UCI ProTour 2006

Paris-Nice

Tirreno-Adriatico

Milano-Sanremo

Ronde van Vlaanderen

Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco

Gent-Wevelgem

Paris-Roubaix

Amstel Gold Race

La Flèche Wallonne

Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Tour de Romandie

Giro d'Italia

Volta a Catalunya

Dauphiné Libéré

Tour de Suisse

TTT Eindhoven

Tour de France

Vattenfall Cyclassics

Tour of Deutschland

Clásica de San Sebastián

Eneco Tour

Vuelta a España

GP Ouest France-Plouay

Tour de Pologne

Championship of Zürich

Paris-Tours

Giro di Lombardia

Non UCI ProTour

Road World Championships

TT World Championships

The 2006 ProTour is the second year of the UCI ProTour system, in which the ProTour teams are guaranteed, and obliged to, participate in the series of ProTour races. Image File history File links Logo-UCI-Protour. ... The 2006 ProTour is the second year of the UCI ProTour system, in which the ProTour teams are guaranteed, and obliged to, participate in the series of ProTour races. ... These are the results for the 2006 edition of the Paris-Nice bicycle race which was run 5 March—12 March. ... The 41st Tirreno-Adriatico cycling race took place from March 8 to March 14, 2006, over seven stages. ... These are the results for the 97th edition of the Milano-Sanremo cycling classic, raced on April 18, 2005. ... The 90th edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen cycling classic was ridden on Sunday, 2 April 2006. ... The 46th Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco cycling race (also know as The Tour of Basque Country) was held over 6 stages from April 3 to April 8, 2006. ... These are the results for the 64th edition of the Gent-Wevelgem cycling classic. ... These are the results for the 2006 edition of the Paris-Roubaix cycling classic. ... The Amstel Gold Race 2006 is the 40th edition of the road bicycle race Amstel Gold Race held on April 16, 2006. ... The 70th edition of the La Flèche Wallonne cycling classic was held on April 19, 2006. ... Stages map The 2006 Tour de France will be the 93rd Tour de France. ... Image File history File links Logo-uci. ... Entrance of UCI headquarter at Aigle (Switzerland) Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is a professional cycling union that oversees cycling events in the international community. ... The UCI ProTour logo The UCI ProTour is a competition under the International Cycling Union (UCI). ...

The prelude to the 2006 ProTour was dominated by a dispute between the managers of the Grand Tours and UCI, which meant that the Grand Tours were initially not to be a part of the 2006 ProTour.[1] On April 7, 2006, an agreement to the dispute between the Grand Tours organisers and the Union Cycliste Internationale was reached [2], guaranteeing the future of the ProTour. In bicycle racing a Grand Tour refers to one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Tour de France - Tour of France Giro dItalia - Tour of Italy Vuelta a España - Tour of Spain Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three are similar in... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

2006 ProTour races

Date	Race	Country	Winner	Nationality	Team
March 5-12	Paris-Nice	France	Floyd Landis	USA	Phonak Hearing Systems
March 8-14	Tirreno-Adriatico	Italy	Thomas Dekker	Netherlands	Rabobank
March 18	Milan-Sanremo	Italy	Filippo Pozzato	Italy	Quick.step
April 2	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Belgium	Tom Boonen	Belgium	Quick.step
April 3-8	Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco	Spain	José Ángel Gómez Marchante	Spain	Saunier Duval - Prodir
April 5	Gent-Wevelgem	Belgium	Thor Hushovd	Norway	Crédit Agricole
April 9	Paris-Roubaix	France	Fabian Cancellara	Switzerland	Team CSC
April 16	Amstel Gold Race	Netherlands	Fränk Schleck	Luxembourg	Team CSC
April 19	La Flèche Wallonne	Belgium	Alejandro Valverde	Spain	Illes Balears
April 23	Liège-Bastogne-Liège	Belgium
April 25-30	Tour de Romandie	Switzerland
May 6-28	Giro d'Italia	Italy
May 15-21	Volta Ciclista a Catalunya	Spain
June 4-11	Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré	France
June 10-18	Tour de Suisse	Switzerland
June 18	Eindhoven Team Time Trial	Netherlands
July 1-23	Tour de France	France
July 30	HEW Cyclassics	Germany
August 1-9	Deutschlandtour	Germany
August 12	Clásica de San Sebastián	Spain
August 16-23	Eneco Tour	Belgium  Netherlands
August 27	GP Ouest France-Plouay	France
August 28-September 19	Vuelta a España	Spain
September 4-10	Tour de Pologne	Poland
October 1	Züri Metzgete	Switzerland
October 8	Paris-Tours	France
October 14	Giro di Lombardia	Italy

March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... Paris-Nice, nicknamed the race to the sun, is an annual professional cycling stage race held annually each March. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Floyd Landis (October 14, 1975, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA) is a professional bicycle racer. ... Phonak Hearing Systems is a professional Swiss cycling team. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... Tirreno-Adriatico, the race of the two seas, is an elite cycle race following a route between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts of Italy. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Thomas Dekker (Dirkshorn, 6 September 1984) is a Dutch cyclist. ... The Rabobank team during the 2005 Rund um den Henninger Turm race. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... Milan - San Remo, nicknamed la primavera, is an annual cycling race between Milan and San Remo. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Filippo Pozzato (born September 10, 1981 and living in Sandrigo, Veneto, Italy) is an Italian road cyclist with the Belgian Quick Step-Innergetic professional cycling team. ... Quick Step-Innergetic is a Belgish UCI ProTour-Team led by team manager Patrick Lefevre. ... April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen) is a road cycling race held in Flanders, Belgium. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Tom Boonen during the 2005 Tour de France. ... Quick Step-Innergetic is a Belgish UCI ProTour-Team led by team manager Patrick Lefevre. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... The Tour of Basque Country (Spanish: Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco, Basque: Euskal Herriko txirrindulari itzulia) is an annual cycling stage race held in Basque Country in April. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... Saunier Duval-Prodir Team is a Spanish road bicycle racing team, which participate in the 2005 UCI ProTour. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... The Gent-Wevelgem is a professional cycle road race held in Belgium in early April each year. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Thor Hushovd (born January 18, 1978 in Grimstad, Norway) is a professional road bicycle racer since 2000. ... Crédit Agricole is the main sponsor of a French professional cycling team managed by Roger Legeay. ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... Begun in 1896, Paris-Roubaix, third of the ten UCI World Cup races, has become the most famous single-day bicycle road race. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Fabian Cancellara at the 2005 HEW Cyclassics Fabian Cancellara, born 18 March 1981, is a Swiss road bicycling racer. ... The team time trial in the 2004 Tour de France. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... The Amstel Gold Race is a road cycling race held (mostly) in the southern part of the province of Limburg, The Netherlands. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Fränk Schleck was born 15 April 1980 in Luxembourg. ... The team time trial in the 2004 Tour de France. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... La Flèche Wallonne is a major professional cycle road race held in April each year in Belgium. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born April 25, 1980 in Las Lumberas, Spain) is a Spanish cyclist. ... Illes Balears is professional road bicylce racing team, participating in the UCI ProTour. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Liège-Bastogne-Liège, often called La Doyenne (the oldest woman), is one of the five Monuments of the European professional road cycling calendar, and the oldest. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI ProTour. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... The Giro dItalia, also simply known as the Giro, is a long distance road bicycle race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May or early June in and around Italy. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... The Tour of Catalonia is a bicycling race held annually in Catalunia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is an annual cycling road race, run over eight stages in the Dauphiné region in France during the first half of June. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... The Tour of Switzerland (Tour de Suisse) is a ProTour bicycle race held annually in June. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... The UCI ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial is a time trial of approximately 50 kilometres for teams of six riders. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... The Tour de France (French for Tour of France), often referred to as La Grande Boucle, Le Tour or The Tour, is a long-distance road bicycle racing competition for professionals held over three weeks in July in and around France. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... Before the start of the 2004 HEW Cyclassics The HEW Cyclassics is an annual one-day pro and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... The Tour of Germany (German: Deutschlandtour or sometimes Deutschland-Rundfahrt) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Clasica San Sebastian is a bicycle race held every summer since 1981 in the Basque region of Spain. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... The Eneco Tour is a multi-stage road cycling race that is part of the UCI ProTour. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... GP Plouay is an elite cycle race held in late Summer around a circuit based on the small village of Plouay. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... The Vuelta a España bicycle race is one of the three Grand Tours of Europe and, after the Tour de France and the Giro dItalia, the third most important road cycling stage race in the world. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... The peloton in the 2004 Tour of Poland. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Poland. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Spanish road racer Juan Antonio Flecha winning the Championship of Zurich in 2004. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years). ... Paris-Tours is a French single day classic cycling race which takes place in October towards the end of the European season. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Tour of Lombardy (Italian: Giro di Lombardia) is an Italian cycling race. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ...

External links

• Official Website
• CSC Web site source of preliminary race table.