UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The first professional World Cycling Championship took place in 1927 at the Nürburgring in Germany and was won by Alfredo Binda, of Italy.In recent years, the race is held towards the end of the European season, usually following the Vuelta a España.The elite men's race is usually won by riders on the UCI World Tour or its predecessors.It usually involves laps of a circuit with a total race distance over 250 kilometres (160 mi) in length.Spaniard Alejandro Valverde has the most total medals by any individual rider with seven (1 gold in 2018; 2 silver in 2003, 2005; 4 bronze in 2006, 2012–14).
Rainbow jerseyRoad raceAlfredo BindaRik Van SteenbergenEddy MerckxÓscar FreirePeter SaganTadej Pogačarcycling teamsNürburgringVuelta a EspañaUCI World TourEastern blocTour de FranceGiro d'ItaliaTriple Crown of Cyclingcycling sprintersclimbing specialistMaurizio Fondriest1989 Giro d'Italia2008 Tour of CaliforniaCadel Evans2010 Tour de FranceMark Cavendish2011 road raceAlejandro Valverde2018 road raceInnsbruckGeorges RonsseRik Van LooyGianni BugnoPaolo BettiniJulian Alaphilippe1927 NürburgringdetailsCostante GirardengoDomenico Piemontesi1928 BudapestHerbert NebeBruno Wolke1929 ZürichNicolas Frantz1930 LiègeLearco Guerra1931 CopenhagenFerdinand Le DrogoAlbert Büchi1932 RomeRemo Bertoni1933 MontlhéryGeorges SpeicherAntonin MagneMarinus Valentijn1934 LeipzigKarel KaersGustave Danneels1935 FloreffeJean AertsLuciano Montero1936 BernAldo BiniTheo Middelkamp1937 CopenhagenÉloi MeulenbergEmil KijewskiPaul Egli1938 ValkenburgMarcel KintLeo Amberg1946 ZürichHans Knecht1947 ReimsAlbert SercuSjefke Janssen1948 ValkenburgBriek SchotteApo LazaridèsLucien Teisseire1949 CopenhagenFerdinand KüblerFausto Coppi1950 Moorslede1951 VareseFiorenzo MagniAntonio Bevilacqua1952 LuxembourgHeinz MüllerGottfried Weilenmann Jr.Ludwig Hörmann1953 LuganoGermain DeryckeStan Ockers1954 SolingenLouison BobetFritz SchaerCharly Gaul1955 FrascatiJean-Pierre Schmitz1956 CopenhagenGerrit Schulte1957 WaregemAndré Darrigade1958 ReimsErcole Baldini1959 ZandvoortMichele GismondiNoël Foré1960 Karl-Marx-StadtPino Cerami1961 BernNino DefilippisRaymond Poulidor1962 Salò di GardaJean StablinskiShay ElliottJos Hoevenaers1963 RonseBenoni BeheytJo de Haan1964 SallanchesJan JanssenVittorio Adorni1965 San SebastiánTom SimpsonRudi AltigRoger Swerts