C’est le Slovaque Peter Sagan, 25 ans, qui a remporté le titre de Champion du Monde sur route à Richmond. Il devance en solitaire l’Australien Michael Matthews et le Lituanien Ramunas Navardauskas. Une victoire grandiose pour le quadruple maillot vert du Tour de France
Sagan est parti dans la dernière difficulté, dans la côte de la 23rd Street climb. Tout en puissance, il a réussit à faire le trou avec le peloton. Il ne sera jamais rejoint malgré le retour du peloton à quelques mètres.
Dès les premiers km, une échappé de 7 hommes avec Conor Dunne (Ireland), Ivan Stevic (Serbia), Sung Park Baek (Korea), Jesse Sergent (New Zealand), Carlos Alzate (Colombia), Andriy Khripta (Ukraine) et Serghei Tvetcov (Romania) vont creuser l’écart avec un peloton. Ils vont rester ensemble durant 15O km.
Mais à 5 tours de l’arrivée, tout s’accélère et la jonction a lieu. Dès lors, Ian Stannard (Great Britain) Sur la montée du 23rd Street climb. Ian Stannard (Great Britain) attaque, immédiatement suivit par Bauke Mollema (Netherlands), Tom Boonen (Belgium), Andrey Amador (Costa Rica), Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland), Dani Moreno (Spain) et Elia Viviani (Italy).
Une belle échappée qui peut aller jusqu’au bout. Les Néerlandais l’ont bien compris et mène le train pour ramener le groupe dans le peloton. Dès cette jonction, c’est Tyler Farrar et Kanstantsin Siutsou qui remettent le couvert. En vain, ils seront aussi rectifiés par les Néerlandais et Bauke Mollema.
Dans l’ultime montée, sur un coup de vis de Tepstra, une dizaine de coureurs font l’écart. Peter Sagan allume sa mèche et part en solitaire dans la dernière montée. Il ne sera jamais rejoint, donnant tout ce qu’il a. Il l’emporte en solitaire.
Classement
| 1 | Peter Sagan (Slovakia) | 6:14:37 | |
| 2 | Michael Matthews (Australia) | 0:00:03 | |
| 3 | Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania) | ||
| 4 | Alexander Kristoff (Norway | ||
| 5 | Alejandro Valverde (Spain) | ||
| 6 | Simon Gerrans (Australia) | ||
| 7 | Tony Gallopin (France) | ||
| 8 | Michel Kwiatkowski (Poland) | ||
| 9 | Rui Costa (Portugal) | ||
| 10 | Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) | ||
| 11 | Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) | ||
| 12 | Alex Howes (United States) | ||
| 13 | Niki Terpstra (Netherlands) | ||
| 14 | Rein Taaramae (Estonia) | ||
| 15 | Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Russia) | ||
| 16 | Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) | ||
| 17 | Yukiya Arashiro (Japan) | ||
| 18 | Giacomo Nizzolo (Italy) | ||
| 19 | Brent Bookwalter (United States) | ||
| 20 | Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway) |
| 21 | Nacer Bouhanni (France) | ||
| 22 | Ben Swift (Great Britain) | ||
| 23 | Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) | ||
| 24 | Tanel Kangert (Estonia) | ||
| 25 | Andrey Amador Bkkazakova (Costa Rica) | ||
| 26 | Marco Haller (Austria) | 0:00:12 | |
| 27 | Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spain) | ||
| 28 | Silvan Dillier (Switzerland) | ||
| 29 | John Degenkolb (Germany) | 0:00:15 | |
| 30 | Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spain) | ||
| 31 | Stephen Cummings (Great Britain) | ||
| 32 | Rigoberto Uran Uran (Colombia) | 0:00:18 | |
| 33 | Matti Breschel (Denmark) | 0:00:21 | |
| 34 | Matteo Trentin (Italy) | ||
| 35 | Tom Boonen (Belgium) | ||
| 36 | Pavel Brutt (Russian Federation) | ||
| 37 | Aleksei Tcatevich (Russian Federation) | 0:00:28 | |
| 38 | Arnaud Demare (France) | 0:00:32 | |
| 39 | Tomasz Marczynski (Poland) | 0:00:40 | |
| 40 | Sam Bennett (Ireland) | ||
| 41 | Karel Hnik (Czech Republic) | ||
| 42 | Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) | ||
| 43 | Zdenek Stybar (Czech Republic) | ||
| 44 | Heinrich Haussler (Australia) | ||
| 45 | Lars Ytting Bak (Denmark) | 0:00:55 | |
| 46 | Andriy Grivko (Ukraine) | ||
| 47 | Luka Pibernik (Slovenia) | ||
| 48 | Luka Mezgec (Slovenia) | ||
| 49 | Mykhaylo Kononenko (Ukraine) | ||
| 50 | Daryl Impey (South Africa) | ||
| 51 | Ian Stannard (Great Britain) | ||
| 52 | Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spain) | ||
| 53 | Benjamin King (United States Of America) | ||
| 54 | Michal Golas (Poland) | ||
| 55 | Sergey Lagutin (Russian Federation) | ||
| 56 | Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spain) | ||
| 57 | Adam Yates (Great Britain) | ||
| 58 | Greg Henderson (New Zealand) | ||
| 59 | Maciej Paterski (Poland) | 0:01:10 | |
| 60 | Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus) | 0:01:38 | |
| 61 | Antoine Duchesne (Canada) | 0:01:50 | |
| 62 | Ilnur Zakarin (Russian Federation) | 0:01:55 | |
| 63 | Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan) | 0:02:02 | |
| 64 | Sep Vanmarcke (Belgium) | 0:02:08 | |
| 65 | Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Argentina) | 0:02:09 | |
| 66 | Michael Albasini (Switzerland) | 0:02:15 | |
| 67 | Michael Valgren (Denmark) | 0:02:50 | |
| 68 | Carlos Julian Quintero (Colombia) | ||
| 69 | Bauke Mollema (Netherlands) | ||
| 70 | Arman Kamyshev (Kazakhstan) | ||
| 71 | Jens Keukeleire (Belgium) | ||
| 72 | Vegard Stake Laengen (Norway) | ||
| 73 | Adam Hansen (Australia) | ||
| 74 | Rafal Majka (Poland) | ||
| 75 | Mickael Delage (France) | ||
| 76 | Gregory Rast (Switzerland) | ||
| 77 | Mathew Hayman (Australia) | ||
| 78 | Michael Morkov (Denmark) | ||
| 79 | Tyler Farrar (United States Of America) | 0:03:00 | |
| 80 | Tiesj Benoot (Belgium) | 0:03:35 | |
| 81 | Lars Boom (Netherlands) | ||
| 82 | Manuel Quinziato (Italy) | 0:03:41 | |
| 83 | Daniele Bennati (Italy) | ||
| 84 | Fabio Felline (Italy) | ||
| 85 | Taylor Phinney (United States Of America) | ||
| 86 | Grega Bole (Slovenia) | 0:03:45 | |
| 87 | Sebastian Langeveld (Netherlands) | ||
| 88 | Tony Martin (Germany) | 0:04:00 | |
| 89 | Elia Viviani (Italy) | 0:05:18 | |
| 90 | Simon Geschke (Germany) | 0:05:23 | |
| 91 | Robert Gesink (Netherlands) | 0:06:43 | |
| 92 | Stijn Vandenbergh (Belgium) | ||
| 93 | Ryan Anderson (Canada) | ||
| 94 | Michael Woods (Canada) | ||
| 95 | Sergei Chernetski (Russian Federation) | ||
| 96 | Dylan van Baarle (Netherlands) | ||
| 97 | Jan Barta (Czech Republic) | ||
| 98 | Jiri Polnicky (Czech Republic) | ||
| 99 | Pim Ligthart (Netherlands) | ||
| 100 | Cyril Lemoine (France) | ||
| 101 | Scott Thwaites (Great Britain) | ||
| 102 | Diego Ulissi (Italy) | ||
| 103 | Paul Voss (Germany) | 0:08:12 | |
| 104 | Paul Martens (Germany) | 0:10:47 | |
| 105 | Andre Greipel (Germany) | ||
| 106 | Marcel Sieberg (Germany) | ||
| 107 | Guillaume Boivin (Canada) | 0:11:11 | |
| 108 | Radoslav Rogina (Croatia) | ||
| 109 | Lawson Craddock (United States Of America) | 0:12:56 | |
| 110 | Gatis Smukulis (Latvia) | 0:13:58 | |
| DNF | Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spain) | ||
| DNF | Florian Vachon (France) | ||
| DNF | Simon Clarke (Australia) | ||
| DNF | Mitch Docker (Australia) | ||
| DNF | Kristijan Durasek (Croatia) | ||
| DNF | Georg Preidler (Austria) | ||
| DNF | Christian Knees (Germany) | ||
| DNF | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (South Africa) | ||
| DNF | Jay McCarthy (Australia) | ||
| DNF | Luke Durbridge (Australia) | ||
| DNF | Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic) | ||
| DNF | Luke Rowe (Great Britain) | ||
| DNF | Christopher Juul Jensen (Denmark) | ||
| DNF | Rasmus Guldhammer (Denmark) | ||
| DNF | Nikolas Maes (Belgium) | ||
| DNF | Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spain) | ||
| DNF | Ruben Plaza Molina (Spain) | ||
| DNF | Denys Kostyuk (Ukraine) | ||
| DNF | Lars Petter Nordhaug (Norway) | ||
| DNF | Kohei Uchima (Japan) | ||
| DNF | Ruslan Tleubayev (Kazakhstan) | ||
| DNF | Sebastien Minard (France) | ||
| DNF | Juraj Sagan (Slovakia) | ||
| DNF | Michal Kolar (Slovakia) | ||
| DNF | Kristijan Koren (Slovenia) | ||
| DNF | Luis Mas Bonet (Spain) | ||
| DNF | Borut Bozic (Slovenia) | ||
| DNF | Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) | ||
| DNF | Juan Carlos Rojas (Costa Rica) | ||
| DNF | Ryan Roth (Canada) | ||
| DNF | Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Johannes Frohlinger (Germany) | ||
| DNF | Gediminas Bagdonas (Lithuania) | ||
| DNF | Petr Vakoc (Czech Republic) | ||
| DNF | Sven Erik Bystrom (Norway) | ||
| DNF | Iljo Keisse (Belgium) | ||
| DNF | Jose Goncalves (Portugal) | ||
| DNF | Winner Anacona Gomez (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Alex Cano Ardila (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Mekseb Debesay (Eritrea) | ||
| DNF | Manuel Rodas Ochoa (Guatemala) | ||
| DNF | Julien Simon (France) | ||
| DNF | Vitaliy Buts (Ukraine) | ||
| DNF | Andrew Fenn (Great Britain) | ||
| DNF | Lukas Postlberger (Austria) | ||
| DNF | Julian Alaphilippe (France) | ||
| DNF | Maciej Bodnar (Poland) | ||
| DNF | Oleksandr Polivoda (Ukraine) | ||
| DNF | Polychronis Tzortzakis (Greece) | ||
| DNF | Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Conor Dunne (Ireland) | ||
| DNF | Evaldas Siskevicius (Lithuania) | ||
| DNF | Bayron Guama De La Cruz (Ecuador) | ||
| DNF | Kleber Ramos (Brazil) | ||
| DNF | Fumiyuki Beppu (Japan) | ||
| DNF | Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Hugo Houle (Canada) | ||
| DNF | Alex Dowsett (Great Britain) | ||
| DNF | Jesse Sergent (New Zealand) | ||
| DNF | Carlos Eduardo Alzate Escobar (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Tomas Buchacek (Czech Republic) | ||
| DNF | Serghei Tvetcov (Romania) | ||
| DNF | Sam Bewley (New Zealand) | ||
| DNF | Laurent Didier (Luxembourg) | ||
| DNF | Daniel Alexander Jaramillo Diez (Colombia) | ||
| DNF | Marko Kump (Slovenia) | ||
| DNF | Vegard Breen (Norway) | ||
| DNF | Yauheni Hutarovich (Belarus) | ||
| DNF | Jos Van Emden (Netherlands) | ||
| DNF | Jean-Pierre Drucker (Luxembourg) | ||
| DNF | Ivan Stevic (Serbia) | ||
| DNF | Daniel Oss (Italy) | ||
| DNF | Andriy Khripta (Ukraine) | ||
| DNF | Nikolay Mihaylov (Bulgaria) | ||
| DNF | Sung Baek Park (Korea) | ||
| DNF | Gonzalo Garrido (Chile) | ||
| DNF | Alex Kirsch (Luxembourg) | ||
| DNF | Daniel Diaz (Argentina) | ||
| DNF | Joon Yong Seo (Korea) | ||
| DNF | Antonio Garnero (Brazil) | ||
| DNF | Cesar Rojas Villegas (Costa Rica) | ||
| DNS | Jaco Venter (South Africa) |