The
Men's time trial of the
2015 UCI Road World Championships is a cycling event that took place on September 23, 2015 in
Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was the 22nd edition of the championship.
Bradley Wiggins
Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016. He began his cycling career on the track, but later made the transition to r ...
was the outgoing champion, but did not defend his title.
Vasil Kiryienka
Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka ( be, Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka; born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors, ...
won the gold medal for Belarus, recording a time 9.08 seconds quicker than his closest rival, Italian rider
Adriano Malori
Adriano Malori (born 28 January 1988) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2017 for the and squads.
Career
Malori was the ''lanterne rouge'' of the 2010 Tour de France, finishing almost four and ...
. The podium was completed by France's
Jérôme Coppel, 26.62 seconds behind Kiryienka's winning time.
Course
The riders began their race 20 miles north of Richmond at Kings Dominion, Virginia's premier amusement park in Hanover County. Racers then went past Meadow Event Park, home to the State Fair of Virginia and birthplace of thoroughbred racing legend Secretariat. Racers headed south on long, open straights past the Hanover County Courthouse, the third oldest courthouse still in use in the U.S. and dating back to about 1740. Long hills on Brook and Wilkinson roads brought the racers back into the city through Virginia Union University before turning into downtown. Nearly half the turns of the entire route fell within the closing kilometers, the second to last of which was to ascend on Governor Street. At the top, the riders had to take a sharp left turn onto the false-flat finishing straight, to the finish.
Qualification
Qualification for the event
All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.
Olympic qualification
This time trial was also part of the
qualification
Qualification is either the process of qualifying for an achievement, or a credential attesting to that achievement, and may refer to:
* Professional qualification, attributes developed by obtaining academic degrees or through professional exper ...
of the
men's time trial at the
2016 Summer Olympics. The first ten nations in the time trial qualified one athlete.
Schedule
All times are in
Eastern Daylight Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small p ...
(
UTC-4).
Start list
The following riders were confirmed by their respective nations.
Final classification
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2015 UCI Road World Championships - Men's time trial
Men's time trial
UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial
2015 in men's road cycling