| 2020 UCI Road World Championships | ||||||||||
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| Dates | 27 September 2020 | |||||||||
| Stages | 1 | |||||||||
| Distance | 258.2 km (160.4 mi) | |||||||||
| Winning time | 6h 38' 34"[1] | |||||||||
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| Events at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships | ||
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| Elite events | ||
| Elite road race | men | women |
| Elite time trial | men | women |
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The Men's road race of the 2020 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 27 September 2020 in Imola, Italy.[2] Mads Pedersen was the defending champion,[3] but he did not compete in the race.
For the first time since 1997,[4] a French male rider won the rainbow jersey as Julian Alaphilippe attacked on the final climb of the Cima Gallisterna; he managed to hold off a chasing group of five riders by 24 seconds to take victory at the finish line, at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari.[5] The silver medal went to Belgium's Wout van Aert – his second of the week – while the bronze medal was taken by Marc Hirschi from Switzerland.[6]
The race took place on a 28.8 kilometres (17.9 mi) course, starting and finishing at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (amotor racing circuit).[7] Heading out from the Autodromo into the Emilia-Romagna countryside, the course used two climbs with an average gradient of 10% separated by the town of Riolo Terme, before returning to the Autodromo. The men's road race lapped the course nine times, making a total of 258.2 kilometres (160.4 mi).[7]
Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 17 March 2020.[8]
The following nations qualified.[9]
| Criterium | Rank | Number of riders | Nations | |
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| To enter | To start | |||
| UCI World Ranking by Nations | 1–10 | 13 | 8 |
 Italy France Colombia Netherlands Slovenia Australia Spain Denmark |
| 11–20 | 9 | 6 |
 Norway Switzerland Russia Austria Kazakhstan Poland Ecuador Slovakia | |
| 21–30 | 7 | 4 |
 Portugal South Africa Czech Republic United States Eritrea Algeria New Zealand Latvia | |
| 31–52 | 2 | 1 |
 Belarus Luxembourg Ukraine Costa Rica Greece Romania Hungary Morocco Iran Azerbaijan Lithuania Sweden Guatemala Mexico Hong Kong Argentina Moldova | |
| UCI World Ranking by Individuals (if not already qualified) |
1–200 | — | ||
177 cyclists from 43 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.[10][11]
Australia (8) Austria (6) Azerbaijan (1) Belarus (1)
Belgium (8)
Canada (4) Colombia (8) Costa Rica (1) Czech Republic (4) Denmark (8) Ecuador (3) Eritrea (3)
Estonia (2) France (8)
Germany (8)
Great Britain (6) Greece (1) Hungary (1)
Ireland (3) Italy (8)
Japan (1) Kazakhstan (6) Latvia (3) Lithuania (1) Luxembourg (1) Mexico (1) Morocco (1) Netherlands (8) New Zealand (4) Norway (6) Poland (6) Portugal (4) Romania (1) Russia (6)
Rwanda (1) Slovakia (5) Slovenia (8) South Africa (2) Spain (8) Sweden (1)
Switzerland (6) Ukraine (1)
United States (4)177 cyclists were listed to start the 258.2-kilometre (160.4 mi)-long course.[1] However, Alexey Lutsenko was forced to withdraw from the race after testing positive for COVID-19, while Nikias Arndt and Natnael Berhane also did not start.[12] 88 riders completed the full distance.[1]
 UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race | |
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