The World Championship in Kigali concludes, as tradition dictates, with the most anticipated challenge: the professional road race. The numbers help us define the contours of the challenge: 265 km, 5,400 meters of elevation gain, 165 starters, 2 great favorites. Who are obviously the defending champion Tadej Pogačar and the three-time world time trial champion (and already world road race champion in 2022) Remco Evenepoel.

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It will be a tough, extremely tough race: riders will have to tackle nine laps of the course we have come to know, then a long 42-kilometer lap that will lead them to face Mount Kigali and the Mur de Kigali in quick succession before returning to the circuit which will be tackled six more times

The favorites were analyzed for us by Angelo Costa in his classic "Ten Faces...", so we'll just recall the names of the Italians who rely on Giulio Ciccone as their captain, alongside whom will race Andrea Bagioli, Mattia Cattaneo, Lorenzo Fortunato, Marco Frigo, Fausto Masnada, Gianmarco Garofoli and Matteo Sobrero.

AT THE START

1 POGAČAR Tadej SLO
2 GLIVAR Gal SLO
3 GOVEKAR Matevž SLO
4 MEZGEC Luka SLO
5 MOHORIC Matej SLO
6 NOVAK Domen SLO
7 PRIMOŽIČ Jaka SLO
8 ROGLIČ Primož SLO
9 ŽUMER Matic SLO

10 CAMPENAERTS Victor BEL
11 EVENEPOEL Remco BEL
12 HERMANS Quinten BEL
13 MEURISSE Xandro BEL
14 UIJTDEBROEKS Cian BEL
15 VAN WILDER Ilan BEL
16 VERMEERSCH Florian BEL
17 VERVAEKE Louis BEL

18 CHARMIG Anthon DEN
19 FOLDAGER Anders DEN
20 HELLEMOSE Asbjørn DEN
21 HONORÉ Mikkel DEN
22 JENSEN Christopher DEN
23 SKJELMOSE Mattias DEN
24 KAMP Alexander DEN
25 PEDERSEN Casper DEN

26 BAGIOLI Andrea ITA
27 CATTANEO Mattia ITA
28 CICCONE Giulio ITA
29 FORTUNATO Lorenzo ITA
30 FRIGO Marco ITA
31 MASNADA Fausto ITA
32 GAROFOLI Gianmarco ITA
33 SOBRERO Matteo ITA

34 BLACKMORE Joseph GBR
35 DONOVAN Mark Jamie GBR
36 KNIGHT Oliver GBR
37 KNOX James GBR
38 KOERDT Bjoern GBR
39 ONLEY Oscar GBR
40 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR
41 WRIGHT Alfred Brockwell GBR

42 ALAPHILIPPE Julian FRA
43 BARRE Louis FRA
44 BERNARD Julien FRA
45 JEGAT Jordan FRA
46 MADOUAS Valentin FRA
47 PARET PEINTRE Valentin FRA
48 SEIXAS Paul FRA
49 SIVAKOV Pavel FRA

50 ARENSMAN Thymen NED
51 HUISING Menno NED
52 MOLLEMA Bauke NED
53 OOMEN Sam NED
54 POELS Wouter NED
55 VAN DEN BROEK Frank NED

56 HAMILTON Christopher AUS
57 HINDLEY Jai AUS
58 HOWSON Damien Craig AUS
59 MATTHEWS Michael AUS
60 PLAPP Lucas AUS
61 SCOTSON Callum AUS
62 STORER Michael AUS
63 VINE Jay AUS

64 BARTA William USA
65 LAMPERTI Luke USA
66 SIMMONS Quinn USA
67 VERMAERKE Kevin USA
68 WARBASSE Lawrence USA

69 ADRIA OLIVERAS Roger ESP
70 AYUSO PESQUERA Juan ESP
71 BALDERSTONE ESP
72 CANAL BLANCO Carlos ESP
73 GARCIA PIERNA Raul ESP
74 ROMEO ABAD Ivan ESP
75 SOLER Marc ESP
76 VERONA QUINTANILLA ESP

77 OLIVEIRA Ivo POR
78 ANTUNES Tiago POR
79 EULÁLIO Afonso POR
80 MORGADO António POR

81 CHRISTEN Fabio SUI
82 CHRISTEN Jan SUI
83 HIRSCHI Marc SUI
84 SCHMID Mauro SUI
85 WEISS Fabian SUI

86 BYSTRØM Sven Erik NOR
87 LEKNESSUND Andreas NOR
88 STAUNE-MITTET NOR
89 SVESTAD-BÅRDSENG NOR

90 ENGELHARDT Felix GER
91 MAYRHOFER Marius GER
92 RUTSCH Jonas GER
93 ZIMMERMANN Georg GER

94 BERNAL GOMEZ Egan COL
95 RIVERA VARGAS Brandon COL
96 TEJADA CANACUE Harold COL
97 VARGAS ALZATE Walter COL

98 CAICEDO Jonathan ECU
99 CARAPAZ Richard ECU
100 LOPEZ GRANIZO Harold ECU

101 DEL TORO ROMERO Isaac MEX
102 FRAYRE MOCTEZUMA MEX
103 RUVALCABA REYES David MEX

104 DUNBAR Edward IRL
105 HEALY Ben IRL
106 MULLEN Ryan William IRL
107 RAFFERTY Darren IRL
108 TOWNSEND Rory IRL

109 ARAYA Nahom ERI
110 GHEBREIGZABHIER ERI
111 GIRMAY Biniam ERI
112 KUDUS Merhawi ERI
113 MULUEBERHAN Henok ERI
114 TESFAZION Natnael ERI

115 GERVAIS Laurent CAN
116 LEONARD Michael Shea CAN

117 BOROŠ Michael CZE
118 VANÍČEK Šimon CZE

119 TAARAMÄE Rein EST

120 PEÑUELA SANDOVAL VEN

121 SVRČEK Martin SVK

122 BELOHVOSCIKS Kristians LAT
123 NEILANDS Krists LAT
124 PLUTO Martin LAT
125 SKUJINS Toms LAT

126 MUNTON Byron RSA

127 TODOME Yuhi JPN

128 BADLIS Slimane ALG

129 DRAKOS Nikolaos Michail GRE

130 BATSAIKHAN Tegshbayar MGL

131 VALTER Attila HUN

132 ARCHIBOLD CASTILLO PAN

133 CHAWCHIANGKWANG THA

134 BUDIAK Anatolii UKR

135 KHALMURATOV Muradjan UZB

136 RAISBERG Nadav ISR

137 CHUMIL GONZALEZ GUA

138 SU Haoyu CHN

139 PICIU Mattew-Denis ROU

140 ILIĆ Ognjen SRB

141 MAYER Alexandre MRI

142 ROJAS CAMPOS Gabriel CRC

143 GONZALEZ Jyven BIZ

144 LANGELLOTTI Victor MON

145 KAGIMU Charles UGA

146 DA SILVA AVANCINI BRA

147 ORKEN Ahmet TUR

148 MANIZABAYO Eric RWA
149 MASENGESHO Vainqueur RWA
150 BYUKUSENGE Patrick RWA
151 MUHOZA Eric RWA
152 NKUNDABERA Eric RWA
153 NSENGIYUMVA Shemu RWA

154 WALTERS Red GRN

155 KIEYA Edwin Ndungu KEN

156 JOHN Briton GUY

157 DIALLO Djandouba MLI
158 DIARRA Siriki MLI

159 WAIS Ahmad Badreddin REF

160 CISSE Chiekhouna SEN

161 ALFREDO Mauro STP
162 DO ROSARIO Ediney STP

163 NYCH Artem AIN

164 JALLOH Ibrahim SLE
165 KOROMA Mustapha SLE