2006 UCI Road World Championships
# 2006 UCI Road World Championships

The 2006 UCI Road World Championships took place in Salzburg, Austria, between September 19 and September 24, 2006. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.

The Men's road race saw Italian Olympic champion Paolo Bettini triumph, while Swiss Fabian Cancellara won his first time trial world title.

The women's road race title was won by Marianne Vos, in her first year of racing at senior level.

## Participating nations

A total of 574 cyclists from 54 national federations participated. The number of cyclists per nation that competed is shown in parentheses.

* Participating nations Click on a nation to go to the nations' UCI Road World Championships page
* Algeria (3)
* Argentina (6)
* Australia (23)
* Austria (20)
* Belarus (6)
* Belgium (20)
* Brazil (10)
* Bulgaria (5)
* Burkina Faso (3)
* Canada (13)
* China (4)
* Colombia (11)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Croatia (6)
* Czech Republic (18)
* Denmark (16)
* El Salvador (1)
* Estonia (8)
* Finland (2)
* France (24)
* Germany (24)
* Great Britain (12)
* Hungary (8)
* Ireland (9)
* Italy (25)
* Japan (9)
* Kazakhstan (9)
* Kenya (1)
* Latvia (7)
* Lithuania (10)
* Luxembourg (4)
* Mexico (11)
* Moldova (5)
* Namibia (1)
* Netherlands (22)
* New Zealand (6)
* Norway (9)
* Poland (19)
* Portugal (11)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (22)
* Serbia and Montenegro (2)
* Slovakia (11)
* Slovenia (14)
* South Africa (15)
* South Korea (1)
* Spain (23)
* Sweden (12)
* Switzerland (22)
* Ukraine (20)
* United States (21)
* Uruguay (1)
* Uzbekistan (1)
* Venezuela (6)

## Events summary

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Men's Events |||||||
| Men's road race details | Paolo Bettini Italy | 6:15:36 | Erik Zabel Germany | st. | Alejandro Valverde Spain | st. |
| Men's time trial details | Fabian Cancellara Switzerland | 1:00:11.75 | David Zabriskie United States | 1:01:41.72 | Alexander Vinokourov Kazakhstan | 1:02:01.47 |
| Women's Events |||||||
| Women's road race details | Marianne Vos Netherlands | 3:20.26 | Trixi Worrack Germany | st. | Nicole Cooke Great Britain | st. |
| Women's time trial details | Kristin Armstrong United States | 35:04.89 | Karin Thürig Switzerland | 35:30.06 | Christine Thorburn United States | 35:34.25 |
| Men's Under-23 Events |||||||
| Men's under-23 road race details | Gerald Ciolek Germany | 4:00.50 | Romain Feillu France | st. | Alexander Khatuntsev Russia | st. |
| Men's under-23 time trial details | Dominique Cornu Belgium | 49:28.42 | Mikhail Ignatiev Russia | 50:05.52 | Jérôme Coppel France | 50:13.08 |

## Medals table

| Place | Nation | | | | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Germany | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4= | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4= | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4= | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7= | France | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7= | Russia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9= | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9= | Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9= | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
