2015 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial


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 was the outgoing champion, but did not defend his title.
Vasil Kiryienka won the gold medal for Belarus, recording a time 9.08 seconds quicker than his closest rival, Italian rider Adriano Malori. 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.
ChampionNameParticipation
Outgoing World ChampionDid not participate
African ChampionDid not participate
Pan American ChampionDid not participate
Asian ChampionDid not participate
Oceanian ChampionScheduled to participate

Olympic qualification

This time trial was also part of the qualification 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.
DateTimeEvent
September 23, 201513:00–15:35Men's individual time trial

Start list

The following riders were confirmed by their respective nations.
No.RiderCountry
1Tony Martin
2Tom Dumoulin
3Vasil Kiryienka
4Rohan Dennis
5Adriano Malori
6Matthias Brändle
7Jonathan Castroviejo
8Maciej Bodnar
9Stefan Küng
10Alex Dowsett
11Jan Bárta
12Nelson Oliveira
13Jesse Sergent
14Taylor Phinney
15Jurgen Van den Broeck
16Christopher Juul-Jensen
17Jérôme Coppel
18Ramūnas Navardauskas
19Artem Ovechkin
20Andreas Vangstad
21Rigoberto Urán
22Andriy Hryvko
23Hugo Houle
24Mekseb Debesay

No.RiderCountry
25Alexey Lutsenko
26Tanel Kangert
27Segundo Navarrete
28Gatis Smukulis
29Gustav Larsson
30Polychronis Tzortzakis
31Adrien Niyonshuti
32Serghei Țvetcov
33Nikolay Mihaylov
34Manuel Rodas
35Muradjan Khalmuratov
36Tuguldur Tuulkhangai
37Juan Martinez
38Alexandre Pliușchin
39Gorgi Popstefanov
40Norlandis Taveras
41Ahmed Albourdainy
42David Albós
43Nikias Arndt
44Wilco Kelderman
45Kanstantsin Sivtsov
46Luke Durbridge
47Moreno Moser

No.RiderCountry
48Lukas Pöstlberger
49Luis León Sánchez
50Marcin Białobłocki
51Silvan Dillier
52Steven Cummings
53Petr Vakoč
54Sam Bewley
55Lawson Craddock
56Yves Lampaert
57Rasmus Quaade
58Romain Sicard
59Gediminas Bagdonas
60Ilnur Zakarin
61Vegard Stake Laengen
62Ryan Roth
63Daniil Fominykh
64Rein Taaramäe
65Carlos Quishpe
66Aleksejs Saramotins
67Tobias Ludvigsson
68Neofytos Sakellaridis
69Rafael German
70Michael Hepburn

Final classification

RankRiderTime
11h 02' 29.45"
2+ 9.08"
3+ 26.62"
4+ 29.36"
5+ 1' 01.51"
6+ 1' 07.96"
7+ 1' 16.73"
8+ 1' 17.33"
9+ 1' 22.42"
10+ 1' 31.61"
11+ 1' 34.04"
12+ 1' 36.99"
13+ 1' 52.38"
14+ 1' 58.89"
15+ 1' 59.20"
16+ 1' 59.88"
17+ 2' 06.56"
18+ 2' 15.91"
19+ 2' 17.63"
20+ 2' 18.22"
21+ 2' 19.17"
22+ 2' 27.34"
23+ 2' 31.18"
24+ 2' 32.28"
25+ 2' 35.87"
26+ 2' 45.17"
27+ 2' 47.95"
28+ 2' 56.12"
29+ 2' 56.13"
30+ 2' 56.78"
31+ 2' 59.52"
32+ 3' 01.21"
33+ 3' 07.22"
34+ 3' 13.15"
35+ 3' 13.59"
36+ 3' 23.83"
37+ 3' 25.51"
38+ 3' 25.79"
39+ 3' 26.67"
40+ 3' 30.20"
41+ 3' 30.59"
42+ 3' 43.23"
43+ 3' 44.22"
44+ 3' 51.14"
45+ 3' 55.26"
46+ 3' 56.61"
47+ 4' 00.34"
48+ 4' 18.12"
49+ 4' 20.33"
50+ 4' 20.38"
51+ 4' 40.65"
52+ 4' 47.00"
53+ 5' 01.26"
54+ 5' 38.95"
55+ 5' 47.86"
56+ 5' 53.85"
57+ 6' 45.70"
58+ 7' 05.06"
59+ 7' 06.79"
60+ 8' 50.76"
61+ 9' 45.89"
62+ 11' 55.93"
63+ 13' 05.52"
64+ 13' 43.53"
65+ 14' 14.66"