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2006 UCI ProTour
The 2006 UCI ProTour was 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.
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.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/dec05/dec09news3 On April 7, 2006, an agreement to the dispute between the Grand Tours organisers and the Union Cycliste Internationale was reached https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225248/http://www.uciprotour.com/Modules/ENews/ENewsDetails.asp?id=MTcx&MenuId=MTY5Mw&BackLink=%2FTemplates%2FUCI%2FUCI5%2Flayout.asp%3FMenuID=MTY5Mw, guaranteeing the future of the ProTour.
2006 ProTour races
| Date | Race | Country | Winner | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 5–12 | Paris–Nice | Floyd Landis | ||
| March 8–14 | Tirreno–Adriatico | Thomas Dekker | ||
| March 18 | Milan – San Remo | Filippo Pozzato | ||
| April 2 | Tour of Flanders | Tom Boonen | ||
| April 3–8 | Vuelta al País Vasco | José Ángel Gómez Marchante | ||
| April 5 | Gent–Wevelgem | Thor Hushovd | ||
| April 9 | Paris–Roubaix | Fabian Cancellara | ||
| April 16 | Amstel Gold Race | Fränk Schleck | ||
| April 19 | La Flèche Wallonne | Alejandro Valverde | ||
| April 23 | Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Alejandro Valverde | ||
| April 25–30 | Tour de Romandie | Cadel Evans | ||
| May 6–28 | Giro d'Italia | Ivan Basso | ||
| May 15–21 | Volta a Catalunya | David Cañada | ||
| June 4–11 | Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré | Levi Leipheimer | ||
| June 10–18 | Tour de Suisse | Jan Ullrich | ||
| June 18 | Eindhoven Team Time Trial | team event | ||
| July 1–23 | Tour de France | Óscar Pereiro | ||
| July 30 | Vattenfall Cyclassics | Óscar Freire | ||
| August 1–9 | Deutschland Tour | Jens Voigt | ||
| August 12 | Clásica de San Sebastián | Xavier Florencio | ||
| August 16–23 | Eneco Tour of Benelux | |||
| Stefan Schumacher | ||||
| August 27 | GP Ouest-France | Vincenzo Nibali | ||
| August 28 – September 19 | Vuelta a España | Alexander Vinokourov | ||
| September 4–10 | Tour de Pologne | Stefan Schumacher | ||
| October 1 | Züri-Metzgete | Samuel Sánchez | ||
| October 8 | Paris–Tours | Frédéric Guesdon | ||
| October 14 | Giro di Lombardia | Paolo Bettini |
Final individual standings
| Name | Team | Points | 1 | 285 | 2 | 213 | 3 | 165 | 4 | 162 | 5 | 156 | 6 | 155 | 7 | 154 | 8 | 144 | 9 | 138 | 10 | 133 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro Valverde | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel Sánchez | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fränk Schleck | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cadel Evans | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Andrey Kashechkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alessandro Ballan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tom Boonen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paolo Bettini | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ivan Basso | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stefan Schumacher |
- A total of 209 riders were classified
- Floyd Landis had 175 points before the UCI removed his name from the standings following his removal from the Phonak team.
Final team standings
| Team | Nationality | Points | 1 | 388 | 2 | 350 | 3 | 346 | 4 | 327 | 5 | 327 | 6 | 294 | 7 | 270 | 8 | 269 | 9 | 268 | 10 | 258 | 11 | 253 | 12 | 249 | 13 | 248 | 14 | 247 | 15 | 219 | 16 | 214 | 17 | 208 | 18 | 185 | 19 | 184 | 20 | 173 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States |
Final nation standings
| Nation | Points | 1 | 808 | 2 | 651 | 3 | 475 | 4 | 340 | 5 | 316 | 6 | 292 | 7 | 286 | 8 | 271 | 8 | 269 | 10 | 234 | 11 | 190 | 12 | 165 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States |
- Riders from 29 nations scored at least one UCI ProTour point.
2006 ProTour Points System
| Tour de France | Giro d'Italia | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Vuelta a España | Milan – San Remo | ||
| Tour of Flanders | |||
| Paris–Roubaix | |||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | |||
| Giro di Lombardia | |||
| Lesser stageraces | Lesser one-day races | ||
| Overall Classification | |||
| 1 | 100 | 85 | 50 |
| 2 | 75 | 65 | 40 |
| 3 | 60 | 50 | 35 |
| 4 | 55 | 45 | 30 |
| 5 | 50 | 40 | 25 |
| 6 | 45 | 35 | 20 |
| 7 | 40 | 30 | 15 |
| 8 | 35 | 26 | 10 |
| 9 | 30 | 22 | 5 |
| 10 | 25 | 19 | 2 |
| 11 | 20 | 16 | |
| 12 | 15 | 13 | |
| 13 | 12 | 11 | |
| 14 | 10 | 9 | |
| 15 | 8 | 7 | |
| 16 | 6 | 5 | |
| 17 | 5 | 4 | |
| 18 | 4 | 3 | |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | |
| 20 | 2 | 1 | |
| Stage wins (if applicable) | |||
| 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- If a rider is not part of UCI ProTour, no points are given. The points corresponding to the place are not awarded
- Top 20 teams get points in scale 20-19-18...-1.
- Team time trial doesn't give points for riders.
- In country ranking, top 5 riders of each country count towards the ranking.
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