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2006 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The 2006 edition of the men's UCI Road World Championships Road Race took place on September 24, 2006, in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Reigning Olympic champion and Italian Paolo Bettini captured the gold medal and the rainbow jersey as the 2006 World Cycling Champion. The 36-year-old German sprinter Erik Zabel took the silver medal and UCI ProTour winner Alejandro Valverde of Spain captured third place for the bronze medal. A total of 136 cyclists actually finished the race, with Slovakia's Roman Broniš in last place (+ 13'38").

Men's Individual Road Race
2006 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Rainbow jersey
Race details
DatesSeptember 24, 2006
Stages1
Distance265.2 km (164.8 mi)
Winning time06h 15' 32"
Medalists
   Gold  Paolo Bettini (ITA) (Italy)
   Silver  Erik Zabel (GER) (Germany)
   Bronze  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Spain)
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Final classification edit

Rank Rider Nation Time
1 Paolo Bettini   Italy 6h 15' 36" (42.476 km/h)
2 Erik Zabel   Germany + 0"
3 Alejandro Valverde   Spain + 0"
4 Samuel Sánchez   Spain + 2"
5 Robbie McEwen   Australia + 2"
6 Stuart O'Grady   Australia + 2"
7 Uroš Murn   Slovenia + 2"
8 Alexander Bocharov   Russia + 2"
9 Tom Boonen   Belgium + 2"
10 Vladimir Gusev   Russia + 2"
11 Bernhard Eisel   Austria + 2"
12 Nicki Sørensen   Denmark + 2"
13 Kurt Asle Arvesen   Norway + 2"
14 Martin Elmiger    Switzerland + 2"
15 Freddie Rodriguez   United States + 2"
16 Karsten Kroon   Netherlands + 2"
17 Marcus Ljungqvist   Sweden + 2"
18 René Haselbacher   Austria + 2"
19 László Bodrogi   Hungary + 2"
20 Gerben Löwik   Netherlands + 2"
21 Stefan Schumacher   Germany + 2"
22 Steffen Wesemann    Switzerland + 2"
23 Christophe Le Mével   France + 2"
24 Anthony Geslin   France + 2"
25 Andrey Kashechkin   Kazakhstan + 2"
26 Alexandr Kolobnev   Russia + 2"
27 Matija Kvasina   Croatia + 2"
28 Michael Boogerd   Netherlands + 2"
29 Fränk Schleck   Luxembourg + 2"
30 Moisés Aldape Chávez   Mexico + 2"
31 Fabian Cancellara    Switzerland + 2"
32 Gorazd Štangelj   Slovenia + 2"
33 Nuno Ribeiro   Portugal + 2"
34 Danilo Di Luca   Italy + 2"
35 David Millar   Great Britain + 2"
36 Xavier Florencio   Spain + 2"
37 Grégory Rast    Switzerland + 2"
38 Luca Paolini   Italy + 2"
39 David George   South Africa + 2"
40 Cadel Evans   Australia + 2"
41 Rui Sousa   Portugal + 2"
42 Sérgio Paulinho   Portugal + 2"
43 Vladimir Karpets   Russia + 2"
44 Alexander Arekeev   Russia + 2"
45 Sylvain Chavanel   France + 2"
46 Tadej Valjavec   Slovenia + 15"
47 Christopher Horner   United States + 15"
48 Davide Rebellin   Italy + 15"
49 Carlos Sastre   Spain + 15"
50 Michael Rogers   Australia + 15"
51 Filippo Pozzato   Italy + 15"
52 Alexander Vinokourov   Kazakhstan + 15"
53 Sergei Yakovlev   Kazakhstan + 34"
54 Fabian Wegmann   Germany + 56"
55 Marlon Pérez Arango   Colombia + 1' 25"
56 Kanstantsin Sivtsov   Belarus + 1' 25"
57 Raivis Belohvoščiks   Latvia + 1' 53"
58 José Carlos Rodrigues   Portugal + 1' 53"
59 Radoslav Rogina   Croatia + 1' 53"
60 Ján Valach   Slovakia + 1' 53"
61 Alexandre Usau   Belarus + 1' 53"
62 Roger Hammond   Great Britain + 1' 53"
63 Ruslan Pidgornyy   Ukraine + 1' 53"
64 Dainius Kairelis   Lithuania + 1' 53"
65 Georg Totschnig   Austria + 1' 53"
66 Stijn Devolder   Belgium + 1' 53"
67 Max van Heeswijk   Netherlands + 1' 53"
68 Christian Vande Velde   United States + 1' 53"
69 Aurélien Clerc    Switzerland + 1' 53"
70 Cyril Dessel   France + 1' 53"
71 Sébastien Joly   France + 1' 53"
72 Joaquim Rodríguez   Spain + 1' 53"
73 Michael Albasini    Switzerland + 1' 53"
74 Lars Bak   Denmark + 1' 53"
75 Yaroslav Popovych   Ukraine + 1' 53"
76 Nick Nuyens   Belgium + 1' 53"
77 Borut Božič   Slovenia + 2' 02"
78 Erki Pütsep   Estonia + 3' 33"
79 Alexandre Bazhenov   Russia + 3' 43"
80 Przemysław Niemiec   Poland + 3' 43"
81 Daniel Petrov   Bulgaria + 3' 43"
82 Jurgen Van Goolen   Belgium + 6' 19"
83 Martin Riška   Slovakia + 6' 19"
84 Kjell Carlström   Finland + 6' 19"
85 Matej Mugerli   Slovenia + 6' 19"
86 Nélson Vitorino   Portugal + 6' 19"
87 Roman Kreuziger   Czech Republic + 6' 19"
88 Alessandro Ballan   Italy + 6' 19"
89 Simon Gerrans   Australia + 6' 19"
90 Vladimir Efimkin   Russia + 6' 19"
91 Bram Tankink   Netherlands + 6' 19"
92 Philippe Gilbert   Belgium + 6' 19"
93 Thomas Voeckler   France + 6' 19"
94 Sylvain Calzati   France + 6' 19"
95 Alexander Efimkin   Russia + 6' 19"
96 Robert Hunter   South Africa + 6' 19"
97 Beat Zberg    Switzerland + 6' 19"
98 Alexei Markov   Russia + 6' 19"
99 Christian Knees   Germany + 6' 19"
100 Mathew Hayman   Australia + 6' 19"
101 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano   Colombia + 6' 19"
102 Jonathan Patrick McCarty   United States + 6' 19"
103 Oliver Zaugg    Switzerland + 6' 19"
104 Tomáš Bucháček   Czech Republic + 6' 19"
105 David Loosli    Switzerland + 6' 19"
106 Patrik Sinkewitz   Germany + 6' 19"
107 Guido Trenti   United States + 6' 19"
108 Janez Brajkovič   Slovenia + 6' 19"
109 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi   Spain + 6' 19"
110 Luis Pérez Rodríguez   Spain + 6' 19"
111 Volodymyr Zagorodniy   Ukraine + 6' 19"
112 Andriy Hrivko   Ukraine + 6' 19"
113 Gabriel Rasch   Norway + 6' 19"
114 Thor Hushovd   Norway + 6' 19"
115 Íñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro   Spain + 6' 59"
116 Ryan Cox   South Africa + 6' 59"
117 Christian Pfannberger   Austria + 6' 59"
118 Danny Pate   United States + 6' 59"
119 Marzio Bruseghin   Italy + 6' 59"
120 David McCann   Ireland + 8' 45"
121 Petr Benčík   Czech Republic + 8' 45"
122 Matej Jurčo   Slovakia + 8' 45"
123 Tomasz Marczyński   Poland + 8' 45"
124 Fumiyuki Beppu   Japan + 8' 45"
125 Allan Johansen   Denmark + 8' 45"
126 Roman Broniš   Slovakia + 13' 38"
DNF Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo   Colombia
DNF Matteo Tosatto   Italy
DNF Rinaldo Nocentini   Italy
DNF José Adrián Bonilla   Costa Rica
DNF Aliaksandr Kychinski   Belarus
DNF Serge Baguet   Belgium
DNF Tarmo Raudsepp   Estonia
DNF Russell Downing   Great Britain
DNF Julio Alberto Pérez Cuapio   Mexico
DNF Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni   Spain
DNF Krzysztof Szczawiński   Poland
DNF Hidenori Nodera   Japan
DNF Philip Deignan   Ireland
DNF Stephan Schreck   Germany
DNF Danail Petrov   Bulgaria
DNF Leif Hoste   Belgium
DNF Kevin Hulsmans   Belgium
DNF Matthew White   Australia
DNF Nicolas Roche   Ireland
DNF Nick Gates   Australia
DNF Ronny Scholz   Germany
DNF Marcel Sieberg   Germany
DNF José Rujano Guillen   Venezuela
DNF Tyler Farrar   United States
DNF Ian McLeod   South Africa
DNF Luis Felipe Laverde   Colombia
DNF Chris Baldwin   United States
DNF Bradley McGee   Australia
DNF Hrvoje Miholjević   Croatia
DNF Aleksejs Saramotins   Latvia
DNF Shinichi Fukushima   Japan
DNF Luciano André Pagliarini   Brazil
DNF Bram de Groot   Netherlands
DNF Jan Boven   Netherlands
DNF Maarten Tjallingii   Netherlands
DNF Kyrylo Pospyeyev   Ukraine
DNF Mauricio Soler   Colombia
DNF Ryder Hesjedal   Canada
DNF Darren Lill   South Africa
DNF Sébastien Hinault   France
DNF Martin Mareš   Czech Republic
DNF Peter Wrolich   Austria
DNF Linus Gerdemann   Germany
DNF Bruno Neves   Portugal
DNF Murilo Fischer   Brazil
DNF Mart Ojavee   Estonia
DNF Stanislav Kozubek   Czech Republic
DNF Marek Rutkiewicz   Poland
DNF Tomasz Kiendyś   Poland
DNF Martin Prázdnovský   Slovakia
DNF Maroš Kováč   Slovakia
DNF Volodymyr Starchyk   Ukraine
DNF Gerardo Fernández   Argentina
DNF Svetoslav Tchanliev   Bulgaria
DNF Manuel Eduardo Medina Marino   Venezuela
DNF Thierry Marichal   Belgium
DNF Jackson Stewart   United States
DNF Pedro Nicacio   Brazil
DNF Tiaan Kannemeyer   South Africa
DNF Samuel Dumoulin   France
DNF Jorge Martín Montenegro   Argentina
DNF Joost Posthuma   Netherlands
DNF Bernhard Kohl   Austria
DNF František Raboň   Czech Republic
DNF Robert Radosz   Poland
DNF Alex Cano Ardila   Colombia
DNF Márcio May   Brazil
DNF Soelito Gohr   Brazil
DNF Jose Antonio Ramos Querales   Venezuela
DNF Abdul Wahab Sawadogo   Burkina Faso
DNF Rabaki Jérémie Ouédraogo   Burkina Faso
DNF Saïdou Rouamba   Burkina Faso

Selected riders edit

See also: List of elite cyclists at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships

Based on the results of the riders in the UCI ProTour and UCI Continental Circuits in 2006, all nations have received a number of riders they can send to the championships. The number of allowed riders is different for each continent:

  • Qualified Nations by the UCI Protour: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain and Switzerland get 9 starters. Canada, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania and Luxembourg get 1 starter.
  • Qualified Nations by the UCI Africa Tour: South Africa gets 6 starters. Burkina Faso gets 3 starters.
  • Qualified Nations by the UCI America Tour: Brazil and Colombia get 6 starters. Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela get 3 starters. Costa Rica and Cuba get 1 starter.
  • Qualified Nations by the UCI Asia Tour: Iran gets 6 starters. Kazakhstan and Japan get 3 starters.
  • Qualified Nations by the UCI European Tour: Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Ukraine get 6 starters. Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Ireland, Latvia and Norway get 3 starters. Sweden gets 1 starter. Note: Because Austria is the host nation, they are given 3 extra starters to give them 6 riders in total.
  • Qualified Nations by the UCI Oceania Tour: New Zealand gets 3 starters.

All nations are allowed to select reserves too, 5 reserves for nations with 9 riders, 3 reserves for nations with 6 riders, 2 reserves for nations with 3 riders and 1 reserve for nations with 1 rider.

Nations allowed nine riders edit

Australia edit

On September 14, the selection was released:

Belgium edit

National Coach: Carlo Bomans

On September 11, the selection was released:

Also 5 reserves were appointed:

France edit

Selection released on September 12:

Germany edit

On September 11, the first selection was released, but since then many things have changed. Matthias Kessler and Jens Voigt have refused their selection as they claim to be "too tired after a long tiring season". Andreas Klöden has declared he only wants to ride in the Time Trial World Championships 2006.

Current Selection:

Italy edit

National coach Franco Ballerini selected the following riders:

Netherlands edit

National coach Egon van Kessel selected the following riders:

Russia edit

Spain edit

Switzerland edit

Selection released on September 14:

United States edit

Nations allowed six riders edit

Austria edit

The home nation was represented by:

Brazil edit

Colombia edit

Czech Republic edit


Poland edit

Portugal edit

Slovenia edit

Slovakia edit

South Africa edit

Ukraine edit

Nations allowed three riders edit

Argentina edit

Belarus edit

Bulgaria edit

Burkina Faso edit

Croatia edit

Denmark edit

Estonia edit

Great Britain edit

Ireland edit

Japan edit

Kazakhstan edit

Latvia edit


New Zealand edit

New Zealand chose not to send riders to the Road World Championships 2006, as their most important riders are injured and thus unavailable.[1][2]

Norway edit

Venezuela edit

Nations allowed one rider edit

Canada edit


Finland edit

Hungary edit

Lithuania edit

Luxembourg edit

Sweden edit

References edit

  1. ^ Road World Championships Team Announced
  2. ^ "Road World Championships team named". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-09-14.

External links edit

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