2010 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2010 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 3 October in Melbourne and concluded in Geelong, Australia. Thor Hushovd claimed the World Championship in a sprint finish, to become the first Norwegian to win the World Championship road race.[1][2]

Men's Individual Road Race
2010 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates3 October 2010
Stages1
Distance259.9 km (161.5 mi)
Winning time6h 21' 49"
Medalists
   Gold  Thor Hushovd (Norway)
   Silver  Matti Breschel (Denmark)
   Bronze  Allan Davis (Australia)
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Route

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The race started at Federation Square at Melbourne. For the first time, the World Championship route started and finished in different locations, with the riders traveling to Geelong before entering the finishing circuit. The route followed the West Gate Freeway and Princes Freeway, passing the Werribee River. Exiting at Bulban Road, the riders passed the You Yangs Regional Park, continued via Bacchus Marsh Road, then entered the Geelong circuit at Bell Parade. There were eleven laps around a 15.9 kilometre course through the Geelong suburbs, including South Geelong, Belmont, Highton, Queens Park, Newtown and Geelong West. The profile included two steep climbs, the first between 5 and 7 kilometres, the second between 9 and 11. The finish had a moderate uphill gradient.[3]

Circuit practice, training and racing took place in Geelong from Thursday 23 September to Sunday 3 October.

Race Report

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The early breakaway consisted of 5 riders and was given a lead of up to 23 minutes by the peloton. In the break were Oleksandr Kvachuk, Mohammed Said Elammoury, Jackson Rodríguez, Diego Tamayo and Matt Brammeier. In between the break and the peloton rode Esad Hasanovic, who was chasing the lead group for several kilometres. He rode around 5 to 6 minutes behind them for some time. The breakaway almost lapped the peloton on the closing circuits, but the American and Belgian teams would increase the pace of the peloton and the gap began to fall. Elammoury was dropped by the other four with about 10 laps to go.

Kvachuk dropped Brammeier, Tamayo, and Rodriguez but by the end of the seventh lap the gap had fallen to about 5 minutes. Somewhat like the previous year's race, a large escape group went away, this time with 5 laps to go. The group contained 31 riders, including the previous year's champion Cadel Evans, his teammates Stuart O'Grady and Simon Gerrans, Edvald Boasson Hagen of Norway, Belgian Philippe Gilbert, Dane Matti Breschel and 5 Italians including Vincenzo Nibali and Filippo Pozzato. The group survived until lap nine although the peloton, led on by Spain, never let them get much of a gap. On the ninth lap Nibali attacked which decimated the breakaway and the peloton behind. Evans, Gilbert, and Pozzato were chasing behind at the end of the 9th lap, with the peloton 49 seconds behind Nibali. However, the peloton kept the pressure high and had pulled back all the attackers, including the early breakaway at the beginning of the last lap.

On the final ascent of the Montpelier climb, Gilbert made an attack and Evans immediately tried to jump into his slipstream. However, Gilbert got away from Evans, who was absorbed by a chase group containing Paul Martens of Germany, Alexander Kolobnev of Russia, Koos Moerenhout of The Netherlands, and Fränk Schleck of Luxembourg. The group was not well organized and was brought back by the remnants of the peloton and Gilbert was also caught with 2 kilometers to go.

Russian Vladimir Gusev and Slovenian Janez Brajkovič attacked just before the 1 kilometer to go banner and were joined by Dutchman Niki Terpstra. Terpstra attacked with about 800 meters to go as the Danes tried to set up a sprint for Breschel. However, as soon as Terpstra was caught Belgian Greg Van Avermaet launched the sprint. Breschel passed Van Avermaet on the left-hand side but Thor Hushovd of Norway passed Breschel and held on to the finish line for the victory. Breschel would settle for 2nd while Allan Davis of Australia passed Van Avermaet for the bronze medal.

National qualification

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Nations in the top ten places of the UCI World Ranking on 15 August were permitted up to nine riders, although they were not permitted more than six unless they had at least seven riders in the rankings on that date. This happened to Kazakhstan, and as a result, one additional spot was awarded to Luxembourg, Slovenia and France (10th to 12 respectively in the rankings), although this concession had not been in the original documentation describing the allocation of places.

27 other qualifying nations were permitted no more than six riders. After allowing for the top ten in the world rankings, the continental rankings are to be used to identify sixteen further European nations, two countries from the UCI Africa Tour, five from the Americas, three Asian countries, and one representative of the Oceania tour.

Riders on teams that are members of a UCI ProTeam, but whose nation did not qualify, were eligible for additional places.

Nation qualification

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14 to be enrolled, 9 to start
  Spain
  Italy
  Belgium
  Australia
  United States
  Russia
   Switzerland
  Germany
  Netherlands
9 to be enrolled, 7 to start
  France
  Slovenia
14 to be enrolled, 6 to start
  Kazakhstan
9 to be enrolled, 6 to start
  Morocco
  Colombia
  Venezuela
  Iran
  Poland
  Portugal
  Ukraine
  Denmark
5 to be enrolled, 4 to start
  Luxembourg
5 to be enrolled, 3 to start
  South Africa
  Canada
  Brazil
  Argentina
  Japan
  South Korea
  Bulgaria
  Croatia
  Czech Republic
  Lithuania
  Estonia
  Ireland
  Norway
  Great Britain
  Austria
  Serbia
  New Zealand
  Slovakia
3 to be enrolled, 2 to start
  Belarus
  Sweden
2 to be enrolled, 1 to start
  Uzbekistan
  Cuba
  Bolivia
  Uruguay
  Chile
  Guatemala
  Costa Rica
  Latvia
  Greece
  Romania

Final classification

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Rank Bib Number Name Country Time
  77 Thor Hushovd   Norway 6:21:49
  144 Matti Breschel   Denmark s.t.
  3 Allan Davis   Australia s.t.
4 24 Filippo Pozzato   Italy s.t.
5 35 Greg Van Avermaet   Belgium s.t.
6 12 Óscar Freire   Spain s.t.
7 70 Alexander Kolobnev   Russia s.t.
8 86 Assan Bazayev   Kazakhstan s.t.
9 127 Yukiya Arashiro   Japan s.t.
10 100 Romain Feillu   France s.t.
11 91 Grega Bole   Slovenia s.t.
12 88 Dmitriy Fofonov   Kazakhstan s.t.
13 51 Koos Moerenhout   Netherlands s.t.
14 63 Fabian Wegmann   Germany s.t.
15 135 André Cardoso   Portugal s.t.
16 66 Fränk Schleck   Luxembourg s.t.
17 1 Cadel Evans   Australia s.t.
18 31 Philippe Gilbert   Belgium s.t.
19 53 Niki Terpstra   Netherlands +0:07
20 33 Björn Leukemans   Belgium s.t.
21 68 Vladimir Gusev   Russia +0:13
22 93 Janez Brajkovič   Slovenia s.t.
23 148 Chris Sørensen   Denmark s.t.
24 145 Anders Lund   Denmark +0:15
25 60 Paul Martens   Germany s.t.
26 104 Yoann Offredo   France +2:07
27 168 Jonas Ljungblad   Sweden +2:09
28 155 Matija Kvasina   Croatia +2:11
29 59 Christian Knees   Germany s.t.
30 128 Fumiyuki Beppu   Japan s.t.
31 96 Simon Špilak   Slovenia +2:13
32 101 Cyril Gautier   France s.t.
33 178 Kanstantsin Sivtsov   Belarus s.t.
34 111 José Serpa   Colombia s.t.
35 161 Juan José Haedo   Argentina s.t.
36 27 Giovanni Visconti   Italy s.t.
37 19 Marzio Bruseghin   Italy +5:11
38 23 Luca Paolini   Italy s.t.
39 18 Haimar Zubeldia   Spain s.t.
40 21 Vincenzo Nibali   Italy +7:10
41 46 Lars Boom   Netherlands +7:22
42 52 Wout Poels   Netherlands s.t.
43 56 André Greipel   Germany s.t.
44 97 Gorazd Štangelj   Slovenia s.t.
45 7 Stuart O'Grady   Australia s.t.
46 157 Radoslav Rogina   Croatia s.t.
47 48 Karsten Kroon   Netherlands s.t.
48 94 Jure Kocjan   Slovenia s.t.
49 67 Pavel Brutt   Russia s.t.
50 80 Fabian Cancellara    Switzerland s.t.
51 177 Yauheni Hutarovich   Belarus +13:53
52 139 Denys Kostyuk   Ukraine s.t.
53 174 Martin Velits   Slovakia s.t.
54 150 Petr Benčik   Czech Republic s.t.
55 81 Martin Elmiger    Switzerland s.t.
56 133 Hernani Broco   Portugal s.t.
57 73 Egor Silin   Russia s.t.
58 62 Marcel Sieberg   Germany s.t.
59 83 Steve Morabito    Switzerland s.t.
60 115 Bartosz Huzarski   Poland s.t.
61 75 Eduard Vorganov   Russia s.t.
62 47 Koen de Kort   Netherlands s.t.
63 99 Sylvain Chavanel   France s.t.
64 114 Michał Gołaś   Poland s.t.
65 169 Bernhard Eisel   Austria s.t.
66 170 Peter Wrolich   Austria s.t.
67 142 Oleksandr Sheydyk   Ukraine s.t.
68 165 David McCann   Ireland s.t.
69 78 Alexander Kristoff   Norway s.t.
70 103 Sébastien Hinault   France s.t.
71 55 Bert Grabsch   Germany s.t.
72 129 Yukihiro Doi   Japan s.t.
73 38 Ted King   United States s.t.
74 175 Peter Velits   Slovakia s.t.
75 167 Gustav Larsson   Sweden s.t.
76 143 Lars Bak   Denmark s.t.
77 152 Julian Dean   New Zealand s.t.
78 117 Przemysław Niemiec   Poland s.t.
79 44 Christian Vande Velde   United States s.t.
80 41 Danny Pate   United States s.t.
81 37 Tyler Farrar   United States s.t.
82 57 Danilo Hondo   Germany s.t.
83 102 Anthony Geslin   France s.t.
84 159 Tanel Kangert   Estonia s.t.
85 107 Svein Tuft   Canada s.t.
86 98 William Bonnet   France s.t.
87 151 Leopold König   Czech Republic s.t.
88 87 Alexsandr Dyachenko   Kazakhstan s.t.
89 149 Ignatas Konovalovas   Lithuania s.t.
90 137 José João Mendes   Portugal s.t.
91 49 Steven Kruijswijk   Netherlands s.t.
92 50 Sebastian Langeveld   Netherlands s.t.
93 140 Oleksandr Kvachuk   Ukraine s.t.
94 6 Mathew Hayman   Australia s.t.
95 9 Wesley Sulzberger   Australia s.t.
96 8 Michael Rogers   Australia s.t.
97 166 Nicolas Roche   Ireland s.t.
98 64 Laurent Didier   Luxembourg +21:51
99 171 Zsolt Dér   Serbia +22:50

Riders who did not finish

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79 riders failed to finish the race.

References

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  1. ^ "Thor Hushovd wins the rainbow jersey for Norway". Cycling Weekly. 3 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Norway's Thor Hushovd claims world road race crown". CNN. 3 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Elite Men's Road race". melbourne2010.com. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
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