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
Rainbow jersey
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

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

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

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 Brajkovič 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
 Australia
 United States
 Russia
  Switzerland
 Germany
 Netherlands
9 to be enrolled, 7 to start
 France
 Slovenia
14 to be enrolled, 6 to start
 Kazakhstan
9 to be enrolled, 6 to start
 Morocco
 Colombia
 Venezuela
 Iran
 Poland
 Portugal
 Ukraine
 Denmark
5 to be enrolled, 4 to start
 Luxembourg
5 to be enrolled, 3 to start
 South Africa
 Canada
 Brazil
 Argentina
 Japan
 South Korea
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Czech Republic
 Lithuania
 Estonia
 Ireland
 Norway
 Great Britain
 Austria
 Serbia
 New Zealand
 Slovakia
3 to be enrolled, 2 to start
 Belarus
 Sweden
2 to be enrolled, 1 to start
 Uzbekistan
 Cuba
 Bolivia
 Uruguay
 Chile
 Guatemala
 Costa Rica
 Latvia
 Greece
 Romania

Final classification

Rank Bib Number Name Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) 77 Thor Hushovd  Norway 6:21:49
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 144 Matti Breschel  Denmark s.t.
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Allan Davis  Australia 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
  Russia s.t.
8 86 Assan Bazayev  Kazakhstan s.t.
9 127 Yukiya Arashiro  Japan s.t.
10 100 Romain Feillu  France s.t.
11 91 Grega Bole  Slovenia s.t.
12 88
Dmitriy Fofonov
  Kazakhstan s.t.
13 51 Koos Moerenhout  Netherlands s.t.
14 63 Fabian Wegmann  Germany s.t.
15 135 André Cardoso  Portugal s.t.
16 66 Fränk Schleck  Luxembourg s.t.
17 1 Cadel Evans  Australia 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  Russia +0:13
22 93 Janez Brajkovič  Slovenia 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  France +2:07
27 168 Jonas Ljungblad  Sweden +2:09
28 155 Matija Kvasina  Croatia +2:11
29 59 Christian Knees  Germany s.t.
30 128 Fumiyuki Beppu  Japan s.t.
31 96 Simon Špilak  Slovenia +2:13
32 101 Cyril Gautier  France s.t.
33 178 Kanstantsin Sivtsov  Belarus s.t.
34 111 José Serpa  Colombia s.t.
35 161 Juan José Haedo  Argentina 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 Štangelj  Slovenia s.t.
45 7 Stuart O'Grady  Australia s.t.
46 157 Radoslav Rogina  Croatia s.t.
47 48 Karsten Kroon  Netherlands s.t.
48 94 Jure Kocjan  Slovenia s.t.
49 67 Pavel Brutt  Russia s.t.
50 80 Fabian Cancellara   Switzerland s.t.
51 177 Yauheni Hutarovich  Belarus +13:53
52 139 Denys Kostyuk  Ukraine s.t.
53 174 Martin Velits  Slovakia s.t.
54 150
Petr Benčik
  Czech Republic s.t.
55 81 Martin Elmiger   Switzerland s.t.
56 133
Hernani Broco
  Portugal s.t.
57 73 Egor Silin  Russia s.t.
58 62 Marcel Sieberg  Germany s.t.
59 83 Steve Morabito   Switzerland s.t.
60 115 Bartosz Huzarski  Poland s.t.
61 75 Eduard Vorganov  Russia s.t.
62 47 Koen de Kort  Netherlands s.t.
63 99 Sylvain Chavanel  France s.t.
64 114 Michał Gołaś  Poland s.t.
65 169 Bernhard Eisel  Austria s.t.
66 170 Peter Wrolich  Austria s.t.
67 142 Oleksandr Sheydyk  Ukraine s.t.
68 165 David McCann  Ireland s.t.
69 78 Alexander Kristoff  Norway s.t.
70 103 Sébastien Hinault  France s.t.
71 55 Bert Grabsch  Germany s.t.
72 129 Yukihiro Doi  Japan s.t.
73 38 Ted King  United States s.t.
74 175 Peter Velits  Slovakia s.t.
75 167 Gustav Larsson  Sweden s.t.
76 143 Lars Bak  Denmark s.t.
77 152 Julian Dean  New Zealand s.t.
78 117 Przemysław Niemiec  Poland 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  France s.t.
84 159 Tanel Kangert  Estonia s.t.
85 107 Svein Tuft  Canada s.t.
86 98 William Bonnet  France s.t.
87 151 Leopold König  Czech Republic s.t.
88 87 Alexsandr Dyachenko  Kazakhstan s.t.
89 149 Ignatas Konovalovas  Lithuania s.t.
90 137
José João Mendes
  Portugal s.t.
91 49 Steven Kruijswijk  Netherlands s.t.
92 50 Sebastian Langeveld  Netherlands s.t.
93 140 Oleksandr Kvachuk  Ukraine s.t.
94 6 Mathew Hayman  Australia s.t.
95 9 Wesley Sulzberger  Australia s.t.
96 8 Michael Rogers  Australia s.t.
97 166 Nicolas Roche  Ireland s.t.
98 64 Laurent Didier  Luxembourg +21:51
99 171
Zsolt Dér
  Serbia +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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