The 2007 UCI Road World Championships

UCI Road World Championships

The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale...

 - Men's Road Race took place on September 30, 2007. The Championship was won for a second year in succession by the Italian

Italy

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 Paolo Bettini

Paolo Bettini

Paolo Bettini is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006...

, who outsprinted the rest of a five-man group in the final 500 metres. The Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n Alexandr Kolobnev

Alexandr Kolobnev

Alexandr Viktorovich Kolobnev is a Russian professional road bicycle racer on the UCI ProTour with , currently suspended after his A sample revealed doping products.-Career:...

 took the silver medal and Stefan Schumacher

Stefan Schumacher

Stefan Schumacher is a German professional road racing cyclist.-Career:First professionally employed with Team Telekom in 2002, he was released the following year...

 of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 captured third place for the bronze medal.

The Championships were hosted by the Germany city of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, and featured several laps of a tough circuit, amounting to almost 270 kilometres of racing.

Results

September 30, 2007: Stuttgart, 267.4 km (14 laps of 19.1 km each)

	Cyclist	Time
1		6:44:43
2		s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6		+0:06
7		+0.08
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10		s.t.

Nation qualification

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