World Cycling Championships 2013: Result road race - Costa wins
The road race of Worldchampionships in Florence is long, wet and grueling. The exhausting battle of over 272 kilometers explodes in the final. Vincenzo Nibali, Joaquim Rodríguez, Alejandro Valverde, Rigoberto Uran and Rui Costa esca in the last climb to Fiesole. The rider from Portugal is smartest and in the streets of Florence he defeats Rodríguez in a sprint-a-deux.
World Cycling Championships 2013: Result road race
1: Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Portugal)
2: Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain) s.t.
3: Alejandro Valverde (Spain) + 0.16
4: Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) s.t.
5: Andrey Grivko (Ukrain) + 0.31
6: Peter Sagan (Slovakia) + 0.34
7: Simon Clarke (Australia) s.t.
8: Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) s.t.
9: Maxim Iglinsky (Kazachstan) s.t.
10: Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) s.t
11: Bauke Mollema (Netherlands) s.t.
12: Lars Petter Nordhaug (Norway) s.t.