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2008 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Field	Value
name	Men's Individual Road Race
image	Ballan-Varese 2008.JPG
image_caption	The peloton during the race
image_size	300
series	[2008 UCI Road World Championships](2008-uci-road-world-championships)
date	September 28, 2008
stages	1
distance	260.25
unit	km
time	6h 37' 30"
type	medals
first	Alessandro Ballan
first_nat	ITA
first_team	Italy
second	Damiano Cunego
second_nat	ITA
second_team	Italy
third	Matti Breschel
third_nat	DEN
third_team	Denmark
previous	[2007](2007-uci-road-world-championships-men-s-road-race)
next	[2009](2009-uci-road-world-championships-men-s-road-race)

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2008 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on September 28 in Varese, Italy. The course comprised 15 laps around 17.35-kilometre route, making a total distance of 260.25 km. Each lap featured two ascents: the first at Via Montello (6.5% gradient for 1.15 kilometres); and the second at Ronchi (4.5% for 3.13 kilometres). The highest elevation measured 480 m at Via Montello.

Pre-race favourites included Paolo Bettini, who was trying for an unprecedented third consecutive title, and the 1999, 2001 and 2004 champion Óscar Freire.

The race was won by Alessandro Ballan, with his fellow Italian Damiano Cunego in second and Matti Breschel of Denmark taking the bronze medal.

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
[[File:gold medal icon.svg	1]]	Alessandro Ballan	ITA	6h 37'30"
[[File:silver medal icon.svg	1]]	Damiano Cunego	ITA	at 3"
[[File:bronze medal icon.svg	1]]	Matti Breschel	DEN	s.t.
4	Davide Rebellin	ITA	s.t.
5	Andriy Hrivko	UKR	s.t.
6	Joaquim Rodríguez	ESP	s.t.
7	Fabian Wegmann	GER	s.t.
8	Christian Pfannberger	AUT	s.t.
9	Nick Nuyens	BEL	s.t.
10	Robert Gesink	NED	s.t.
11	Jurgen Van Goolen	BEL	s.t.
12	Thomas Löfkvist	SWE	s.t.
13	Chris Sørensen	DEN	at 6"
14	Assan Bazayev	KAZ	at 58"
15	Philippe Gilbert	BEL	s.t.
16	Kristjan Fajt	SLO	at 1'01"
17	Greg Van Avermaet	BEL	s.t.
18	Gorazd Štangelj	SLO	s.t.
19	Jérôme Pineau	FRA	at 1'13"
20	Vladimir Karpets	RUS	s.t.
21	Sérgio Paulinho	POR	s.t.
22	Samuel Sánchez	ESP	at 1'22"
23	Steven Cozza	USA	at 1'40"
24	Hrvoje Miholjević	CRO	s.t.
25	Rubens Bertogliati	SUI	at 2'14"
26	Amaël Moinard	FRA	s.t.
27	Alexandre Bazhenov	RUS	at 3'24"
28	Paolo Bettini	ITA	at 4'53"
29	Erik Zabel	GER	s.t.
30	Dimitry Muravyev	KAZ	s.t.
31	Matteo Tosatto	ITA	s.t.
32	Alexander Efimkin	RUS	s.t.
33	Michael Barry	CAN	s.t.
34	Thomas Rohregger	AUT	s.t.
35	Julian Dean	NZL	s.t.
36	Janek Tombak	EST	s.t.
37	Alejandro Valverde	ESP	s.t.
38	Tom Boonen	BEL	s.t.
39	Óscar Freire	ESP	s.t.

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
40	Gustav Larsson	SWE	s.t.
41	Fränk Schleck	LUX	s.t.
41	Sergey Lagutin	UZB	s.t.
43	Karsten Kroon	NED	s.t.
44	Alexandr Kolobnev	RUS	s.t.
45	Nuno Ribeiro	POR	s.t.
46	John Gadret	FRA	s.t.
47	Stefan Schumacher	GER	s.t.
48	Janez Brajkovič	SLO	s.t.
49	Russell Downing	GBR	s.t.
50	Oliver Zaugg	SUI	s.t.
51	Roman Kreuziger	CZE	s.t.
52	Nicolas Vogondy	FRA	s.t.
53	Sylvain Chavanel	FRA	s.t.
54	Mikhaylo Khalilov	UKR	s.t.
55	Matthew Lloyd	AUS	s.t.
56	Vladimir Gusev	RUS	s.t.
57	Lars Petter Nordhaug	NOR	at 5'20"
58	José Mendes	POR	at 8'15"
59	Aleksejs Saramotins	LAT	at 10'33"
60	Félix Cárdenas	COL	s.t.
61	Kjell Carlström	FIN	s.t.
62	Marcus Ljungqvist	SWE	s.t.
63	Tyler Farrar	USA	s.t.
64	Borut Božič	SLO	s.t.
65	Frank Høj	DEN	s.t.
66	Maarten Tjallingii	NED	s.t.
67	Roman Klimov	RUS	at 10'54"
68	Hubert Krys	POL	s.t.
69	Péter Kusztor	HUN	s.t.
70	Carlos José Ochoa	VEN	s.t.
71	Geoffroy Lequatre	FRA	s.t.
72	Leonardo Duque	COL	s.t.
73	José Rujano	VEN	s.t.
74	Oleg Chuzhda	UKR	s.t.
75	Oļegs Meļehs	LAT	at 11'01"
76	Lucas Euser	USA	at 22'49"
77	Yukiya Arashiro	JPN	at 22'50"

Did not finish

128 riders failed to finish the race. Levi Leipheimer of the United States did not start the race.

Rider	Country
Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa	ESP
Kevin De Weert	BEL
Chris Froome	GBR
Gerald Ciolek	GER
Kazuo Inoue	JPN
Stefan Hristov	BUL
Juan Pablo Dotti	ARG
Nebojša Jovanović	SRB
Alexsandr Dyachenko	KAZ
Stefan Rucker	AUT
Vladimir Zagorodniy	UKR
Grégory Rast	SUI
Stijn Devolder	BEL
Bram Tankink	NED
Mario Aerts	BEL
Yaroslav Popovych	UKR
Benjamín Noval	ESP
Marzio Bruseghin	ITA
Andrea Tonti	ITA
Andy Schleck	LUX
Alberto Contador	ESP
Christophe Le Mével	FRA
Ezequiel Mosquera	ESP
Danilo Wyss	SUI
Andreas Dietziker	SUI
Christian Knees	GER
Michael Rogers	AUS
Martin Velits	SVK
Luca Paolini	ITA
André Greipel	GER
Robbie McEwen	AUS
Nikita Eskov	RUS
David Loosli	SUI
Rein Taaramäe	EST
Jackson Rodríguez	VEN
Philip Deignan	IRL
Daryl Impey	RSA
Nelson Victorino	POR
Przemysław Niemiec	POL
Christian Meier	CAN
Steven de Jongh	NED
Marc de Maar	NED
Koos Moerenhout	NED
William Walker	AUS
Žolt Dér	SRB
Sebastian Lang	GER
Tom Stamsnijder	NED
Marcus Burghardt	GER
Vladimir Miholjević	CRO
Edvald Boasson Hagen	NOR
Anders Lund	DEN
Trent Lowe	AUS
Martin Mareš	CZE
Sandy Casar	FRA
Maxime Monfort	BEL
Steve Fogen	LUX
Mauricio Soler	COL
Simon Gerrans	AUS
Allan Davis	AUS
Christian Poos	LUX
Richard Ochoa	VEN
Peter Velits	SVK
Thomas Frei	SUI
Matej Stare	SLO

Rider	Country
Matija Kvasina	CRO
Gabriele Bosisio	ITA
Evgeny Petrov	RUS
Dominique Rollin	CAN
Hidenori Nodera	JPN
Adam Hansen	AUS
František Raboň	CZE
Christoff Van Heerden	RSA
Jempy Drucker	LUX
Jakob Fuglsang	DEN
Maciej Bodnar	POL
Richard Mascarañas	URU
Vincenzo Centrone	LUX
Muradjan Khalmuratov	UZB
Matthew Goss	AUS
Lars Ytting Bak	DEN
David Millar	GBR
Benoît Joachim	LUX
Manuel Medina	VEN
Sebastian Langeveld	NED
Luis León Sánchez	ESP
Ignatas Konovalovas	LTU
Kevin Evans	RSA
Geraint Thomas	GBR
Stephen Cummings	GBR
Martin Elmiger	SUI
Rodger Aiken	IRL
David Zabriskie	USA
Stéphane Augé	FRA
Franklin Chacón	VEN
Markus Zberg	SUI
Dariusz Baranowski	POL
Grega Bole	SLO
Rida Cador	HUN
Gergely Ivanics	HUN
Laurent Didier	LUX
Darren Lill	RSA
Brent Bookwalter	USA
Gerardo Fernández	ARG
Yauheni Hutarovich	BLR
Ruslan Podgornyy	UKR
Maroš Kováč	SVK
Erki Pütsep	EST
Kurt Asle Arvesen	NOR
Glen Chadwick	NZL
Ricardo Mestre	POR
Henry Raabe	CRC
Luis Fernando Macías	MEX
Normunds Lasis	LAT
Robert Hunter	RSA
Matti Helminen	FIN
Boris Shpilevsky	RUS
Krasimir Vasilev	BUL
Dragan Spasic	SRB
Ian Stannard	GBR
Claude Wolter	LUX
David George	RSA
Markus Fothen	GER
Tiago Machado	POR
Nicolas Roche	IRL
Vladimir Tuychiev	UZB
Łukasz Bodnar	POL
Marek Rutkiewicz	POL
Adil Jelloul	MAR

Nation qualification

LTU

References

"Courses - Road Races". Varese2008.org.
(2008-09-22). "Cooke leads GB Worlds challenge". BBC Sport.
(2008-09-28). "Road Cycling Worlds 2008". [[BBC Sport]].

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