2015 World Road Cycling Championships
82nd edition: Sept 20 - Sept 27, 2015
Under 23 Men's Road Race
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September 25: Under 23 Men's Road Race, 162.2 km/ 100.8 miles
Kevin Ledanois wins the U23 men's road race championship
The race: A break that eventually had about twelve riders went clear, the first of them escaping on the first lap. Others bridged, but the move never had a big gap.
As rain began to fall on the riders, one by one the escapees were dropped from the break. Eventually it was down to just three, Oleg Zemlyakov, Max Schachmann and José Rodriguez. The trio had less than a half-minute with a couple of laps remaining.
They were rounded up on that lap. Others gave it a shot, but it was in the race's last minutes, as some riders fell on the slippery cobbled pavement, that Frenchman Kevin Ledanois drove his bike hard, gaining and keeping a small gap to the finish to become the world champion.
Italian Simone Consonni had chased with all his might, but was unable to close the gap and earned the silver medal.
The French got first and third with Anthony Turgis getting the bronze.
Complete results:
162.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.457 km/hr
| 1 | LEDANOIS Kevin | FRANCE | 3hr 54min 45sec |
| 2 | CONSONNI Simone | ITALY | s.t. |
| 3 | TURGIS Anthony | FRANCE | @ 2sec |
| 4 | MOSCON Gianni | ITALY | s.t. |
| 5 | KAMP EGESTED Alexander | DENMARK | 5 |
| 6 | LIENHARD Fabian | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 7 | SCHLEGEL Michal | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 8 | GADAY OROZCO Lucas | ARGENTINA | s.t. |
| 9 | DE VOS Adam | CANADA | 10 |
| 10 | KAMNA Lennard | GERMANY | 12 |
| 11 | KUDUS GHEBREMEDHIN Merhawi | ERITREA | s.t. |
| 12 | BOHLI Tom | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 13 | HAIG Jack | AUSTRALIA | s.t. |
| 14 | KERKHOF Tim | NETHERLANDS | 13 |
| 15 | RAIM Mihkel | ESTONIA | s.t. |
| 16 | PALUTA Michal | POLAND | s.t. |
| 17 | DECLERCQ Benjamin | BELGIUM | s.t. |
| 18 | KACZMAREK Jakub | POLAND | s.t. |
| 19 | FARAZIJN Maxime | BELGIUM | s.t. |
| 20 | BENITO DIEZ Miguel Angel | SPAIN | 16 |
| 21 | WACHTER Alexander | AUSTRIA | s.t. |
| 22 | OOMEN Sam | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 23 | BRUSSELMAN Twan | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 24 | ESTEVEZ Imanol | SPAIN | 24 |
| 25 | KOROSEC Rok | SLOVENIA | s.t. |
| 26 | PERRY Benjamin | CANADA | s.t. |
| 27 | ERIKSSON Lucas | SWEDEN | s.t. |
| 28 | GROSSSCHARTNER Felix | AUSTRIA | s.t. |
| 29 | ANDERSEN Soren Kragh | DENMARK | s.t. |
| 30 | SCHONBERGER Sebastian | AUSTRIA | s.t. |
| 31 | PRADO Ignacio | MEXICO | 29 |
| 32 | GRELLIER Fabien | FRANCE | s.t. |
| 33 | FARANTAKIS Stylianos | GREECE | s.t. |
| 34 | RUMAC Josip | CROATIA | 35 |
| 35 | DIETEREN Jan | GERMANY | 37 |
| 36 | PAGE Dylan | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 37 | DE PLUS Laurens | BELGIUM | s.t. |
| 38 | KORSAETH Truls Engen | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 39 | MATOS Nuno | PORTUGAL | s.t. |
| 40 | PER David | SLOVENIA | s.t. |
| 41 | RAILEANU Cristian | MOLDOVA | s.t. |
| 42 | SKAARSETH Anders | NORWAY | 48 |
| 43 | EYOB Metkel | ERITREA | s.t. |
| 44 | SAEZ BENITO Hector | SPAIN | s.t. |
| 45 | KOBASHI Yuri | JAPAN | s.t. |
| 46 | JABRAYILOV Samir | AZERBAIJAN | s.t. |
| 47 | BASKA Erik | SLOVAKIA | s.t. |
| 48 | EATON Daniel | U.S.A. | s.t. |
| 49 | KATRASNIK Gasper | SLOVENIA | s.t. |
| 50 | POLITT Nils | GERMANY | s.t. |
| 51 | GOGL Michael | AUSTRIA | 59 |
| 52 | TROIA Oliviero | ITALY | +1:03 |
| 53 | VAIDEM Josten | ESTONIA | +1:07 |
| 54 | LUCHSHENKO Sergey | KAZAKHSTAN | +1:09 |
| 55 | CARVALHO Rui | PORTUGAL | +1:12 |
| 56 | SCHULTZ Nicholas | AUSTRALIA | s.t. |
| 57 | ARSLANOV Ildar | RUSSIA | s.t. |
| 58 | GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel | ERITREA | s.t. |
| 59 | HOFSTETTER Hugo | FRANCE | s.t. |
| 60 | GABAY Guy | ISRAEL | s.t. |
| 61 | OMOTE Toshiki | JAPAN | s.t. |
| 62 | GIDICH Yevgeniy | KAZAKHSTAN | s.t. |
| 63 | GIBBONS Ryan | SOUTH AFRICA | s.t. |
| 64 | MYNGHEER Daan | BELGIUM | s.t. |
| 65 | SCHACHMANN Maximilian | GERMANY | s.t. |
| 66 | MARTINELLI Davide | ITALY | s.t. |
| 67 | MUHLBERGER Gregor | AUSTRIA | s.t. |
| 68 | NYCH Artem | RUSSIA | s.t. |
| 69 | KUSTADINCHEV Roman | RUSSIA | +1:17 |
| 70 | ORAM James | NEW ZEALAND | +1:20 |
| 71 | AIT EL ABDIA Anass | MOROCCO | +1:25 |
| 72 | RODRIGUEZ Jose Luis | CHILE | s.t. |
| 73 | HOELGAARD Daniel | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 74 | EIKING Odd Christian | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 75 | PAREDES Wilmar | COLOMBIA | s.t. |
| 76 | ZEMLYAKOV Oleg | KAZAKHSTAN | s.t. |
| 77 | HOFSTEDE Lennard | NETHERLANDS | +1:48 |
| 78 | CARPENTER Harry | AUSTRALIA | +2:08 |
| 79 | MULLER Patrick | SWITZERLAND | +2:20 |
| 80 | OSORIO Juan Felipe | COLOMBIA | +2:22 |
| 81 | FAGLUM KARLSSON Marcus | SWEDEN | +2:49 |
| 82 | VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan | BELGIUM | +3:02 |
| 83 | BANASZEK Adrian | POLAND | s.t. |
| 84 | SMITH Dion | NEW ZEALAND | s.t. |
| 85 | TUREK Daniel | CZECH REPUBLIC | +3:31 |
| 86 | CERNY Josef | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 87 | OWEN Logan | U.S.A. | +3:32 |
| 88 | BASSO Leonardo | ITALY | +3:34 |
| 89 | JULIUS Jayde | SOUTH AFRICA | s.t. |
| 90 | JOYCE Colin | U.S.A. | +4:11 |
| 91 | HOELGAARD Markus | NORWAY | +4:25 |
| 92 | DOULL Owain | GREAT BRITAIN | +4:40 |
| 93 | SVENDGAARD Michael Carbel | DENMARK | s.t. |
| 94 | NEILANDS Krists | LATVIA | s.t. |
| 95 | HOOG Gustav | SWEDEN | +5:17 |
| 96 | BALLERINI Davide | ITALY | +5:42 |
| 97 | UWIZEYIMANA Bonaventure | RWANDA | +6:11 |
| 98 | SCHIR Thery | SWITZERLAND | +6:53 |
| 99 | RODRIGUEZ Pedro | ECUADOR | +8:14 |
| 100 | VON NACHER SUESS Fabrizio | MEXICO | +8:51 |
| 101 | BELLAN Juraj | SLOVAKIA | +9:46 |
| 102 | ASTAFYEV Stepan | KAZAKHSTAN | s.t. |
| 103 | VILLAREAL ALMEIDA Esteban David | ECUADOR | s.t. |
| 104 | RODRIGUES Joao | PORTUGAL | +10:44 |
| 105 | MANSOURI Abderrahmane | ALGERIA | s.t. |
| 106 | NOMMELA Aksel | ESTONIA | s.t. |
| 107 | BENGTSSON Ludvig | SWEDEN | s.t. |
| 108 | DUNBAR Eddie | IRELAND | s.t. |
| 109 | BARBARI Adil | ALGERIA | s.t. |
| 110 | LUKYANOV Dmitriy | KAZAKHSTAN | s.t. |
| 111 | STASH Mamyr | RUSSIA | +11:06 |
| 112 | WILSLY Jonas Gregaard | DENMARK | s.t. |
| 113 | MALOVEC Lubos | SLOVAKIA | s.t. |
| 114 | BONNAMOUR Franck | FRANCE | +11:49 |
| 115 | MCCORMICK Hayden | NEW ZEALAND | s.t. |
| 116 | CURUCHET Juan Ignacio | ARGENTINA | +12:04 |
| 117 | GOLDSTEIN Roy | ISRAEL | +14:27 |
| 118 | HAILE Yonas Tekeste | ERITREA | s.t. |
| 119 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | GREAT BRITAIN | +15:19 |
| 120 | GUERREIRO Ruben | PORTUGAL | s.t. |
| 121 | YECHZKEL Aviv | ISRAEL | s.t. |
| 122 | KOISHI Yuma | JAPAN | +15:41 |
| 123 | OSPINA Jhonatan | COLOMBIA | +16:38 |
| 124 | WILLIAMS Tyler | U.S.A. | s.t. |
| 125 | NDAYISENGA Valens | RWANDA | +17:01 |
| 126 | DAVIES Scott | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 127 | PETERS Alex | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 128 | MORALES Alejandro | CHILE | +17:08 |
| 129 | WIRTGEN Tom | LUXEMBOURG | +17:45 |
| 130 | MARTINEZ Salvador | EL SALVADOR | +23:19 |
| KOCH Jonas | GERMANY | DNF | |
| LAAS Martin | ESTONIA | DNF | |
| ZMORKA Marlen | UKRAINE | DNF | |
| KOZACHENKO Sergiy | UKRAINE | DNF | |
| ELLSAY Nigel | CANADA | DNF | |
| GILIAZOV Ruslan | RUSSIA | DNF | |
| CATAFORD Alexander | CANADA | DNF | |
| FOURNIER Marc | FRANCE | DNF | |
| TOKUDA Suguru | JAPAN | DNF | |
| SCHMIDT Mads Wurtz | DENMARK | DNF | |
| GODOY ORMENESE Caio | BRAZIL | DNF | |
| DANIEL Gregory | U.S.A. | DNF | |
| SAN SEBASTIAN Xavier | SPAIN | DNF | |
| LIM Rustom | PHILIPPINES | DNF | |
| OKA Atsushi | JAPAN | DNF | |
| HODEG CHAGUI Alvaro Jose | COLOMBIA | DNF | |
| INSENGIYUMVA Jean Bosco | RWANDA | DNF | |
| CULLAIGH Gabriel | GREAT BRITAIN | DNF | |
| CHERKASOV Nikolay | RUSSIA | DNF | |
| SISR Frantisek | CZECH REPUBLIC | DNF | |
| PETROVSKI Andrej | MACEDONIA | DNF | |
| ROEINAAS Fridtjof | NORWAY | DNF | |
| PEREZ Dominic | PHILIPPINES | DNF | |
| MOLANO Sebastian | COLOMBIA | DNF | |
| MAYHO S. Dominique | BERMUDA | DNF | |
| SCOTSON Miles | AUSTRALIA | DNF | |
| CAMINGAO Jhon Mark | PHILIPPINES | DNF | |
| CEPEDA Jefferson | ECUADOR | DNF | |
| NISU Oskar | ESTONIA | DNF | |
| MEDINA Gerardo | MEXICO | DNF | |
| SAIDI Nassim | ALGERIA | DNF | |
| BAT-ERDENE Narankhuu | MONGOLIA | DNF | |
| BECHLAGHEM Abderrahmane | ALGERIA | DNF | |
| GOLDSTEIN Omer | ISRAEL | DNF | |
| DLAMINI Nickolas | SOUTH AFRICA | DNF | |
| SHUMOV Kolya | BELARUS | DNF | |
| RESTREPO Jhonatan | COLOMBIA | DNF | |
| ABOU RACHID Elias | LEBANON | DNF | |
| LAMMERTINK Steven | NETHERLANDS | DNF | |
| DONOHOE Alistair | AUSTRALIA | DSQ |
U23 Australian men before the start
Switzerland
The Italians look ready to race
And they're off, with the Danes (red and white kit) taking the lead.
A Frenchman leads the peloton as it rounds a corner
Breaking away: Eddie Dunbar leads Max Schachmann and Zemlyakov
Here it's Zemlyakov, Schachmann and Rodriguez
Kevin Ledanois wins the U23 world road championship
Simone Consonni was a close second place
Anthony Turgis was third.
New world champion Kevin Ledanois
The podium, from left: Simone Consonni (2nd), Kevin Ledanois and Anthony Turgis (3rd).
World road race championship map