Road World Championships – Belgium (Flanders) 2021: Men’s Race Start List and Our Favorites

The 2021 UCI Road World Championships in Belgium will culminate this Sunday, September 26, with the Elite Men’s road race. Find our favorites and the list of participants below.

Photo: Jumbo Visma

The favorites for the 2021 Elite Men’s World Championship

Wout van Aert *

Remco Evenepoel, Julian Alaphilippe, Sonny Colbrelli **

Peter Sagan, Mathieu Van der Poel, Magnus Cort Nielsen *

Benoit Cosnefroy, Mads Pedersen **

Michael Matthews, Tom Pidcock *

=> SEE ALSO: The 2021 World Championships course, TV schedule

Participants in the 2021 Elite Men’s World Championship

South Africa

 Gustav Basson

 Nic Dlamini

 Ryan Gibbons

 Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

 Jayde Julius

Albania

 Ylber Sefa

Algeria

 Azzedine Lagab

Germany

 Pascal Ackermann

 Nikias Arndt

 John Degenkolb

 Jonas Koch

 Nils Politt

 Maximilian Schachmann

 Georg Zimmermann

Australia

 Luke Durbridge

 Caleb Ewan

 Nathan Haas

 Michael Matthews

 Nick Schultz

 Miles Scotson

 Robert Stannard

 Harry Sweeny

Austria

 Patrick Gamper

 Michael Gogl

 Marco Haller

 Lukas Pöstlberger

Belgium

 Tiesj Benoot

 Victor Campenaerts

 Tim Declercq

 Remco Evenepoel

 Yves Lampaert

 Jasper Stuyven

 Dylan Teuns

 Wout van Aert

Belarus

 Aleksandr Riabushenko

 Siarhei Shauchenko

Bolivia

 Orluis Aular

 Leangel Linarez

Canada

 Guillaume Boivin

 Pier-André Coté

 Antoine Duchesne

 Hugo Houle

 Ben Perry

 Nickolas Zukowsky

Colombia

 Esteban Chaves

 Fernando Gaviria

 José Tito Hernandez

 Sergio Higuita

 Alvaro José Hodeg

 Juan Sebastian Molano

 Nelson Andrès Soto

 Rigoberto Uran

Denmark

 Kasper Asgreen

 Mikkel Bjerg

 Magnus Cort Nielsen

 Mikkel Honoré

 Andreas Kron

 Mads Pedersen

 Michael Valgren

 Mads Würtz Schmidt

Eritrea

 Natnael Berhane

 Mekseb Debesay

 Metkel Eyob

 Merhawi Kudus

 Dawit Yemane

Spain

 Roger Adria

 Alex Aranburu

 Imanol Erviti

 Ivan Garcia Cortina

 Gorka Izagirre

 Carlos Rodriguez

 Gonzalo Serrano

 Antonio Jesús Soto

Ecuador

 Joel Burbano

 Byron Guama

 Steven Haro

 Santiago Montenegro

 Sebastian Novoa

 Cristian Pita

Estonia

 Martin Laas

 Karl Patrick Lauk

 Oskar Nisu

 Norman Vahtra

United States

 Lawson Craddock

 Matteo Jorgenson

 Brandon McNulty

 Neilson Powless

 Joey Rosskopf

 Quinn Simmons

Finland

 Jaakko Hanninen

France

 Julian Alaphilippe

 Romain Bardet

 Rémi Cavagna

 Benoît Cosnefroy

 Arnaud Démare

 Dorian Godon

 Christophe Laporte

 Olivier Le Grac

 Valentin Madouas

 Clément Russo

 Anthony Turgis

 Alex Zingle

Great Britain

 Mark Cavendish

 Ethan Hayter

 Tom Pidcock

 Luke Rowe

 Jake Stewart

 Ben Swift

 Connor Swift

 Fred Wright

Greece

 Polychronis Tzortzakis

Hungary

 Barnabas Peak

 Attila Valter

Ireland

 Sam Bennett

 Marcus Christie

 Eddie Dunbar

 Conn McDunphy

 Ryan Mullen

 Daragh O’Mahony

 Nicolas Roche

 Matthew Teggart

 Rory Townsend

Italy

 Andrea Bagioli

 Davide Ballerini

 Samuele Battistella

 Sonny Colbrelli

 Alessandro Covi

 Alberto Dainese

 Alessandro De Marchi

 Gianni Moscon

 Giacomo Nizzolo

 Kristian Sbaragli

 Matteo Trentin

 Diego Ulissi

Japan

 Yukiya Arashiro

Kazakhstan

 Daniil Fominykh

 Yevgeniy Gidich

 Dmitriy Gruzdev

 Alexey Lutsenko

 Yuriy Natarov

 Matvey Nikitin

Latvia

 Maris Bogdanovics

 Emils Liepins

 Krists Neilands

 Martin Pluto

 Toms Skujins

 Andris Vosekalns

Lithuania

 Venantas Lasinis

 Evaldas Siskevicius

Luxembourg

 Kevin Geniets

 Alex Kirsch

Mexico

 Eder Frayre

Mongolia

 Jambaljamts Sainbayar

Norway

 Sven Erik Bystrøm

 Odd Christian Eiking

 Markus Hoelgaard

 Alexander Kristoff

 Vegard Stake Længen

 Rasmus Tiller

New Zealand

 Shane Archbold

 Jack Bauer

 Connor Brown

 Tom Scully

Netherlands

 Pascal Eenkhoorn

 Sebastian Langeveld

 Bauke Mollema

 Oscar Riesebeek

 Mike Teunissen

 Dylan van Baarle

 Mathieu Van der Poel

 Danny van Poppel

Panama

 Franklin Archibold

 Christofer Jurado

Poland

 Stanislaw Aniolkowski

 Cesare Benedetti

 Maciej Bodnar

 Michal Golas

 Michal Kwiatkowski

 Lukasz Owsian

Portugal

 João Almeida

 André Carvalho

 Ruben Guerreiro

 Nelson Oliveira

 Rui Oliveira

 Rafael Reis

Czech Republic

 Josef Cerny

 Michael Kukrle

 Dominik Neuman

 Zdenek Stybar

 Adam Toupalik

 Daniel Turek

 Petr Vakoc

Romania

 Eduard Michael Grosu

Russia

 Sergei Chernetskii

 Pavel Kochetkov

 Roman Maikin

 Denis Nekrasov

 Artem Nych

 Pavel Sivakov

 Dmitrii Strakhov

 Aleksandr Vlasov

 Ilnur Zakarin

Slovakia

 Erik Baska

 Juraj Bellan

 Marek Canecky

 Martin Haring

 Juraj Sagan

 Peter Sagan

 Patrik Tybor

Slovenia

 Luka Mezgec

 Matej Mohoric

 Domen Novak

 David Per

 Jan Polanc

 Primoz Roglic

 Jan Tratnik

Sweden

 Lucas Eriksson

 Tobias Ludvigsson

 Kim Magnusson

Switzerland

 Stefan Bissegger

 Tom Bohli

 Silvan Dillier

 Marc Hirschi

 Reto Hollenstein

 Stefan Küng

 Fabian Lienhard

 Simon Pellaud

 Michael Schär

Thailand

 Sarawut Sirironnachai

Ukraine

 Anatolii Budiak

 Oleksandr Golovash

 Mykhaylo Kononenko

 Andrii Kulyk

 Mark Padun

Uruguay

 Antonio Eric Fagundez