Cycling UCI Road World Championships 2011 - Mark Cavendish Elite Race Winner Full HD

Cycling UCI Road World Championships 2011 - Mark Cavendish Elite Race Winner Full HD, last 5.5 km.
Great Britain won the world road race championship for the first time in 46 years when Mark Cavendish finished off an incredible demonstration of team work and pace-making by his seven teammates with a perfectly judged sprint on the drag up to the finish to beat Australia's Matt Goss by a wheel. Germany's André Greipel took the bronze medal, just edging out Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) by a tyre's width.
Results:
1. Mark Cavendish (Great Britain) 5:40:27
2. Matthew Harley Goss (Australia)
3. André Greipel (Germany)
4. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
5. Jurgen Roelandts (Belgium)
6. Romain Feillu (France)
7. Borut Bozic (Slovenia)
8. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)
9. Oscar Freire Gomez (Spain)
10. Tyler Farrar (United States Of America)
11. Denis Galimzyanov (Russian Federation)
12. Peter Sagan (Slovakia)
13. Anthony Ravard (France)
14. Daniele Bennati (Italy)
15. Rui Costa (Portugal)
16. Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Portugal)
17. Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)
18. Michael Morkov (Denmark)
19. David Veilleux (Canada)
20. Grega Bole (Slovenia)

[@mathewawood]

Unsung hero was Wiggins. He averaged 50kmh leading out the pelaton for 8mins at the end of a 250km race. Truly awesome!

[@AndyElche2]

For those casting doubts on Cav's greatness...20 TdF stage victories will of course increase considerably over the next 4 years. So when hes won his 30 + victories,added to his stages in the GIRO ( 7 ) and La Vuelta ( 3 )..adding to his Rainbow Jersey, and World track championship Golds...maybe then you'll all realise how special this boy is....some people denying this understand nothing about Cycling.

[@yuppp5885]

You were indeed correct, 30+

[@sudsehun76]

35 TDF victories now

[@BRMCaptChaos]

Over the next 4 years? 😂😂 Still at it.

[@AndyElche2]

Brad Wiggins, David Millar absolutely brilliant in controlling the race...then lock and load probably the Worlds greatest ever Sprinter...destroys the field without them knowing...What absolute theatre! Well done CAV

[@MrJACKATHY2000]

This is absolute commentary gold

[@maxilopez888]

The commentary is fantastic , why doesn't he work for Eurosport anymore ? Streets ahead of anybody I've heard .

[@CynicalLoner]

This was an exemplary example of an elite road sprint. Cavendish fortified his status as one of the best road sprinters of all time. He was boxed in, Accelerated like a squirrel in a moments worth of free space and rocketed by everyone to take the win by a wheel. Amazing top end speed. Awesome Cavendish.

[@stokecfan]

he deserves so much more recognition in Britain, awesome athlete.

[@10110david]

One thing i really like about the way Cav's win worked out - this came from true teamwork and 100% commitment from the rest of his team. Too often we see a lot of selfish actions that lead to nothing, however, from his actions and words, Cav is a true team player who deserved and earned everything he got. British cycling can only benefit from this attitude.

[@InterpolArticle1]

“This is super nervous”…..one of the great lines in commentary

[@TheMimifur]

Oh again I watch and cry.l Stannard was magnificent..

[@SuperColouredPencil]

everytime i watch this, it amazes me how mark can squeeze through in a bunch sprint and still push forward and win, hes a rider who deserves every win he has had so far, here's hoping he has more too

[@maxilopez888]

Cavendish has made his way through!

[@jesmarina]

Best sprinter ever - no doubt!

[@TheMimifur]

Thank you so much for posting this. I've come here tonight for a different reason - not my normal "let's have a bit of Cav success" but just for a bit of sport is good reason. I just read the news about Dan Wheldon and I have been a fan of his for over a decade cos I think you can like cycling and the motor sports, and Dan has just been killed in an absolutely horrendous accident in racing in the US. To watch this is a little bit stopping of tears.

[@mjr6942]

Listen mate, he's just won the world championships road race, the pure ebullience and excitement that comes with that would near overcome any fatigue

[@TheAncientCoil]

Brilliant team effort, great finish by Mark....superb, who'd have thought I'd have lived to see the day a British World Champion would be crowned, Back in the late 70s/80s we only had Robert Millar in the top echelon of riders with a couple of good domestiques in the pro teams.At Goodwood, you just hoped a few British riders might make it round, let alone win. Yet yesterday, the team was dominant, riders on the front nearly the whole of the race, fantastic last lat by Bradley. AMAZING.

[@davejheath]

Epic win for sure. Go King Cav! Great to see the whole UK team doing so well this year.

[@reclif]

great commentary :)

[@readikus]

GB loves Cav!

[@_teddyissupercraze_5306]

I nearly cried at this I'm far to passionate about cycling

[@blogg33333]

Brilliant!

[@SummerTheFuzzy]

Brilliant win !! Awesome charge at the finish

[@24sebaf1]

amazing, just amazing

[@WallStreet987]

Love him or hate him, you have to admire a guy that can come through that tight mess at 60kph to win it.

[@nielskjr5432]

You normally never see weather like this at the end of september in Denmark. Fantastic day!

[@arklat]

Thanks, scrub. That's what a sprinter needs to go fast. When I was a field sprinter, I used a 53-13.But, that was waaaay back in the 70's, when I was a young man. I believe a 53-11 will put a strong sprinter over 45 MPH on a long, flat finish. Cavendish is awesome. I was saddened to see he went down at the Giro. Ferrari made way too sharp of a move to the side. Very unprofessional. I hope Cav was not to badly injured in the melee. Thanks again for your input.

[@AnEvilScotsman]

YESSS! What a hero!

[@user-yf2ii4xn1t]

Guten Tag zusammen sehr gute Video@@

[@TheMimifur]

It was a McEwenesqe finish. Superb Cav - he learned from the master.

[@Mike-zp7nb]

Always come back on this clip cavendish is so fast

[@paulcuthbert]

Hopefully Cav will get some real recognition at home now. Fantastic win!

[@avfc85]

Cav. On top form he is the best.

[@bedatse]

@OldschoolMetalDeath Cycling is a team sport, a true all-rounder also needs a team support to win a cycling classic or cycling tour. Unless the cyclist ride in a superhumanly way, aka doping. Kudos to GB team's sacrifices and dedication. Kudos to Mark since even he has one of the strongest lead-out train to deliver him to a good position, he still had to have his own prowess to jump away and win.

[@TheMimifur]

I have to watch this every few days because Mark is king. I think he has just won the BBC Spoty. Which would be nice.

[@Holmenkollen11]

@MrCinealta Agreed, and hopefully this win will bring about more respect for the sport in GB.

[@benyobaranyi6731]

Best sprinter!

[@saucy05]

Greipel, Cavendish, Kittel or Sagan. Who is the best sprinter in the world, on a flat road with no lead-out and on top form?

[@eddylopez4439]

🚀🐐 cabendish 🔥🔥

[@lechatel]

In simple terms... Tean GB had less men at the Olympics and couldn;t control the race alone. The way the race worked out the breakaway was actually stronger than the peleton because more people were prepared to take turns at the front of it. It makes a huge difference to the amount of energy expended (and potentially saved for a sprint.) Peleton speed DEPENDS on enough people sharing the load and dragging the rest. Road races are by nature chaotic. This race is a miracle for a road fan.

[@hari4270]

Two bad losers clicked dislike .Oh dear how sad. Mark Cavendish world champion. You can't argue with that.

[@gervais412]

Mark Cavendish.World Champion.

[@legendary1332]

Bring On Wiggo! ;)

[@arklat]

Does anyone know what gear Cavendish was using in the sprint?

[@socorrofilms]

How about Fabu in there at the end?

[@kniphofia]

Man I miss David Harmon!

[@frubberduck2092]

How would you know - did you talk to him afterwards?

[@kinered]

I wonder which gear ratio did use Cav at finish, his cadence at 6.22 is anormally slow (or maybe the route is soft climb). Look like 54x11.

[@carniceirox]

Como é que não se espálhão?

[@evanodonnell9818]

how did he do it?

[@manxfelipe]

@somland12 I hear what you're saying and don't disagree that courses like Varese and Geelong clearly produce more exciting races than the pan flat course in Copenhagen, and let's face it the race that Cadel Evans won 2 years ago on the hilly Mendrisio course was one of the best days of racing that season, but if you love cycling I think you got to be able to appreciate all the different aspects of it and part of that is the sprint finishes and a team working together to deliver their man.

[@manxfelipe]

@Trulyloyale On another note, Mark Cavendish is from an island of ONLY 80000 people, which is famous for motorbike racing not cycling and doesn't have anywhere near the same level of cycling competition or development as the traditional great countries of the sport like Italy, France, Spain and Belgium so his performance and results are equally, if not more, impressive than any of the legends you refer to!

[@TheMimifur]

You see? Mark finds the gap whatever. He wins even if he doesn't have Renshaw or Bernie. It's time that people stopped being nasty about Cav. He is simply the fastest sprinter on the planet.

[@manxfelipe]

@somland12 Disagree, the course for the Worlds should be varied year on year depending on location and kind of terrain available in order to give all types of riders a chance of winning the Rainbow Jersey during their career. It would be boring if every year the course was like the last 2 in Geelong and Varese with the kind of hill that only favours riders like Gilbert, Evans and Hushovd. I mean, why not have a course that finishes up a mountain one year for the likes of Contador & Schleck?

[@mojojojoe100]

what :o i never watch cycling races but ive watched a lot of running, how can a 6 hour long race have about a second between the first and the 20th finisher! in running a half hour race would probably have a minute or more between the first 20 finishers! does this race have 1,000,000 participants?? am i missing something?

[@gregy55902]

Fabian is still going to do the Olympic ITT! I hope he gets gold, because he's had a tough 2 years but is still the best and most powerful rider overall. If not there is always the rainbow jersey - if he gets that for a 5th time that record won't be broken for 20 years at least.

[@0scooters]

Not to mention the fact that the pre menu page has an interview with Cav as the winner right at the top. No big news here except for the fact that 2012 is going to be lackluster for the rainbow jersey unlike Thor's fantastic year in rainbow. Have another one Gruff old pal...

[@Agingerxplosion]

agreed

[@manxfelipe]

@somland12 That's why I think all types of rider, not just the all rounders, should be able to have a chance at the rainbow jersey at least once in their career. I mean, more often than not the course will be made to suit an all rounder as there are more of them in the peloton and as you say they make for more unpredictable races, but one year the course should be suited to sprinters & another it should be for mountain goats like Joaquim Rodriguez to give them a chance to be World Champion also.

[@Fonzofication]

Why was Cancellara sprinting on the hoods??

[@user-cx2bk6pm2f]

Look how skinny the tires!! 😂

[@CycleracerP]

I feel sorry for brad, hes just a good and a strong lad. Cav is a solid sprinter and the best in the world. But poor brad wiggins, hes a little unoticed in comparison :) but hey ho ! Go CAV

[@asmodeos666]

I forgot Cancellara finished 4th in a bunch sprint that year, what a freak lmao.

[@matthewjackson5810]

How?

[@user-chacha506]

Mark Cavendish, he wears an aero suit and the helmet whose holes are covered. They’d have made some differences.

[@saucy05]

would you say cav is on top form right now? Cause when greipel is in the mix, he is untouchable at the moment.

[@robert8077]

Mark super fit

[@nathanong87]

@kinered the finish was a slight* uphill finish.

[@lechatel]

Yep Quite agree.. The unititiated especially in the UK seem to think the Olympics is a big deal in road racing. Whereas it only just squeezes into, say, the top 20 in order of importance. Or maybe I am, being too generous...

[@somland12]

@manxfelipe It will certainly not be boring with courses similar to Varese and Geelong every year. Those races where the among the most exciting races during their respective seasons. I could mention 20+ riders with a realistic opportunity of winning on those kind of courses. They are very unpredictable and the winner "deserves" it. How many riders where in with a good shout before Copenhagen? 4-5, with one HUGE favourite that also won. Predictable and boring.

[@craydee1975]

David Harmon is the best :-)

[@Holmenkollen11]

@MrCinealta ..And Wiggins the Belgian:) but do you seriously consider this better than winning the World Championships in football or rugby, better than winning the Champions League in '68? For me it was just business as usual, only this time Cav had no standard leadout.

[@avfc85]

No, Cav is not on top form now. But the position of the rider in the peloton as they come to the finish and the quality of their team can be just as big a factor in deciding a race as who is the quickest.

[@Nyz1ro]

Matt Damon in the front is doing awesome!

[@karolinaopaczynska7562]

This bike was really easy to assemble kzbin.infoUgkxMesz3KOGEmwmvyKQfLfrRSUXLFzfVHZA and required very few adjustments out of the box. The wheels did not require any truing/adjustments. The frame had some small scratches, but nothing major.I did replace the seat though - the seat it came with was very uncomfortable. The tires need to be re-inflated every 4-5 days, but this appears to be quite common for the narrow 700x25 tires.Overall, in my opinion, this bike looks and rides like a much more expensive bike.

[@pjp1113]

7:50 be back next year

[@hausken93]

11:34 "That was the most spectacular last two laps you could possibly imagen" ehhh nooo?

[@TheMimifur]

Could really be a run in for BoX Hill

[@mojojojoe100]

yes it makes sense now lol thanks

[@lechatel]

You also have to bear in mind that in cycling if you are within two bike-lengths of the rider in front you get the same time. So a lot of riders can get the same time as the winner even if they are quite a way down the field. Its only when there is a break in the field that another time is given.

[@jonathangoliath91]

only the winner matters

[@maxilopez888]

Lars Boom!

[@lachlanhuntley-chipper213]

Matt Goss for the olympics :)

[@OldschoolMetalDeath]

Respond to this video... Or you could say: "the strongest man is not usually the fastest man, therefore, a sprinter is not that likely to win it, but a true all rounder".

[@matthewjackson5810]

How has it ruined Cav's year? He still won 3 stages at le Tour de France

[@legrandmaitre7112]

It would be nice to think so, but I expect the BBC has already found a way of fixing the SPOTY so that a darts player wins!

[@saucy05]

"kittel is on drugs almost certainly." What makes you say that? He has been dominating sprints in the lesser known tours for the past two years, it's not like he just started winning this year. And if that's the case, we might as well include sagan and gripel in the mix.

[@shaunbaxter91]

Funny to see where Griepel sprinted from to get third..If only he had a better leadout

[@eyesz]

this is super nervous.

[@MrJmitchell13]

Too bad Gilbert and his team simply weren’t good enough to disrupt the brilliance of Cavendish and his team....

[@piedra986]

ALBERTO CONTADOR 3 TOUR 2 GIRO 2 VUELTA

[@dan32113]

@stokecfan a sprinter is only as good as his team, its Cavendish who wins the title but the whole team deserve part of that rainbow jersey! they rode there ass off for Cavendish, thats the truth.

[@richard10661066]

THE GREATEST DAY IN UK CYCLING. TEAM GB...NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD. ITS ABOUT TIME.

[@yoplait321]

real shame Hushovd wasn't there in the end to defend his jersey :/

[@aubosc]

Copenhagen FTW!

[@moomoocowpiss]

They're making it rain water bottles

[@TheMimifur]

They can do whatever they think but it doesn't work, Cav just wins.

[@burtonalbionrule]

If other countries had of helped us (TEAM GB) on the front and could have brought the breakaway back , Cavendish wouldn't of stood a chance due to the fact that he had a slow puncture, therefore it's other peoples losses.

[@Veloracer100]

Cav soon to be Olympic Champion!!!

[@bertastinkefuss5672]

komisch das 5 km vor dem ziel noch so ein grosses hauptfeld besteht

[@kerrywall6084]

cav is the best.

[@pastorniels]

Of course a sprinter wins i Denmark. Our country is about as flat as a pool-table. Well mayby not, but compared to the Alpes or Pyrenes in France/Spain we are.