# UCI Road World Championships – Junior men's road race

UCI Road World Championships – Men's junior road race is the annual world championship race for road bicycle racing for men in the Junior category. It is organised by the world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale. In the period 2005–2009 this event was part of the UCI Juniors World Championships, then the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in 2010. In 2020 no junior race was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The winner of the event is entitled to wear the rainbow jersey in Junior competitions for one year.

## Palmares

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1975 | Roberto Visentini (ITA) | Ad Verstijlen (NED) | Alberto Massuco (ITA) |
| 1976 | Ronald Bessems (NED) | Corrado Donadio (ITA) | Jiri Korous (TCH) |
| 1977 | Ronny Van Holen (BEL) | Per-Ove Carlsson (SWE) | Edwin Menzi (SUI) |
| 1978 | Vladimir Makarkin (URS) | Hubert Denstedt (GDR) | Thomas Landis (SUI) Alguis Waitkus (URS) |
| 1979 | Greg LeMond (USA) | Kenny De Maerteleire (BEL) | J. Fr. Dury (FRA) |
| 1980 | Roberto Ciampi (ITA) | Eric Vanderaerden (BEL) | Sergei Navolokin (URS) |
| 1981 | Beat Schumacher (SUI) | Oleg Chushda (URS) | Philippe Bouvatier (FRA) |
| 1982 | Roger Six (BEL) | Andreas Lux (GDR) | Yury Abramov (URS) |
| 1983 | Søren Lilholt (DEN) | Oleg Emelianov (URS) | Michael Gozzi (SWE) |
| 1984 | Tom Cordes (NED) | Franco Cavallini (ITA) | Alex Pedersen (DEN) |
| 1985 | Raymond Meijs (NED) | Evgueni Zagrebelni (URS) | Jean-Jacques Henry (FRA) |
| 1986 | Michel Zanoli (NED) | Richard Luppes (NED) | Bart Leysen (BEL) |
| 1987 | Pavel Tonkov (URS) | Erik Dekker (NED) | Josef Lontscharitsch (AUT) |
| 1988 | Gianluca Tarocco (ITA) | Vassili Davidenko (URS) | Alessandro Bertolini (ITA) |
| 1989 | Patrick Vetsch (SUI) | Danny Sleeckx (BEL) | Steffen Wesemann (GDR) |
| 1990 | Marco Serpellini (ITA) | Igor Dziouba (URS) | Bogdan Fink (YUG) |
| 1991 | Jeff Evanshine (USA) | Tony Morphett (AUS) | Eddy Mazzoleni (ITA) |
| 1992 | Giuseppe Palumbo (ITA) | Pasquale Santoro (ITA) | Frank Vandenbroucke (BEL) |
| 1993 | Giuseppe Palumbo (ITA) | Mariano Friedick (USA) | Michele Rezzani (ITA) |
| 1994 | Miguel Morrás Mangado (ESP) | Laurent Lefèvre (FRA) | Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (ESP) |
| 1995 | Valentino China (ITA) | Ivan Basso (ITA) | Rinaldo Nocentini (ITA) |
| 1996 | Holger Loew (GER) | Jacob Nielsen (DEN) | Claudio Astolfi (ITA) |
| 1997 | Crescenzo D'Amore (ITA) | Martin Bolt (SUI) | Margus Salumets (EST) |
| 1998 | Mark Scanlon (IRL) | Filippo Pozzato (ITA) | Eduard Kivitchev (RUS) |
| 1999 | Damiano Cunego (ITA) | Ruslan Kayumov (RUS) | Christophe Kern (FRA) |
| 2000 | Jeremy Yates (NZL) | Antonio Bucciero (ITA) | Alexandr Arekeev (RUS) |
| 2001 | Oleksandr Kvachouk (UKR) | Niels Scheuneman (NED) | Mathieu Perget (FRA) |
| 2002 | Arnaud Gérard (FRA) | Jukka Vastaranta (FIN) | Nicolas Sanderson (AUS) |
| 2003 | Kai Reus (NED) | Anders Lund (DEN) | Lukas Fus (CZE) |
| 2004 | Roman Kreuziger (CZE) | Rafaâ Chtioui (TUN) | Simon Špilak (SLO) |
| 2005 | Ivan Rovny (RUS) | Timofey Kritskiy (RUS) | Sebastian Hans (GER) |
| 2006 | Diego Ulissi (ITA) | Niki Østergaard (DEN) | Tony Gallopin (FRA) |
| 2007 | Diego Ulissi (ITA) | Daniele Ratto (ITA) | Elia Favilli (ITA) |
| 2008 | Johan Le Bon (FRA) | Mattia Cattaneo (ITA) | Sebastian Lander (DEN) |
| 2009 | Jasper Stuyven (BEL) | Arnaud Démare (FRA) | Marco Haller (AUT) |
| 2010 | Olivier Le Gac (FRA) | Jay McCarthy (AUS) | Jasper Stuyven (BEL) |
| 2011 (details) | Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier (FRA) | Martijn Degreve (BEL) | Steven Lammertink (NED) |
| 2012 (details) | Matej Mohorič (SLO) | Caleb Ewan (AUS) | Josip Rumac (CRO) |
| 2013 (details) | Mathieu van der Poel (NED) | Mads Pedersen (DEN) | Nikaj Iltjan (ALB) |
| 2014 (details) | Jonas Bokeloh (GER) | Alexandr Kulikovskiy (RUS) | Peter Lenderink (NED) |
| 2015 (details) | Felix Gall (AUT) | Clément Bétouigt-Suire (FRA) | Rasmus Pedersen (DEN) |
| 2016 (details) | Jakob Egholm (DEN) | Niklas Markl (GER) | Reto Müller (SUI) |
| 2017 (details) | Julius Johansen (DEN) | Luca Rastelli (ITA) | Michele Gazzoli (ITA) |
| 2018 (details) | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Marius Mayrhofer (GER) | Alessandro Fancellu (ITA) |
| 2019 (details) | Quinn Simmons (USA) | Alessio Martinelli (ITA) | Magnus Sheffield (USA) |
| 2021 (details) | Per Strand Hagenes (NOR) | Romain Grégoire (FRA) | Madis Mihkels (EST) |
| 2022 (details) | Emil Herzog (GER) | António Morgado (POR) | Vlad Van Mechelen (BEL) |
| 2023 (details) | Albert Philipsen (DEN) | Paul Fietzke (GER) | Felix Ørn-Kristoff (NOR) |
| 2024 (details) | Lorenzo Mark Finn (ITA) | Sebastian Grindley (GRB) | Senna Remijn (NED) |

### Medallists by nation

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy | 12 | 10 | 9 | 31 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | France | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | Belgium | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | Denmark | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Germany | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Soviet Union | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | Russia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 11 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Norway | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Australia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 20 | East Germany | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 21 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Estonia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 27 | Albania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (30 entries) | Totals (30 entries) | 49 | 49 | 50 | 148 |