The men's road race of the 2022 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 25 September 2022 in Wollongong, Australia.
Qualification Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 16 August 2022.
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 Julian Alaphilippe Incumbent World Champion Henok Mulubrhan African Champion Emiliano Contreras Panamerican Champion Igor Chzhan Asian Champion James Fouché Oceanian Champion
Participating nations 169 cyclists from 50 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Course The race started in Helensburgh (about north of Wollongong) before tackling a loop around Mount Keira (climb length of with an average gradient of 5% and a maximum incline of 15%). The race tackled 12 laps of the Wollongong City Circuit. This finishing circuit had of climbing elevation each lap including the Mount Pleasant climb (climb length of with an average gradient of 7.7%, maximum incline of 14%).
In total, the Elite Men Road Race climbed over a race distance of (1 Mount Keira loop, 12x Wollongong City Circuit).
Final classification
Of the race's 169 entrants, 103 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Remco Evenepoel 6h 16' 08" 2 Christophe Laporte + 2' 21" 3 Michael Matthews + 2' 21" 4 Wout van Aert + 2' 21" 5 Matteo Trentin + 2' 21" 6 Alexander Kristoff + 2' 21" 7 Peter Sagan + 2' 21" 8 Alberto Bettiol + 2' 21" 9 Ethan Hayter + 2' 21" 10 Mattias Skjelmose + 2' 21" 11 Iván García Cortina + 2' 21" 12 Jan Tratnik + 2' 21" 13 Lorenzo Rota + 2' 21" 14 Ben Tulett + 2' 21" 15 Mikkel Frølich Honoré + 2' 21" 16 Rasmus Tiller + 2' 21" 17 Mauro Schmid + 2' 21" 18 Neilson Powless + 2' 21" 19 Tadej Pogačar + 2' 21" 20 Stefan Küng + 2' 21" 21 Kevin Geniets + 2' 21" 22 Romain Bardet + 2' 21" 23 Attila Valter + 2' 21" 24 Alexey Lutsenko + 2' 21" 25 Bauke Mollema + 2' 21" 26 Benoît Cosnefroy + 2' 21" 27 Dylan van Baarle + 2' 21" 28 Pascal Eenkhoorn + 2' 21" 29 Valentin Madouas + 2' 31" 30 Jan Polanc + 2' 31" 31 Sergio Higuita + 2' 31" 32 Jhonatan Narváez + 2' 31" 33 Nicola Conci + 2' 31" 34 Quinten Hermans + 2' 34" 35 Magnus Cort + 3' 01" 36 Nickolas Zukowsky + 3' 01" 37 Sven Erik Bystrom + 3' 01" 38 Silvan Dillier + 3' 01" 39 Yukiya Arashiro + 3' 01" 40 Sebastian Schönberger + 3' 01" 41 Anders Skaarseth + 3' 01" 42 Zdeněk Štybar + 3' 01" 43 Nathan Van Hooydonck + 3' 01" 44 Nelson Oliveira + 3' 01" 45 Bob Jungels + 3' 01" 46 Andrea Bagioli + 3' 01" 47 Jasper Stuyven + 3' 01" 48 Yves Lampaert + 3' 01" 49 Jai Hindley + 3' 01" 50 Simon Clarke + 3' 01" 51 Julian Alaphilippe + 3' 01" 52 Nikias Arndt + 3' 08" 53 Fred Wright + 3' 08" 54 Biniam Girmay + 3' 08" 55 Michael Mørkøv + 3' 08" 56 Jakob Fuglsang + 3' 08" 57 Alexander Kamp + 3' 28" 58 Emils Liepins + 4' 50" 59 Michael Kukrle + 4' 50" 60 João Almeida + 5' 16" 61 Jan Maas + 6' 11" 62 Tobias Bayer + 6' 11" 63 Davide Ballerini + 6' 11" 64 Matúš Štoček + 6' 11" 65 Marek Čanecký + 6' 11" 66 Nairo Quintana + 6' 11" 67 Heinrich Haussler + 6' 11" 68 Jaka Primožič + 6' 11" 69 Merhawi Kudus + 6' 17" 70 Anthon Charmig + 6' 20" 70 Eduardo Sepúlveda + 6' 20" 72 Jannik Steimle + 6' 20" 73 Keegan Swenson + 6' 20" 74 Daryl Impey + 6' 20" 75 Jesús Ezquerra + 6' 20" 76 Stanisław Aniołkowski + 6' 20" 77 Roger Adrià + 6' 20" 78 Magnus Sheffield + 6' 20" 79 Ben Swift + 6' 20" 80 Quentin Pacher + 8' 10" 81 Wout Poels + 8' 10" 82 Marc Soler + 9' 31" 83 Ivo Oliveira + 9' 31" 84 Tobias Foss + 9' 31" 85 Samuele Battistella + 9' 31" 86 Scott McGill + 10' 23" 87 Eduard Prades + 10' 23" 88 Simon Pellaud + 11' 28" 89 Fabian Lienhard + 11' 28" 90 Florian Sénéchal + 11' 28" 91 Nick Schultz + 11' 28" 92 Mikkel Bjerg + 11' 28" 93 Wilson Peña + 11' 28" 94 Andreas Leknessund + 11' 28" 95 Luc Wirtgen + 11' 28" 96 Łukasz Owsian + 11' 28" 97 Felix Gall + 11' 28" 98 Stan Dewulf + 11' 28" 99 Daan Hoole + 11' 28" 100 Ben Turner + 11' 40" 101 Pavel Sivakov + 14' 28" 102 Jake Stewart + 15' 05" 103 Connor Swift + 15' 05"
Rank Rider Country Time Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier DNF Juan Sebastián Molano DNF Henok Mulubrhan DNF Natnael Tesfatsion DNF Guy Sagiv DNF Rodrigo Contreras DNF Bruno Armirail DNF Pieter Serry DNF James Fouché DNF Luke Plapp DNF Pier-André Côté DNF Maciej Bodnar DNF Vadim Pronskiy DNF Ben O'Connor DNF Harold Tejada DNF Jonas Koch DNF Venantas Lašinis DNF Sarawut Sirironnachai DNF Domen Novak DNF Rui Oliveira DNF Christofer Jurado DNF Juraj Sagan DNF Tobias Ludvigsson DNF Luke Durbridge DNF Nicolas Sessler DNF David Per DNF Luke Rowe DNF Kyle Murphy DNF Derek Gee DNF Urko Berrade DNF Jan Hirt DNF Miguel Heidemann DNF Gotzon Martín DNF Vitaliy Buts DNF Muradjan Khalmuratov DNF Gustav Basson DNF Matteo Dal-Cin DNF Marc Oliver Pritzen DNF Taco van der Hoorn DNF Bolivar Espinosa DNF Peerapol Chawchiangkwang DNF Edoardo Affini DNF Georgios Bouglas DNF Lü Xianjing DNF Mustafa Sayar DNF Georg Zimmermann DNF Yuriy Natarov DNF Nico Denz DNF Daniel Bonello DNS Achraf Ed Doghmy DNF Ognjen Ilić DNF Choy Hiu Fung DNF Jambaljamts Sainbayar DNF Eric Manizabayo DNF Metkel Eyob DNF Oier Lazkano DNF Bilguunjargal Erdenebat DNF Rien Schuurhuis DNF Antoine Berlin DNF Vitalii Novakovskyi DNF Moise Mugisha DNF Bieken Nazaerbieke DNF Stefan Bissegger DNF Jang Kyung-gu DNF Colin Heiderscheid DNF Mathieu van der Poel DNF
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