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

The Men's road race of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on September 27, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was the 82nd edition of the championship, and Poland's Michał Kwiatkowski was the defending champion.
Peter Sagan of Slovakia attacked on the final climb up 23rd Street and managed to stay clear of the field to take his first world title. Three seconds behind, Australian rider Michael Matthews and Lithuania's Ramūnas Navardauskas led home a 24-rider group to take the silver and bronze medals respectively.

## Course

All road races took place on a challenging, technical and inner-city road circuit, 16.22 km (10.08 mi) in length. The elite men's race consisted of 15 laps – plus a start lap of 18.1 km (11.2 mi) – for a total of 261.4 km (162.4 mi).
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.

## Qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2015. Results from January to the middle of August counted towards the qualification criteria on both the 2015 UCI World Tour and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous tour rankings on August 15, 2015.
The following 51 nations qualified.
| Number of riders | Nations |
| 14 to enter, 9 to start | Australia, Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Spain |
| 9 to enter, 6 to start | Algeria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Iran, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela |
| 5 to enter, 3 to start | Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey |
| 2 to enter, 1 to start | Azerbaijan, Chile, Ecuador, Eritrea, Greece, Guatemala, Latvia, Romania, Serbia, Tunisia |
The qualification process became subject to criticism after several nations, including Iran, Turkey and Morocco did not take up their allocation.

## Schedule

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4).
| Date | Time | Event |
| September 27, 2015 | 9:00–15:40 | Men's road race |

## Final classification

Of the race's 192 entrants, 110 riders completed the full distance of 261.4 km (162.4 mi).
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Slovakia | 6h 14' 37" |
| 2 | Michael Matthews | Australia | + 3" |
| 3 | Ramūnas Navardauskas | Lithuania | + 3" |
| 4 | Alexander Kristoff | Norway | + 3" |
| 5 | Alejandro Valverde | Spain | + 3" |
| 6 | Simon Gerrans | Australia | + 3" |
| 7 | Tony Gallopin | France | + 3" |
| 8 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Poland | + 3" |
| 9 | Rui Costa | Portugal | + 3" |
| 10 | Philippe Gilbert | Belgium | + 3" |
| 11 | Tom Dumoulin | Netherlands | + 3" |
| 12 | Alex Howes | United States | + 3" |
| 13 | Niki Terpstra | Netherlands | + 3" |
| 14 | Rein Taaramäe | Estonia | + 3" |
| 15 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Russia | + 3" |
| 16 | Nelson Oliveira | Portugal | + 3" |
| 17 | Yukiya Arashiro | Japan | + 3" |
| 18 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Italy | + 3" |
| 19 | Brent Bookwalter | United States | + 3" |
| 20 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Norway | + 3" |
| 21 | Nacer Bouhanni | France | + 3" |
| 22 | Ben Swift | Great Britain | + 3" |
| 23 | Greg Van Avermaet | Belgium | + 3" |
| 24 | Tanel Kangert | Estonia | + 3" |
| 25 | Andrey Amador | Costa Rica | + 3" |
| 26 | Marco Haller | Austria | + 12" |
| 27 | Daniel Moreno | Spain | + 12" |
| 28 | Silvan Dillier | Switzerland | + 12" |
| 29 | John Degenkolb | Germany | + 15" |
| 30 | Luis León Sánchez | Spain | + 15" |
| 31 | Steve Cummings | Great Britain | + 15" |
| 32 | Rigoberto Urán | Colombia | + 18" |
| 33 | Matti Breschel | Denmark | + 21" |
| 34 | Matteo Trentin | Italy | + 21" |
| 35 | Tom Boonen | Belgium | + 21" |
| 36 | Pavel Brutt | Russia | + 21" |
| 37 | Alexey Tsatevich | Russia | + 28" |
| 38 | Arnaud Démare | France | + 32" |
| 39 | Tomasz Marczyński | Poland | + 40" |
| 40 | Sam Bennett | Ireland | + 40" |
| 41 | Karel Hník | Czech Republic | + 40" |
| 42 | Vincenzo Nibali | Italy | + 40" |
| 43 | Zdeněk Štybar | Czech Republic | + 40" |
| 44 | Heinrich Haussler | Australia | + 40" |
| 45 | Lars Bak | Denmark | + 55" |
| 46 | Andriy Hryvko | Ukraine | + 55" |
| 47 | Luka Pibernik | Slovenia | + 55" |
| 48 | Luka Mezgec | Slovenia | + 55" |
| 49 | Mykhaylo Kononenko | Ukraine | + 55" |
| 50 | Daryl Impey | South Africa | + 55" |
| 51 | Ian Stannard | Great Britain | + 55" |
| 52 | Juan José Lobato | Spain | + 55" |
| 53 | Ben King | United States | + 55" |
| 54 | Michał Gołaś | Poland | + 55" |
| 55 | Sergey Lagutin | Russia | + 55" |
| 56 | Jon Izagirre | Spain | + 55" |
| 57 | Adam Yates | Great Britain | + 55" |
| 58 | Greg Henderson | New Zealand | + 55" |
| 59 | Maciej Paterski | Poland | + 1' 10" |
| 60 | Kanstantsin Sivtsov | Belarus | + 1' 38" |
| 61 | Antoine Duchesne | Canada | + 1' 50" |
| 62 | Ilnur Zakarin | Russia | + 1' 55" |
| 63 | Alexey Lutsenko | Kazakhstan | + 2' 02" |
| 64 | Sep Vanmarcke | Belgium | + 2' 08" |
| 65 | Maximiliano Richeze | Argentina | + 2' 09" |
| 66 | Michael Albasini | Switzerland | + 2' 15" |
| 67 | Michael Valgren | Denmark | + 2' 50" |
| 68 | Carlos Quintero | Colombia | + 2' 50" |
| 69 | Bauke Mollema | Netherlands | + 2' 50" |
| 70 | Arman Kamyshev | Kazakhstan | + 2' 50" |
| 71 | Jens Keukeleire | Belgium | + 2' 50" |
| 72 | Vegard Stake Laengen | Norway | + 2' 50" |
| 73 | Adam Hansen | Australia | + 2' 50" |
| 74 | Rafał Majka | Poland | + 2' 50" |
| 75 | Mickaël Delage | France | + 2' 50" |
| 76 | Grégory Rast | Switzerland | + 2' 50" |
| 77 | Mathew Hayman | Australia | + 2' 50" |
| 78 | Michael Mørkøv | Denmark | + 2' 50" |
| 79 | Tyler Farrar | United States | + 3' 00" |
| 80 | Tiesj Benoot | Belgium | + 3' 35" |
| 81 | Lars Boom | Netherlands | + 3' 35" |
| 82 | Manuel Quinziato | Italy | + 3' 41" |
| 83 | Daniele Bennati | Italy | + 3' 41" |
| 84 | Fabio Felline | Italy | + 3' 41" |
| 85 | Taylor Phinney | United States | + 3' 41" |
| 86 | Grega Bole | Slovenia | + 3' 45" |
| 87 | Sebastian Langeveld | Netherlands | + 3' 45" |
| 88 | Tony Martin | Germany | + 4' 00" |
| 89 | Elia Viviani | Italy | + 5' 18" |
| 90 | Simon Geschke | Germany | + 5' 23" |
| 91 | Robert Gesink | Netherlands | + 6' 43" |
| 92 | Stijn Vandenbergh | Belgium | + 6' 43" |
| 93 | Ryan Anderson | Canada | + 6' 43" |
| 94 | Michael Woods | Canada | + 6' 43" |
| 95 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Russia | + 6' 43" |
| 96 | Dylan van Baarle | Netherlands | + 6' 43" |
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 97 | Jan Bárta | Czech Republic | + 6' 43" |
| 98 | Jiří Polnický | Czech Republic | + 6' 43" |
| 99 | Pim Ligthart | Netherlands | + 6' 43" |
| 100 | Cyril Lemoine | France | + 6' 43" |
| 101 | Scott Thwaites | Great Britain | + 6' 43" |
| 102 | Diego Ulissi | Italy | + 6' 43" |
| 103 | Paul Voss | Germany | + 8' 12" |
| 104 | Paul Martens | Germany | + 10' 47" |
| 105 | André Greipel | Germany | + 10' 47" |
| 106 | Marcel Sieberg | Germany | + 10' 47" |
| 107 | Guillaume Boivin | Canada | + 11' 11" |
| 108 | Radoslav Rogina | Croatia | + 11' 11" |
| 109 | Lawson Craddock | United States | + 12' 56" |
| 110 | Gatis Smukulis | Latvia | + 13' 58" |
| | Joaquim Rodríguez | Spain | DNF |
| | Florian Vachon | France | DNF |
| | Simon Clarke | Australia | DNF |
| | Mitchell Docker | Australia | DNF |
| | Kristijan Đurasek | Croatia | DNF |
| | Georg Preidler | Austria | DNF |
| | Christian Knees | Germany | DNF |
| | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg | South Africa | DNF |
| | Jay McCarthy | Australia | DNF |
| | Luke Durbridge | Australia | DNF |
| | Roman Kreuziger | Czech Republic | DNF |
| | Luke Rowe | Great Britain | DNF |
| | Christopher Juul-Jensen | Denmark | DNF |
| | Rasmus Guldhammer | Denmark | DNF |
| | Nikolas Maes | Belgium | DNF |
| | Imanol Erviti | Spain | DNF |
| | Rubén Plaza | Spain | DNF |
| | Denys Kostyuk | Ukraine | DNF |
| | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Norway | DNF |
| | Kohei Uchima | Japan | DNF |
| | Ruslan Tleubayev | Kazakhstan | DNF |
| | Sébastien Minard | France | DNF |
| | Juraj Sagan | Slovakia | DNF |
| | Michael Kolář | Slovakia | DNF |
| | Kristijan Koren | Slovenia | DNF |
| | Lluís Mas | Spain | DNF |
| | Borut Božič | Slovenia | DNF |
| | Vasil Kiryienka | Belarus | DNF |
| | Juan Carlos Rojas Villegas | Costa Rica | DNF |
| | Ryan Roth | Canada | DNF |
| | Jarlinson Pantano | Colombia | DNF |
| | Johannes Fröhlinger | Germany | DNF |
| | Gediminas Bagdonas | Lithuania | DNF |
| | Petr Vakoč | Czech Republic | DNF |
| | Sven Erik Bystrøm | Norway | DNF |
| | Iljo Keisse | Belgium | DNF |
| | José Gonçalves | Portugal | DNF |
| | Winner Anacona | Colombia | DNF |
| | Alex Cano | Colombia | DNF |
| | Mekseb Debesay | Eritrea | DNF |
| | Manuel Rodas | Guatemala | DNF |
| | Julien Simon | France | DNF |
| | Vitaliy Buts | Ukraine | DNF |
| | Andrew Fenn | Great Britain | DNF |
| | Lukas Pöstlberger | Austria | DNF |
| | Julian Alaphilippe | France | DNF |
| | Maciej Bodnar | Poland | DNF |
| | Oleksandr Polivoda | Ukraine | DNF |
| | Polychronis Tzortzakis | Greece | DNF |
| | Edwin Ávila | Colombia | DNF |
| | Conor Dunne | Ireland | DNF |
| | Evaldas Šiškevičius | Lithuania | DNF |
| | Byron Guamá | Ecuador | DNF |
| | Kléber Ramos | Brazil | DNF |
| | Fumiyuki Beppu | Japan | DNF |
| | Miguel Ángel López | Colombia | DNF |
| | Hugo Houle | Canada | DNF |
| | Alex Dowsett | Great Britain | DNF |
| | Jesse Sergent | New Zealand | DNF |
| | Carlos Alzate | Colombia | DNF |
| | Tomáš Bucháček | Czech Republic | DNF |
| | Serghei Țvetcov | Romania | DNF |
| | Sam Bewley | New Zealand | DNF |
| | Laurent Didier | Luxembourg | DNF |
| | Daniel Jaramillo | Colombia | DNF |
| | Marko Kump | Slovenia | DNF |
| | Vegard Breen | Norway | DNF |
| | Yauheni Hutarovich | Belarus | DNF |
| | Jos van Emden | Netherlands | DNF |
| | Jempy Drucker | Luxembourg | DNF |
| | Ivan Stević | Serbia | DNF |
| | Daniel Oss | Italy | DNF |
| | Andriy Khripta | Ukraine | DNF |
| | Nikolay Mihaylov | Bulgaria | DNF |
| | Park Sung-baek | South Korea | DNF |
| | Gonzalo Garrido | Chile | DNF |
| | Alex Kirsch | Luxembourg | DNF |
| | Daniel Díaz | Argentina | DNF |
| | Seo Joon-yong | South Korea | DNF |
| | Antonio Garnero | Brazil | DNF |
| | César Rojas Villegas | Costa Rica | DNF |
| | Jaco Venter | South Africa | DNS |