Wiggins, the former Tour de France winner and reigning Olympic champ, was up at the final two checkpoints in an all-or-nothing attempt to beat Martin and claim the World ITT title. He announced that this was his final championship race and he will not defend the jersey in Richmond, Virginia in 2015.
Results
1. Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain) 56:25.5
2. Tony Martin (Germany) 0:26.2
3. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) 0:40.6
4. Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) 0:47.9
5. Rohan Dennis (Australia) 0:57.7
6. Adriano Malori (Italy) 1:11.6
7. Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes Oliveira (Portugal) 1:21.6
8. Anton Vorobyev (Russian Federation) 1:29.7
9. Jan Barta (Czech Republic) 1:43.4
10. Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spain) 1:44.2
11. Tiago Machado (Portugal) 1:52.4
12. Jesse Sergent (New Zealand) 1:57.0
13. Rasmus Christian Quaade (Denmark) 2:16.3
14. Artem Ovechkin (Russian Federation) 2:18.3
15. Andrew Talansky (United States Of America) 2:20.9
16. Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 2:22.3
17. Sylvain Chavanel (France) 2:28.4
18. Silvan Dillier (Switzerland) 2:30.8
19. Tanel Kangert (Estonia) 2:32.6
20. Alex Dowsett (Great Britain) 2:35.1
21. Alexandr Pliuschin (Republic of Moldova) 2:47.9
22. Nikias Arndt (Germany) 2:48.6
23. Carlos Ivan Oyarzun Guinez (Chile) 2:52.8
24. Kristof Vandewalle (Belgium) 3:06.7
25. Jerome Coppel (France) 3:08.6
26. Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kazakhstan) 3:11.2
27. Riccardo Zoidl (Austria) 3:15.7
28. Svein Tuft (Canada) 3:18.2
29. Petr Vakoc (Czech Republic) 3:18.5
30. Dario Cataldo (Italy) 3:25.3
31. Pieter Serry (Belgium) 3:30.1
32. Mateusz Taciak (Poland) 3:31.8
33. Tobias Ludvigsson (Sweden) 3:33.3
34. Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spain) 3:39.2
35. Matthias Brandle (Austria) 3:39.7
36. Rein Taaramae (Estonia) 3:40.4
37. Tejay Van Garderen (United States Of America) 3:44.2
38. Daniil Fominykh (Kazakhstan) 3:48.0
39. Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania) 3:49.5
40. Kristijan Koren (Slovenia) 3:50.3
41. Nicolas Roche (Ireland) 3:50.4
42. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus) 3:52.2
43. Andriy Vasylyuk (Ukraine) 3:55.0
44. Serghei Tvetcov (Romania) 3:56.6
45. Vegard Breen (Norway) 4:00.5
46. Winner Anacona Gomez (Colombia) 4:01.6
47. Gatis Smukulis (Latvia) 4:10.8
48. Lars Teutenberg (Germany) 4:12.8
49. Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania) 4:32.1
50. Aleksejs Saramotins (Latvia) 4:33.6
51. Eduardo Sepulveda (Argentina) 5:11.2
52. Andrei Nechita (Romania) 5:33.4
53. Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark) 5:50.5
54. Reidar Bohlin Borgersen (Norway) 5:58.3
55. Zsolt Der (Hungary)6:27.7
56. Matej Mohoric (Slovenia) 6:46.5
57. Gabor Fejes (Hungary) 6:49.3
58. Oleksandr Golovash (Ukraine) 08:05.5
59. Elchin Asadov (Azerbaijan) 9:03.8
60. Gustavo Mino (Paraguay) 9:46.5
61. Segundo Navarrete (Ecuador) 10:48.6
62. Veli Sadiki (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) 13:37.9
63. Gorgi Popstefanov (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) 14:33.3
DNF Alexander Gingsjo (Sweden)