2010 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
Introduction 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.
Route 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.Circuit practice, training and racing took place in Geelong from Thursday 23 September to Sunday 3 October.
Race Report 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 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.
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Final classification  Rank  Bib Number  Name  Country Time   77  Thor Hushovd    6:21:49   144  Matti Breschel    s.t. 3  Allan Davis    s.t. 4  24  Filippo Pozzato    s.t. 5  35  Greg Van Avermaet    s.t. 6  12  Óscar Freire    s.t. 7  70  Alexander Kolobnev    s.t. 8  86  Assan Bazayev    s.t. 9  127  Yukiya Arashiro    s.t. 10  100  Romain Feillu    s.t. 11  91  Grega Bole    s.t. 12  88  Dmitriy Fofonov    s.t. 13  51  Koos Moerenhout    s.t. 14  63  Fabian Wegmann    s.t. 15  135  André Cardoso    s.t. 16  66  Fränk Schleck    s.t. 17  1  Cadel Evans    s.t. 18  31  Philippe Gilbert    s.t. 19  53  Niki Terpstra    +0:07 20  33  Björn Leukemans    s.t. 21  68  Vladimir Gusev    +0:13 22  93  Janez Brajkovič    s.t. 23  148  Chris Sørensen    s.t. 24  145  Anders Lund    +0:15 25  60  Paul Martens    s.t. 26  104  Yoann Offredo    +2:07 27  168  Jonas Ljungblad    +2:09 28  155  Matija Kvasina    +2:11 29  59  Christian Knees    s.t. 30  128  Fumiyuki Beppu    s.t. 31  96  Simon Špilak    +2:13 32  101  Cyril Gautier    s.t. 33  178  Kanstantsin Sivtsov    s.t. 34  111  José Serpa    s.t. 35  161  Juan José Haedo    s.t. 36  27  Giovanni Visconti    s.t. 37  19  Marzio Bruseghin    +5:11 38  23  Luca Paolini    s.t. 39  18  Haimar Zubeldia    s.t. 40  21  Vincenzo Nibali    +7:10 41  46  Lars Boom    +7:22 42  52  Wout Poels    s.t. 43  56  André Greipel    s.t. 44  97  Gorazd Štangelj    s.t. 45  7  Stuart O'Grady    s.t. 46  157  Radoslav Rogina    s.t. 47  48  Karsten Kroon    s.t. 48  94  Jure Kocjan    s.t. 49  67  Pavel Brutt    s.t. 50  80  Fabian Cancellara    s.t. 51  177  Yauheni Hutarovich    +13:53 52  139  Denys Kostyuk    s.t. 53  174  Martin Velits    s.t. 54  150  Petr Benčik    s.t. 55  81  Martin Elmiger    s.t. 56  133  Hernani Broco    s.t. 57  73  Egor Silin    s.t. 58  62  Marcel Sieberg    s.t. 59  83  Steve Morabito    s.t. 60  115  Bartosz Huzarski    s.t. 61  75  Eduard Vorganov    s.t. 62  47  Koen de Kort    s.t. 63  99  Sylvain Chavanel    s.t. 64  114  Michał Gołaś    s.t. 65  169  Bernhard Eisel    s.t. 66  170  Peter Wrolich    s.t. 67  142  Oleksandr Sheydyk    s.t. 68  165  David McCann    s.t. 69  78  Alexander Kristoff    s.t. 70  103  Sébastien Hinault    s.t. 71  55  Bert Grabsch    s.t. 72  129  Yukihiro Doi    s.t. 73  38  Ted King    s.t. 74  175  Peter Velits    s.t. 75  167  Gustav Larsson    s.t. 76  143  Lars Bak    s.t. 77  152  Julian Dean    s.t. 78  117  Przemysław Niemiec    s.t. 79  44  Christian Vande Velde    s.t. 80  41  Danny Pate    s.t. 81  37  Tyler Farrar    s.t. 82  57  Danilo Hondo    s.t. 83  102  Anthony Geslin    s.t. 84  159  Tanel Kangert    s.t. 85  107  Svein Tuft    s.t. 86  98  William Bonnet    s.t. 87  151  Leopold König    s.t. 88  87  Alexsandr Dyachenko    s.t. 89  149  Ignatas Konovalovas    s.t. 90  137  José João Mendes    s.t. 91  49  Steven Kruijswijk    s.t. 92  50  Sebastian Langeveld    s.t. 93  140  Oleksandr Kvachuk    s.t. 94  6  Mathew Hayman    s.t. 95  9  Wesley Sulzberger    s.t. 96  8  Michael Rogers    s.t. 97  166  Nicolas Roche    s.t. 98  64  Laurent Didier    +21:51 99  171  Zsolt Dér    +22:50===Riders who did not finish===79 riders failed to finish the race. Rider Country Lucas Sebastián Haedo   Matías Médici   Baden Cooke   Matthew Goss   Simon Gerrans   Frederik Willems   Jan Bakelants   Jürgen Roelandts   Kevin De Weert   Leif Hoste   Mario Aerts   Murilo Fischer   Christian Meier   Dominique Rollin   Carlos Oyarzún   Diego Alejandro Tamayo   Hrvoje Miholjević   Alex Rasmussen   Michael Mørkøv   Kalle Kriit   Dominic Klemme   Tony Martin   David Millar   Jeremy Hunt   Mark Cavendish   Matthew Brammeier   Rider Country Andrea Tonti   Daniel Oss   Francesco Gavazzi   Matteo Tosatto   Sergey Renev   Valentin Iglinskiy   Ben Gastauer   Abdelati Saadoune   Adil Jelloul   Adnane Aarbia   Mohamed Elammoury   Mouhssine Lahsaini   Tarik Chaoufi   Jos van Emden   Gregory Henderson   Hayden Roulston   Edvald Boasson Hagen   Jarosław Marycz   Maciej Bodnar   Marcin Sapa   Manuel Antonio Cardoso   Samuel Caldeira   Alexander Porsev   Artem Ovechkin   Vladimir Karpets   Yury Trofimov   Esad Hasanovic   Rider Country Peter Sagan   Borut Božič   Kristjan Koren   Darren Lill   Daryl Impey   Jay Robert Thomson   Carlos Barredo   Francisco Ventoso   Imanol Erviti   Juan Manuel Gárate   Luis León Sánchez   Rubén Plaza   Samuel Sánchez   Danilo Wyss   Grégory Rast   Martin Kohler   Michael Albasini   Andriy Hrivko   Yuriy Metlushenko   Craig Lewis   David Zabriskie   Jason McCartney   Tejay van Garderen   Thomas Peterson   Carlos José Ochoa   Jackson Rodríguez
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