
Participating nations 194 cyclists from 45 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Russian Cycling Federation (6)
Final classification
Of the race's 194 entrants, 68 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Julian Alaphilippe 5h 56' 34" 2 Dylan van Baarle + 32" 3 Michael Valgren + 32" 4 Jasper Stuyven + 32" 5 Neilson Powless + 32" 6 Tom Pidcock + 49" 7 Zdeněk Štybar + 1' 06" 8 Mathieu van der Poel + 1' 18" 9 Florian Sénéchal + 1' 18" 10 Sonny Colbrelli + 1' 18" 11 Wout van Aert + 1' 18" 12 Markus Hoelgaard + 1' 18" 13 Valentin Madouas + 1' 18" 14 Matej Mohorič + 4' 00" 15 Giacomo Nizzolo + 4' 05" 16 Nils Politt + 5' 25" 17 Guillaume Boivin + 5' 25" 18 Jan Polanc + 5' 25" 19 Benoît Cosnefroy + 5' 30" 20 Victor Campenaerts + 5' 30" 21 Alexander Kristoff + 6' 27" 22 Mike Teunissen + 6' 27" 23 Iván García Cortina + 6' 27" 24 Diego Ulissi + 6' 27" 25 Michael Matthews + 6' 27" 26 Peter Sagan + 6' 27" 27 Dylan Teuns + 6' 27" 28 Sebastian Schönberger + 6' 27" 29 Bauke Mollema + 6' 27" 30 Luka Mezgec + 6' 27" 31 Tiesj Benoot + 6' 27" 32 Petr Vakoč + 6' 27" 33 Sven Erik Bystrøm + 6' 27" 34 Vegard Stake Laengen + 6' 27" 35 Ethan Hayter + 6' 27" 36 Michał Kwiatkowski + 6' 27" 37 Tadej Pogačar + 6' 27" 38 Patrick Gamper + 6' 27" 39 Rui Oliveira + 6' 27" 40 Artem Nych Russian Cycling Federation + 6' 31" 41 Stefan Küng + 6' 31" 42 Gorka Izagirre + 6' 31" 43 Imanol Erviti + 6' 31" 44 Gonzalo Serrano + 6' 31" 45 Silvan Dillier + 6' 31" 46 Cesare Benedetti + 6' 31" 47 João Almeida + 6' 31" 48 Primož Roglič + 6' 31" 49 Yukiya Arashiro + 6' 31" 50 Merhawi Kudus + 6' 31" 51 Rasmus Tiller + 6' 31" 52 Emīls Liepiņš + 6' 31" 53 Carlos Rodríguez + 6' 39" 54 Michael Gogl + 6' 40" 55 Nelson Oliveira + 6' 40" 56 Arnaud Démare + 6' 48" 57 Lawson Craddock + 6' 49" 58 Gianni Moscon + 6' 52" 59 Roger Adrià + 7' 04" 60 Toms Skujiņš + 7' 07" 61 Yves Lampaert + 7' 22" 62 Remco Evenepoel + 7' 22" 63 Fabian Lienhard + 15' 43" 64 Esteban Chaves + 15' 43" 65 Nelson Soto + 17' 18" 66 Pascal Eenkhoorn + 17' 18" 67 Nikias Arndt + 17' 18" 68 Georg Zimmermann + 17' 18"
Rider Country Time Anthony Turgis Danny van Poppel DNF Tim Declercq DNF Dmitry Strakhov Russian Cycling Federation DNF Jake Stewart DNF Natnael Berhane DNF Caleb Ewan DNF Alex Aranburu DNF Sergey Chernetskiy Russian Cycling Federation DNF Rigoberto Urán DNF Łukasz Owsian DNF Hugo Houle DNF Antoine Duchesne DNF Yevgeniy Gidich DNF Barnabás Peák DNF Metkel Eyob DNF Nickolas Zukowsky DNF Jayde Julius DNF Igor Boev Russian Cycling Federation DNF Byron Guamá DNF Fernando Gaviria DNF Andreas Kron DNF Mikkel Frølich Honoré DNF Mads Pedersen DNF Nathan Haas DNF Alex Kirsch DNF Marco Haller DNF Joel Levi Burbano DNF Brandon McNulty DNF Rafael Reis DNF Harry Sweeny DNF Eduard-Michael Grosu DNF Kim Magnusson DNF Eric Antonio Fagundez DNF Juraj Sagan DNF Andriy Kulyk DNF Pascal Ackermann DNF Mykhaylo Kononenko DNF Juan Sebastián Molano DNF Daniil Fominykh DNF Yuriy Natarov DNF Kevin Geniets DNF Clément Russo DNF Reinardt Janse van Rensburg DNF David Per DNF Lluís Mas DNF Ryan Mullen DNF Pier-André Côté DNF Krists Neilands DNF André Carvalho DNF Quinn Simmons DNF Oscar Riesebeek DNF Ben Perry DNF Andrea Bagioli DNF Domen Novak DNF Connor Swift DNF Patrik Tybor DNF Jan Tratnik DNF Mārtiņš Pluto DNF Michał Gołaś DNF Matteo Trentin DNF Alessandro De Marchi DNF Marc Hirschi DNF Ryan Gibbons DNF Maciej Bodnar DNF Luke Durbridge DNF Mads Würtz Schmidt DNF Connor Brown DNF Ben Swift DNF Mark Cavendish DNF Magnus Cort DNF Eddie Dunbar DNF Mikkel Bjerg DNF Erik Baška DNF Pavel Kochetkov Russian Cycling Federation DNF Oleksandr Prevar DNF Petr Rikunov Russian Cycling Federation DNF Odd Christian Eiking DNF Jambaljamts Sainbayar DNF Sergio Higuita DNF Jack Bauer DNF Leonidas Sebastián Novoa DNF Michael Schär DNF Miles Scotson DNF Lucas Eriksson DNF Ylber Sefa DNF Oskar Nisu DNF Max Schachmann DNF Stefan Bissegger DNF Tom Scully DNF Evaldas Šiškevičius DNF Orluis Aular DNF Matteo Jorgenson DNF Wilson Haro DNF Fred Wright DNF Cristian Pita DNF Josef Černý DNF Norman Vahtra DNF Karl Patrick Lauk DNF Dmitriy Gruzdev DNF Sebastian Langeveld DNF Gustav Basson DNF Álvaro Hodeg DNF Sarawut Sirironnachai DNF Rory Townsend DNF Polychronis Tzortzakis DNF Stanisław Aniołkowski DNF Luke Rowe DNF Eder Frayre DNF Robin Carpenter DNF Martin Laas DNF José Tito Hernández DNF John Degenkolb DNF Anatoliy Budyak DNF Franklin Archibold DNF Aleksandr Riabushenko DNF Nick Schultz DNF Michael Kukrle DNF Rémi Cavagna DNF Dawit Yemane DNF Kasper Asgreen DNF Shane Archbold DNF Robert Stannard DNF Davide Ballerini DNF Christophe Laporte DNF Benjamín Quinteros
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