September 20, 2006 (Salzburg, Austria) — Belgian Dominique Cornu won the men’s under-23 time trial by a massive 37 seconds over defending champion Mikhail Ignatiev (Russia). Frenchman Jerome Coppel was third, 45 seconds behind Cornu’s winning effort of 49min 28sec.

Cornu, 21, set the fastest split times over the hilly 39-km course to post an average speed of 47.9km/h. The severity of the climbs put paid to many a favourite’s hopes, Lars Boom (Holland) and Maxim Belkov just two who finished outside of the top ten.

The Canadians found themselves slightly off the blistering pace set by Cornu. Brad Fairall was 43rd out of the 61 starters with a time of 53min 36sec. Teammate David Veilleux was 50th, recording 54min 28sec.

Unluckiest rider was Chris Froome of Kenya who mistook the signals of a race volunteer in the opening metres and piled into the hapless helper. More embarrassed than anything, Froome quickly remounted
and finished in 36th postion, 3min and 32sec behind Cornu.

“I was confident that I could do fine and hit the podium,” said Cornu, who turns professional next year, “but I didn’t think I could win. I still can’t believe I did.”

Results

1. Dominique Cornu (Belgium) 49:28.42
2. Mikhail Ignatiev (Russian Federation) 0:37.1
3. Jerome Coppel (France) 0:44.66
4. Alexander Filippov (Russian Federation) 0:51.52
5. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway) 1:12.69
6. Stefan Schaefer (Germany) 1:21.28
7. Logan Hutchings (New Zealand) 1:25.06
8. Simon Spilak (Slovenia) 1:26.60
9. Peter Latham (New Zealand) 1:29.03
10. Kristjan Koren (Slovenia) 1:36.32
11. Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) 1:38.90
12. Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania) 1:41.11
13. Maxim Belkov (Russian Federation) 1:43.21
14. Martin Mortensen (Denmark) 1:46.17
15. Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukraine) 1:49.32
16. Andrei Kunitski (Belarus) 1:53.21
17. Branislau Samoilau (Belarus) 1:54.04
18. Tony Martin (Germany) 1:56.27
19. Rein Taaramae (Estonia) 1:59.09
20. Sylvain Georges (France) 2:03.66
21. Alan Marangoni (Italy) 2:06.32
22. Jos Van Emden (Netherlands) 2:06.87
23. Ian Stannard (Great Britain) 2:08.57
24. Mateusz Taciak (Poland) 2:14.83
25. Rigoberto Uran Uran (Colombia) 2:22.06
26. Lars Boom (Netherlands) 2:32.11
27. Gatis Smukulis (Latvia) 2:38.40
28. Thomas Frei (Switzerland) 2:41.97
29. Shaun Higgerson (Australia) 2:47.08
30. Steven Cozza (United States Of America) 2:47.45
31. Martin Velits (Slovakia) 2:51.03
32. Luca Barla (Italy) 2:56.54
33. Mark Jamieson (Australia) 3:13.66
34. Alexandr Pliuschkin (Republic of Moldova) 3:14.69
35. Andrey Zeits (Kazakhstan) 3:27.74
36. Chris Froome (Kenya) 3:32.28
37. Ruslan Sambris (Republic of Moldova) 3:37.66
38. Peter Velits (Slovakia) 3:50.71
39. Hyun Wook Joo (Korea) 3:52.90
40. Brent Bookwalter (United States Of America) 3:53.79
41. Berik Kupeshov (Kazakhstan) 3:58.15
42. Oleksandr Surutkovych (Ukraine) 4:00.54
43. Bradley Fairall (Canada) 4:07.77
44. Ryan Connor (Ireland) 4:08.13
45. Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 4:08.40
46. Stefan Denifl (Austria) 4:32.57
47. Federico Pagani (Argentina) 4:38.69
48. Fabio Duarte Arevalo (Colombia) 4:40.51
49. Abdelkad. Belmokhtar (Algeria) 4:51.40
50. David Veilleux (Canada) 5:00.40
51. Stefan Kushlev (Bulgaria) 5:13.48
52. Gert Joeaar (Estonia) 5:22.27
53. Adrian Hegyvari (Hungary) 5:38.64
54. Javier Chacon Quesada (Spain) 5:40.91
55. Jorge Soto (Uruguay) 5:47.19
56. Juan Fernandez Mora (Spain) 5:51.63
57. Lukas Sablik (Czech Republic) 6:07.18
58. Akos Haiszer (Hungary) 6:15.02
59. Mohamed. Aoun Seghir (Algeria) 10:13.51