September 30, 2018 (Innsbruck, Austria) – Canada’s Michael Woods took home a brilliant bronze medal in the Elite Men’s road race, 258.5km from Kufstein to Innsbruck, at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships on Sunday, with a bold attack on the final climb with a 28% grade as he went for gold.

In the final sprint to the line Alejandro Valeverde (Spain) took the win with Romain Bardet (France) winning silver and Woods the bronze as Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands), who joined the trio at the end, finished 4th. Woods matches Steve Bauer’s best-ever Elite Men’s 3rd-place result at the 1984 Road Worlds.

Fellow Canuck Rob Britton animated the race as he made the early break and was at the front for over 200km finishing 76th. Teammates Antoine Duchesne and Hugo Houle helped protect and put Woods in good position throughout the race and did not finish.

Woods’ bronze finale caps Canada’s strongest Road Worlds performance as the team returns home with two individual bronze medals along with silver and bronze medals in the Team Time Trial. In addition there were five top-10 results including one fourth place, two fifth place results, a sixth and an eighth-place finish to rank a strong 4th overall, behind powerhouses Netherlands, Italy and Belgium.

Results

1. Alejandro Valverde (Spain) 6:46:41
2. Romain Bardet (France)
3. Michael Woods (Canada)
4. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands)
5. Gianni Moscon (Italy) 0:13
6. Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic) 0:43
7. Michael Valgren Andersen (Denmark)
8. Julian Alaphilippe (France)
9. Thibaut Pinot (France)
10. Rui Costa (Portugal)
11. Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spain)
12. Bauke Mollema (Netherlands) 0:49
13. Mikel Nieve Iturralde (Spain) 0:52
14. Sam Oomen (Netherlands) 1:21
15. Nairo Quintana (Colombia)
16. Peter Kennaugh (Great Britain)
17. Jan Hirt (Czech Republic)
18. George Bennett (New Zealand)
19. Jack Haig (Australia)
20. Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark)
21. Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy)
22. Andrey Zeits (Kazakhstan)
23. Ben Hermans (Belgium) 1:32
24. Simon Geschke (Germany) 1:54
25. Sergei Chernetski (Russian Federation) 2:00
26. Mathias Frank (Switzerland) 2:10
27. Steven Kruijswijk (Netherlands)
28. Antwan Tolhoek (Netherlands)
29. Dylan Teuns (Belgium)
30. Odd Christian Eiking (Norway) 2:42
31. Rudy Molard (France)
32. SÈbastien Reichenbach (Switzerland)
33. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia) 2:57
34. Primo ~ Roglic (Slovenia) 4:00
35. Rafal Majka (Poland)
36. Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan)
37. Adam Yates (Great Britain)
38. Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands)
39. Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) 5:00
40. Alessandro De Marchi (Italy) 5:05
41. Merhawi Kudus (Eritrea) 5:44
42. Xandro Meurisse (Belgium)
43. Vegard Stake Laengen (Norway)
44. David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spain) 5:56
45. Michael Gogl (Austria)
46. Emanuel Buchmann (Germany)
47. Pavel Sivakov (Russian Federation) 6:00
48. Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Colombia) 6:02
49. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
50. Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) 8:08
51. Pavel Kochetkov (Russian Federation)
52. Kasper Asgreen (Denmark) 0:10:22
53. Franco Pellizotti (Italy) 0:10:33
54. Carl Fredrik Hagen (Norway) 0:12:24
55. Emil Nygaard Vinjebo (Denmark) 0:12:57
56. Lukasz Owsian (Poland) 0:13:05
57. Ilnur Zakarin (Russian Federation)
58. Tony Gallopin (France)
59. Patrick Konrad (Austria)
60. Steve Morabito (Switzerland)
61. Jesus Herrada (Spain) 0:13:09
62. Toms Skujins (Latvia) 0:13:13
63. Brent Bookwalter (United States Of America) 0:14:23
64. Damiano Caruso (Italy)
65. Dario Cataldo (Italy)
66. Hugh John Carthy (Great Britain)
67. Nicolas Roche (Ireland)
68. Tim Wellens (Belgium)
69. Pieter Weening (Netherlands)
70. Rob Power (Australia)
71. Richard Carapaz (Ecuador) 0:14:48
72. Benjamin King (United States Of America) 0:15:57
73. Eduardo Sepulveda (Argentina) 0:16:51
74. Nico Denz (Germany) 0:18:17
75. Gianluca Brambilla (Italy) 0:19:35
76. Robert Britton (Canada) 0:19:37
DNF Enric Mas Nicolau (Spain)
DNF Simon Clarke (Australia)
DNF Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spain)
DNF Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain)
DNF Jacques Willem Janse Van Rensburg (South Africa)
DNF Tanel Kangert (Estonia)
DNF Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland)
DNF Wout Poels (Netherlands)
DNF Jesper Hansen (Denmark)
DNF Markus Hoelgaard (Norway)
DNF Peter Stetina (United States Of America)
DNF Kilian Frankiny (Switzerland)
DNF Andrey Grivko (Ukraine)
DNF Ildar Arslanov (Russian Federation)
DNF Marcus Burghardt (Germany)
DNF Daniel Martin (Ireland)
DNF Bob Jungels (Luxembourg)
DNF Ilia Koshevoy (Belarus)
DNF Tobias Ludvigsson (Sweden)
DNF Karel HnÌk (Czech Republic)
DNF Tao Geoghegan Hart (Great Britain)
DNF Damien Howson (Australia)
DNF Nicholas Jack William Schultz (Australia)
DNF Matej Mohoric (Slovenia)
DNF Simon Philip Yates (Great Britain)
DNF Simon `pilak (Slovenia)
DNF Jan Polanc (Slovenia)
DNF Zdenek `tybar (Czech Republic)
DNF Felix Grossschartner (Austria)
DNF Sepp Kuss (United States Of America)
DNF Patrick Schelling (Switzerland)
DNF Maximilian Schachmann (Germany)
DNF Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Werkilul (Eritrea)
DNF Aleksandr Riabushenko (Belarus)
DNF Daniil Fominykh (Kazakhstan)
DNF Michael Sch‰r (Switzerland)
DNF Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Colombia)
DNF R?ben Guerreiro (Portugal)
DNF Paul Martens (Germany)
DNF Michal Golas (Poland)
DNF Christopher Hamilton (Australia)
DNF Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)
DNF Winner Andrew Anacona (Colombia)
DNF Conor Dunne (Ireland)
DNF Hideto Nakane (Japan)
DNF Ryan Mullen (Ireland)
DNF Laurens De Plus (Belgium)
DNF Jhonnatan Narvaez (Ecuador)
DNF Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay (Ethiopia)
DNF Gregor M¸hlberger (Austria)
DNF James Knox (Great Britain)
DNF Connor Swift (Great Britain)
DNF Tiago Machado (Portugal)
DNF Antoine Duchesne (Canada)
DNF Josef Cern? (Czech Republic)
DNF Anthony Roux (France)
DNF Alexandre Geniez (France)
DNF Ben Gastauer (Luxembourg)
DNF Rory Sutherland (Australia)
DNF Mads Schmidt W¸rtz (Denmark)
DNF Laurent Didier (Luxembourg)
DNF Grega Bole (Slovenia)
DNF Jan Tratnik (Slovenia)
DNF Lukas Pˆstlberger (Austria)
DNF Georg Preidler (Austria)
DNF Maciej Bodnar (Poland)
DNF Maciej Paterski (Poland)
DNF Patrick Bevin (New Zealand)
DNF Peter Sagan (Slovakia)
DNF Nikita Stalnov (Kazakhstan)
DNF Rohan Dennis (Australia)
DNF Serge Pauwels (Belgium)
DNF Dion Smith (New Zealand)
DNF Sebastian Henao Gomez (Colombia)
DNF Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Colombia)
DNF Tiesj Benoot (Belgium)
DNF Josip Rumac (Croatia)
DNF Matti Breschel (Denmark)
DNF Nicholas Dlamini (South Africa)
DNF Dmitrii Strakhov (Russian Federation)
DNF Rodrigo Contreras Pinzon (Colombia)
DNF Sven Erik Bystr¯m (Norway)
DNF Martin Haring (Slovakia)
DNF Tom Wirtgen (Luxembourg)
DNF Juraj Sagan (Slovakia)
DNF Patrik Tybor (Slovakia)
DNF Michael Kukrle (Czech Republic)
DNF Marek Canecky (Slovakia)
DNF Krists Neilands (Latvia)
DNF Ian Stannard (Great Britain)
DNF Jean-Pierre Drucker (Luxembourg)
DNF Roman Daniel Villalobos Solis (Costa Rica)
DNF Andrii Bratashchuk (Ukraine)
DNF Warren Barguil (France)
DNF Domen Novak (Slovenia)
DNF Hugo Houle (Canada)
DNF Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)
DNF Luka Pibernik (Slovenia)
DNF Rein Taaram‰e (Estonia)
DNF Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania)
DNF Yauhen Sobal (Belarus)
DNF Niklas Eg (Denmark)
DNF Erik Baska (Slovakia)
DNF Martin Mahdar (Slovakia)
DNF Mohammadesmaeil Chaichiraghimi (Islamic Republic of Iran)
DNF Sam Bewley (New Zealand)
DNF Serghei Tvetcov (Romania)
DNF Alex Kirsch (Luxembourg)
DNF Stylianos Farantakis (Greece)
DNF Norman Vahtra (Estonia)
DNF Ho San Chiu (Hong Kong, China)
DNF Nicolas Sessler (Brazil)