2011 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
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| Dates | 25 September 2011 | |||||||||
| Stages | 1 | |||||||||
| Distance | 260 km (161.6 mi) | |||||||||
| Winning time | 5h 40' 27" | |||||||||
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 Gold
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 Mark Cavendish (Great Britain)
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 Silver
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 Matthew Goss (Australia)
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 Bronze
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 André Greipel (Germany)
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2011 UCI Road World Championships_pictogram.svg) Participating nations |
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| Elite events | ||||
| Elite road race | men | women | ||
| Elite time trial | men | women | ||
| Under-23 events | ||||
| Under-23 road race | men | |||
| Under-23 time trial | men | |||
| Junior events | ||||
| Junior road race | men | women | ||
| Junior time trial | men | women | ||
The Men's Road Race of the 2011 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 25 September 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In a sprint to the finish line, Great Britain's Mark Cavendish became world champion after making his move down the right-hand side of the course, and just managed to hold off the rest of the field, to become his country's first road race world champion since Tom Simpson won the event in San Sebastián in 1965. The silver medal went to Australia's Matthew Goss – a team-mate of Cavendish at the HTC–Highroad team – with the bronze medal going to Germany's André Greipel.
The race started in the square at Copenhagen City Hall. For the second consecutive time, the World Championship route started and finished in different locations, with the riders completing 28 km (17.4 mi) – including a 6 km (3.7 mi) neutralised section – before reaching the finishing circuit in Rudersdal. Having reached Rudersdal, the riders then completed seventeen laps of the 14 km (8.7 mi) circuit around the suburbs of Søllerød and Nærum, to make up the racing distance of 260 km (161.6 mi).
The field started quickly, with an average speed close to 50 km/h (31 mph) for the first half-hour of racing, as breaks went and were brought back. Finally a breakaway formed, which consisted of seven riders: in the break were Oleg Chuzhda, Maxim Iglinsky, Tanel Kangert, Robert Kišerlovski, Pablo Lastras, Christian Poos and Anthony Roux. As the lead rose up to eight minutes, the Great Britain team began to increase the pace of the peloton to start chasing the group and lower their lead. The lead was brought back to about four minutes, mainly due to the work of Steve Cummings and David Millar.
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