2010 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

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Men's Individual Road Race
2010 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
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Race details
Dates3 October 2010
Stages1
Distance259.9 km (161.5 mi)
Winning time6h 21' 49"
Medalists
   Gold  Thor Hushovd (Norway)
   Silver  Matti Breschel (Denmark)
   Bronze  Allan Davis (Australia)
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The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2010 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 3 October in Melbourne and concluded in Geelong, Australia. Thor Hushovd claimed the World Championship in a sprint finish, to become the first Norwegian to win the World Championship road race.[1][2]

Route[]

The race started at Federation Square at Melbourne. For the first time, the World Championship route started and finished in different locations, with the riders traveling to Geelong before entering the finishing circuit. The route followed the West Gate Freeway and Princes Freeway, passing the Werribee River. Exiting at Bulban Road, the riders passed the You Yangs Regional Park, continued via Bacchus Marsh Road, then entered the Geelong circuit at Bell Parade. There were eleven laps around a 15.9 kilometre course through the Geelong suburbs, including South Geelong, Belmont, Highton, Queens Park, Newtown and Geelong West. The profile included two steep climbs, the first between 5 and 7 kilometres, the second between 9 and 11. The finish had a moderate uphill gradient.[3]

Circuit practice, training and racing took place in Geelong from Thursday 23 September to Sunday 3 October.

Race Report[]

The early breakaway consisted of 5 riders and was given a lead of up to 23 minutes by the peloton. In the break were Oleksandr Kvachuk, Mohammed Said Elammoury, Jackson Rodríguez, Diego Tamayo and Matt Brammeier. In between the break and the peloton rode Esad Hasanovic, who was chasing the lead group for several kilometres. He rode around 5 to 6 minutes behind them for some time. The breakaway almost lapped the peloton on the closing circuits, but the American and Belgian teams would increase the pace of the peloton and the gap began to fall. Elammoury was dropped by the other four with about 10 laps to go.

Kvachuk dropped Brammeier, Tamayo, and Rodriguez but by the end of the seventh lap the gap had fallen to about 5 minutes. Somewhat like the previous year's race, a large escape group went away, this time with 5 laps to go. The group contained 31 riders, including the previous year's champion Cadel Evans, his teammates Stuart O'Grady and Simon Gerrans, Edvald Boasson Hagen of Norway, Belgian Philippe Gilbert, Dane Matti Breschel and 5 Italians including Vincenzo Nibali and Filippo Pozzato. The group survived until lap nine although the peloton, led on by Spain, never let them get much of a gap. On the ninth lap Nibali attacked which decimated the breakaway and the peloton behind. Evans, Gilbert, and Pozzato were chasing behind at the end of the 9th lap, with the peloton 49 seconds behind Nibali. However, the peloton kept the pressure high and had pulled back all the attackers, including the early breakaway at the beginning of the last lap.

On the final ascent of the Montpelier climb, Gilbert made an attack and Evans immediately tried to jump into his slipstream. However, Gilbert got away from Evans, who was absorbed by a chase group containing Paul Martens of Germany, Alexander Kolobnev of Russia, Koos Moerenhout of The Netherlands, and Fränk Schleck of Luxembourg. The group was not well organized and was brought back by the remnants of the peloton and Gilbert was also caught with 2 kilometers to go.

Russian Vladimir Gusev and Slovenian Janez Brajkovic attacked just before the 1 kilometer to go banner and were joined by Dutchman Niki Terpstra. Terpstra attacked with about 800 meters to go as the Danes tried to set up a sprint for Breschel. However, as soon as Terpstra was caught Belgian Greg Van Avermaet launched the sprint. Breschel passed Van Avermaet on the left-hand side but Thor Hushovd of Norway passed Breschel and held on to the finish line for the victory. Breschel would settle for 2nd while Allan Davis of Australia passed Van Avermaet for the bronze medal.

National qualification[]

Nations in the top ten places of the UCI World Ranking on 15 August were permitted up to nine riders, although they were not permitted more than six unless they had at least seven riders in the rankings on that date. This happened to Kazakhstan, and as a result, one additional spot was awarded to Luxembourg, Slovenia and France (10th to 12 respectively in the rankings), although this concession had not been in the original documentation describing the allocation of places.

27 other qualifying nations were permitted no more than six riders. After allowing for the top ten in the world rankings, the continental rankings are to be used to identify sixteen further European nations, two countries from the UCI Africa Tour, five from the Americas, three Asian countries, and one representative of the Oceania tour.

Riders on teams that are members of a UCI ProTeam, but whose nation did not qualify, were eligible for additional places.

Nation qualification[]

14 to be enrolled, 9 to start
 Spain
 Italy
 Belgium
 
 United States
 
  
 Germany
 Netherlands
9 to be enrolled, 7 to start
 
 
14 to be enrolled, 6 to start
 
9 to be enrolled, 6 to start
 
 
 
 Iran
 
 
 
 Denmark
5 to be enrolled, 4 to start
 
5 to be enrolled, 3 to start
 
 
 
 
 
 South Korea
 Bulgaria
 
 
 Lithuania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 New Zealand
 
3 to be enrolled, 2 to start
 
 
2 to be enrolled, 1 to start
 Uzbekistan
 Cuba
 Bolivia
 Uruguay
 
 Guatemala
 Costa Rica
 
 Greece
 Romania

Final classification[]

Rank Bib Number Name Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) 77 Thor Hushovd   6:21:49
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 144 Matti Breschel  Denmark s.t.
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Allan Davis   s.t.
4 24 Filippo Pozzato  Italy s.t.
5 35 Greg Van Avermaet  Belgium s.t.
6 12 Óscar Freire  Spain s.t.
7 70 Alexander Kolobnev   s.t.
8 86 Assan Bazayev   s.t.
9 127 Yukiya Arashiro   s.t.
10 100 Romain Feillu   s.t.
11 91 Grega Bole   s.t.
12 88 Dmitriy Fofonov   s.t.
13 51 Koos Moerenhout  Netherlands s.t.
14 63 Fabian Wegmann  Germany s.t.
15 135 André Cardoso   s.t.
16 66 Fränk Schleck   s.t.
17 1 Cadel Evans   s.t.
18 31 Philippe Gilbert  Belgium s.t.
19 53 Niki Terpstra  Netherlands +0:07
20 33 Björn Leukemans  Belgium s.t.
21 68 Vladimir Gusev   +0:13
22 93 Janez Brajkovič   s.t.
23 148 Chris Sørensen  Denmark s.t.
24 145 Anders Lund  Denmark +0:15
25 60 Paul Martens  Germany s.t.
26 104 Yoann Offredo   +2:07
27 168 Jonas Ljungblad   +2:09
28 155 Matija Kvasina   +2:11
29 59 Christian Knees  Germany s.t.
30 128 Fumiyuki Beppu   s.t.
31 96 Simon Špilak   +2:13
32 101 Cyril Gautier   s.t.
33 178 Kanstantsin Sivtsov   s.t.
34 111 José Serpa   s.t.
35 161 Juan José Haedo   s.t.
36 27 Giovanni Visconti  Italy s.t.
37 19 Marzio Bruseghin  Italy +5:11
38 23 Luca Paolini  Italy s.t.
39 18 Haimar Zubeldia  Spain s.t.
40 21 Vincenzo Nibali  Italy +7:10
41 46 Lars Boom  Netherlands +7:22
42 52 Wout Poels  Netherlands s.t.
43 56 André Greipel  Germany s.t.
44 97 Gorazd Stangelj   s.t.
45 7 Stuart O'Grady   s.t.
46 157 Radoslav Rogina   s.t.
47 48 Karsten Kroon  Netherlands s.t.
48 94 Jure Kocjan   s.t.
49 67 Pavel Brutt   s.t.
50 80 Fabian Cancellara    s.t.
51 177 Yauheni Hutarovich   +13:53
52 139 Denys Kostyuk   s.t.
53 174 Martin Velits   s.t.
54 150 Petr Benčik   s.t.
55 81 Martin Elmiger    s.t.
56 133 Hernani Broco   s.t.
57 73 Egor Silin   s.t.
58 62 Marcel Sieberg  Germany s.t.
59 83 Steve Morabito    s.t.
60 115 Bartosz Huzarski   s.t.
61 75 Eduard Vorganov   s.t.
62 47 Koen de Kort  Netherlands s.t.
63 99 Sylvain Chavanel   s.t.
64 114 Michal Golas   s.t.
65 169 Bernhard Eisel   s.t.
66 170 Peter Wrolich   s.t.
67 142 Oleksandr Sheydyk   s.t.
68 165 David McCann   s.t.
69 78 Alexander Kristoff   s.t.
70 103 Sébastien Hinault   s.t.
71 55 Bert Grabsch  Germany s.t.
72 129 Yukihiro Doi   s.t.
73 38 Ted King  United States s.t.
74 175 Peter Velits   s.t.
75 167 Gustav Larsson   s.t.
76 143 Lars Bak  Denmark s.t.
77 152 Julian Dean  New Zealand s.t.
78 117 Przemysław Niemiec   s.t.
79 44 Christian Vande Velde  United States s.t.
80 41 Danny Pate  United States s.t.
81 37 Tyler Farrar  United States s.t.
82 57 Danilo Hondo  Germany s.t.
83 102 Anthony Geslin   s.t.
84 159 Tanel Kangert   s.t.
85 107 Svein Tuft   s.t.
86 98 William Bonnet   s.t.
87 151 Leopold König   s.t.
88 87 Alexsandr Dyachenko   s.t.
89 149 Ignatas Konovalovas  Lithuania s.t.
90 137 José João Mendes   s.t.
91 49 Steven Kruijswijk  Netherlands s.t.
92 50 Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands s.t.
93 140 Oleksandr Kvachuk   s.t.
94 6 Matthew Hayman   s.t.
95 9 Wesley Sulzberger   s.t.
96 8 Michael Rogers   s.t.
97 166 Nicolas Roche   s.t.
98 64 Laurent Didier   +21:51
99 171 Zsolt Der   +22:50

Riders who did not finish[]

79 riders failed to finish the race.

References[]

  1. ^ "Thor Hushovd wins the rainbow jersey for Norway". Cycling Weekly. 3 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Norway's Thor Hushovd claims world road race crown". CNN. 3 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Elite Men's Road race". melbourne2010.com. Retrieved 7 September 2010.

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