2024 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race of the 2024 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling race that took place on 29 September 2024 in Zürich, Switzerland. It was won by Tadej Pogačar, who went on the attack 100km from the finish line.

Men's road race

2024 UCI Road World Championships
The race podium
Race details
Dates	29 September 2023
Stages	1 in Zürich, Switzerland
Winning time	6h 27' 30"
Medalists
Gold  Tadej Pogačar  (SLO)    Silver  Ben O'Connor (AUS)    Bronze  Mathieu van der Poel (NED)

Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 20 August 2024.

UCI World Rankings

The following nations qualified.

Nations	Riders
Australia	8
Belgium
Denmark
France
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
Slovenia
Spain
United States
Austria	6
Colombia
Ecuador
Eritrea
Germany
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Switzerland
Neutral athletes of Russian sporting nationality
Canada	4
Czechia
Hungary
Ireland
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Luxembourg
Mexico
Poland
Venezuela
South Africa
Algeria	1
Brazil
China
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Estonia
Greece
Israel
Japan
Mauritius
Mongolia
Morocco
Panama
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden
Thailand
Ukraine
Uruguay

Continental champions

Name	Country	Reason
Mathieu van der Poel	Netherlands	Incumbent World Champion
Leangel Linarez	Venezuela	Panamerican Champion
Kim Eu-ro	South Korea	Asian Champion

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
1	Tadej Pogačar	Slovenia	6h 27' 30"
2	Ben O'Connor	Australia	+ 34"
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Netherlands	+ 58"
4	Toms Skujiņš	Latvia	+ 58"
5	Remco Evenepoel	Belgium	+ 58"
6	Marc Hirschi	Switzerland	+ 58"
7	Ben Healy	Ireland	+ 1' 00"
8	Enric Mas	Spain	+ 1' 01"
9	Quinn Simmons	United States	+ 2' 18"
10	Romain Bardet	France	+ 2' 18"
11	Roger Adrià	Spain	+ 2' 18"
12	Bauke Mollema	Netherlands	+ 2' 18"
13	Mads Pedersen	Denmark	+ 3' 52"
14	Markus Hoelgaard	Norway	+ 3' 52"
15	Georg Zimmermann	Germany	+ 3' 52"
16	Oscar Onley	Great Britain	+ 3' 52"
17	Brandon McNulty	United States	+ 3' 52"
18	Jai Hindley	Australia	+ 3' 52"
19	Kevin Vermaerke	United States	+ 3' 52"
20	Mathias Vacek	Czech Republic	+ 3' 52"
21	Archie Ryan	Ireland	+ 6' 04"
22	Valentin Madouas	France	+ 6' 04"
23	Frederik Wandahl	Denmark	+ 6' 04"
24	Magnus Cort	Denmark	+ 6' 36"
25	Giulio Ciccone	Italy	+ 6' 36"
26	Juan Ayuso	Spain	+ 6' 36"
27	Attila Valter	Hungary	+ 6' 36"
28	Florian Lipowitz	Germany	+ 6' 36"
29	Felix Großschartner	Austria	+ 6' 36"
30	Adam Yates	Great Britain	+ 6' 36"
31	Wilco Kelderman	Netherlands	+ 6' 36"
32	Aleksandr Vlasov	[[at the UCI Road World Championships|]]	+ 6' 36"
33	David Gaudu	France	+ 6' 36"
34	Matteo Jorgenson	United States	+ 6' 36"
35	Pavel Sivakov	France	+ 6' 40"
36	Simon Geschke	Germany	+ 7' 01"
37	Stefan Küng	Switzerland	+ 7' 01"
38	Romain Grégoire	France	+ 7' 01"
39	Neilson Powless	United States	+ 12' 09"
40	Harold Tejada	Colombia	+ 12' 09"
41	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Norway	+ 12' 09"
42	Rui Costa	Portugal	+ 12' 09"
43	Lorenzo Rota	Italy	+ 12' 09"
44	Pier-André Côté	Canada	+ 12' 09"
45	Edoardo Zambanini	Italy	+ 12' 09"
46	Nick Schultz	Australia	+ 12' 09"
47	Magnus Sheffield	United States	+ 12' 09"
48	Diego Ulissi	Italy	+ 12' 09"
49	Sam Oomen	Netherlands	+ 12' 09"
50	Georg Steinhauser	Germany	+ 12' 09"
51	Maxim Van Gils	Belgium	+ 12' 09"
52	Mikkel Honoré	Denmark	+ 12' 09"
53	Natnael Tesfatsion	Eritrea	+ 12' 09"
54	Michael Woods	Canada	+ 12' 09"
55	Nelson Oliveira	Portugal	+ 12' 09"
56	Johannes Staune-Mittet	Norway	+ 12' 09"
57	tom Pidcock	Great Britain	+ 12' 09"
58	Alex Aranburu	Spain	+ 12' 09"
59	Carlos Rodríguez	Spain	+ 12' 09"
60	Daniel Martínez	Colombia	+ 12' 09"
61	Rudy Molard	France	+ 12' 09"
62	Pablo Castrillo	Spain	+ 12' 09"
63	Mattia Cattaneo	Italy	+ 12' 09"
64	Primož Roglič	Slovenia	+ 12' 09"
65	Bob Jungels	Luxembourg	+ 12' 09"
66	Filippo Zana	Italy	+ 12' 09"
67	Eddie Dunbar	Ireland	+ 12' 09"
68	Simon Yates	Great Britain	+ 12' 09"
69	Antonio Tiberi	Italy	+ 17' 39"
70	Lawrence Warbasse	United States	+ 17' 39"
71	Krists Neilands	Latvia	+ 17' 39"
72	Lukáš Kubiš	Slovakia	+ 19' 23"
73	Reuben Thompson	New Zealand	+ 19' 23"
74	Edgar Cadena	Mexico	+ 19' 23"
75	Andreas Leknessund	Norway	+ 19' 23"
76	Sebastian Schönberger	Austria	+ 19' 23"
77	Lukasz Owsian	Poland	+ 19' 23"
78	Márton Dina	Hungary	+ 19' 23"
79	Einer Rubio	Colombia	+ 19' 23"
80	Guillermo Thomas Silva	Uruguay	+ 19' 23"
81	Eric Fagúndez	Uruguay	+ 19' 23"

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
	Marco Brenner	Germany	DNF
	Michael Matthews	Australia	DNF
	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Eritrea	DNF
	Bart Lemmen	Netherlands	DNF
	Piotr Pękala	Poland	DNF
	Luc Wirtgen	Luxembourg	DNF
	Silvan Dillier	Switzerland	DNF
	Frank van den Broek	Netherlands	DNF
	Michael Gogl	Austria	DNF
	Johan Jacobs	Switzerland	DNF
	Henok Mulubrhan	Eritrea	DNF
	Emanuel Zangerle	Austria	DNF
	Fabian Lienhard	Switzerland	DNF
	Marcin BudzińskiMarcin Budziński	Poland	DNF
	Michael Boroš	Czech Republic	DNF
	Ivo Oliveira	Portugal	DNF
	Tobias Bayer	Austria	DNF
	Nadav Raisberg	Israel	DNF
	Felix Gall	Austria	DNF
	Conn McDunphy	Ireland	DNF
	Kaden Hopkins	Bermuda	DNF
	Jan Tratnik	Slovenia	DNF
	Rui Oliveira	Portugal	DNF
	Tobias Foss	Norway	DNF
	Stephen Williams	Great Britain	DNF
	Laurens De Plus	Belgium	DNF
	Jay Vine	Australia	DNF
	Daan Hoole	Netherlands	DNF
	Julien Bernard	France	DNF
	Harry Sweeny	Australia	DNF
	Quinten Hermans	Belgium	DNF
	Mauro Schmid	Switzerland	DNF
	Tim Wellens	Belgium	DNF
	Tiesj Benoot	Belgium	DNF
	James Knox	Great Britain	DNF
	George Bennett	New Zealand	DNF
	Michael Storer	Australia	DNF
	Finn Fisher-Black	New Zealand	DNF
	Andrea Bagioli	Italy	DNF
	Victor Campenaerts	Belgium	DNF
	Andrea Mifsud	Malta	DNF
	Jaka Primožič	Slovenia	DNF
	Louis Meintjes	South Africa	DNF
	Michel Ries	Luxembourg	DNF
	Oscar Riesebeek	Netherlands	DNF
	Jasper Stuyven	Belgium	DNF
	Sjoerd Bax	Netherlands	DNF
	Kasper Asgreen	Denmark	DNF
	Jakob Fuglsang	Denmark	DNF
	Michael Valgren	Denmark	DNF
	Biniam Girmay	Eritrea	DNF
	Madis Mihkels	Estonia	DNF
	Lucas Eriksson	Sweden	DNF
	Kévin Geniets	Luxembourg	DNF
	Derek Gee	Canada	DNF
	Jefferson Alexander Cepeda	Ecuador	DNF
	Emīls Liepiņš	Latvia	DNF
	Chris Hamilton	Australia	DNF
	Yevgeniy Fedorov	Kazakhstan	DNF
	Gleb Brussenskiy	Kazakhstan	DNF
	Santiago Buitrago	Colombia	DNF
	Miguel Díaz	Mexico	DNF
	Periklis Ilias	Greece	DNF
	Iustin-Ioan Vaidian	Romania	DNF
	Domen Novak	Slovenia	DNF
	Pello Bilbao	Spain	DNF
	Matevž Govekar	Slovenia	DNF
	Jake Stewart	Great Britain	DNF
	Mark Donovan	Great Britain	DNF
	Afonso Eulálio	Portugal	DNF
	Maximilian Schachmann	Germany	DNF
	Victor Langellotti	Monaco	DNF
	Ulises Alfredo Castillo	Mexico	DNF
	Riley Sheehan	United States	DNF
	Francisco Joel Peñuela	Venezuela	DNF
	Eder Frayre	Mexico	DNF
	Roberto González	Panama	DNF
	Sergio Chumil	Guatemala	DNF
	Dawit Yemane	Eritrea	DNF
	Jonathan Caicedo	Ecuador	DNF
	Alexandre Mayer	Mauritius	DNF
	Xianjing Lyu	China	DNF
	Walter Vargas	Colombia	DNF
	Jonas Abrahamsen	Norway	DNF
	Callum Ormiston	South Africa	DNF
	Luka Mezgec	Slovenia	DNF
	Erik Fetter	Hungary	DNF
	Filip Maciejuk	Poland	DNF
	Jambaljamts Sainbayar	Mongolia	DNF
	Markus Pajur	Estonia	DNF
	Anton Kuzmin	Kazakhstan	DNF
	Alekss Krasts	Latvia	DNF
	Jakub Otruba	Czech Republic	DNF
	Michal Schlegel	Czech Republic	DNF
	Carlos Oyarzún	Chile	DNF
	Cory Williams	Belize	DNF
	Amir Arslan Ansari	Refugee Nation	DNF
	Fredd Matute	Honduras	DNF
	Rien Schuurhuis	Vatican City	DNF
	Ahmad Wais	Refugee Nation	DNF
	Matic Žumer	Slovenia	DNF
	Yukiya Arashiro	Japan	DNF
	Mattias Skjelmose	Denmark	DNF
	Anderson Timoteo Paredes	Venezuela	DNF
	Armando Reis Da Costa Camargo Filho	Brazil	DNF
	Mikel Landa	Spain	DNF
	Hamza Mansouri	Algeria	DNF
	Leangel Linarez	Venezuela	DNF
	Dmitriy Bocharov	Uzbekistan	DNF
	Julian Alaphilippe	France	DNF
	João Almeida	Portugal	DNF
	Igor Chzhan	Kazakhstan	DNF
	Tullatorn Sosalam	Thailand	DNF
	Fadhel Al Khater	Qatar	DNF
	Guillaume Boivin	Canada	DNS