2016 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race


The Men's road race of the 2016 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 16 October 2016 in Doha, Qatar. It was the 83rd edition of the championship, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the defending champion.
Sagan became the first rider since Paolo Bettini in 2006 and 2007 to retain the rainbow jersey, after winning the sprint finish from a select group of riders that had made a break from the rest of the field in the opening half of the race, in the desert crosswinds. The silver medal went to 2011 world champion Mark Cavendish from Great Britain, a bike length in arrears of Sagan, with the bronze medal going to Belgium's Tom Boonen, the 2005 world champion. It was the first time that all three medallists were previous world title winners.

Course

The race was due to start and finish in the capital city of Doha, the home base for the Tour of Qatar. The route for the Worlds road races was presented in February 2015, which was made up of a loop of through the desert and a finishing circuit in Doha city centre, including of cobblestones. The finishing circuit of on The Pearl-Qatar was used for a stage of February's Tour of Qatar: riders noted that the course was highly technical, going through 24 roundabouts, with stage winner Alexander Kristoff comparing it to a criterium. However it was also noted that the lack of long straight sections meant that the effect of the crosswinds frequently occurring in Qatar would be significantly lessened, reducing the race's unpredictability.
Subsequently, in August 2016 it was reported that the UCI had made changes to the course, increasing the amount of riding through the desert to and reducing the number of laps of the finishing circuit from eleven down to seven. The start of the men's race was also moved to the Aspire Zone, with the riders heading out northwards towards Al Khor and returning to Doha.

Qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours and UCI World Ranking during 2016. Results from January to the middle of August counted towards the qualification criteria on both the UCI World Ranking and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous rankings on 22 August 2016.
The following nations qualified.
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Schedule

All times are in .
DateTimeEvent
16 October 201610:30–16:35Men's road race

Participating nations

199 cyclists from 48 nations were entered in the men's road race, with 197 riders taking the start. The numbers of cyclists per nation are shown in parentheses.

Final classification

Of the race's 199 entrants, 53 riders completed the full distance of.
RankRiderCountryTime
1Peter Sagan
2Mark Cavendish
3Tom Boonens.t.
4Michael Matthewss.t.
5Giacomo Nizzolos.t.
6Edvald Boasson Hagens.t.
7Alexander Kristoffs.t.
8William Bonnets.t.
9Niki Terpstras.t.
10Greg Van Avermaets.t.
11Jacopo Guarnieris.t.
12Adam Blythes.t.
13Natnael Berhane+ 4"
14Jürgen Roelandts+ 9"
15Ryan Roth+ 9"
16Truls Engen Korsæth+ 9"
17Tom Leezer+ 9"
18Nicolas Dougall+ 9"
19Michael Kolář+ 13"
20Elia Viviani+ 14"
21Mathew Hayman+ 21"
22Anass Aït El Abdia+ 2' 48"
23Oliver Naesen+ 4' 00"
24Jasper Stuyven+ 4' 00"
25Daniele Bennati+ 4' 00"
26Alexander Porsev+ 5' 26"
27Aidis Kruopis+ 5' 26"
28Maximiliano Richeze+ 5' 26"
29Magnus Cort+ 5' 26"
30Sven Erik Bystrøm+ 5' 26"
31Yauheni Hutarovich+ 5' 26"
32Nacer Bouhanni+ 5' 26"
33Imanol Erviti+ 5' 26"
34Marco Haller+ 5' 26"
35Yukiya Arashiro+ 5' 26"
36Michael Schär+ 5' 26"
37Dylan Groenewegen+ 5' 26"
38Stefan Küng+ 5' 26"
39Juraj Sagan+ 5' 26"
40Maciej Bodnar+ 5' 26"
41Iljo Keisse+ 5' 26"
42André Greipel+ 5' 26"
43Taylor Phinney+ 5' 26"
44Koen de Kort+ 5' 26"
45Zdeněk Štybar+ 5' 26"
46Manuel Quinziato+ 5' 26"
47Jens Debusschere+ 5' 26"
48Dylan van Baarle+ 5' 26"
49Ben Swift+ 5' 26"
50Mitchell Docker+ 5' 26"
51Zak Dempster+ 5' 33"
52Scott Thwaites+ 5' 33"
53Robin Carpenter+ 6' 03"

Failed to finish

144 riders failed to finish, while Colombia's Rigoberto Urán and Norway's Vegard Breen failed to start.
RiderCountry
Jens Keukeleire
Mauro Richeze
Mekseb Debesay
Ryan Mullen
Marc Sarreau
Arnaud Démare
Hugo Houle
Gediminas Bagdonas
Dmitriy Gruzdev
David de la Cruz
Jack Bauer
Francisco Ventoso
Luis Ángel Maté
Reto Hollenstein
Alexey Lutsenko
Youcef Reguigui
Fumiyuki Beppu
Nikolas Maes
Joey Rosskopf
Fabian Lienhard
Carlos Barbero
Omar Fraile
Bernhard Eisel
Dion Smith
Matt Brammeier
Łukasz Wiśniowski
Antoine Duchesne
Vegard Stake Laengen
Daniel Hoelgaard
Michael Mørkøv
Lars Bak
Guillaume Boivin
Jos van Emden
Matti Breschel
Christopher Juul-Jensen
John Degenkolb
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Marcel Kittel
Sonny Colbrelli
Jasha Sütterlin
Jempy Drucker
Christophe Laporte
Nelson Oliveira
Tony Martin
Grégory Rast
Bob Jungels
Nils Politt
Sam Bennett

RiderCountry
Heinrich Haussler
Sergiy Lagkuti
Søren Kragh Andersen
Soufiane Haddi
Azzedine Lagab
Alexey Vermeulen
Chad Haga
Clint Hendricks
Ryan Gibbons
Daniel Turek
Andriy Vasylyuk
Mihkel Räim
Vitaliy Buts
Edwin Ávila
Omar Mendoza
Ian Stannard
Maksym Averin
Łukasz Owsian
Maciej Paterski
Matti Manninen
Geraint Thomas
Danny van Poppel
Mark Renshaw
Adrian Banaszek
Steve Cummings
Sebastian Langeveld
Luka Pibernik
Jiří Polnický
Tom Dumoulin
Fabio Sabatini
Carlos Alzate
Adam de Vos
Brayan Ramírez
Ruslan Tleubayev
Daniel Oss
Andžs Flaksis
Yoann Offredo
Ioannis Tamouridis
Cyril Lemoine
Anton Vorobyev
Karol Domagalski
Maxim Belkov
Fabricio Ferrari
Silvan Dillier
Sergey Lagutin
Andrei Nechita
Martin Elmiger
Pirmin Lang

RiderCountry
Juan José Lobato
Kristoffer Skjerping
Diego Rubio
Andriy Kulyk
Jonathan Castroviejo
Ramūnas Navardauskas
Luke Rowe
Fernando Gaviria
Walter Vargas
Daniel McLay
Adrien Petit
Geoffrey Soupe
Luke Durbridge
Caleb Ewan
Steele Von Hoff
Matteo Trentin
Sondre Holst Enger
Roman Maikin
Eric Marcotte
Vojtěch Hačecký
Alois Kaňkovský
František Sisr
Andrii Bratashchuk
Mykhaylo Kononenko
José Goncalves
Sérgio Paulinho
Grega Bole
Luka Mezgec
Metkel Eyob
Daniel Teklehaimanot
Tesfom Okubamariam
Meron Teshome
Alo Jakin
Gert Jõeäär
Salah Eddine Mraouni
Abderrahmane Mehdi Hamza
Ryan Anderson
Siarhei Papok
Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Francisco Chamorro
Māris Bogdanovičs
Ho Burr
Bonaventure Uwizeyimana
René Corella
Hassen Ben Nasser
Tedros Redae
Jonas Ahlstrand
Myagmarsuren Baasankhuu