The Men's under-23 road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 28 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 23rd edition of the event, for which French rider Benoît Cosnefroy was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 178 riders from 52 nations entered the competition.
The race was won by Switzerland's Marc Hirschi – becoming the first Swiss rider to win the gold medal – after he attacked from a small group on the final descent into Innsbruck, and soloed away to a fifteen-second margin of victory. The remaining members of that small group, Bjorg Lambrecht from Belgium and Finland's Jaakko Hänninen, did battle for the remaining medals, with silver going to Lambrecht and bronze to Hänninen.
Course The race started in Kufstein and headed south-west towards Innsbruck with a primarily rolling route, except for a climb of between Fritzens and Gnadenwald – as had been in the time trial events earlier in the week – with an average 7.1% gradient and maximum of 14% in places. After , the riders crossed the finish line for the first time, before starting four laps of a circuit in length. The circuit contained a climb of , at an average gradient of 5.9% but reaching 10% in places, from the outskirts of Innsbruck through Aldrans and Lans towards Igls. After a short period of flat roads, the race descended through Igls back towards Innsbruck and the finish line in front of the Tyrolean State Theatre.
Qualification Qualification was based mainly on the UCI Under-23 Continental Rankings by nations as of 12 August 2018, with varying number on qualifications depending on the continent. In addition to this number, any rider within the top placings of the continent's elite tour ranking that was not already qualified, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.
Qualification methods The following nations qualified.
Tour Criterium Rank of ridersto start Nations UCI Africa Tour Under-23 Ranking by Nations 1st 5 2nd 4 3–5 3 UCI America Tour 1–3 5 4–6 4 7–10 3 UCI Asia Tour 1–2 5 3–4 4 5–7 3 UCI Europe Tour 1–15 5 16–20 4 21–27 3 UCI Oceania Tour 1st 5 2nd 3
Continental champions Name Country Reason Masaki Yamamoto Asian Champion Marc Hirschi European Champion Federico Vivas Pan American Champion
Participating nations 178 cyclists from 52 nations were entered in the men's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Final classification Of the race's 178 entrants, 90 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Marc Hirschi 2 Bjorg Lambrecht + 15" 3 Jaakko Hänninen + 15" 4 Gino Mäder + 35" 5 Mark Padun + 37" 6 Jaime Castrillo + 45" 7 Tadej Pogačar + 47" 8 Ethan Hayter + 47" 9 Patrick Müller + 47" 10 James Shaw + 47" 11 Jai Hindley + 47" 12 Clément Champoussin + 47" 13 Aurélien Paret-Peintre + 1' 06" 14 Georg Zimmermann + 1' 06" 15 Aleksandr Vlasov + 1' 07" 16 Samuele Battistella + 1' 07" 17 Robert Stannard + 2' 48" 18 Stefan de Bod + 3' 21" 19 Alessandro Fedeli + 3' 21" 20 Eddie Dunbar + 3' 23" 21 Mikkel Frølich Honoré + 3' 46" 22 Tobias Foss + 3' 46" 23 Lennard Kämna + 3' 50" 24 Andrea Bagioli + 3' 50" 25 Neilson Powless + 4' 28" 26 Mark Donovan + 4' 45" 27 Valentin Madouas + 4' 57" 28 Marcel Neuhauser + 4' 57" 29 Max Kanter + 5' 41" 30 Pascal Eenkhoorn + 5' 41" 31 Barnabás Peák + 5' 41" 32 Wilmar Paredes + 5' 41" 33 Viktor Verschaeve + 5' 41" 34 Adam Ťoupalík + 5' 41" 35 Nikolay Cherkasov + 5' 41" 36 Ibai Azurmendi + 5' 41" 37 Mikkel Bjerg + 5' 41" 38 Gonçalo Carvalho + 5' 41" 39 Jaka Primožič + 5' 41" 40 Hafetab Weldu + 5' 41" 41 José Félix Parra + 5' 41" 42 Sean Bennett + 5' 41" 43 Thymen Arensman + 5' 45" 44 Jonas Gregaard + 5' 48" 45 Steff Cras + 5' 53" 46 Lucas Eriksson + 7' 57" 47 Roger Adrià + 8' 35" 48 Miguel Flórez + 8' 35" 49 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda + 8' 35" 50 Joel Fuertes + 8' 35" 51 André Carvalho + 9' 27" 52 Michael Storer + 9' 27" 53 Alessandro Monaco + 9' 27" 54 Einer Rubio + 9' 27" 55 Nicolas Prodhomme + 9' 54" 56 Lukas Rüegg + 9' 54" 57 Kamil Małecki + 10' 47" 58 Dimitri Bussard + 10' 47" 59 Torjus Sleen + 10' 47" 60 Jakub Otruba + 10' 47" 61 Andreas Leknessund + 10' 47" 62 Florian Stork + 10' 47" 63 Felix Gall + 10' 47" 64 Jonas Vingegaard + 10' 49" 65 Attila Valter + 11' 52" 66 Luis Villalobos + 11' 52" 67 Kevin Geniets + 11' 52" 68 Benjamin Brkic + 14' 08" 69 Stephen Williams + 16' 25" 70 Alessandro Covi + 16' 29" 71 Pit Leyder + 19' 25" 72 Jan Maas + 19' 25" 73 Magnus Bak Klaris + 19' 25" 74 Brandon McNulty + 19' 25" 75 Stepan Kurianov + 19' 25" 76 Alejandro Osorio + 19' 25" 77 Michel Ries + 19' 25" 78 João Almeida + 19' 25" 79 Yevgeniy Gidich + 19' 25" 80 Ryan Christensen + 21' 36" 81 Henok Mulubrhan + 21' 36" 82 Luc Wirtgen + 21' 36" 83 Joseph Areruya + 21' 36" 84 Conn McDunphy + 21' 36" 85 Charles-Étienne Chrétien + 21' 36" 86 Jordan Cárdenas + 21' 36" 87 Márton Dina + 21' 36" 88 Fernando Barceló + 21' 36" 89 Max Stedman + 21' 53"
Rank Rider Country Time 90 Idar Andersen + 23' 05" Ide Schelling Victor Lafay DNF Brent Van Moer DNF Daire Feeley DNF Jakub Murias DNF Filip Maciejuk DNF Masahiro Ishigami DNF Patrick Haller DNF Tegshbayar Batsaikhan DNF Jonas Rutsch DNF Adam Roberge DNF Joab Schneiter DNF Viktor Potočki DNF Jambaljamts Sainbayar DNF Mario Gamper DNF Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev DNF Gerardo López DNF Alex Hoehn DNF Kent Main DNF Awet Habtom DNF Žiga Horvat DNF Samuel Hakiruwizeye DNF Matteo Sobrero DNF Iván Sosa DNF Wilson Haro DNF James Mitri DNF Igor Chzhan DNF Matúš Štoček DNF Rasmus Tiller DNF Nickolas Zukowsky DNF Kakeru Omae DNF Julius van den Berg DNF Diego Ferreyra DNF Jacob Eriksson DNF Veljko Stojnić DNF Ognjen Ilić DNF Nik Čemažar DNF Denis Nekrasov DNF Masaki Yamamoto DNF Karel Tyrpekl DNF Tiago Antunes DNF Shoi Matsuda DNF Zemenfes Solomon DNF Filip Kvasina DNF David Jabuka DNF Fung Ka Hoo DNF Vladyslav Soltasiuk DNF Cyrus Monk DNF Fernando Finkler DNF Musa Mikayilzade DNF Kevin Rivera DNF Eugenio Mirafuentes DNF Didier Munyaneza DNF Piotr Pękala DNF Omer Goldstein DNF Callum Scotson DNF Orluis Aular DNF Edward Walsh DNF Darragh O'Mahony DNF Szymon Tracz DNF Kenny Molly DNF José Autran DNF Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda DNF Alexandros Agrotis DNF Jonny Brown DNF Izidor Penko DNF Paul Daumont DNF Jean Paul René Ukiniwabo DNF Timur Maleev DNF Choy Hiu Fung DNF Ayumu Watanabe DNF Leonel Quintero DNF Michael O'Loughlin DNF Andrej Petrovski DNF Cyril Barthe DNF Emil Dima DNF Denis Vulcan DNF Mateo Bratić DNF Erik Sandersson DNF Karim Shiraliyev DNF Vincent Lau DNF Tyler Cole DNF Žiga Jerman DNF Samuel Mugisha DNF Ahmed Galdoune DNF Othman Harakat DNF Luke Mudgway DNF Ignacio Espinoza DNF
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