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. Mads Pedersen was the defending champion, but he did not compete in the race.
For the first time since 1997, 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. 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.
The race took place on a course, starting and finishing at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a motor racing circuit). 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 .
Qualification Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 17 March 2020.
UCI World Rankings The following nations qualified.
Criterium Rank Number of riders Nations To enter To start UCI World Ranking by Nations 1–10 13 8 11–20 9 6 21–30 7 4 31–52 2 1 UCI World Ranking by Individuals(if not already qualified) 1–200
Participating nations 177 cyclists from 43 nations competed in the event. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Final classification 177 cyclists were listed to start the -long course. 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. 88 riders completed the full distance.
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Julian Alaphilippe 6h 38' 34" 2 Wout van Aert + 24" 3 Marc Hirschi + 24" 4 Michał Kwiatkowski + 24" 5 Jakob Fuglsang + 24" 6 Primož Roglič + 24" 7 Michael Matthews + 53" 8 Alejandro Valverde + 53" 9 Maximilian Schachmann + 53" 10 Damiano Caruso + 53" 11 Michael Valgren + 53" 12 Michael Woods + 53" 13 Guillaume Martin + 53" 14 Tom Dumoulin + 53" 15 Vincenzo Nibali + 57" 16 Mikel Landa + 57" 17 Simon Geschke + 1' 34" 18 Alberto Bettiol + 1' 34" 19 Rudy Molard + 1' 34" 20 Pello Bilbao + 1' 34" 21 Greg Van Avermaet + 1' 34" 22 Richard Carapaz + 1' 34" 23 Fausto Masnada + 1' 34" 24 Rigoberto Urán + 1' 34" 25 Richie Porte + 1' 34" 26 Rui Costa + 2' 03" 27 Jan Polanc + 2' 03" 28 Jesús Herrada + 2' 03" 29 Toms Skujiņš + 3' 40" 30 Tiesj Benoot + 3' 44" 31 Daniel Martínez + 3' 44" 32 Esteban Chaves + 3' 44" 33 Tadej Pogačar + 3' 44" 34 Valentin Madouas + 5' 15" 35 Dylan van Baarle + 5' 48" 36 Markus Hoelgaard + 5' 54" 37 Kenny Elissonde + 8' 30" 38 Nelson Oliveira + 8' 49" 39 Tim Wellens + 9' 24" 40 Loïc Vliegen + 9' 24" 41 Miguel Ángel López + 9' 24" 42 Tom Pidcock + 9' 24" 43 Giovanni Visconti + 10' 32" 44 Simon Clarke + 10' 32" 45 Sam Oomen + 10' 32" 46 Enrico Gasparotto + 10' 32" 47 Diego Ulissi + 10' 32" 48 Sergio Higuita + 10' 32" 49 Vadim Pronskiy + 10' 32" 50 Sergio Henao + 10' 32" 51 Nicolas Roche + 10' 32" 52 Luis León Sánchez + 10' 32" 53 Sepp Kuss + 12' 35" 54 Sebastian Schönberger + 15' 25" 55 Georg Zimmermann + 15' 25" 56 Andreas Leknessund + 15' 27" 57 Andrea Bagioli + 15' 27" 58 Krists Neilands + 16' 20" 59 Jan Hirt + 19' 42" 60 Jonas Gregaard + 19' 42" 61 Hugo Houle + 19' 42" 62 Dmitry Strakhov + 20' 13" 63 Nico Denz + 21' 59" 64 Jakub Otruba + 21' 59" 65 Casper Pedersen + 21' 59" 66 Paul Martens + 21' 59" 67 Merhawi Kudus + 21' 59" 68 Martijn Tusveld + 21' 59" 69 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier + 21' 59" 70 Łukasz Owsian + 21' 59" 71 Adam Ťoupalík + 21' 59" 72 Maciej Paterski + 21' 59" 73 Carl Fredrik Hagen + 21' 59" 74 Yuriy Natarov + 21' 59" 75 Sergey Chernetskiy + 21' 59" 76 Attila Valter + 21' 59" 77 Christopher Juul-Jensen + 21' 59" 78 Louis Meintjes + 21' 59" 79 Pieter Weening + 21' 59" 80 Jonathan Caicedo + 21' 59" 81 James Shaw + 21' 59" 82 Ivan Rovny + 21' 59" 83 Michał Gołaś + 21' 59" 84 Torstein Træen + 21' 59" 85 Lucas Eriksson + 21' 59" 86 Ethan Hayter + 22' 03" 87 Anatoliy Budyak + 28' 05" 88 Ivo Oliveira + 32' 08"
Rider Country Time Gianluca Brambilla James Knox DNF Jai Hindley DNF Dion Smith DNF Luke Rowe DNF Jasper Stuyven DNF Pieter Serry DNF Pascal Eenkhoorn DNF Antwan Tolhoek DNF Vegard Stake Laengen DNF Jesper Hansen DNF Chris Hamilton DNF George Bennett DNF Nick Schultz DNF Yukiya Arashiro DNF Nans Peters DNF Julien Bernard DNF Quentin Pacher DNF John Degenkolb DNF Luka Mezgec DNF Enric Mas DNF David de la Cruz DNF Marc Soler DNF Alexander Cataford DNF Tanel Kangert DNF Oliver Naesen DNF Harold Tejada DNF Denis Nekrasov DNF Jonas Koch DNF Alexandr Riabushenko DNF Damien Howson DNF Janez Brajkovič DNF Neilson Powless DNF Brandon McNulty DNF Peeter Pruus DNF Jan Tratnik DNF Jefferson Cepeda DNF Niklas Eg DNF Ben Gastauer DNF Vyacheslav Kuznetsov DNF Michael Albasini DNF Guillaume Boivin DNF Evaldas Šiškevičius DNF Domen Novak DNF Luke Durbridge DNF Tobias Bayer DNF Josef Černý DNF Patrik Tybor DNF Mikkel Frølich Honoré DNF Michael Schär DNF Ruben Guerreiro DNF Cristian Camilo Muñoz DNF Felix Gall DNF Riccardo Zoidl DNF Kamil Małecki DNF Daniil Fominykh DNF Ben Healy DNF Nick van der Lijke DNF Petr Rikunov DNF Silvan Dillier DNF Simon Pellaud DNF Finn Fisher-Black DNF Abderrahim Zahiri DNF Odd Christian Eiking DNF Stanisław Aniołkowski DNF Viesturs Lukševics DNF Patrick Bevin DNF Martin Haring DNF Kevin Rivera DNF Luka Pibernik DNF Nicholas Dlamini DNF Ulises Alfredo Castillo DNF Eduard-Michael Grosu DNF Marco Friedrich DNF Hugh Carthy DNF Lawson Craddock DNF Ján Andrej Cully DNF Marek Čanecký DNF Polychronis Tzortzakis DNF Juraj Bellan DNF Samuel Mugisha DNF Elchin Asadov DNF Dmitriy Gruzdev DNF Markus Wildauer DNF Ryan Mullen DNF Zhandos Bizhigitov DNF Nikias Arndt Alexey Lutsenko DNS Natnael Berhane DNS
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