2006 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

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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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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 Bronis in last place (+ 13'38").

Final classification[]

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   + 2"
6 Stuart O'Grady   + 2"
7 Uros Murn   + 2"
8 Alexander Bocharov   + 2"
9 Tom Boonen  Belgium + 2"
10 Vladimir Gusev   + 2"
11 Bernhard Eisel   + 2"
12 Nicki Sørensen  Denmark + 2"
13 Kurt Asle Arvesen   + 2"
14 Martin Elmiger    + 2"
15 Freddie Rodriguez  United States + 2"
16 Karsten Kroon  Netherlands + 2"
17 Marcus Ljungqvist   + 2"
18 Rene Haselbacher   + 2"
19 László Bodrogi   + 2"
20 Gerben Löwik  Netherlands + 2"
21 Stefan Schumacher  Germany + 2"
22 Steffen Wesemann    + 2"
23 Christophe Le Mével   + 2"
24 Anthony Geslin   + 2"
25 Andrey Kashechkin   + 2"
26 Alexandr Kolobnev   + 2"
27 Matija Kvasina   + 2"
28 Michael Boogerd  Netherlands + 2"
29 Fränk Schleck   + 2"
30 Moises Aldape Chavez   + 2"
31 Fabian Cancellara    + 2"
32 Gorazd Stangelj   + 2"
33 Nuno Ribeiro   + 2"
34 Danilo Di Luca  Italy + 2"
35 David Millar   + 2"
36 Xavier Florencio  Spain + 2"
37 Grégory Rast    + 2"
38 Luca Paolini  Italy + 2"
39 David George   + 2"
40 Cadel Evans   + 2"
41 Rui Sousa   + 2"
42 Sérgio Paulinho   + 2"
43 Vladimir Karpets   + 2"
44 Alexander Arekeev   + 2"
45 Sylvain Chavanel   + 2"
46 Tadej Valjavec   + 15"
47 Christopher Horner  United States + 15"
48 Davide Rebellin  Italy + 15"
49 Carlos Sastre  Spain + 15"
50 Michael Rogers   + 15"
51 Filippo Pozzato  Italy + 15"
52 Alexander Vinokourov   + 15"
53 Sergei Yakovlev   + 34"
54 Fabian Wegmann  Germany + 56"
55 Marlon Pérez Arango   + 1' 25"
56 Kanstantsin Sivtsov   + 1' 25"
57 Raivis Belohvoščiks   + 1' 53"
58 José Carlos Rodrigues   + 1' 53"
59 Radoslav Rogina   + 1' 53"
60 Ján Valach   + 1' 53"
61 Alexandre Usau   + 1' 53"
62 Roger Hammond   + 1' 53"
63 Ruslan Pidgornyy   + 1' 53"
64 Dainius Kairelis  Lithuania + 1' 53"
65 Georg Totschnig   + 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    + 1' 53"
70 Cyril Dessel   + 1' 53"
71 Sébastien Joly   + 1' 53"
72 Joaquim Rodríguez  Spain + 1' 53"
73 Michael Albasini    + 1' 53"
74 Lars Bak  Denmark + 1' 53"
75 Yaroslav Popovych   + 1' 53"
76 Nick Nuyens  Belgium + 1' 53"
77 Borut Bozic   + 2' 02"
78 Erki Pütsep   + 3' 33"
79 Alexandre Bazhenov   + 3' 43"
80 Przemysław Niemiec   + 3' 43"
81 Daniel Petrov   + 3' 43"
82 Jurgen Van Goolen  Belgium + 6' 19"
83 Martin Riska   + 6' 19"
84 Kjell Carlström   + 6' 19"
85 Matej Mugerli   + 6' 19"
86   + 6' 19"
87 Roman Kreuziger   + 6' 19"
88 Alessandro Ballan  Italy + 6' 19"
89 Simon Gerrans   + 6' 19"
90 Vladimir Efimkin   + 6' 19"
91 Bram Tankink  Netherlands + 6' 19"
92 Philippe Gilbert  Belgium + 6' 19"
93 Thomas Voeckler   + 6' 19"
94 Sylvain Calzati   + 6' 19"
95 Alexander Efimkin   + 6' 19"
96 Robert Hunter   + 6' 19"
97 Beat Zberg    + 6' 19"
98 Alexei Markov   + 6' 19"
99 Christian Knees  Germany + 6' 19"
100 Mathew Hayman   + 6' 19"
101 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano   + 6' 19"
102 Jonathan Patrick McCarty  United States + 6' 19"
103 Oliver Zaugg    + 6' 19"
104 Tomas Buchacek   + 6' 19"
105 David Loosli    + 6' 19"
106 Patrik Sinkewitz  Germany + 6' 19"
107 Guido Trenti  United States + 6' 19"
108 Janez Brajkovic   + 6' 19"
109 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi  Spain + 6' 19"
110 Luis Perez Rodriguez  Spain + 6' 19"
111 Volodymyr Zagorodniy   + 6' 19"
112 Andriy Hrivko   + 6' 19"
113 Gabriel Rasch   + 6' 19"
114 Thor Hushovd   + 6' 19"
115 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro  Spain + 6' 59"
116 Ryan Cox   + 6' 59"
117 Christian Pfannberger   + 6' 59"
118 Danny Pate  United States + 6' 59"
119 Marzio Bruseghin  Italy + 6' 59"
120 David McCann   + 8' 45"
121 Petr Bencik   + 8' 45"
122 Matej Jurco   + 8' 45"
123 Tomasz Marczynski   + 8' 45"
124 Fumiyuki Beppu   + 8' 45"
125 Allan Johansen  Denmark + 8' 45"
126 Roman Bronis   + 13' 38"
DNF Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo  
DNF Matteo Tosatto  Italy
DNF Rinaldo Nocentini  Italy
DNF José Adrián Bonilla  
DNF  
DNF Serge Baguet  Belgium
DNF  
DNF Russell Downing  
DNF Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio  
DNF Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni  Spain
DNF Krzysztof Szczawiński  
DNF Hidenori Nodera  
DNF Philip Deignan  
DNF Stephan Schreck  Germany
DNF Danail Petrov  
DNF Leif Hoste  Belgium
DNF Kevin Hulsmans  Belgium
DNF Matthew White  
DNF Nicolas Roche  
DNF Nick Gates  
DNF Ronny Scholz  Germany
DNF Marcel Sieberg  Germany
DNF José Rujano Guillen  
DNF Tyler Farrar  United States
DNF Ian McLeod  
DNF Luis Felipe Laverde  
DNF Chris Baldwin  United States
DNF Bradley McGee  
DNF Hrvoje Miholjevic  
DNF Aleksejs Saramotins  
DNF Shinichi Fukushima  
DNF Luciano André Pagliarini  
DNF Bram de Groot  Netherlands
DNF Jan Boven  Netherlands
DNF Maarten Tjallingii  Netherlands
DNF Kyrylo Pospyeyev  
DNF Mauricio Soler  
DNF Ryder Hesjedal  
DNF Darren Lill  
DNF Sébastien Hinault  
DNF Martin Mares  
DNF Peter Wrolich  
DNF Linus Gerdemann  Germany
DNF Bruno Neves  
DNF Murilo Fischer  
DNF Mart Ojavee  
DNF Stanislav Kozubek  
DNF Marek Rutkiewicz  
DNF Tomasz Kiendys  
DNF Martin Prazdnovsky  
DNF Maros Kovac  
DNF Volodymyr Starchyk  
DNF Gerardo Fernandez  
DNF Svetoslav Tchanliev  
DNF Manuel Eduardo Medina Marino  
DNF Thierry Marichal  Belgium
DNF Jackson Stewart  United States
DNF Pedro Nicacio  
DNF Tiaan Kannemeyer  
DNF Samuel Dumoulin  
DNF Jorge Martin Montenegro  
DNF Joost Posthuma  Netherlands
DNF Bernhard Kohl  
DNF Frantisek Rabon  
DNF Robert Radosz  
DNF Alex Cano Ardila  
DNF Marcio May  
DNF  
DNF  
DNF  
DNF Rabaki Jeremie Ouedraogo  
DNF  

Selected riders[]

See also:

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[]

Australia[]

On September 14, the selection was released:

Belgium[]

National Coach: Carlo Bomans

On September 11, the selection was released:

Also 5 reserves were appointed:

France[]

Selection released on September 12:

Germany[]

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[]

National coach Franco Ballerini selected the following riders:

Netherlands[]

National coach selected the following riders:

Russia[]

Spain[]

Switzerland[]

Selection released on September 14:

United States[]

Nations allowed six riders[]

Austria[]

The home nation was represented by:

Brazil[]

Colombia[]

Czech Republic[]


Poland[]

Portugal[]

Slovenia[]

Slovakia[]

South Africa[]

Ukraine[]

  • Andriy Hryvko, Team Milram
  • Ruslan Pidgornyy,
  • Yaroslav Popovych, Discovery Channel
  • , Acqua & Sapone
  • Volodymyr Starchyk, Nikolaev
  • Volodymyr Zagorodniy, S. C. Pagnoncelli-NGC-Perrel

Nations allowed three riders[]

Argentina[]

Belarus[]

Bulgaria[]

Burkina Faso[]

  • Rabaki Jeremie Ouedraogo, Unknown
  • , Unknown
  • , Unknown

Croatia[]

Denmark[]

Estonia[]

Great Britain[]

  • Russell Downing, DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed
  • Roger Hammond, Discovery Channel
  • David Millar, Saunier Duval–Prodir

Ireland[]

  • David McCann, Giant Asia Racing Team
  • Nicholas Roche, Cofidis
  • Philip Deignan, AG2R Prévoyance

Japan[]

  • Fumiyuki Beppu, Discovery Channel
  • Shinichi Fukushima,
  • Hidenori Nodera, Skil–Shimano

Kazakhstan[]

  • Andrey Kashechkin, Astana
  • Alexander Vinokourov, Astana
  • Sergei Yakovlev, Astana

Latvia[]


New Zealand[]

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[]

  • Kurt Asle Arvesen, Team CSC
  • Thor Hushovd, Crédit Agricole
  • Gabriel Rasch, Team Maxbo Bianchi

Venezuela[]

Nations allowed one rider[]

Canada[]


Finland[]

Hungary[]

Lithuania[]

Luxembourg[]

Sweden[]

  • Marcus Ljungqvist, Team CSC

References[]

  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[]

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