2012 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2012 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 23 September in the province of Limburg, Netherlands.
The race was won by Belgium's Philippe Gilbert, after he made a late attack on the final ascent of the Cauberg climb and advanced clear of the rest of the field to win his first world title and the first by a Belgian since Tom Boonen won in Madrid in 2005. He finished four seconds clear of Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen, who claimed the silver medal, while the bronze medal went to Spain's Alejandro Valverde, who finished a second further behind. When the announcement was made of the course, Gilbert was the instant favourite and rode all year with this pressure. Leading into the worlds he had won only two races all season.
Route
The race started in Maastricht and ended in Valkenburg. The first was contested through a number of Limburg cities before the riders entered a circuit to be completed on ten occasions. The finish was beyond the summit of the Cauberg hill in Valkenburg – where the Amstel Gold Race had finished from 2003 to 2013, and hosted the finish of of the 2006 Tour de France – a long climb with a maximum gradient of 12%.Final classification
Of the race's 207 entrants, 122 riders completed the full distance of.| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| 105 | Ronan McLaughlin | + 8' 55" | |
| 106 | Matthias Brändle | + 8' 55" | |
| 107 | Milan Kadlec | + 8' 55" | |
| 108 | Ryder Hesjedal | + 8' 55" | |
| 109 | Georgi Georgiev | + 8' 55" | |
| 110 | François Parisien | + 8' 55" | |
| 111 | Marcus Burghardt | + 8' 55" | |
| 112 | Thomas Löfkvist | + 8' 55" | |
| 113 | Leopold König | + 8' 55" | |
| 114 | Tanel Kangert | + 8' 55" | |
| 115 | Jure Kocjan | + 8' 55" | |
| 116 | Zdeněk Štybar | + 8' 55" | |
| 117 | Kristijan Đurasek | + 8' 55" | |
| 118 | Jacques Janse van Rensburg | + 8' 55" | |
| 119 | Laurens ten Dam | + 8' 55" | |
| 120 | Matteo Trentin | + 9' 44" | |
| 121 | Andrey Amador | + 10' 23" | |
| 122 | Jonathan Castroviejo | + 10' 23" | |
| Jakob Fuglsang | |||
| Kristijan Koren | DNF | ||
| Janez Brajkovič | DNF | ||
| Grega Bole | DNF | ||
| Vasil Kiryienka | DNF | ||
| Sergey Firsanov | DNF | ||
| Dimitry Muravyev | DNF | ||
| Dario Cataldo | DNF | ||
| Pablo Lastras | DNF | ||
| Rein Taaramäe | DNF | ||
| Jay Thomson | DNF | ||
| Wesley Sulzberger | DNF | ||
| Adam Hansen | DNF | ||
| Jérôme Coppel | DNF | ||
| Vincent Jérôme | DNF | ||
| Yukiya Arashiro | DNF | ||
| Chris Horner | DNF | ||
| Tejay van Garderen | DNF | ||
| Tony Gallopin | DNF | ||
| Kevin De Weert | DNF | ||
| Ignatas Konovalovas | DNF | ||
| Gabriel Rasch | DNF | ||
| Jonathan Monsalve | DNF | ||
| Maxime Bouet | DNF | ||
| Martin Grashev | DNF | ||
| Grégory Rast | DNF | ||
| Oliver Zaugg | DNF | ||
| Bruno Pires | DNF | ||
| Roman Kreuziger | DNF | ||
| Miguel Ángel Rubiano | DNF | ||
| Fabio Duarte | DNF | ||
| Arthur Vichot | DNF | ||
| Richie Porte | DNF | ||
| Timmy Duggan | DNF | ||
| Michael Matthews | DNF | ||
| Yeung Ying-Hon | DNF | ||
| Johan Vansummeren | DNF | ||
| Matthew Busche | DNF | ||
| Vladimir Miholjević | DNF | ||
| Marko Kump | DNF | ||
| Fabricio Ferrari | DNF | ||
| Julian Dean | DNF | ||
| Yaroslav Popovych | DNF | ||
| Reinardt Janse van Rensburg | DNF | ||
| Vitaliy Buts | DNF | ||
| Denys Kostyuk | DNF | ||
| Daniel Schorn | DNF | ||
| Alexsandr Dyachenko | DNF | ||
| Luka Mezgec | DNF | ||
| Hayden Roulston | DNF | ||
| Fumiyuki Beppu | DNF | ||
| Lucas Euser | DNF | ||
| Jorge Martín Montenegro | DNF | ||
| Dmytro Krivtsov | DNF | ||
| Juraj Sagan | DNF | ||
| Maroš Kováč | DNF | ||
| Tomasz Marczyński | DNF | ||
| Alexandre Pliuschin | DNF | ||
| Ben Gastauer | DNF | ||
| Jérémy Roy | DNF | ||
| Peter Velits | DNF | ||
| Matti Breschel | DNF | ||
| Chris Froome | DNF | ||
| Bradley Wiggins | DNF | ||
| Jesse Sergent | DNF | ||
| Tomás Gil | DNF | ||
| Stanislav Kozubek | DNF | ||
| Maximiliano Richeze | DNF | ||
| Dries Devenyns | DNF | ||
| Laurent Didier | DNF | ||
| Enzo Moyano | DNF | ||
| Shinichi Fukushima | DNF | ||
| Yukihiro Doi | DNF | ||
| Alex Dowsett | DNF | ||
| Aleksejs Saramotins | DNF | ||
| Mauricio Muller | DNF | ||
| Hichem Chaabane | DNF | ||
| Mark Cavendish | DNF | ||
| Yusuke Hatanaka | DNF | ||
| Amir Rusli | DNF | ||
| Svein Tuft | DNF | ||
| Loh Sea Keong | DNF | ||
| Martin Velits | DNF | ||
| Nebojša Jovanović | DNF | ||
| Elchin Asadov | DNF |