2006 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Men's Individual Road Race
2006 UCI Road World Championships
	Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates	September 24, 2006
Stages	1
Distance	265.2 km (164.8 mi)
Winning time	06h 15' 32"
Medalists
	Gold
	Silver
	Bronze
	← 2005 2007 →

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").

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	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

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:

Serge Baguet, Quick-Step–Innergetic
Tom Boonen, Quick-Step–Innergetic
Stijn Devolder, Discovery Channel
Philippe Gilbert, Française des Jeux
Leif Hoste, Discovery Channel
Kevin Hulsmans, Quick-Step–Innergetic
Nick Nuyens, Quick-Step–Innergetic
Jurgen Van Goolen, Discovery Channel
~~Johan Vansummeren, Davitamon–Lotto~~ Vansummeren was replaced by Thierry Marichal from Cofidis, because he severely injured his shoulder in a crash on training just days before the event.

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 Egon van Kessel 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

Mauricio Ardila, Rabobank
Alex Caño, Unknown
Félix Cárdenas, Barloworld
Luis Felipe Laverde, Ceramica Panaria–Navigare
Marlon Pérez Arango, Team Tenax Salmilano
Mauricio Soler, Acqua & Sapone

Czech Republic

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

South Africa

Ukraine

Andriy Hryvko, Team Milram
Ruslan Pidgornyy, Tenax Nobili Rubinetterie
Yaroslav Popovych, Discovery Channel
Kyrylo Pospeyev, Acqua & Sapone
Volodymyr Starchyk, Mykolaiv
Volodymyr Zagorodniy, S. C. Pagnoncelli-NGC-Perrel

Nations allowed three riders

Argentina

Gerardo Fernández, Viña Magna–Cropu
Jorge Martín Montenegro, Unknown

Belarus

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Croatia

Denmark

Estonia

Great Britain

Ireland

Japan

Kazakhstan

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

Venezuela

Nations allowed one rider

References

cyclingnews

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

External links

Race website

[1] Road World Championships Team Announced

[2] "Road World Championships team named". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-09-14.

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Events at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships

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