The men's road race of the
2023 UCI Road World Championships
The 2023 UCI Road World Championships were the 96th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. There were held between 5 and 13 August 2023 in Scotland, as part of the 2023 UCI Cycling Wor ...
was a cycling event that took
place on 6 August 2023 in
Glasgow
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, Great Britain. Dutch cyclist
Mathieu van der Poel won the race after a crash in a high speed corner, racing solo, 16 km before the finish.
Qualification
Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 30 June 2023.
UCI World Rankings
The following nations qualified.
Continental champions
Participating nations
195 cyclists from 58 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
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Final classification
References
Men's road race
2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
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2023 in men's road cycling
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