# 2015 UCI Road World Championships – Men's junior road race

The Men's junior road race of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships took place in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States on September 26, 2015. The course of the race was eight laps over a 16.2 km (10.1 mi) circuit making 129.6 km (80.5 mi) with the start and finish in Richmond.
Austria's Felix Gall attacked with 20 km (12 mi) remaining and managed to stay clear at the head of the race to win the gold medal, holding off a fast-finishing Clément Bétouigt-Suire of France, in a two-up sprint finish. One second behind, Danish rider Rasmus Pedersen completed the podium with the bronze medal.

## Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the final UCI Juniors Nations' Cup ranking as of August 15, 2015. The first ten nations in this classification qualified six riders to start, the next five nations qualified five riders to start and the next five nations qualified four riders to start. The United States, as the organising nation, were entitled five riders to start. Other nations and non ranked nations had the opportunity to send three riders to start. Moreover continental champions were qualified to take part in the race, on top of the nation numbers. The outgoing World Champion, Mathieu van der Poel, did not compete as he was no longer eligible to contest junior races.
| Tour | Position | Number of riders | Nations |
| UCI Juniors Nations' Cup ranking | 1–10 | 12 to enter, 6 to start | United States Belgium Denmark France Germany Netherlands Italy Switzerland Russia Norway |
| UCI Juniors Nations' Cup ranking | 11–15 | 10 to enter, 5 to start | Kazakhstan Luxembourg Ireland Austria Morocco |
| UCI Juniors Nations' Cup ranking | 16–20 | 8 to enter, 4 to start | Slovenia Poland Mexico Canada Portugal |
| | — | 6 to enter, 3 to start | Other nations |
| Champion | Name | Name | Name |
| African Champion | El Mehdi Chokri (MAR) | El Mehdi Chokri (MAR) | El Mehdi Chokri (MAR) |
| Pan American Champion | Luis Villalobos (MEX) | Luis Villalobos (MEX) | Luis Villalobos (MEX) |
| Asian Champion | Keitaro Sawada (JPN) | Keitaro Sawada (JPN) | Keitaro Sawada (JPN) |
| European Champion | Alan Banaszek (POL) | Alan Banaszek (POL) | Alan Banaszek (POL) |
| Oceanian Champion | Jackson Carman (AUS) | Jackson Carman (AUS) | Jackson Carman (AUS) |

## Course

The junior men rode eight laps on the road race circuit. The length of the circuit was 16.2 km (10.1 mi) and had a total elevation of 103 meters (338 feet). All road races took place on a challenging, technical and inner-city road circuit. The circuit headed west from Downtown Richmond, working its way onto Monument Avenue, a paver-lined, historic boulevard that's been named one of the "10 Great Streets in America". Cyclists took a 180-degree turn at the Jefferson Davis monument and then maneuvered through the Uptown district and Virginia Commonwealth University. Halfway through the circuit, the race headed down into Shockoe Bottom before following the canal and passing Great Shiplock Park, the start of the Virginia Capital Trail. A sharp, off-camber turn at Rocketts Landing brought the riders to the narrow, twisty, cobbled 200 meters (660 feet) climb up to Libby Hill Park in the historic Church Hill neighborhood. A quick descent, followed by three hard turns led to a 100 meters (330 feet) climb up 23rd Street. Once atop this steep cobbled hill, riders descended into Shockoe Bottom. This led them to the final 300 meters (980 feet) climb on Governor Street. At the top, the riders had to take a sharp left turn onto the false-flat finishing straight, 680 meters (2,230 feet) to the finish.

## Schedule

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).
| Date | Time | Event |
| September 26, 2015 | 09:00–12:15 | Men's junior road race |

## Participating nations

165 cyclists from 51 nations took part in the men's junior road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
* Algeria (3)
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (5)
* Azerbaijan (3)
* Belgium (6)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
* Brazil (3)
* Canada (4)
* Colombia (3)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czech Republic (3)
* Denmark (5)
* Ecuador (3)
* El Salvador (1)
* Spain (3)
* Estonia (3)
* Finland (2)
* France (6)
* Great Britain (3)
* Germany (6)
* Guatemala (2)
* Hungary (2)
* Ireland (5)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (4)
* Kazakhstan (5)
* Latvia (1)
* Luxembourg (5)
* Morocco (2)
* Mexico (1)
* Mongolia (1)
* Netherlands (6)
* Norway (5)
* New Zealand (3)
* Poland (5)
* Portugal (4)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* South Africa (3)
* Russia (6)
* Singapore (1)
* Slovenia (4)
* Serbia (1)
* Switzerland (6)
* Slovakia (3)
* Sweden (3)
* Thailand (2)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (1)

## Prize money

The UCI assigned premiums for the top 3 finishers with a total prize money of €3,450.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total |
| Amount | €1,533 | €1,150 | €767 | €3,450 |

## Final classification

Of the race's 165 entrants, 114 riders completed the full distance of 129.6 km (80.5 mi).
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 1 | Felix Gall | Austria | 3h 11' 09" |
| 2 | Clément Bétouigt-Suire | France | s.t. |
| 3 | Rasmus Pedersen | Denmark | + 1" |
| 4 | Reto Müller | Switzerland | + 10" |
| 5 | Martin Salmon | Germany | + 10" |
| 6 | Nicola Conci | Italy | + 10" |
| 7 | Mathias Norsgaard | Denmark | + 13" |
| 8 | Nathan Draper | Great Britain | + 13" |
| 9 | Marc Hirschi | Switzerland | + 13" |
| 10 | Pit Leyder | Luxembourg | + 20" |
| 11 | Thomas Vereecken | Belgium | + 21" |
| 12 | Alexys Brunel | France | + 23" |
| 13 | Anthon Charmig | Denmark | + 26" |
| 14 | Max Kanter | Germany | + 36" |
| 15 | Matteo Sobrero | Italy | + 36" |
| 16 | Michael Storer | Australia | + 36" |
| 17 | Gino Mäder | Switzerland | + 36" |
| 18 | Adrien Costa | United States | + 36" |
| 19 | Joey Walker | Great Britain | + 36" |
| 20 | Kevin Geniets | Luxembourg | + 36" |
| 21 | Jaka Primožič | Slovenia | + 39" |
| 22 | Bjorg Lambrecht | Belgium | + 45" |
| 23 | Tanguy Turgis | France | + 45" |
| 24 | Nils Eekhoff | Netherlands | + 45" |
| 25 | Marcel Neuhäuser | Austria | + 45" |
| 26 | Vadim Pronskiy | Kazakhstan | + 45" |
| 27 | Keagan Girdlestone | South Africa | + 45" |
| 28 | Leo Appelt | Germany | + 45" |
| 29 | Dušan Rajović | Serbia | + 45" |
| 30 | Patrick Haller | Germany | + 45" |
| 31 | Alexandr Kulikovskiy | Russia | + 45" |
| 32 | Mario Spengler | Switzerland | + 45" |
| 33 | André Carvalho | Portugal | + 45" |
| 34 | Kristo Enn Vaga | Estonia | + 45" |
| 35 | Robin Froidevaux | Switzerland | + 45" |
| 36 | Markus Wildauer | Austria | + 54" |
| 37 | Jasper Philipsen | Belgium | + 54" |
| 38 | Luis Villalobos | Mexico | + 58" |
| 39 | Dennis van der Horst | Netherlands | + 1' 00" |
| 40 | Stefan Bissegger | Switzerland | + 1' 00" |
| 41 | Michael O'Loughlin | Ireland | + 1' 04" |
| 42 | Gorazd Per | Slovenia | + 1' 07" |
| 43 | Karl Patrick Lauk | Estonia | + 1' 09" |
| 44 | Alejandro Gómiz | Spain | + 1' 12" |
| 45 | Derek Gee | Canada | + 1' 12" |
| 46 | Luc Wirtgen | Luxembourg | + 1' 12" |
| 47 | Jakub Otruba | Czech Republic | + 1' 12" |
| 48 | Jhonatan Narváez | Ecuador | + 1' 12" |
| 49 | Robbe Ghys | Belgium | + 1' 12" |
| 50 | Max Singer | Germany | + 1' 12" |
| 51 | Jorge Magalhães | Portugal | + 1' 12" |
| 52 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Netherlands | + 1' 12" |
| 53 | Georg Zimmermann | Germany | + 1' 12" |
| 54 | Sam Jenner | Australia | + 1' 19" |
| 55 | Marco Friedrich | Austria | + 1' 25" |
| 56 | Bram Welten | Netherlands | + 1' 27" |
| 57 | Théo Menant | France | + 1' 33" |
| 58 | Alejandro Regueiro | Spain | + 1' 33" |
| 59 | Alan Banaszek | Poland | + 1' 40" |
| 60 | Sergey Rostovtsev | Russia | + 1' 40" |
| 61 | Riccardo Verza | Italy | + 1' 40" |
| 62 | Christopher Blevins | United States | + 2' 05" |
| 63 | Niklas Larsen | Denmark | + 2' 05" |
| 64 | Louis Louvet | France | + 2' 12" |
| 65 | Aleksander Borisov | Russia | + 2' 18" |
| 66 | Robert Stannard | New Zealand | + 2' 30" |
| 67 | Pablo Alonso | Spain | + 2' 38" |
| 68 | Stan Dewulf | Belgium | + 3' 04" |
| 69 | Patrick Gamper | Austria | + 3' 16" |
| 70 | Masahiro Ishigami | Japan | + 3' 18" |
| 71 | Daniel Savini | Italy | + 3' 25" |
| 72 | Tommaso Fiaschi | Italy | + 3' 25" |
| 73 | Willem Boersma | Canada | + 3' 29" |
| 74 | Marten Kooistra | Netherlands | + 3' 32" |
| 75 | Szymon Sajnok | Poland | + 3' 34" |
| 76 | Aaron Verwilst | Belgium | + 3' 34" |
| 77 | Torjus Sleen | Norway | + 3' 39" |
| 78 | Hans Kristian Rudland | Norway | + 3' 39" |
| 79 | Lars Saugstad | Norway | + 4' 29" |
| 80 | Petter Fagerhaug | Norway | + 4' 29" |
| 81 | Simm Kiskonen | Estonia | + 5' 17" |
| 82 | Dávid Kovács | Hungary | + 5' 17" |
| 83 | Tobias Foss | Norway | + 5' 26" |
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 84 | Samuel Oros | Slovakia | + 6' 07" |
| 85 | Martin Spudil | Czech Republic | + 6' 33" |
| 86 | Vitor Schizzi | Brazil | + 6' 51" |
| 87 | Julián Cardona | Colombia | + 6' 52" |
| 88 | Jack Maddux | United States | + 7' 16" |
| 89 | Adam Stenson | Ireland | + 7' 25" |
| 90 | Vincent Andersson | Sweden | + 7' 33" |
| 91 | Tiago Da Silva | Luxembourg | + 11' 43" |
| 92 | El Mehdi Chokri | Morocco | + 12' 30" |
| 93 | Keitaro Sawada | Japan | + 12' 30" |
| 94 | Barnabás Peák | Hungary | + 15' 59" |
| 95 | Adrián Bustamante | Colombia | + 16' 01" |
| 96 | Javier Montoya | Colombia | + 16' 01" |
| 97 | Itamar Einhorn | Israel | + 16' 08" |
| 98 | Adrian Foltan | Slovakia | + 16' 19" |
| 99 | Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev | Kazakhstan | + 16' 32" |
| 100 | Erik Sierra | Ecuador | + 16' 33" |
| 101 | Melvin Boron | Guatemala | + 16' 33" |
| 102 | Mohcine El Kouraji | Morocco | + 16' 33" |
| 103 | Oussama Mansouri | Algeria | + 16' 36" |
| 104 | Joel Taylor | Canada | + 16' 48" |
| 105 | Erik Sandersson | Sweden | + 17' 09" |
| 106 | Daniel Viegas | Portugal | + 18' 14" |
| 107 | João Almeida | Portugal | + 18' 14" |
| 108 | Antonio Barać | Bosnia and Herzegovina | + 19' 08" |
| 109 | Patompob Phonarjthan | Thailand | + 19' 18" |
| 110 | Ethan Reynolds | United States | + 19' 41" |
| 111 | Jonathan Brown | United States | + 19' 41" |
| 112 | Jake Gray | Ireland | + 19' 41" |
| 113 | Yuttana Mano | Thailand | + 19' 41" |
| 114 | Islam Mansouri | Algeria | + 21' 04" |
| | Nicolas Nesi | Italy | DNF |
| | Denis Nekrasov | Russia | DNF |
| | Brandon McNulty | United States | DNF |
| | Simon Tuomey | Ireland | DNF |
| | Nikita Sokolov | Kazakhstan | DNF |
| | James Fouché | New Zealand | DNF |
| | Amine Belabessi | Algeria | DNF |
| | Alexandros Agrotis | Cyprus | DNF |
| | Bryan Mendoza | El Salvador | DNF |
| | Fredy Toc | Guatemala | DNF |
| | Joe Holt | Great Britain | DNF |
| | Saar Hershler | Israel | DNF |
| | Adam Roberge | Canada | DNF |
| | Nikolay Ilichev | Russia | DNF |
| | Andreas Stokbro | Denmark | DNF |
| | Tadej Pogačar | Slovenia | DNF |
| | Michal Brázda | Czech Republic | DNF |
| | Norbert Banaszek | Poland | DNF |
| | Juraj Michalička | Slovakia | DNF |
| | Kanan Gahramanli | Azerbaijan | DNF |
| | Gustaf Andersson | Sweden | DNF |
| | Dmitriy Ponkratov | Uzbekistan | DNF |
| | Tarlan Mammadov | Azerbaijan | DNF |
| | Gunyaidin Khaji | Kazakhstan | DNF |
| | Kotaro Ono | Japan | DNF |
| | Santiago Yeri | Argentina | DNF |
| | Ilya Gorbushin | Kazakhstan | DNF |
| | Kyle De Wet | South Africa | DNF |
| | Ayumu Watanabe | Japan | DNF |
| | Jarno Mobach | Netherlands | DNF |
| | Bryan Portilla | Ecuador | DNF |
| | Jarrod Hattingh | South Africa | DNF |
| | Erik Relanto | Finland | DNF |
| | Damian Sławek | Poland | DNF |
| | Dawid Gieracki | Poland | DNF |
| | Márcio Oliveira | Brazil | DNF |
| | Tegsh-Bayar Batsaikhan | Mongolia | DNF |
| | Mário Rojas | Costa Rica | DNF |
| | Pavel Sivakov | Russia | DNF |
| | Mathieu Burgaudeau] | France | DNF |
| | Ēriks Toms Gavars | Latvia | DNF |
| | Darragh O'Mahoney | Ireland | DNF |
| | Pédro Martins | Brazil | DNF |
| | Harry Sweeny | Australia | DNF |
| | Ahulee Rivera | Puerto Rico | DNF |
| | Merrill Chua | Singapore | DNF |
| | Žiga Jerman | Slovenia | DNF |
| | Sam Dobbs | New Zealand | DNF |
| | Michel Ries | Luxembourg | DNF |
| | Musa Mikayilzade | Azerbaijan | DNF |
| | Jaakko Hänninen | Finland | DNS |