The Men's road race of the
2017 UCI Road World Championships
The 2017 UCI Road World Championships were held in 2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was the 90th UCI Road World Championships and the second to be held in Norway, after the 1993 world championships in Oslo. Chantal Blaak of the Netherlands won the wom ...
was a cycling event that took place on 24 September 2017 in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. It was the 84th edition of the championship, and
Slovakia
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's
Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-country race at the 2008 ...
was the two times defending champion.
After a late move from France's
Julian Alaphilippe
Julian Alaphilippe (born 11 June 1992) is a French professional road cyclist, former cyclo-cross racer and two-fold UCI World Road Champion, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is the brother of racing cyclist Bryan Alaphilippe.
Career E ...
was brought back within the final kilometres, Sagan outsprinted his rivals to win a third consecutive world title, the first male rider to do so. As well as this, he became the fifth man – after
Alfredo Binda
Alfredo Binda (11 August 1902 – 19 July 1986) was an Italian road cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s. He was the first to win five editions of the Giro d'Italia, and a three-time world champion. In addition he won Milan–San Remo twice, and the ...
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Rik Van Steenbergen
Rik Van Steenbergen (9 September 1924 – 15 May 2003) was a Belgium, Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists.
Early life
Van Steenbergen was born in Arendonk into a po ...
,
Eddy Merckx
Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (, ; born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer who is among the most successful riders in the history of competitive cycling. His victorie ...
and
Óscar Freire
Óscar Freire Gómez (born 15 February 1976) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbe ...
– to win three elite road world championship titles. European champion
Alexander Kristoff
Alexander Kristoff (born 5 July 1987) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships in 2007 and 2011. His biggest victories have been the 2014 Milanâ ...
from Norway took the silver medal, while the bronze medal went to Australian
Michael Matthews.
Course
The race started in
Rong
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Norway
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and traversed before reaching the finishing circuit in Bergen. After a further , the riders crossed the finish line on the
Festplassen for the first time, with the riders completing eleven full laps of the circuit in length. The main feature of the circuit was the climb of Salmon Hill, about into the lap; the climb was long at an average gradient of 6.4%. At , the 2017 men's road race was the longest in the championships since were covered in
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Qualification
Qualification were based on performances on the
UCI World Ranking
The UCI men's road racing world rankings are a point system which is used to rank men's road cycling riders. Points are accrued over a rolling 52 weeks in three categories (Individual, Nations and Teams).
Also Year-End rankings exist, based on ...
on August 15, 2017.
UCI World Rankings
The following nations qualified.
Additional places
, , , , , , , , , and have chosen not to use (all of their) quota places. , , , , , and have received additional quota places.
Participating nations
196 cyclists from 44 nations were entered in the men's road race, however Irish representative
Damien Shaw
Damien Shaw (born 10 July 1984) is an Irish former professional cyclist, who rode professionally for in 2016 and 2017, and in 2018. As well as competing individually on the roads, Shaw was a tandem pilot at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track Worl ...
did not start the race.
The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
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Final classification
Of the race's 196 entrants, 132 riders completed the full distance of .
References
External links
Men's road race page at Bergen 2017 website
{{DEFAULTSORT:2017 UCI Road World Championships - Men's road race
Men's road race
UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
2017 in men's road cycling