# 2022 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race of the 2022 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 25 September 2022 in Wollongong, Australia.

## Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 16 August 2022.

### UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.
| Criterium | Rank | Number of riders | Number of riders | Nations |
| Criterium | Rank | To enter | To start | Nations |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 1–10 | 13 | 8 | France Belgium Slovenia Netherlands Spain Denmark Great Britain Italy Colombia Australia |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 11–20 | 9 | 6 | Eritrea New Zealand Switzerland Norway Germany United States Ecuador Poland Portugal Czech Republic |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 21–30 | 7 | 4 | Kazakhstan Argentina South Africa Canada Austria Ireland Luxembourg Hungary Estonia Slovakia |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 31–50 | 2 | 1 | Latvia Panama Mongolia Japan Venezuela Ukraine Sweden Lithuania Romania Algeria Greece Morocco Brazil Israel Uzbekistan Serbia Turkey Croatia Thailand Rwanda |
| UCI World Ranking by Individuals (if not already qualified) | 1–200 | 2 | 1 | — |

### Continental champions

| Name | Country | Reason |
| Julian Alaphilippe | France | Incumbent World Champion |
| Henok Mulubrhan | Eritrea | African Champion |
| Emiliano Contreras | Argentina | Panamerican Champion |
| Igor Chzhan | Kazakhstan | Asian Champion |
| James Fouché | New Zealand | Oceanian Champion |

### Participating nations

169 cyclists from 50 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (8)
* Austria (3)
* Belgium (8)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (4)
* China (2)
* Colombia (6)
* Czech Republic (3)
* Denmark (8)
* Ecuador (1)
* Eritrea (6)
* France (9)
* Germany (6)
* Great Britain (8)
* Greece (1)
* Hong Kong (1)
* Hungary (1)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (8)
* Japan (1)
* Kazakhstan (3)
* Latvia (1)
* Lithuania (1)
* Luxembourg (4)
* Malta (1)
* Monaco (1)
* Mongolia (2)
* Morocco (1)
* Netherlands (8)
* New Zealand (1)
* Norway (6)
* Panama (2)
* Poland (3)
* Portugal (4)
* Rwanda (2)
* Serbia (1)
* Slovakia (4)
* Slovenia (6)
* South Africa (3)
* South Korea (1)
* Spain (8)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (6)
* Thailand (2)
* Turkey (1)
* Ukraine (2)
* United States (5)
* Uzbekistan (1)
* Vatican City (1)

## Final classification

Of the race's 169 entrants, 103 riders completed the full distance of 266.9-kilometre (165.8 mi).
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 1 | Remco Evenepoel | Belgium | 6h 16' 08" |
| 2 | Christophe Laporte | France | + 2' 21" |
| 3 | Michael Matthews | Australia | + 2' 21" |
| 4 | Wout van Aert | Belgium | + 2' 21" |
| 5 | Matteo Trentin | Italy | + 2' 21" |
| 6 | Alexander Kristoff | Norway | + 2' 21" |
| 7 | Peter Sagan | Slovakia | + 2' 21" |
| 8 | Alberto Bettiol | Italy | + 2' 21" |
| 9 | Ethan Hayter | Great Britain | + 2' 21" |
| 10 | Mattias Skjelmose | Denmark | + 2' 21" |
| 11 | Iván García Cortina | Spain | + 2' 21" |
| 12 | Jan Tratnik | Slovenia | + 2' 21" |
| 13 | Lorenzo Rota | Italy | + 2' 21" |
| 14 | Ben Tulett | Great Britain | + 2' 21" |
| 15 | Mikkel Frølich Honoré | Denmark | + 2' 21" |
| 16 | Rasmus Tiller | Norway | + 2' 21" |
| 17 | Mauro Schmid | Switzerland | + 2' 21" |
| 18 | Neilson Powless | United States | + 2' 21" |
| 19 | Tadej Pogačar | Slovenia | + 2' 21" |
| 20 | Stefan Küng | Switzerland | + 2' 21" |
| 21 | Kevin Geniets | Luxembourg | + 2' 21" |
| 22 | Romain Bardet | France | + 2' 21" |
| 23 | Attila Valter | Hungary | + 2' 21" |
| 24 | Alexey Lutsenko | Kazakhstan | + 2' 21" |
| 25 | Bauke Mollema | Netherlands | + 2' 21" |
| 26 | Benoît Cosnefroy | France | + 2' 21" |
| 27 | Dylan van Baarle | Netherlands | + 2' 21" |
| 28 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Netherlands | + 2' 21" |
| 29 | Valentin Madouas | France | + 2' 31" |
| 30 | Jan Polanc | Slovenia | + 2' 31" |
| 31 | Sergio Higuita | Colombia | + 2' 31" |
| 32 | Jhonatan Narváez | Ecuador | + 2' 31" |
| 33 | Nicola Conci | Italy | + 2' 31" |
| 34 | Quinten Hermans | Belgium | + 2' 34" |
| 35 | Magnus Cort | Denmark | + 3' 01" |
| 36 | Nickolas Zukowsky | Canada | + 3' 01" |
| 37 | Sven Erik Bystrom | Norway | + 3' 01" |
| 38 | Silvan Dillier | Switzerland | + 3' 01" |
| 39 | Yukiya Arashiro | Japan | + 3' 01" |
| 40 | Sebastian Schönberger | Austria | + 3' 01" |
| 41 | Anders Skaarseth | Norway | + 3' 01" |
| 42 | Zdeněk Štybar | Czech Republic | + 3' 01" |
| 43 | Nathan Van Hooydonck | Belgium | + 3' 01" |
| 44 | Nelson Oliveira | Portugal | + 3' 01" |
| 45 | Bob Jungels | Luxembourg | + 3' 01" |
| 46 | Andrea Bagioli | Italy | + 3' 01" |
| 47 | Jasper Stuyven | Belgium | + 3' 01" |
| 48 | Yves Lampaert | Belgium | + 3' 01" |
| 49 | Jai Hindley | Australia | + 3' 01" |
| 50 | Simon Clarke | Australia | + 3' 01" |
| 51 | Julian Alaphilippe | France | + 3' 01" |
| 52 | Nikias Arndt | Germany | + 3' 08" |
| 53 | Fred Wright | Great Britain | + 3' 08" |
| 54 | Biniam Girmay | Eritrea | + 3' 08" |
| 55 | Michael Mørkøv | Denmark | + 3' 08" |
| 56 | Jakob Fuglsang | Denmark | + 3' 08" |
| 57 | Alexander Kamp | Denmark | + 3' 28" |
| 58 | Emils Liepins | Latvia | + 4' 50" |
| 59 | Michael Kukrle | Czech Republic | + 4' 50" |
| 60 | João Almeida | Portugal | + 5' 16" |
| 61 | Jan Maas | Netherlands | + 6' 11" |
| 62 | Tobias Bayer | Austria | + 6' 11" |
| 63 | Davide Ballerini | Italy | + 6' 11" |
| 64 | Matúš Štoček | Slovakia | + 6' 11" |
| 65 | Marek Čanecký | Slovakia | + 6' 11" |
| 66 | Nairo Quintana | Colombia | + 6' 11" |
| 67 | Heinrich Haussler | Australia | + 6' 11" |
| 68 | Jaka Primožič | Slovenia | + 6' 11" |
| 69 | Merhawi Kudus | Eritrea | + 6' 17" |
| 70 | Anthon Charmig | Denmark | + 6' 20" |
| 70 | Eduardo Sepúlveda | Argentina | + 6' 20" |
| 72 | Jannik Steimle | Germany | + 6' 20" |
| 73 | Keegan Swenson | United States | + 6' 20" |
| 74 | Daryl Impey | South Africa | + 6' 20" |
| 75 | Jesús Ezquerra | Spain | + 6' 20" |
| 76 | Stanisław Aniołkowski | Poland | + 6' 20" |
| 77 | Roger Adrià | Spain | + 6' 20" |
| 78 | Magnus Sheffield | United States | + 6' 20" |
| 79 | Ben Swift | Great Britain | + 6' 20" |
| 80 | Quentin Pacher | France | + 8' 10" |
| 81 | Wout Poels | Netherlands | + 8' 10" |
| 82 | Marc Soler | Spain | + 9' 31" |
| 83 | Ivo Oliveira | Portugal | + 9' 31" |
| 84 | Tobias Foss | Norway | + 9' 31" |
| 85 | Samuele Battistella | Italy | + 9' 31" |
| 86 | Scott McGill | United States | + 10' 23" |
| 87 | Eduard Prades | Spain | + 10' 23" |
| 88 | Simon Pellaud | Switzerland | + 11' 28" |
| 89 | Fabian Lienhard | Switzerland | + 11' 28" |
| 90 | Florian Sénéchal | France | + 11' 28" |
| 91 | Nick Schultz | Australia | + 11' 28" |
| 92 | Mikkel Bjerg | Denmark | + 11' 28" |
| 93 | Wilson Peña | Colombia | + 11' 28" |
| 94 | Andreas Leknessund | Norway | + 11' 28" |
| 95 | Luc Wirtgen | Luxembourg | + 11' 28" |
| 96 | Łukasz Owsian | Poland | + 11' 28" |
| 97 | Felix Gall | Austria | + 11' 28" |
| 98 | Stan Dewulf | Belgium | + 11' 28" |
| 99 | Daan Hoole | Netherlands | + 11' 28" |
| 100 | Ben Turner | Great Britain | + 11' 40" |
| 101 | Pavel Sivakov | France | + 14' 28" |
| 102 | Jake Stewart | Great Britain | + 15' 05" |
| 103 | Connor Swift | Great Britain | + 15' 05" |
| Rider | Country | Time |
| Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier | Eritrea | DNF |
| Juan Sebastián Molano | Colombia | DNF |
| Henok Mulubrhan | Eritrea | DNF |
| Natnael Tesfatsion | Eritrea | DNF |
| Guy Sagiv | Israel | DNF |
| Rodrigo Contreras | Colombia | DNF |
| Bruno Armirail | France | DNF |
| Pieter Serry | Belgium | DNF |
| James Fouché | New Zealand | DNF |
| Luke Plapp | Australia | DNF |
| Pier-André Côté | Canada | DNF |
| Maciej Bodnar | Poland | DNF |
| Vadim Pronskiy | Kazakhstan | DNF |
| Ben O'Connor | Australia | DNF |
| Harold Tejada | Colombia | DNF |
| Jonas Koch | Germany | DNF |
| Venantas Lašinis | Lithuania | DNF |
| Sarawut Sirironnachai | Thailand | DNF |
| Domen Novak | Slovenia | DNF |
| Rui Oliveira | Portugal | DNF |
| Christofer Jurado | Panama | DNF |
| Juraj Sagan | Slovakia | DNF |
| Tobias Ludvigsson | Sweden | DNF |
| Luke Durbridge | Australia | DNF |
| Nicolas Sessler | Brazil | DNF |
| David Per | Slovenia | DNF |
| Luke Rowe | Great Britain | DNF |
| Kyle Murphy | United States | DNF |
| Derek Gee | Canada | DNF |
| Urko Berrade | Spain | DNF |
| Jan Hirt | Czech Republic | DNF |
| Miguel Heidemann | Germany | DNF |
| Gotzon Martín | Spain | DNF |
| Vitaliy Buts | Ukraine | DNF |
| Muradjan Khalmuratov | Uzbekistan | DNF |
| Gustav Basson | South Africa | DNF |
| Matteo Dal-Cin | Canada | DNF |
| Marc Oliver Pritzen | South Africa | DNF |
| Taco van der Hoorn | Netherlands | DNF |
| Bolivar Espinosa | Panama | DNF |
| Peerapol Chawchiangkwang | Thailand | DNF |
| Edoardo Affini | Italy | DNF |
| Georgios Bouglas | Greece | DNF |
| Lü Xianjing | China | DNF |
| Mustafa Sayar | Turkey | DNF |
| Georg Zimmermann | Germany | DNF |
| Yuriy Natarov | Kazakhstan | DNF |
| Nico Denz | Germany | DNF |
| Daniel Bonello | Malta | DNS |
| Achraf Ed Doghmy | Morocco | DNF |
| Ognjen Ilić | Serbia | DNF |
| Choy Hiu Fung | Hong Kong | DNF |
| Jambaljamts Sainbayar | Mongolia | DNF |
| Eric Manizabayo | Rwanda | DNF |
| Metkel Eyob | Eritrea | DNF |
| Oier Lazkano | Spain | DNF |
| Bilguunjargal Erdenebat | Mongolia | DNF |
| Rien Schuurhuis | Vatican City | DNF |
| Antoine Berlin | Monaco | DNF |
| Vitalii Novakovskyi | Ukraine | DNF |
| Moise Mugisha | Rwanda | DNF |
| Bieken Nazaerbieke | China | DNF |
| Stefan Bissegger | Switzerland | DNF |
| Jang Kyung-gu | South Korea | DNF |
| Colin Heiderscheid | Luxembourg | DNF |
| Mathieu van der Poel | Netherlands | DNF |