# 2019 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The Men's road race of the 2019 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 29 September 2019 in Yorkshire, England. The race was initially scheduled to be contested over 280 kilometres (170 miles), but due to flooding on the course, the race was reduced to 260.7 kilometres (162.0 miles). The wet weather also meant there was a limited broadcast coverage of the race.
For the first time in the race's history, a Danish rider won the world title as Mads Pedersen out-sprinted two other riders at the finish in Harrogate to take the rainbow jersey. The silver medal went to Italy's Matteo Trentin, while the bronze medal went to Stefan Küng of Switzerland.

## Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 11 August 2019.

### 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 Italy Netherlands Spain Colombia Germany Australia Slovenia Denmark |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 11–20 | 9 | 6 | Great Britain Norway Austria Poland Czech Republic Switzerland Russia Portugal Ireland Canada |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 21–30 | 7 | 4 | Kazakhstan South Africa Ecuador United States Slovakia Estonia Eritrea New Zealand Luxembourg Latvia |
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 31–50 | 2 | 1 | Ukraine Belarus Turkey Algeria Japan Romania Greece Lithuania Iran Hungary Venezuela Costa Rica Mexico Sweden Argentina Morocco Guatemala South Korea Rwanda Croatia |
| UCI World Ranking by Individuals (if not already qualified) | 1–200 | 2 | 1 | — |

### Continental champions

| Name | Country | Reason |
| Alejandro Valverde | Spain | Outgoing World Champion |
| Mekseb Debesay | Eritrea | African Champion |
| Yevgeniy Gidich | Kazakhstan | Asian Champion |
| Jefferson Cepeda | Ecuador | Panamerican Champion |

### Participating nations

197 cyclists from 42 nations were entered in the men's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (8)
* Austria (6)
* Belarus (2)
* Belgium (8)
* Canada (6)
* Colombia (7)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Croatia (1)
* Czech Republic (6)
* Denmark (8)
* Ecuador (4)
* Eritrea (4)
* Estonia (4)
* France (8)
* Germany (8)
* Great Britain (6)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (2)
* Ireland (6)
* Italy (8)
* Japan (2)
* Kazakhstan (5)
* Latvia (3)
* Lithuania (2)
* Luxembourg (4)
* Namibia (1)
* Netherlands (8)
* New Zealand (4)
* Norway (6)
* Poland (6)
* Portugal (5)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (6)
* Slovakia (4)
* Slovenia (8)
* South Africa (4)
* Spain (9)
* Sweden (2)
* Switzerland (6)
* Ukraine (1)
* United States (4)

## Results
### Final classification

Of the race's 197 entrants, 46 riders completed the full distance of 260.7 kilometres (162.0 miles).
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 1 | Mads Pedersen | Denmark | 6h 27' 28" |
| 2 | Matteo Trentin | Italy | + 0" |
| 3 | Stefan Küng | Switzerland | + 2" |
| 4 | Gianni Moscon | Italy | + 17" |
| 5 | Peter Sagan | Slovakia | + 43" |
| 6 | Michael Valgren | Denmark | + 45" |
| 7 | Alexander Kristoff | Norway | + 1' 10" |
| 8 | Greg Van Avermaet | Belgium | + 1' 10" |
| 9 | Gorka Izagirre | Spain | + 1' 10" |
| 10 | Rui Costa | Portugal | + 1' 10" |
| 11 | Sonny Colbrelli | Italy | + 1' 10" |
| 12 | Jakob Fuglsang | Denmark | + 1' 10" |
| 13 | Zdeněk Štybar | Czech Republic | + 1' 10" |
| 14 | Carlos Betancur | Colombia | + 1' 10" |
| 15 | John Degenkolb | Germany | + 1' 10" |
| 16 | Ion Izagirre | Spain | + 1' 14" |
| 17 | Amund Grøndahl Jansen | Norway | + 1' 14" |
| 18 | Tadej Pogačar | Slovenia | + 1' 14" |
| 19 | Nils Politt | Germany | + 1' 22" |
| 20 | Niki Terpstra | Netherlands | + 1' 22" |
| 21 | Toms Skujiņš | Latvia | + 1' 46" |
| 22 | Michael Albasini | Switzerland | + 1' 48" |
| 23 | Tony Gallopin | France | + 1' 50" |
| 24 | Michael Matthews | Australia | + 1' 57" |
| 25 | Alberto Bettiol | Italy | + 1' 57" |
| 26 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Great Britain | + 2' 20" |
| 27 | Marc Hirschi | Switzerland | + 2' 20" |
| 28 | Julian Alaphilippe | France | + 2' 26" |
| 29 | Daniel Martínez | Colombia | + 3' 59" |
| 30 | Felix Großschartner | Austria | + 3' 59" |
| 31 | Ben Swift | Great Britain | + 6' 38" |
| 32 | Yves Lampaert | Belgium | + 7' 48" |
| 33 | Oliver Naesen | Belgium | + 8' 07" |
| 34 | Sven Erik Bystrøm | Norway | + 8' 07" |
| 35 | Tim Wellens | Belgium | + 8' 07" |
| 36 | Mike Teunissen | Netherlands | + 8' 07" |
| 37 | Dylan Teuns | Belgium | + 8' 07" |
| 38 | Esteban Chaves | Colombia | + 8' 07" |
| 39 | Andrey Amador | Costa Rica | + 8' 07" |
| 40 | Chad Haga | United States | + 10' 27" |
| 41 | Neilson Powless | United States | + 10' 27" |
| 42 | Benoît Cosnefroy | France | + 10' 52" |
| 43 | Mathieu van der Poel | Netherlands | + 10' 52" |
| 44 | Imanol Erviti | Spain | + 14' 48" |
| 45 | Lucas Eriksson | Sweden | + 14' 48" |
| 46 | Petr Vakoč | Czech Republic | + 19' 25" |

### Failed to finish

149 riders failed to finish, while South Africa's Jay Thomson and Ukraine's Mark Padun failed to start.
| Rider | Country |
| Jack Haig | Australia |
| Lukas Pöstlberger | Austria |
| Florian Sénéchal | France |
| Dylan van Baarle | Netherlands |
| Adam Yates | Great Britain |
| Patrick Konrad | Austria |
| Marco Haller | Austria |
| Bauke Mollema | Netherlands |
| Luka Pibernik | Slovenia |
| Alexandr Riabushenko | Belarus |
| Nikias Arndt | Germany |
| Davide Cimolai | Italy |
| Juraj Sagan | Slovakia |
| Magnus Cort | Denmark |
| Álvaro Hodeg | Colombia |
| Edvald Boasson Hagen | Norway |
| Michael Woods | Canada |
| Christophe Laporte | France |
| Michał Gołaś | Poland |
| Nathan Haas | Australia |
| Marc Soler | Spain |
| Pascal Ackermann | Germany |
| Ruben Guerreiro | Portugal |
| Alex Kirsch | Luxembourg |
| Alo Jakin | Estonia |
| Lawson Craddock | United States |
| Simon Clarke | Australia |
| Luke Durbridge | Australia |
| Hermann Pernsteiner | Austria |
| Giovanni Visconti | Italy |
| Alexey Lutsenko | Kazakhstan |
| Grega Bole | Slovenia |
| Simon Geschke | Germany |
| Geraint Thomas | Great Britain |
| Michael Mørkøv | Denmark |
| Jonathan Caicedo | Ecuador |
| Rémi Cavagna | France |
| Luis León Sánchez | Spain |
| Salvatore Puccio | Italy |
| Christopher Juul-Jensen | Denmark |
| Jack Bauer | New Zealand |
| Pieter Weening | Netherlands |
| Rafał Majka | Poland |
| Paweł Poljański | Poland |
| Jasha Sütterlin | Germany |
| Łukasz Wiśniowski | Poland |
| Jonathan Castroviejo | Spain |
| Josef Černý | Czech Republic |
| Kasper Asgreen | Denmark |
| Sam Bennett | Ireland |
| Rider | Country |
| Danilo Wyss | Switzerland |
| Ben Perry | Canada |
| Eduard-Michael Grosu | Romania |
| Emīls Liepiņš | Latvia |
| Rory Townsend | Ireland |
| Matej Mohorič | Slovenia |
| Anthony Roux | France |
| Diego Ulissi | Italy |
| Bob Jungels | Luxembourg |
| José Joaquín Rojas | Spain |
| Yukiya Arashiro | Japan |
| Jonas Koch | Germany |
| Mitchell Docker | Australia |
| Michael Schär | Switzerland |
| Casper Pedersen | Denmark |
| Pavel Sivakov | Russia |
| Eduardo Sepúlveda | Argentina |
| Sebastián Henao | Colombia |
| Carl Fredrik Hagen | Norway |
| Dion Smith | New Zealand |
| Sebastian Langeveld | Netherlands |
| Marcus Burghardt | Germany |
| Aleksandr Vlasov | Russia |
| Hugo Houle | Canada |
| Owain Doull | Great Britain |
| Alejandro Valverde | Spain |
| Tim Declercq | Belgium |
| Alex Howes | United States |
| Sergey Chernetskiy | Russia |
| Zhandos Bizhigitov | Kazakhstan |
| Nairo Quintana | Colombia |
| Gediminas Bagdonas | Lithuania |
| Conor Dunne | Ireland |
| Michael Gogl | Austria |
| Erik Baška | Slovakia |
| James Piccoli | Canada |
| Jan Polanc | Slovenia |
| Stylianos Farantakis | Greece |
| Tanel Kangert | Estonia |
| Kim Magnusson | Sweden |
| Eddie Dunbar | Ireland |
| José Gonçalves | Portugal |
| Remco Evenepoel | Belgium |
| Stepan Kurianov | Russia |
| Julien Bernard | France |
| David Per | Slovenia |
| Yevgeniy Gidich | Kazakhstan |
| Dmitriy Gruzdev | Kazakhstan |
| Ben Gastauer | Luxembourg |
| Silvan Dillier | Switzerland |
| Rider | Country |
| Nicholas Dlamini | South Africa |
| Rui Oliveira | Portugal |
| Maciej Bodnar | Poland |
| Rein Taaramäe | Estonia |
| Ian Stannard | Great Britain |
| Krists Neilands | Latvia |
| Vegard Stake Laengen | Norway |
| Evaldas Šiškevičius | Lithuania |
| Shane Archbold | New Zealand |
| Jan Bárta | Czech Republic |
| Hideto Nakane | Japan |
| Primož Roglič | Slovenia |
| Philippe Gilbert | Belgium |
| Jos van Emden | Netherlands |
| Dan Martin | Ireland |
| Yuriy Natarov | Kazakhstan |
| Guillaume Boivin | Canada |
| Rory Sutherland | Australia |
| Daryl Impey | South Africa |
| Mihkel Räim | Estonia |
| Nelson Oliveira | Portugal |
| Richard Carapaz | Ecuador |
| František Sisr | Czech Republic |
| Tom Wirtgen | Luxembourg |
| Juan Sebastián Molano | Colombia |
| Polychronis Tzortzakis | Greece |
| Antoine Duchesne | Canada |
| Antonio Barać | Croatia |
| Ján Andrej Cully | Slovakia |
| Péter Kusztor | Hungary |
| Roman Kreuziger | Czech Republic |
| Dmitry Strakhov | Russia |
| Jhonatan Narváez | Ecuador |
| Jefferson Cepeda | Ecuador |
| Stefan de Bod | South Africa |
| Ryan Mullen | Ireland |
| Rohan Dennis | Australia |
| Iván García | Spain |
| Jan Tratnik | Slovenia |
| Łukasz Owsian | Poland |
| Alexander Evtushenko | Russia |
| Natnael Berhane | Eritrea |
| Mekseb Debesay | Eritrea |
| Merhawi Kudus | Eritrea |
| Daniel Teklehaimanot | Eritrea |
| Patrick Bevin | New Zealand |
| Vasil Kiryienka | Belarus |
| Márton Dina | Hungary |
| Dirk Coetzee | Namibia |