Cycling at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's individual road race

The men's road race was one of 4 cycling events of the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona. The race started and finished on 27 June at the Vila-seca Urban Circuit and was won by Jalel Duranti of Italy.[1]

Men's cycling road race at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Vila-seca Urban Circuit 143 km (88.9 mi)
Date	27 June
Competitors	66 from 14 nations
Winning time	3:43:50
Medalists
Jalel Duranti    Italy   Filippo Tagliani    Italy   Rafael Silva    Portugal

Start list

The following NOCs had entered riders to compete in the road race event.[2]

NOC Number Athletes  Albania 3 Xhuliano Kamberaj Ridion Kopshti Ylber Sefa  Algeria 8 Abderahman Mansouri Youcef Reguigui Abderaouf Bengayou Oussama Mansouri Abderrahmane Mehdi Hamza Islam Mansouri Yacine Hamza Ismail Mdjahed  Andorra 3 Marc Gasa Samuel Ponce Òscar Cabanas  Croatia 1 David Jabuka  Cyprus 2 Andreas Miltiadis Alexandros Agrotis  Greece 5 Polychronis Tzortzakis Charalampos Kastrantas Stylianos Farantakis Georgios Bouglas Ioannis Kyriakidis  Italy 8 Filippo Tagliani Alessandro Covi Matteo Sobrero Christian Sacroni Samuele Battistella Francesco Romano Jalel Duranti Andrea Toniatti

NOC Number Athletes  Portugal 8 André Carvalho Domingos Gonçalves Frederico Figueiredo Joni Brandão Rafael Silva Tiago Antunes Francisco Campos João Rodrigues  Slovenia 6 Žiga Jerman Gašper Katrašnik Rok Korošec Izidor Penko Tadej Pogačar Jaka Primožič  San Marino 1 Federico Olei  Serbia 3 Dušan Kalaba Dušan Rajović Veljko Stojnić  Spain 8 Manuel Peñalver Iñigo Elosegui Antonio Gómez Mario Gonzalez Óscar Pelegri Juan Ignacio Perez Álvaro Trueba Óscar Hernández  Syria 2 Ahmad Badreddin Wais Mohammed Fadwan Nwiser  Turkey 8 Onur Balkan Batuhan Özgür Muhammed Atalay Mustafa Köklü Yunus Yılmaz Oğuzhan Tiryaki Ahmet Örken Feritcan Şamlı

Results

In the table below, "s.t." indicates that the rider crossed the finish line in the same group as the cyclist before him, and was therefore credited with the same finishing time. Under UCI regulations for one-day road races (article 2.3.039), "Any rider finishing in a time exceeding that of the winner by more than 8% shall not be placed".[3]

Final results[4][5] Rank Rider Time  Jalel Duranti (ITA) 3h 43' 50"  Filippo Tagliani (ITA) s.t.  Rafael Silva (POR) s.t. 4  Rok Korošec (SLO) s.t. 5  Mario Gonzalez (ESP) s.t. 6  Joni Brandão (POR) s.t. 7  João Rodrigues (POR) s.t. 8  Alexandros Agrotis (CYP) s.t. 9  Frederico Figueiredo (POR) s.t. 10  Domingos Gonçalves (POR) s.t. 11  Álvaro Trueba (ESP) + 04" 12  Iñigo Elosegui (ESP) s.t. 13  Gašper Katrašnik (SLO) + 07" 14  Andreas Miltiadis (CYP) + 09" 15  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) s.t. 16  Andrea Toniatti (ITA) + 21" 17  Christian Scaroni (ITA) + 29" 18  André Carvalho (POR) + 37" 19  Tiago Antunes (POR) + 47" 20  Veljko Stojnić (SRB) + 1' 06" 21  Ylber Sefa (ALB) + 7' 32" 22  Muhammed Atalay (TUR) s.t. 23  Onur Balkan (TUR) + 7' 33" 24  Antonio Gómez (ESP) + 7' 34" 25  Jaka Primožič (SLO) s.t. 26  Samuele Battistella (ITA) s.t. 27  Matteo Sobrero (ITA) s.t. 28  Juan Ignacio Perez (ESP) + 13' 43" 29  David Jabuka (CRO) s.t. 30  Óscar Hernández (ESP) + 13' 46" 31  Batuhan Özgür (TUR) s.t. 32  Óscar Pelegri (ESP) s.t. 33  Francesco Romano (ITA) s.t. Over time limit –  Youcef Reguigui (ALG) + 19' 23" –  Georgios Bouglas (GRE) s.t. –  Yacine Hamza (ALG) s.t. –  Òscar Cabanas (AND) s.t. –  Federico Olei (SMR) s.t. –  Samuel Ponce (AND) s.t. –  Ahmet Örken (TUR) + 19' 26" –  Charalampos Kastrantas (GRE) s.t. –  Alessandro Covi (ITA) s.t. –  Ridion Kopshti (ALB) s.t. –  Yunus Yılmaz (TUR) s.t. –  Francisco Campos (POR) s.t. –  Abderrahmane Mehdi Hamza (ALG) + 19' 28" –  Ahmad Badreddin Wais (SYR) + 23' 23" –  Oğuzhan Tiryaki (TUR) + 25' 03" –  Ioannis Kyriakidis (GRE) + 31' 05"

Abandoned during the stage –  Marc Gasa (AND) ABN –  Mohammed Fadwan Nwiser (SYR) ABN –  Dušan Kalaba (SRB) ABN –  Dušan Rajović (SRB) ABN –  Manuel Peñalver (ESP) ABN –  Polychronis Tzortzakis (GRE) ABN –  Stylianos Farantakis (GRE) ABN –  Mustafa Köklü (TUR) ABN –  Abderahman Mansouri (ALG) ABN –  Abderaouf Bengayou (ALG) ABN –  Oussama Mansouri (ALG) ABN –  Islam Mansouri (ALG) ABN –  Ismail Mdjahed (ALG) ABN –  Xhuliano Kamberaj (ALB) ABN –  Žiga Jerman (SLO) ABN –  Izidor Penko (SLO) ABN –  Feritcan Şamlı (TUR) ABN

References

1. "2018 Mediterranean Games: Il ciclista Jalel Duranti trionfa ai Giochi del Mediterraneo". giornaleditreviglio.it. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
2. "2018 Mediterranean Games: Cycling-Men's road race start list" (PDF). tarragona2018.cat. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
3. UCI Cycling Regulations, Part II: Road Races (PDF), UCI, 1 June 2019, p. 41, retrieved 9 July 2020
4. "2018 Mediterranean Games RR: Results". firstcycling.com. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
5. "Mediterranean Games 2018: Results Men's Road Race Final" (PDF). Tarragona2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.