World Championships Results - Elite Men's Road Race

By Thomas Valentinsen
Sep 24, 2006, 13:30

Bettini is the new World Champion! Congrats from all of us here at Roadcycling.com. Photo copyright Fotoreporter Sirotti.

Yiihaaa! Bettini, Zabel and Valverde on the podium in Salzburg, Austria. Photo copyright Fotoreporter Sirotti.

Bettini climbs. Photo copyright Fotoreporter Sirotti.

Star in stripes....Paolo Bettini! Photo copyright Fotoreporter Sirotti.

September 24, 2006: Salzburg – Salzburg (266 km):
1 Paolo Bettini (Italy)       06:15:36

2 Erik Zabel (Germany)                                    

3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spain)                     

4 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spain)                      0.02

5 Robbie McEwen (Australia)                               

6 Stuart O'Grady (Australia)                              

7 Uros Murn (Slovenia)                                    

8 Alexandre Botcharov (Russian Federation)                

9 Tom Boonen (Belgium)                                    

10 Vladimir Gusev (Russian Federation)                    

11 Bernhard Eisel (Austria)                               

12 Nicki Sorensen (Denmark)                               

13 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway)                             

14 Martin Elmiger (Switzerland)                           

15 Freddie Rodriguez (United States Of America)           

16 Karsten Kroon (Netherlands)                            

17 Marcus Ljungqvist (Sweden)                              

18 Rene Haselbacher (Austria)                             

19 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hungary)                               

20 Gerben Löwik (Netherlands)                             

21 Stefan Schumacher (Germany)                             

22 Steffen Wesemann (Switzerland)                         

23 Christophe Le Mevel (France)                           

24 Anthony Geslin (France)                                

25 Andrey Kashechkin (Kazakhstan)                         

26 Alexandr Kolobnev (Russian Federation)                 

27 Matija Kvasina (Croatia)                               

28 Michael Boogerd (Netherlands)                          

29 Frank Schleck (Luxembourg)                             

30 Moises Aldape Chavez (Mexico)                          

31 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)                        

32 Gorazd Stangelj (Slovenia)                             

33 Nuno Ribeiro (Portugal)                                

34 Danilo Di Luca (Italy)                                  

35 David Millar (Great Britain)                           

36 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spain)                         

37 Grégory Rast (Switzerland)                             

38 Luca Paolini (Italy)                                    

39 David George (South Africa)                            

40 Cadel Evans (Australia)                                

41 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa (Portugal)                    

42 Sérgio Paulinho (Portugal)                             

43 Vladimir Karpets (Russian Federation)                  

44 Alexander Arekeev (Russian Federation)                 

45 Sylvain Chavanel (France)                              

46 Tadej Valjavec (Slovenia)                           0.15

47 Christopher Horner (United States Of America)          

48 Davide Rebellin (Italy)                                

49 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spain)                           

50 Michael Rogers (Australia)                             

51 Filippo Pozzato (Italy)                                 

52 Alexandr Vinokurov (Kazakhstan)                        

53 Sergey Yakovlev (Kazakhstan)                        0.34

54 Fabian Wegmann (Germany)                            0.56

55 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Colombia)               1.25

56 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus)                          

57 Raivis Belohvosciks (Latvia)                        1.53

58 Jose Carlos Silva Rodrigues (Portugal)                 

59 Radoslav Rogina (Croatia)                              

60 Jan Valach (Slovakia)                                  

61 Alexandre Usau (Belarus)                               

62 Roger Hammond (Great Britain)                          

63 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukraine)                             

64 Dainius Kairelis (Lithuania)                            

65 Georg Totschnig (Austria)                              

66 Stijn Devolder (Belgium)                               

67 Max Van Heeswijk (Netherlands)                         

68 Christian Vandevelde (United States Of America)        

69 Aurélien Clerc (Switzerland)                           

70 Cyril Dessel (France)                                  

71 Sébastien Joly (France)                                

72 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spain)                       

73 Michael Albasini (Switzerland)                         

74 Lars Ytting Bak (Denmark)                              

75 Nick Nuyens (Belgium)                                  

76 Borut Bozic (Slovenia)                              2.02

77 Erki Pütsep (Estonia)                               3.33

78 Alexandre Bazhenov (Russian Federation)             3.43

79 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Poland)                            

80 Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria)                               

81 Jurgen Van Goolen (Belgium)                         6.19

82 Martin Riska (Slovakia)                                

83 Matej Mugerli (Slovenia)                               

83 Kjell Carlström (Finland)                              

85 Nelson Victorino (Portugal)                             

86 Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic)                       

87 Alessandro Ballan (Italy)                              

88 Simon Gerrans (Australia)                              

89 Vladimir Efimkin (Russian Federation)                  

90 Bram Tankink (Netherlands)                             

91 Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)                             

92 Thomas Voeckler (France)                               

93 Sylvain Calzati (France)                               

94 Alexander Efimkin (Russian Federation)                 

95 Robert Hunter (South Africa)                           

96 Beat Zberg (Switzerland)                               

97 Alexei Markov (Russian Federation)                     

98 Christian Knees (Germany)                               

99 Mathew Hayman (Australia)                              

100 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Colombia)               

101 Jonathan Patrick McCarty (United States Of America)   

102 Oliver Zaugg (Switzerland)                             

103 Tomas Buchacek (Czech Republic)                       

104 David Loosli (Switzerland)                            

105 Patrik Sinkewitz (Germany)                            

106 Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia)                            

107 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spain)                

108 Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spain)                          

109 Volodymyr Zagorodniy (Ukraine)                        

110 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)                               

111 Gabriel Rasch (Norway)                                 

112 Thor Hushovd (Norway)                                 

113 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spain)               6.59

114 Christian Pfannberger (Austria)                       

115 Danny Pate (United States Of America)                  

116 Marzio Bruseghin (Italy)

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