2009 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Men's Individual Road Race
2009 UCI Road World Championships
	Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates	September 27, 2009
Stages	1
Distance	262 km (162.8 mi)
Winning time	6h 56' 26"
Medalists
	← 2008 2010 →

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2009 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 27 September in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The course of 262 km consisted of nineteen laps around an undulating circuit. The pre-race favourites came from the strong Italian and Spanish national squads,^[1] with Damiano Cunego and Alejandro Valverde both considered possible contenders.

The race was won by Australian Cadel Evans, the first Australian victory in the World road race.^[2] Evans, who took his third victory of the season, moved clear from a group of nine riders on the final lap to win the race.^[3]

Final classification[]

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
	Cadel Evans		06h 56'26"
	Alexandr Kolobnev		at 27"
	Joaquim Rodríguez	Spain	s.t.
4	Samuel Sánchez	Spain	at 30"
5	Fabian Cancellara		s.t.
6	Philippe Gilbert	Belgium	at 51"
7	Matti Breschel	Denmark	s.t.
8	Damiano Cunego	Italy	s.t.
9	Alejandro Valverde	Spain	s.t.
10	Simon Gerrans		at 1'47"
11	Fabian Wegmann	Germany	s.t.
12	Kurt Asle Arvesen		s.t.
13	Chris Anker Sørensen	Denmark	at 1'59"
14	Johnny Hoogerland	Netherlands	at 2'02"
15	Óscar Freire	Spain	s.t.
16	Ivan Basso	Italy	s.t.
17	André Cardoso		at 2'44"
18	Michael Barry		s.t.
19	Sergei Ivanov		s.t.
20	Karsten Kroon	Netherlands	at 2'50"
21	Filippo Pozzato	Italy	s.t.
22	Leonardo Duque		s.t.
23	Koos Moerenhout	Netherlands	s.t.
24	Sylwester Szmyd		s.t.
25	Kevin De Weert	Belgium	s.t.
26	Alexander Vinokourov		s.t.
27	Vasil Kiryienka		s.t.
28	Oliver Zaugg		s.t.
29	Sylvain Chavanel		s.t.
30	Ignatas Konovalovas	Lithuania	s.t.
31	Alexander Bocharov		s.t.
32	Tadej Valjavec		s.t.
33	Thomas Löfkvist		s.t.
34	Sérgio Paulinho		s.t.
35	Janez Brajkovič		s.t.
36	Robert Gesink	Netherlands	at 3'01"
37	Miguel Ángel Rubiano		at 3'21"
38	Tom Boonen	Belgium	s.t.
39	Bert De Waele	Belgium	s.t.
40	Philip Deignan		s.t.
41	Alessandro Ballan	Italy	s.t.
42	Daniel Moreno	Spain	s.t.
43	Jakob Fuglsang	Denmark	at 3'45"
44	Greg Van Avermaet	Belgium	s.t.
45	Kim Kirchen		at 4'20"
46	Pierrick Fédrigo		at 4'29"
47	Marcus Ljungqvist		at 5'20"
48	Gorazd Štangelj		s.t.
49	Jussi Veikkanen		s.t.
50	José Rujano		s.t.
51	Eduard Vorganov		s.t.
52	Steve Cummings		s.t.
53	Andriy Hryvko		s.t.
54	Kristjan Fajt		s.t.

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
55	Murilo Fischer		at 5'20"
56	Kanstantsin Sivtsov		s.t.
57	Fumiyuki Beppu		s.t.
58	Assan Bazayev		s.t.
59	Craig Lewis	United States	s.t.
60	Edvald Boasson Hagen		s.t.
61	Christophe Riblon		s.t.
62	Przemysław Niemiec		s.t.
63	Nick Nuyens	Belgium	s.t.
64	Matthew Lloyd		at 6'07"
65	Luca Paolini	Italy	at 7'43"
66	Dmitry Fofonov		s.t.
67	Thomas Voeckler		s.t.
68	Dan Martin		at 8'22"
69	Rui Costa		s.t.
70	Vladimir Miholjević		at 10'54"
71	Stefano Garzelli	Italy	s.t.
72	Oleksandr Kvachuk		s.t.
73	Bartosz Huzarski		s.t.
74	José Serpa		s.t.
75	Carlos José Ochoa		s.t.
76	Hrvoje Miholjević		s.t.
77	Aleksejs Saramotins		s.t.
78	Fredrik Kessiakoff		s.t.
79	Grischa Niermann	Germany	s.t.
80	Timmy Duggan	United States	s.t.
81	Stian Remme		s.t.
82	Michael Albasini		s.t.
83	Franklin Chacón		s.t.
84	Rene Mandri		s.t.
85	Pavel Brutt		s.t.
86	Michał Gołaś		s.t.
87	Gabriel Rasch		s.t.
88	Maarten Wijnants	Belgium	s.t.
89	Maxime Monfort	Belgium	s.t.
90	Martin Velits		s.t.
91	Lars Boom	Netherlands	s.t.
92	Roger Hammond		s.t.
93	Christophe Le Mével		s.t.
94	Tom Peterson	United States	s.t.
95	Dimitri Champion		s.t.
96	Hayden Roulston	New Zealand	s.t.
97	Maxim Iglinsky		s.t.
98	Jason McCartney	United States	s.t.
99	Johannes Fröhlinger	Germany	s.t.
100	Peter Velits		s.t.
101	Rigoberto Urán		s.t.
102	Gerhard Trampusch		at 14'03"
103	Paul Martens	Germany	s.t.
104	Volodymyr Zagorodniy		s.t.
105	Vladimir Karpets		s.t.
106	Jan Bárta		s.t.
107	Michael Rogers		s.t.
108	Juan Carlos López Marin		s.t.

Riders who did not finish[]

89 riders failed to finish the race.

Rider	Country
Martín Garrido
Alfredo Lucero
Matías Médici
Simon Clarke
Allan Davis
Mathew Hayman
Stuart O'Grady
Wesley Sulzberger

Peter Wrolich
Aliaksandr Kuschynski
Francis De Greef	Belgium

Magno Nazaret
Ryder Hesjedal
Svein Tuft
Carlos Oyarzún
Mauricio Ardila
Andrey Amador
Matija Kvasina
Roman Kreuziger
Martin Mareš
Lars Bak	Denmark
Frank Høj	Denmark
Anders Lund	Denmark
Rein Taaramäe
Janek Tombak
Gerald Ciolek	Germany
André Greipel	Germany
Christian Knees	Germany

Rider	Country
Tony Martin	Germany
Marcel Sieberg	Germany
Russell Downing
Chris Froome
Daniel Lloyd
David Millar
Ian Stannard
Ben Swift
Geraint Thomas

Gergely Ivanics
Péter Kusztor
Nicolas Roche
Marzio Bruseghin	Italy
Michele Scarponi	Italy
Giovanni Visconti	Italy
Yukiya Arashiro
Taiji Nishitani
Valentin Iglinskiy
Andrey Kashechkin
Oļegs Meļehs
Laurent Didier
Jempy Drucker
Andy Schleck
Dan Craven
Sebastian Langeveld	Netherlands
Timothy Gudsell	New Zealand
Roy Hegreberg
Thor Hushovd

Rider	Country
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Håvard Nybø
Frederik Wilmann
Jacek Morajko
Maciej Paterski
Guennadi Mikhailov
Evgeny Popov
Alexander Porsev
Zolt Der
Esad Hasanovic
Nebojša Jovanović
Ján Valach
Grega Bole
Borut Božič
Jay Robert Thomson
Carlos Barredo	Spain
Juan José Cobo	Spain
Rubén Plaza	Spain
Rubens Bertogliati
Mathias Frank
Grégory Rast
Serhiy Honchar
Ruslan Pidgornyy
Volodymyr Starchyk
Andrew Bajadali	United States
Brent Bookwalter	United States
Tom Danielson	United States
Tyler Farrar	United States
Fabricio Ferrari
Manuel Medina

Nation qualification[]

14 to be enrolled, 9 to start ^[4]
Spain
Italy
Belgium
Germany


United States



9 to be enrolled, 6 to start





Netherlands



Denmark

5 to be enrolled, 3 to start
Tunisia













New Zealand




2 to be enrolled, 1 to start
Lithuania


Cuba




Bulgaria

References[]

^ Worlds Road Race Preview Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Gerald Churchill; Cycling-News; 26-09-09; Accessed 17-08-14. Archived 2009-09-30.
^ Cadel Evans wins cycling Road Race World Championship in Mendrisio, Switzerland Brendan Gallagher 27-09-09; Accessed 28-09-09
^ "Aussie Evans wins road race title". BBC Sport. 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
^ UCI Entry Regulations Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 15-09-09

[1] Worlds Road Race Preview Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Gerald Churchill; Cycling-News; 26-09-09; Accessed 17-08-14. Archived 2009-09-30.

[2] Cadel Evans wins cycling Road Race World Championship in Mendrisio, Switzerland Brendan Gallagher 27-09-09; Accessed 28-09-09

[3] "Aussie Evans wins road race title". BBC Sport. 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-09-28.

[4] UCI Entry Regulations Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 15-09-09

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