2016 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Men's road race

2016 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates	16 October 2016
Stages	1
Distance	257.3 km (159.9 mi)
Winning time	5h 40' 43"[1]
Medalists
Gold  Peter Sagan (SVK)    Silver  Mark Cavendish (GBR)    Bronze  Tom Boonen (BEL)

The Men's road race of the 2016 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 16 October 2016 in Doha, Qatar. It was the 83rd edition of the championship, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the defending champion.

Sagan became the first rider since Paolo Bettini in 2006 and 2007 to retain the rainbow jersey,^[2] after winning the sprint finish from a select group of riders that had made a break from the rest of the field in the opening half of the race,^[3] in the desert crosswinds.^[4] The silver medal went to 2011 world champion Mark Cavendish from Great Britain, a bike length in arrears of Sagan,^[5] with the bronze medal going to Belgium's Tom Boonen, the 2005 world champion.^[6] It was the first time that all three medallists were previous world title winners.

Course

The race was due to start and finish in the capital city of Doha, the home base for the Tour of Qatar. The route for the Worlds road races was presented in February 2015, which was made up of a loop of 80 kilometres (50 miles) through the desert and a finishing circuit in Doha city centre, including 1.2 kilometres (0.75 miles) of cobblestones.^[7] The finishing circuit of 15.2 kilometres (9.4 miles) on The Pearl Island was used for a stage of February's Tour of Qatar: riders noted that the course was highly technical, going through 24 roundabouts, with stage winner Alexander Kristoff comparing it to a criterium. However it was also noted that the lack of long straight sections meant that the effect of the crosswinds frequently occurring in Qatar would be significantly lessened, reducing the race's unpredictability.^[8]

Subsequently, in August 2016 it was reported that the UCI had made changes to the course, increasing the amount of riding through the desert to 151 kilometres (94 miles) and reducing the number of laps of the finishing circuit from eleven down to seven. The start of the men's race was also moved to the Aspire Zone, with the riders heading out northwards towards Al Khor and returning to Doha.^[9]

Qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours and UCI World Ranking during 2016. Results from January to the middle of August counted towards the qualification criteria on both the UCI World Ranking and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous rankings on 22 August 2016.^[10][11]

The following nations qualified.

Number of riders	Nations
14 to enter, 9 to start	Australia,  Belgium,  Colombia,  France,  Great Britain,  Italy,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Spain,  Switzerland
9 to enter, 6 to start	Canada,  Czech Republic,  Denmark,  Eritrea,  Germany,  Iran,  Poland,  Russia,  Ukraine,  United States
5 to enter, 3 to start	Algeria,  Argentina,  Austria,  Belarus,  Chile,  Estonia,  Ireland,  Japan,  Kazakhstan,  Lithuania,  Luxembourg,  Morocco,  New Zealand,  Portugal,  Slovakia,  Slovenia,  South Africa,  South Korea,  Venezuela
3 to enter, 2 to start	Bulgaria,  Costa Rica,  Croatia,  Ecuador,  Hong Kong,  Latvia
2 to enter, 1 to start	Azerbaijan,  Chinese Taipei,  Ethiopia,  Finland,  Greece,  Guatemala,  Mexico,  Mongolia,  Romania,  Rwanda,  Sweden,  Tunisia,  Turkey,  Uruguay

Schedule

All times are in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00).^[12]

Date	Time	Event
16 October 2016	10:30–16:35	Men's road race

Participating nations

199 cyclists from 48 nations were entered in the men's road race, with 197 riders taking the start. The numbers of cyclists per nation are shown in parentheses.^[13]

•  Algeria (3)
•  Argentina (3)
•  Australia (9)
•  Austria (2)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Belarus (3)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Canada (6)
•  Colombia (7)
•  Czech Republic (6)
•  Denmark (6)
•  Eritrea (6)
•  Estonia (3)
•  Ethiopia (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (9)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (9)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Ireland (3)
•  Italy (9)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Lithuania (3)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  Morocco (3)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Norway (9)
•  Poland (6)
•  Portugal (3)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (6)
•  Rwanda (1)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  Slovenia (3)
•  South Africa (3)
•  Spain (9)
•  Sweden (1)
•   Switzerland (8)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (6)
•  Uruguay (1)

Results

Final classification

Of the race's 199 entrants, 53 riders completed the full distance of 257.3 km (159.9 mi).^[1]

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
1	Peter Sagan	Slovakia	5h 40' 43"
2	Mark Cavendish	Great Britain	s.t.
3	Tom Boonen	Belgium	s.t.
4	Michael Matthews	Australia	s.t.
5	Giacomo Nizzolo	Italy	s.t.
6	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Norway	s.t.
7	Alexander Kristoff	Norway	s.t.
8	William Bonnet	France	s.t.
9	Niki Terpstra	Netherlands	s.t.
10	Greg Van Avermaet	Belgium	s.t.
11	Jacopo Guarnieri	Italy	s.t.
12	Adam Blythe	Great Britain	s.t.
13	Natnael Berhane	Eritrea	+ 4"
14	Jürgen Roelandts	Belgium	+ 9"
15	Ryan Roth	Canada	+ 9"
16	Truls Engen Korsæth	Norway	+ 9"
17	Tom Leezer	Netherlands	+ 9"
18	Nicolas Dougall	South Africa	+ 9"
19	Michael Kolář	Slovakia	+ 13"
20	Elia Viviani	Italy	+ 14"
21	Mathew Hayman	Australia	+ 21"
22	Anass Aït El Abdia	Morocco	+ 2' 48"
23	Oliver Naesen	Belgium	+ 4' 00"
24	Jasper Stuyven	Belgium	+ 4' 00"
25	Daniele Bennati	Italy	+ 4' 00"
26	Alexander Porsev	Russia	+ 5' 26"
27	Aidis Kruopis	Lithuania	+ 5' 26"
28	Maximiliano Richeze	Argentina	+ 5' 26"
29	Magnus Cort	Denmark	+ 5' 26"
30	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Norway	+ 5' 26"
31	Yauheni Hutarovich	Belarus	+ 5' 26"
32	Nacer Bouhanni	France	+ 5' 26"
33	Imanol Erviti	Spain	+ 5' 26"
34	Marco Haller	Austria	+ 5' 26"
35	Yukiya Arashiro	Japan	+ 5' 26"
36	Michael Schär	Switzerland	+ 5' 26"
37	Dylan Groenewegen	Netherlands	+ 5' 26"
38	Stefan Küng	Switzerland	+ 5' 26"
39	Juraj Sagan	Slovakia	+ 5' 26"
40	Maciej Bodnar	Poland	+ 5' 26"
41	Iljo Keisse	Belgium	+ 5' 26"
42	André Greipel	Germany	+ 5' 26"
43	Taylor Phinney	United States	+ 5' 26"
44	Koen de Kort	Netherlands	+ 5' 26"
45	Zdeněk Štybar	Czech Republic	+ 5' 26"
46	Manuel Quinziato	Italy	+ 5' 26"
47	Jens Debusschere	Belgium	+ 5' 26"
48	Dylan van Baarle	Netherlands	+ 5' 26"
49	Ben Swift	Great Britain	+ 5' 26"
50	Mitchell Docker	Australia	+ 5' 26"
51	Zak Dempster	Australia	+ 5' 33"
52	Scott Thwaites	Great Britain	+ 5' 33"
53	Robin Carpenter	United States	+ 6' 03"

Failed to finish

144 riders failed to finish, while Colombia's Rigoberto Urán and Norway's Vegard Breen failed to start.^[1]

Rider Country Jens Keukeleire  Belgium Mauro Richeze  Argentina Mekseb Debesay  Eritrea Ryan Mullen  Ireland Marc Sarreau  France Arnaud Démare  France Hugo Houle  Canada Gediminas Bagdonas  Lithuania Dmitriy Gruzdev  Kazakhstan David de la Cruz  Spain Jack Bauer  New Zealand Francisco Ventoso  Spain Luis Ángel Maté  Spain Reto Hollenstein   Switzerland Alexey Lutsenko  Kazakhstan Youcef Reguigui  Algeria Fumiyuki Beppu  Japan Nikolas Maes  Belgium Joey Rosskopf  United States Fabian Lienhard   Switzerland Carlos Barbero  Spain Omar Fraile  Spain Bernhard Eisel  Austria Dion Smith  New Zealand Matt Brammeier  Ireland Łukasz Wiśniowski  Poland Antoine Duchesne  Canada Vegard Stake Laengen  Norway Daniel Hoelgaard  Norway Michael Mørkøv  Denmark Lars Bak  Denmark Guillaume Boivin  Canada Jos van Emden  Netherlands Matti Breschel  Denmark Christopher Juul-Jensen  Denmark John Degenkolb  Germany Vyacheslav Kuznetsov  Russia Marcel Kittel  Germany Sonny Colbrelli  Italy Jasha Sütterlin  Germany Jempy Drucker  Luxembourg Christophe Laporte  France Nelson Oliveira  Portugal Tony Martin  Germany Grégory Rast   Switzerland Bob Jungels  Luxembourg Nils Politt  Germany Sam Bennett  Ireland

Rider Country Heinrich Haussler  Australia Sergiy Lagkuti  Ukraine Søren Kragh Andersen  Denmark Soufiane Haddi  Morocco Azzedine Lagab  Algeria Alexey Vermeulen  United States Chad Haga  United States Clint Hendricks  South Africa Ryan Gibbons  South Africa Daniel Turek  Czech Republic Andriy Vasylyuk  Ukraine Mihkel Räim  Estonia Vitaliy Buts  Ukraine Edwin Ávila  Colombia Omar Mendoza  Colombia Ian Stannard  Great Britain Maksym Averin  Azerbaijan Łukasz Owsian  Poland Maciej Paterski  Poland Matti Manninen  Finland Geraint Thomas  Great Britain Danny van Poppel  Netherlands Mark Renshaw  Australia Adrian Banaszek  Poland Steve Cummings  Great Britain Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands Luka Pibernik  Slovenia Jiří Polnický  Czech Republic Tom Dumoulin  Netherlands Fabio Sabatini  Italy Carlos Alzate  Colombia Adam de Vos  Canada Brayan Ramírez  Colombia Ruslan Tleubayev  Kazakhstan Daniel Oss  Italy Andžs Flaksis  Latvia Yoann Offredo  France Ioannis Tamouridis  Greece Cyril Lemoine  France Anton Vorobyev  Russia Karol Domagalski  Poland Maxim Belkov  Russia Fabricio Ferrari  Uruguay Silvan Dillier   Switzerland Sergey Lagutin  Russia Andrei Nechita  Romania Martin Elmiger   Switzerland Pirmin Lang   Switzerland

Rider Country Juan José Lobato  Spain Kristoffer Skjerping  Norway Diego Rubio  Spain Andriy Kulyk  Ukraine Jonathan Castroviejo  Spain Ramūnas Navardauskas  Lithuania Luke Rowe  Great Britain Fernando Gaviria  Colombia Walter Vargas  Colombia Daniel McLay  Great Britain Adrien Petit  France Geoffrey Soupe  France Luke Durbridge  Australia Caleb Ewan  Australia Steele Von Hoff  Australia Matteo Trentin  Italy Sondre Holst Enger  Norway Roman Maikin  Russia Eric Marcotte  United States Vojtěch Hačecký  Czech Republic Alois Kaňkovský  Czech Republic František Sisr  Czech Republic Andrii Bratashchuk  Ukraine Mykhaylo Kononenko  Ukraine José Goncalves  Portugal Sérgio Paulinho  Portugal Grega Bole  Slovenia Luka Mezgec  Slovenia Metkel Eyob  Eritrea Daniel Teklehaimanot  Eritrea Tesfom Okubamariam  Eritrea Meron Teshome  Eritrea Alo Jakin  Estonia Gert Jõeäär  Estonia Salah Eddine Mraouni  Morocco Abderrahmane Mehdi Hamza  Algeria Ryan Anderson  Canada Siarhei Papok  Belarus Kanstantsin Sivtsov  Belarus Francisco Chamorro  Argentina Māris Bogdanovičs  Latvia Ho Burr  Hong Kong Bonaventure Uwizeyimana  Rwanda René Corella  Mexico Hassen Ben Nasser  Tunisia Tedros Redae  Ethiopia Jonas Ahlstrand  Sweden Myagmarsuren Baasankhuu  Mongolia

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