September 23, 2006 (Salzburg, Austria) — The Elite Men’s road race begins tomorrow at 10:30 am local time (4:30 am EDT) as they complete 265.8 kms, or 12 laps of the 22.2 km route for a total of and 2,796 metres of climbing. Racing for Canada is Ryder Hesjedal (BC).

Elite Men’s Start List

1. Tom Boonen (Belgium)
2. Serge Baguet (Belgium)
3. Stijn Devolder (Belgium)
4. Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)
5. Leif Hoste (Belgium)
6. Kevin Hulsmans (Belgium)
7. Thierry Marichal (Belgium)
8. Nick Nuyens (Belgium)
9. Goolen Jurgen Van (Belgium)
10. Lopez De Castro Inigo Cuesta (Spain)
11. Giannoni Juan Antonio Flecha (Spain)
12. Cabre Xavier Florencio (Spain)
13. Rodriguez Luis Perez (Spain)
14. Oliver Joaquin Rodriguez (Spain)
15. Gonzalez Samuel Sanchez (Spain)
16. Candil Carlos Sastre (Spain)
17. Belmonte Alejandro Valverde (Spain)
18. Alberdi Francisco José Ventoso (Spain)
19. Sylvain Calzati (France)
20. Sylvain Chavanel (France)
21. Cyril Dessel (France)
22. Samuel Dumoulin (France)
23. Anthony Geslin (France)
24. Sébastien Hinault (France)
25. Sébastien Joly (France)
26. Mevel Christophe Le (France)
27. Thomas Voeckler (France)
28. Marcus Ljungqvist (Sweden)
29. Murilo Fischer (Brazil)
30. Soelito Gohr (Brazil)
31. Marcio May (Brazil)
32. Pedro Nicacio (Brazil)
33. Luciano André Pagliarini (Brazil)
34. Lars Ytting Bak (Denmark)
35. Allan Johansen (Denmark)
36. Nicki Sorensen (Denmark)
37. Alexander Arekeev (RussianFederation)
38. Alexandre Bazhenov (RussianFederation)
39. Alexandre Botcharov (RussianFederation)
40. Alexander Efimkin (RussianFederation)
41. Vladimir Efimkin (RussianFederation)
42. Vladimir Gusev (RussianFederation)
43. Vladimir Karpets (RussianFederation)
44. Alexandr Kolobnev (RussianFederation)
45. Alexei Markov (RussianFederation)
46. Linus Gerdemann (Germany)
47. Christian Knees (Germany)
48. Ronny Scholz (Germany)
49. Stephan Schreck (Germany)
50. Stefan Schumacher (Germany)
51. Marcel Sieberg (Germany)
52. Patrik Sinkewitz (Germany)
53. Fabian Wegmann (Germany)
54. Erik Zabel (Germany)
55. Michael Albasini (Switzerland)
56. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
57. Aurélien Clerc (Switzerland)
58. Martin Elmiger (Switzerland)
59. David Loosli (Switzerland)
60. Grégory Rast (Switzerland)
61. Steffen Wesemann (Switzerland)
62. Oliver Zaugg (Switzerland)
63. Beat Zberg (Switzerland)
64. Borut Bozic (Slovenia)
65. Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia)
66. Matej Mugerli (Slovenia)
67. Uros Murn (Slovenia)
68. Gorazd Stangelj (Slovenia)
69. Tadej Valjavec (Slovenia)
70. Alessandro Ballan (Italy)
71. Paolo Bettini (Italy)
72. Marzio Bruseghin (Italy)
73. Luca Danilo Di (Italy)
74. Rinaldo Nocentini (Italy)
75. Luca Paolini (Italy)
76. Filippo Pozzato (Italy)
77. Davide Rebellin (Italy)
78. Matteo Tosatto (Italy)
79. Michael Boogerd (Netherlands)
80. Jan Boven (Netherlands)
81. Groot Bram De (Netherlands)
82. Karsten Kroon (Netherlands)
83. Gerben Löwik (Netherlands)
84. Joost Posthuma (Netherlands)
85. Bram Tankink (Netherlands)
86. Maarten Tjallingii (Netherlands)
87. Heeswijk Max Van (Netherlands)
88. Andrey Kashechkin (Kazakhstan)
89. Alexandr Vinokurov (Kazakhstan)
90. Sergey Yakovlev (Kazakhstan)
91. Christopher Baldwin (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
92. Tyler Farrar (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
93. Christopher Horner (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
94. Jonathan Patrick Mc Carty (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
95. Danny Pate (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
96. Freddie Rodriguez (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
97. Jackson Stewart (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
98. Guido Trenti (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
99. Christian Vandevelde (UnitedStatesOfAmerica)
100. Aliaksandr Kychinski (Belarus)
101. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus)
102. Alexandre Usau (Belarus)
103. Cadel Evans (Australia)
104. Nick Gates (Australia)
105. Simon Gerrans (Australia)
106. Mathew Hayman (Australia)
107. Robbie Mcewen (Australia)
108. Bradley Mcgee (Australia)
109. Stuart O’Grady (Australia)
110. Michael Rogers (Australia)
111. Matthew White (Australia)
112. Bernhard Eisel (Austria)
113. Rene Haselbacher (Austria)
114. Bernhard Kohl (Austria)
115. Christian Pfannberger (Austria)
116. Georg Totschnig (Austria)
117. Peter Wrolich (Austria)
118. Gerardo Fernandez (Argentina)
119. Jorge Martin Montenegro (Argentina)
120. Matija Kvasina (Croatia)
121. Hrvoje Miholjevic (Croatia)
122. Radoslav Rogina (Croatia)
123. Petr Bencik (CzechRepublic)
124. Tomas Buchacek (CzechRepublic)
125. Stanislav Kozubek (CzechRepublic)
126. Roman Kreuziger (CzechRepublic)
127. Martin Mares (CzechRepublic)
128. Frantisek Rabon (CzechRepublic)
129. Russell Downing (GreatBritain)
130. Roger Hammond (GreatBritain)
131. David Millar (GreatBritain)
132. Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)
133. Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukraine)
134. Yaroslav Popovych (Ukraine)
135. Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukraine)
136. Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukraine)
137. Volodymyr Zagorodniy (Ukraine)
138. Roman Bronis (Slovakia)
139. Matej Jurco (Slovakia)
140. Maros Kovac (Slovakia)
141. Martin Prazdnovsky (Slovakia)
142. Martin Riska (Slovakia)
143. Jan Valach (Slovakia)
144. Tomasz Kiendys (Poland)
145. Tomasz Marczynski (Poland)
146. Przemyslaw Niemiec (Poland)
147. Robert Radosz (Poland)
148. Marek Rutkiewicz (Poland)
149. Kristof Szczawinski (Poland)
150. Ryan Cox (SouthAfrica)
151. David George (SouthAfrica)
152. Robert Hunter (SouthAfrica)
153. Tiaan Kannemeyer (SouthAfrica)
154. Darren Lill (SouthAfrica)
155. Leod Ian Mc (SouthAfrica)
156. Philip Deignan (Ireland)
157. David Mccann (Ireland)
158. Nicolas Roche (Ireland)
159. Ryder Hesjedal (Canada)
160. Bruno Neves (Portugal)
161. Sérgio Paulinho (Portugal)
162. Nuno Ribeiro (Portugal)
163. Rodrigues Jose Carlos Silva (Portugal)
164. Barbosa Rui Miguel Sousa (Portugal)
165. Nelson Victorino (Portugal)
166. Ardila Alex Cano (Colombia)
167. Ravalo Félix Rafael Cardenas (Colombia)
168. Luis Felipe Laverde (Colombia)
169. Alberto Ardila Cano Mauricio (Colombia)
170. Arango Marlon Alirio Perez (Colombia)
171. Mauricio Soler (Colombia)
172. Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway)
173. Thor Hushovd (Norway)
174. Gabriel Rasch (Norway)
175. Raivis Belohvosciks (Latvia)
176. Aleksejs Saramotins (Latvia)
177. Frank Schleck (Luxembourg)
178. Fumiyuki Beppu (Japan)
179. Shinichi Fukushima (Japan)
180. Hidenori Nodera (Japan)
181. Marino Manuel Eduardo Medina (Venezuela)
182. Querales Jose Antonio Ramos (Venezuela)
183. Guillen José Rujano (Venezuela)
184. Dainius Kairelis (Lithuania)
185. Petrov Daniel Andonov (Bulgaria)
186. Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria)
187. Svetoslav Tchanliev (Bulgaria)
188. Mart Ojavee (Estonia)
189. Erki Pütsep (Estonia)
190. Tarmo Raudsepp (Estonia)
191. Kjell Carlström (Finland)
192. Laszlo Bodrogi (Hungary)
193. Rabaki Jeremie Ouedraogo (BurkinaFaso)
194. Saïdou Rouamba (BurkinaFaso)
195. Abdul Wahab Sawadogo (BurkinaFaso)
196. Chavez Moises Aldape (Mexico)
197. Cuapio Julio Alberto Perez (Mexico)
198. Adrian Bonilla (CostaRica)