2010 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

August 2020 August 2011 Men's Individual Road Race Jersey_rainbow.svg Rainbow jersey 150 2010 UCI Road World Championships 3 October 2010 1 259.9 km 6h 21' 49" medals Thor Hushovd Norway Matti Breschel Denmark Allan Davis Australia 2009 2011 The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2010 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 3 October in Melbourne and concluded in Geelong, Australia. Thor Hushovd claimed the World Championship in a sprint finish, to become the first Norwegian to win the World Championship road race.http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/501751/thor-hushovd-wins-the-rainbow-jersey-for-norway.html Thor Hushovd wins the rainbow jersey for Norway 3 October 2010 Cycling Weekly 4 October 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101006025647/http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/501751/thor-hushovd-wins-the-rainbow-jersey-for-norway.html 6 October 2010 livehttp://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/10/03/cycling.world.title.hushovd.contador/?hpt=T2 Norway's Thor Hushovd claims world road race crown 3 October 2010 CNN 4 October 2010 Route The race started at Federation Square at Melbourne. For the first time, the World Championship route started and finished in different locations, with the riders traveling to Geelong before entering the finishing circuit. The route followed the West Gate Freeway and Princes Freeway, passing the Werribee River. Exiting at Bulban Road, the riders passed the You Yangs Regional Park, continued via Bacchus Marsh Road, then entered the Geelong circuit at Bell Parade. There were eleven laps around a 15.9 kilometre course through the Geelong suburbs, including South Geelong, Belmont, Highton, Queens Park, Newtown and Geelong West. The profile included two steep climbs, the first between 5 and 7 kilometres, the second between 9 and 11. The finish had a moderate uphill gradient.http://www.melbourne2010.com.au/default.aspx?s=melb-geelong-flash Elite Men's Road race melbourne2010.com 7 September 2010 Circuit practice, training and racing took place in Geelong from Thursday 23 September to Sunday 3 October. Race Report The early breakaway consisted of 5 riders and was given a lead of up to 23 minutes by the peloton. In the break were Oleksandr Kvachuk, Mohammed Said Elammoury, Jackson Rodríguez, Diego Tamayo and Matt Brammeier. In between the break and the peloton rode Esad Hasanovic, who was chasing the lead group for several kilometres. He rode around 5 to 6 minutes behind them for some time. The breakaway almost lapped the peloton on the closing circuits, but the American and Belgian teams would increase the pace of the peloton and the gap began to fall. Elammoury was dropped by the other four with about 10 laps to go. Kvachuk dropped Brammeier, Tamayo, and Rodriguez but by the end of the seventh lap the gap had fallen to about 5 minutes. Somewhat like the previous year's race, a large escape group went away, this time with 5 laps to go. The group contained 31 riders, including the previous year's champion Cadel Evans, his teammates Stuart O'Grady and Simon Gerrans, Edvald Boasson Hagen of Norway, Belgian Philippe Gilbert, Dane Matti Breschel and 5 Italians including Vincenzo Nibali and Filippo Pozzato. The group survived until lap nine although the peloton, led on by Spain, never let them get much of a gap. On the ninth lap Nibali attacked which decimated the breakaway and the peloton behind. Evans, Gilbert, and Pozzato were chasing behind at the end of the 9th lap, with the peloton 49 seconds behind Nibali. However, the peloton kept the pressure high and had pulled back all the attackers, including the early breakaway at the beginning of the last lap. On the final ascent of the Montpelier climb, Gilbert made an attack and Evans immediately tried to jump into his slipstream. However, Gilbert got away from Evans, who was absorbed by a chase group containing Paul Martens of Germany, Alexander Kolobnev of Russia, Koos Moerenhout of The Netherlands, and Fränk Schleck of Luxembourg. The group was not well organized and was brought back by the remnants of the peloton and Gilbert was also caught with 2 kilometers to go. Russian Vladimir Gusev and Slovenian Janez Brajkovič attacked just before the 1 kilometer to go banner and were joined by Dutchman Niki Terpstra. Terpstra attacked with about 800 meters to go as the Danes tried to set up a sprint for Breschel. However, as soon as Terpstra was caught Belgian Greg Van Avermaet launched the sprint. Breschel passed Van Avermaet on the left-hand side but Thor Hushovd of Norway passed Breschel and held on to the finish line for the victory. Breschel would settle for 2nd while Allan Davis of Australia passed Van Avermaet for the bronze medal. National qualification Nations in the top ten places of the UCI World Ranking on 15 August were permitted up to nine riders, although they were not permitted more than six unless they had at least seven riders in the rankings on that date. This happened to Kazakhstan, and as a result, one additional spot was awarded to Luxembourg, Slovenia and France (10th to 12 respectively in the rankings), although this concession had not been in the original documentation describing the allocation of places. 27 other qualifying nations were permitted no more than six riders. After allowing for the top ten in the world rankings, the continental rankings are to be used to identify sixteen further European nations, two countries from the UCI Africa Tour, five from the Americas, three Asian countries, and one representative of the Oceania tour. Riders on teams that are members of a UCI ProTeam, but whose nation did not qualify, were eligible for additional places. Nation qualification 14 to be enrolled, 9 to startESPITABELAUSUSARUSSUIGERNED9 to be enrolled, 7 to startFRASVN14 to be enrolled, 6 to startKAZ9 to be enrolled, 6 to startMARCOLVENIranPOLPORUKRDEN5 to be enrolled, 4 to startLUX5 to be enrolled, 3 to startRSACANBRAARGJPNSouth KoreaBulgariaCROCZELITESTIRLNORGBRAUTSRBNZLSVK3 to be enrolled, 2 to startBLRSWE2 to be enrolled, 1 to startUzbekistanCubaBoliviaUruguayCHIGuatemalaCosta RicaLATGreeceRomania Final classification Rank Bib Number Name Country Time 77 Thor Hushovd NOR 6:21:49 144 Matti Breschel DEN s.t. 3 Allan Davis AUS s.t. 4 24 Filippo Pozzato ITA s.t. 5 35 Greg Van Avermaet BEL s.t. 6 12 Óscar Freire ESP s.t. 7 70 Alexander Kolobnev RUS s.t. 8 86 Assan Bazayev KAZ s.t. 9 127 Yukiya Arashiro JPN s.t. 10 100 Romain Feillu FRA s.t. 11 91 Grega Bole SLO s.t. 12 88 Dmitriy Fofonov KAZ s.t. 13 51 Koos Moerenhout NED s.t. 14 63 Fabian Wegmann GER s.t. 15 135 André Cardoso POR s.t. 16 66 Fränk Schleck LUX s.t. 17 1 Cadel Evans AUS s.t. 18 31 Philippe Gilbert BEL s.t. 19 53 Niki Terpstra NED +0:07 20 33 Björn Leukemans BEL s.t. 21 68 Vladimir Gusev RUS +0:13 22 93 Janez Brajkovič SLO s.t. 23 148 Chris Sørensen DEN s.t. 24 145 Anders Lund DEN +0:15 25 60 Paul Martens GER s.t. 26 104 Yoann Offredo FRA +2:07 27 168 Jonas Ljungblad SWE +2:09 28 155 Matija Kvasina CRO +2:11 29 59 Christian Knees GER s.t. 30 128 Fumiyuki Beppu JPN s.t. 31 96 Simon Špilak SLO +2:13 32 101 Cyril Gautier FRA s.t. 33 178 Kanstantsin Sivtsov BLR s.t. 34 111 José Serpa COL s.t. 35 161 Juan José Haedo ARG s.t. 36 27 Giovanni Visconti ITA s.t. 37 19 Marzio Bruseghin ITA +5:11 38 23 Luca Paolini ITA s.t. 39 18 Haimar Zubeldia ESP s.t. 40 21 Vincenzo Nibali ITA +7:10 41 46 Lars Boom NED +7:22 42 52 Wout Poels NED s.t. 43 56 André Greipel GER s.t. 44 97 Gorazd Štangelj SLO s.t. 45 7 Stuart O'Grady AUS s.t. 46 157 Radoslav Rogina CRO s.t. 47 48 Karsten Kroon NED s.t. 48 94 Jure Kocjan SLO s.t. 49 67 Pavel Brutt RUS s.t. 50 80 Fabian Cancellara SUI s.t. 51 177 Yauheni Hutarovich BLR +13:53 52 139 Denys Kostyuk UKR s.t. 53 174 Martin Velits SVK s.t. 54 150 Petr Benčik CZE s.t. 55 81 Martin Elmiger SUI s.t. 56 133 Hernani Broco POR s.t. 57 73 Egor Silin RUS s.t. 58 62 Marcel Sieberg GER s.t. 59 83 Steve Morabito SUI s.t. 60 115 Bartosz Huzarski POL s.t. 61 75 Eduard Vorganov RUS s.t. 62 47 Koen de Kort NED s.t. 63 99 Sylvain Chavanel FRA s.t. 64 114 Michał Gołaś POL s.t. 65 169 Bernhard Eisel AUT s.t. 66 170 Peter Wrolich AUT s.t. 67 142 Oleksandr Sheydyk UKR s.t. 68 165 David McCann IRL s.t. 69 78 Alexander Kristoff NOR s.t. 70 103 Sébastien Hinault FRA s.t. 71 55 Bert Grabsch GER s.t. 72 129 Yukihiro Doi JPN s.t. 73 38 Ted King USA s.t. 74 175 Peter Velits SVK s.t. 75 167 Gustav Larsson SWE s.t. 76 143 Lars Bak DEN s.t. 77 152 Julian Dean NZL s.t. 78 117 Przemysław Niemiec POL s.t. 79 44 Christian Vande Velde USA s.t. 80 41 Danny Pate USA s.t. 81 37 Tyler Farrar USA s.t. 82 57 Danilo Hondo GER s.t. 83 102 Anthony Geslin FRA s.t. 84 159 Tanel Kangert EST s.t. 85 107 Svein Tuft CAN s.t. 86 98 William Bonnet FRA s.t. 87 151 Leopold König CZE s.t. 88 87 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ s.t. 89 149 Ignatas Konovalovas LTU s.t. 90 137 José João Mendes POR s.t. 91 49 Steven Kruijswijk NED s.t. 92 50 Sebastian Langeveld NED s.t. 93 140 Oleksandr Kvachuk UKR s.t. 94 6 Mathew Hayman AUS s.t. 95 9 Wesley Sulzberger AUS s.t. 96 8 Michael Rogers AUS s.t. 97 166 Nicolas Roche IRL s.t. 98 64 Laurent Didier LUX +21:51 99 171 Zsolt Dér SRB +22:50 Riders who did not finish 79 riders failed to finish the race. 33% Rider Country Lucas Sebastián Haedo Argentina 2010 Matías Médici Argentina 2010 Baden Cooke Australia 2010 Matthew Goss Australia 2010 Simon Gerrans Australia 2010 Frederik Willems Belgium 2010 Jan Bakelants Belgium 2010 Jürgen Roelandts Belgium 2010 Kevin De Weert Belgium 2010 Leif Hoste Belgium 2010 Mario Aerts Belgium 2010 Murilo Fischer Brazil 2010 Christian Meier Canada 2010 Dominique Rollin Canada 2010 Carlos Oyarzún Chile 2010 Diego Alejandro Tamayo Colombia 2010 Hrvoje Miholjević Croatia 2010 Alex Rasmussen Denmark 2010 Michael Mørkøv Denmark 2010 Kalle Kriit Estonia 2010 Dominic Klemme Germany 2010 Tony Martin Germany 2010 David Millar Great Britain 2010 Jeremy Hunt Great Britain 2010 Mark Cavendish Great Britain 2010 Matthew Brammeier Ireland 2010 Rider Country Andrea Tonti Italy 2010 Daniel Oss Italy 2010 Francesco Gavazzi Italy 2010 Matteo Tosatto Italy 2010 Sergey Renev Kazakhstan 2010 Valentin Iglinskiy Kazakhstan 2010 Ben Gastauer Luxembourg 2010 Abdelati Saadoune Morocco 2010 Adil Jelloul Morocco 2010 Adnane Aarbia Morocco 2010 Mohamed Elammoury Morocco 2010 Mouhssine Lahsaini Morocco 2010 Tarik Chaoufi Morocco 2010 Jos van Emden Netherlands 2010 Gregory Henderson New Zealand 2010 Hayden Roulston New Zealand 2010 Edvald Boasson Hagen Norway 2010 Jarosław Marycz Poland 2010 Maciej Bodnar Poland 2010 Marcin Sapa Poland 2010 Manuel Antonio Cardoso Portugal 2010 Samuel Caldeira Portugal 2010 Alexander Porsev Russia 2010 Artem Ovechkin Russia 2010 Vladimir Karpets Russia 2010 Yury Trofimov Russia 2010 Esad Hasanovic Serbia 2010 Rider Country Peter Sagan Slovakia 2010 Borut Božič Slovenia 2010 Kristjan Koren Slovenia 2010 Darren Lill South Africa 2010 Daryl Impey South Africa 2010 Jay Robert Thomson South Africa 2010 Carlos Barredo Spain 2010 Francisco Ventoso Spain 2010 Imanol Erviti Spain 2010 Juan Manuel Gárate Spain 2010 Luis León Sánchez Spain 2010 Rubén Plaza Spain 2010 Samuel Sánchez Spain 2010 Danilo Wyss Switzerland 2010 Grégory Rast Switzerland 2010 Martin Kohler Switzerland 2010 Michael Albasini Switzerland 2010 Andriy Hrivko Ukraine 2010 Yuriy Metlushenko Ukraine 2010 Craig Lewis United States 2010 David Zabriskie United States 2010 Jason McCartney United States 2010 Tejay van Garderen United States 2010 Thomas Peterson United States 2010 Carlos José Ochoa Venezuela 2010 Jackson Rodríguez Venezuela 2010 References External links http://www.melbourne2010.com.au/ 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