2018 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
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The Men's road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 30 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 85th edition of the championship, and Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the three times defending champion, a record in the event.[2] 188 riders from 44 nations entered the competition.[3]
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Dates | 30 September 2018 | |||||||||
Stages | 1 | |||||||||
Distance | 258 km (160.3 mi) | |||||||||
Winning time | 6h 46' 41"[1] | |||||||||
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After previously winning six medals in the race without taking the gold medal, Spain's Alejandro Valverde took his first world title after a four-rider sprint finish decided the medals.[4] Valverde went clear with a small group of riders on the steep Höttinger Höll climb, making headway on the descent with France's Romain Bardet and Canadian rider Michael Woods. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) joined the trio on the run-in to the finish, but his efforts to do so resulted in him missing out on the medals, behind Bardet (silver) and Woods (bronze).[5]
Valverde's victory was the first for Spain in the event since Óscar Freire won the title in Verona, Italy in 2004.[6] France and Canada also ended long streaks without a medal in the event as Bardet's silver was the first medal for France since Anthony Geslin won the bronze medal in Madrid, Spain in 2005,[7] while Woods won only the second medal for a Canadian male rider in the road race, after Steve Bauer's bronze medal at the 1984 race, also in Spain in Barcelona.[8]