# 2022 in men's road cycling

2022 in men's road cycling includes the 2022 men's bicycle races governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar.

## World Championships

The Road World Championships were held in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia from 18 to 25 September 2022.
Events at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships :
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
| Individual Time Trial | 18 September | Tobias Foss (NOR) | Stefan Küng (SUI) | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | |
| Road Race | 25 September | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Christophe Laporte (FRA) | Michael Matthews (AUS) | |

## Grand Tours

Grand Tours during the 2022 season :
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
| Giro d'Italia | 6–29 May | Jai Hindley (AUS) | Richard Carapaz (ECU) | Mikel Landa (ESP) |
| Tour de France | 1–24 July | Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Geraint Thomas (GBR) |
| Vuelta a España | 19 August – 11 September | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Enric Mas (ESP) | Juan Ayuso (ESP) |

## UCI World Tour

The 2022 calendar was announced in the autumn of 2021.
Races in the 2022 UCI World Tour :
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
| UAE Tour | 20–26 February | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Adam Yates (GBR) | Pello Bilbao (ESP) |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 26 February | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Sonny Colbrelli (ITA) | Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) |
| Strade Bianche | 5 March | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) | Kasper Asgreen (DEN) |
| Paris–Nice | 6–13 March | Primož Roglič (SLO) | Simon Yates (GBR) | Daniel Martínez (COL) |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | 7–13 March | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) | Mikel Landa (ESP) |
| Milan–San Remo | 19 March | Matej Mohorič (SLO) | Anthony Turgis (FRA) | Mathieu van der Poel (NED) |
| Volta a Catalunya | 21–27 March | Sergio Higuita (COL) | Richard Carapaz (ECU) | João Almeida (POR) |
| Classic Brugge–De Panne | 23 March | Tim Merlier (BEL) | Dylan Groenewegen (NED) | Nacer Bouhanni (FRA) |
| E3 Saxo Bank Classic | 25 March | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Christophe Laporte (FRA) | Stefan Küng (SUI) |
| Gent–Wevelgem | 27 March | Biniam Girmay (ERI) | Christophe Laporte (FRA) | Dries Van Gestel (BEL) |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 30 March | Mathieu van der Poel (NED) | Tiesj Benoot (BEL) | Tom Pidcock (GBR) |
| Tour of Flanders | 3 April | Mathieu van der Poel (NED) | Dylan van Baarle (NED) | Valentin Madouas (FRA) |
| Tour of the Basque Country | 4–9 April | Daniel Martínez (COL) | Ion Izagirre (ESP) | Aleksandr Vlasov |
| Amstel Gold Race | 10 April | Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) | Benoît Cosnefroy (FRA) | Tiesj Benoot (BEL) |
| Paris–Roubaix | 17 April | Dylan van Baarle (NED) | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Stefan Küng (SUI) |
| La Flèche Wallonne | 20 April | Dylan Teuns (BEL) | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) | Aleksandr Vlasov |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | 24 April | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Quinten Hermans (BEL) | Wout van Aert (BEL) |
| Tour de Romandie | 26 April – 1 May | Aleksandr Vlasov | Gino Mäder (SUI) | Simon Geschke (GER) |
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | 1 May | Sam Bennett (IRL) | Fernando Gaviria (COL) | Alexander Kristoff (NOR) |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | 5–12 June | Primož Roglič (SLO) | Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) | Ben O'Connor (AUS) |
| Tour de Suisse | 13–19 June | Geraint Thomas (GBR) | Sergio Higuita (COL) | Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | 30 July | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Pavel Sivakov (FRA) | Tiesj Benoot (BEL) |
| Tour de Pologne | 30 July – 5 August | Ethan Hayter (GBR) | Thymen Arensman (NED) | Pello Bilbao (ESP) |
| / Benelux Tour | 7–13 August | Cancelled due to the overcrowded cycling calendar | Cancelled due to the overcrowded cycling calendar | Cancelled due to the overcrowded cycling calendar |
| Hamburg Cyclassics | 21 August | Marco Haller (AUT) | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Quinten Hermans (BEL) |
| Bretagne Classic Ouest–France | 28 August | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Axel Laurance (FRA) | Alexander Kamp (DEN) |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | 9 September | Benoît Cosnefroy (FRA) | Michael Matthews (AUS) | Biniam Girmay (ERI) |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | 11 September | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Andrea Bagioli (ITA) |
| Il Lombardia | 8 October | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Enric Mas (ESP) | Mikel Landa (ESP) |
| Tour of Guangxi | 13–18 October | | | |

## UCI ProSeries

Races in the 2022 UCI ProSeries :
| Race | Date | Winner | Team |
| Vuelta a San Juan | 30 January – 2 February | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana | 2–6 February | Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS) | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Tour de la Provence | 10–13 February | Nairo Quintana (COL) | Arkéa–Samsic |
| Tour of Oman | 10–15 February | Jan Hirt (CZE) | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux |
| Clásica de Almería | 13 February | Alexander Kristoff (NOR) | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux |
| Volta ao Algarve | 16–20 February | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
| Vuelta a Andalucía | 16–20 February | Wout Poels (NED) | Team Bahrain Victorious |
| Faun-Ardèche Classic | 26 February | Brandon McNulty (USA) | UAE Team Emirates |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | 27 February | Fabio Jakobsen (NED) | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
| La Drôme Classic | 27 February | Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) | Team Jumbo–Visma |
| Trofeo Laigueglia | 2 March | Jan Polanc (SLO) | UAE Team Emirates |
| Milano–Torino | 16 March | Mark Cavendish (GBR) | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
| Nokere Koerse | 16 March | Tim Merlier (BEL) | Alpecin–Fenix |
| Grand Prix de Denain | 17 March | Max Walscheid (GER) | Cofidis |
| Bredene Koksijde Classic | 18 March | Pascal Ackermann (GER) | UAE Team Emirates |
| GP Industria & Artigianato | 27 March | Diego Ulissi (ITA) | UAE Team Emirates |
| GP Miguel Induráin | 2 April | Warren Barguil (FRA) | Arkéa–Samsic |
| Scheldeprijs | 6 April | Alexander Kristoff (NOR) | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux |
| Presidential Tour of Turkey | 10–17 April | Patrick Bevin (NZL) | Israel–Premier Tech |
| Brabantse Pijl | 13 April | Magnus Sheffield (USA) | Ineos Grenadiers |
| Tour of the Alps | 18–22 April | Romain Bardet (FRA) | Team DSM |
| Four Days of Dunkirk | 3–8 May | Philippe Gilbert (BEL) | Lotto–Soudal |
| Grand Prix du Morbihan | 14 May | Julien Simon (FRA) | Team TotalEnergies |
| Tro-Bro Léon | 15 May | Hugo Hofstetter (FRA) | Arkéa–Samsic |
| Tour of Norway | 24–29 May | Remco Evenepoel (BEL) | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
| Boucles de la Mayenne | 26–29 May | Benjamin Thomas (FRA) | Cofidis |
| Brussels Cycling Classic | 5 June | Taco van der Hoorn (NED) | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux |
| ZLM Tour | 8–12 June | Olav Kooij (NED) | Team Jumbo–Visma |
| Dwars door het Hageland | 11 June | Oscar Riesebeek (NED) | Alpecin–Fenix |
| Tour de Langkawi | 11–18 June | | |
| Tour of Belgium | 15–19 June | Mauro Schmid (SUI) | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
| Tour of Slovenia | 15–19 June | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | UAE Team Emirates |
| Tour de Wallonie | 23–27 July | Robert Stannard (AUS) | Alpecin–Fenix |
| Tour of Utah | 25–31 July | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| Tour of Qinghai Lake | 27 July–3 August | Liu Jiankun (CHN) | Pingtan International Tourism Island Cycling Team |
| Vuelta a Burgos | 2–6 August | Pavel Sivakov (FRA) | Ineos Grenadiers |
| Arctic Race of Norway | 4–7 August | Andreas Leknessund (NOR) | Team DSM |
| Circuit Franco–Belge | 10 August | Alexander Kristoff (NOR) | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux |
| Danmark Rundt | 16–20 August | Christophe Laporte (FRA) | Team Jumbo–Visma |
| Deutschland Tour | 24–28 August | Adam Yates (GBR) | Ineos Grenadiers |
| Maryland Cycling Classic | 4 September | Sep Vanmarcke (BEL) | Israel–Premier Tech |
| Tour of Britain | 4–8 September | Gonzalo Serrano (ESP) | Movistar Team |
| Grand Prix de Fourmies | 11 September | Caleb Ewan (AUS) | Lotto–Soudal |
| Tour de Luxembourg | 13–17 September | Mattias Skjelmose Jensen (DEN) | Trek–Segafredo |
| Grand Prix de Wallonie | 14 September | Mathieu van der Poel (NED) | Alpecin–Deceuninck |
| Coppa Sabatini | 15 September | Daniel Martínez (COL) | Ineos Grenadiers |
| Primus Classic | 17 September | Jordi Meeus (BEL) | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Giro dell'Emilia | 1 October | Enric Mas (ESP) | Movistar Team |
| Münsterland Giro | 3 October | Olav Kooij (NED) | Team Jumbo–Visma |
| Coppa Bernocchi | 3 October | | |
| Tre Valli Varesine | 4 October | | |
| Gran Piemonte | 6 October | | |
| Tour of Taihu Lake | 8–11 October | | |
| Paris–Tours | 9 October | | |
| Japan Cup | 16 October | | |

## Championships

2022 Continental Championships :
| Championships | Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
| African Championships Egypt | Team Time Trial | 23 March | Eritrea | South Africa | Algeria |
| African Championships Egypt | Team Time Trial | 23 March | Aklilu Gebrehiwet Mikiel Habtom Henok Mulubrhan Dawit Yemane | Gustav Basson Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg Kent Main Callum Ormiston | Salah Eddine Ayoubi Cherki Azzedine Lagab Hamza Mansouri Islam Mansouri |
| African Championships Egypt | Individual Time Trial | 24 March | Gustav Basson | Henok Mulubrhan | Jean Bosco Nsengimana |
| African Championships Egypt | Road Race | 27 March | Henok Mulubrhan | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg | Hamza Amari |
| Pan American Championships Argentina | Individual Time Trial | 12 May | Rodrigo Contreras (COL) | Walter Vargas (COL) | Orluis Aular (VEN) |
| Pan American Championships Argentina | Road Race | 15 May | Emiliano Contreras (ARG) | Leonidas Sebastián Novoa (ECU) | Sixto Nuñez (URY) |
| European Championships Germany | Individual Time Trial | 17 August | Stefan Bissegger (CHE) | Stefan Küng (CHE) | Filippo Ganna (ITA) |
| European Championships Germany | Road Race | 14 August | Fabio Jakobsen (NLD) | Arnaud Démare (FRA) | Tim Merlier (BEL) |
| Oceania Championships Australia | Individual time trial | 9 April | Aaron Gate (NZL) | Tom Sexton (NZL) | Michael Freiberg (AUS) |
| Oceania Championships Australia | Road Race | 10 April | James Fouché (NZL) | Tom Sexton (NZL) | Zack Gilmore (AUS) |

### National Championships
## UCI Teams
### UCI WorldTeams

The following eighteen teams have received a UCI WorldTour license for the 2022 season.
* AG2R Citroën Team
* Astana Qazaqstan Team
* Bora–Hansgrohe
* Cofidis
* Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
* EF Education–EasyPost
* Groupama–FDJ
* Ineos Grenadiers
* Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux
* Israel–Premier Tech
* Lotto–Soudal
* Movistar Team
* Team Bahrain Victorious
* Team BikeExchange–Jayco
* Team DSM
* Team Jumbo–Visma
* Trek–Segafredo
* UAE Team Emirates