Thor Hushovd is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer. He is known for sprinting and time trialing; Hushovd is a three-time Norwegian national road race champion, and was the winner of the 2010 World Road Race Championships. He was the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road race in cycling world road championship. He is also the Scandinavian with the most stage wins in Grand Tours. He is widely considered the greatest Norwegian cyclist of all time. He retired in September 2014.
Judith Arndt is a retired German professional cyclist, who last rode for the GreenEDGE-AIS cycling team. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she was 20. In 2004, she won the world road race championship and came second in the Olympic road race.
Claude Criquielion was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who raced between 1979 and 1990. In 1984, Criquielion became the world road race champion in Barcelona, Spain on a gruelling course. He had five top-ten finishes in the Tour de France.
Matej Jurčo is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer. He is the son of Milan Jurčo, who was also a professional cyclist. Matej was the first Slovak participant in Vuelta a España. He is a multi-national champion in individual time-trial as well as a national champion in road race in 2008. At present he is racing in Slovak continental team Dukla Trenčín-Trek. Mostly he trains in the region of Liptov where he is living.
Martin Elmiger is a Swiss former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2017 for the Post Swiss Team, Phonak, Ag2r–La Mondiale, IAM Cycling and BMC Racing Team squads.
Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon is a retired road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the HEW Cyclassics. In 2001 he claimed the overall-victory in the Ronde van Nederland. Van Bon retired in 2013.
Maxim Gennadyevich Iglinsky is a Kazakh road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTour team Astana, who he competed for between 2007 and 2014.
Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou is a Belarusian professional road bicycle racer, provisionally suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for erythropoietin.
Mathieu Ladagnous is a French road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ. He also competes as a track cyclist.
Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka is a Belarusian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Sky.
Yuri Viktorovich Trofimov is a Russian road bicycle racer riding for UCI Continental Team Rádio Popular–Boavista. Previously, he raced for Bbox Bouygues Telecom (2008–2010), Team Katusha (2011–2015), Tinkoff (2016) and Caja Rural–Seguros RGA (2017).
Yukiya Arashiro is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bahrain–Merida.
Catherine Marsal is a retired female racing cyclist from France. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally around the world. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then she represented her native country at four Summer Olympics: 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000. Marsal retired from cycling in 2005 when she was recruited by Team SATS Cycling to become sports director for the Danish team. The team became number one on the UCI ranking. In April 2015 Marsal was hired by the Danish Cycling Union to be the National coach of the Danish female cycling team. Marsal is married and lives in Copenhagen. She gave birth to a son in 2013.
Ben Gastauer is a professional Luxembourgish road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam AG2R La Mondiale.
Jesús Herrada López is a Spanish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis. His brother José Herrada is also a professional cyclist, and also competes for Cofidis.
Silvan Dillier is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam AG2R La Mondiale.
Stefan Küng is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ. He is also a citizen of Liechtenstein.
The men's road race at the 2002 UCI Road World Championships was the 69th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 13 October 2002 based around the Circuit Zolder, Belgium. The race was won by Mario Cipollini of Italy.
The men's road race at the 1935 UCI Road World Championships was the ninth edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 18 August 1935 in Floreffe, Belgium. The race was won by Jean Aerts of Belgium.
