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
Gold  Cadel Evans (AUS) (Australia)    Silver  Alexandr Kolobnev (RUS) (Russia)    Bronze  Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) (Spain)
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Events at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships
Participating nations Qualification
Elite events
Elite road race	men	women
Elite time trial	men	women
Under-23 events
Under-23 road race	men
Under-23 time trial	men
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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.^{[according to whom?]}

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  Australia 06h 56'26" Alexandr Kolobnev  Russia at 27" Joaquim Rodríguez  Spain s.t. 4 Samuel Sánchez  Spain at 30" 5 Fabian Cancellara   Switzerland 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  Australia at 1'47" 11 Fabian Wegmann  Germany s.t. 12 Kurt Asle Arvesen  Norway 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  Portugal at 2'44" 18 Michael Barry  Canada s.t. 19 Sergei Ivanov  Russia s.t. 20 Karsten Kroon  Netherlands at 2'50" 21 Filippo Pozzato  Italy s.t. 22 Leonardo Duque  Colombia s.t. 23 Koos Moerenhout  Netherlands s.t. 24 Sylwester Szmyd  Poland s.t. 25 Kevin De Weert  Belgium s.t. 26 Alexander Vinokourov  Kazakhstan s.t. 27 Vasil Kiryienka  Belarus s.t. 28 Oliver Zaugg   Switzerland s.t. 29 Sylvain Chavanel  France s.t. 30 Ignatas Konovalovas  Lithuania s.t. 31 Alexander Bocharov  Russia s.t. 32 Tadej Valjavec  Slovenia s.t. 33 Thomas Löfkvist  Sweden s.t. 34 Sérgio Paulinho  Portugal s.t. 35 Janez Brajkovič  Slovenia s.t. 36 Robert Gesink  Netherlands at 3'01" 37 Miguel Ángel Rubiano  Colombia at 3'21" 38 Tom Boonen  Belgium s.t. 39 Bert De Waele  Belgium s.t. 40 Philip Deignan  Ireland 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  Luxembourg at 4'20" 46 Pierrick Fédrigo  France at 4'29" 47 Marcus Ljungqvist  Sweden at 5'20" 48 Gorazd Štangelj  Slovenia s.t. 49 Jussi Veikkanen  Finland s.t. 50 José Rujano  Venezuela s.t. 51 Eduard Vorganov  Russia s.t. 52 Steve Cummings  Great Britain s.t. 53 Andriy Hryvko  Ukraine s.t. 54 Kristjan Fajt  Slovenia s.t.

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

Riders who did not finish

89 riders failed to finish the race.

Rider Country Martín Garrido  Argentina Alfredo Lucero  Argentina Matías Médici  Argentina Simon Clarke  Australia Allan Davis  Australia Mathew Hayman  Australia Stuart O'Grady  Australia Wesley Sulzberger  Australia Christoph Sokoll  Austria Peter Wrolich  Austria Aliaksandr Kuschynski  Belarus Francis De Greef  Belgium Tiago Fiorilli  Brazil Magno Nazaret  Brazil Ryder Hesjedal  Canada Svein Tuft  Canada Carlos Oyarzún  Chile Mauricio Ardila  Colombia Andrey Amador  Costa Rica Matija Kvasina  Croatia Roman Kreuziger  Czech Republic Martin Mareš  Czech Republic Lars Bak  Denmark Frank Høj  Denmark Anders Lund  Denmark Rein Taaramäe  Estonia Janek Tombak  Estonia Gerald Ciolek  Germany André Greipel  Germany Christian Knees  Germany

Rider Country Tony Martin  Germany Marcel Sieberg  Germany Russell Downing  Great Britain Chris Froome  Great Britain Daniel Lloyd  Great Britain David Millar  Great Britain Ian Stannard  Great Britain Ben Swift  Great Britain Geraint Thomas  Great Britain Istvan Cziraki  Hungary Gergely Ivanics  Hungary Péter Kusztor  Hungary Nicolas Roche  Ireland Marzio Bruseghin  Italy Michele Scarponi  Italy Giovanni Visconti  Italy Yukiya Arashiro  Japan Taiji Nishitani  Japan Valentin Iglinskiy  Kazakhstan Andrey Kashechkin  Kazakhstan Oļegs Meļehs  Latvia Laurent Didier  Luxembourg Jempy Drucker  Luxembourg Andy Schleck  Luxembourg Dan Craven  Namibia Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands Timothy Gudsell  New Zealand Roy Hegreberg  Norway Thor Hushovd  Norway

Rider Country Lars Petter Nordhaug  Norway Håvard Nybø  Norway Frederik Wilmann  Norway Jacek Morajko  Poland Maciej Paterski  Poland Guennadi Mikhailov  Russia Evgeny Popov  Russia Alexander Porsev  Russia Žolt Dér  Serbia Esad Hasanović  Serbia Nebojša Jovanović  Serbia Ján Valach  Slovakia Grega Bole  Slovenia Borut Božič  Slovenia Jay Robert Thomson  South Africa Carlos Barredo  Spain Juan José Cobo  Spain Rubén Plaza  Spain Rubens Bertogliati   Switzerland Mathias Frank   Switzerland Grégory Rast   Switzerland Serhiy Honchar  Ukraine Ruslan Pidgornyy  Ukraine Volodymyr Starchyk  Ukraine Andrew Bajadali  United States Brent Bookwalter  United States Tom Danielson  United States Tyler Farrar  United States Fabricio Ferrari  Uruguay Manuel Medina  Venezuela

Nation qualification

14 to be enrolled, 9 to start [4]

Spain

Italy

Belgium

Germany

Luxembourg

Australia

United States

Great Britain

Russia

Norway

9 to be enrolled, 6 to start

South Africa

Colombia

Venezuela

Kazakhstan

France

Netherlands

Slovenia

Poland

Ukraine

Denmark

Switzerland

5 to be enrolled, 3 to start

Tunisia

Argentina

Canada

Brazil

Japan

Iran

Portugal

Estonia

Austria

Croatia

Hungary

Sweden

Latvia

Serbia

New Zealand

Czech Republic

Ireland

Slovakia

Belarus

2 to be enrolled, 1 to start

Lithuania

Finland

Namibia

Cuba

Chile

Costa Rica

Ecuador

Uruguay

Bulgaria

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