The Elite Men's Worlds time trial is on!

World Champion Bert Grabsch (Columbia-HTC)

World Champion Bert Grabsch (Columbia-HTC) (Image credit: Sirotti)

The first Elite Men's event of this year's World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, gets underway on Thursday at 11.30am Central European time (CET). The individual time trial promises a spectacle, as the very best riders of the discipline will fight for the rainbow jersey on a demanding circuit of 16.6 kilometres, to be raced three times, for a total of 49.8 kilometres.

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Group 1
66James Weeks (St Kitts and Nevis)11:30:00
65Jarmo Rissanen (Finland)11:31:00
64Rida Cador (Hungary)11:32:00
63Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Colombia)11:33:00
62Branislau Samoilau (Belarus)11:34:00
61Cameron Wurf (Australia)11:35:00
60Gabriel Sorin Pop (Romania)11:36:00
59Jean-Christophe Peraud (France)11:37:00
58Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Portugal)11:38:00
57Matias Medici (Argentina)11:39:00
56Zoltan Madaras (Hungary)11:40:00
55Bartosz Huzarski (Poland)11:41:00
54José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spain)11:42:00
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Group 2
53Reginald Douglas (St Kitts and Nevis)12:30:00
52Eugen Wacker (Kyrgyzstan)12:31:00
51Jose Ragonessi (Ecuador)12:32:00
50Jay Robert Thomson (South Africa)12:33:00
49Gregor Gazvoda (Slovenia)12:34:00
48Pavol Polievka (Slovakia)12:35:00
47Eduard Novak (Romania)12:36:00
46Magno Prado Nazaret (Brazil)12:37:00
45David Mc Cann (Ireland)12:38:00
44Tom Zirbel (United States Of America)12:39:00
43Ervin Korts-Laur (Estonia)12:40:00
42Juan Carlos Lopez Marin (Colombia)12:41:00
41Rubens Bertogliati (Switzerland)12:42:00
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Group 3
40Erik Hoffmann (Namibia)13:30:00
39Matti Helminen (Finland)13:31:00
38Adam Hansen (Australia)13:32:00
37Jerome Coppel (France)13:33:00
36Martin Garrido Mayorga (Argentina)13:34:00
35Christopher Froome (Great Britain)13:35:00
34Fredrik Ericsson (Sweden)13:36:00
33Lars Ytting Bak (Denmark)13:37:00
32Jeremy Vennell (New Zealand)13:38:00
31Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spain)13:39:00
30Koos Moerenhout (Netherlands)13:40:00
29Maciej Bodnar (Poland)13:41:00
28Andrey Kashechkin (Kazakhstan)13:42:00
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Group 4
27Raivis Belohvosciks (Latvia)14:30:00
26Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukraine)14:31:00
25Sebastian Lang (Germany)14:32:00
24Martin Velits (Slovakia)14:33:00
23Dominique Cornu (Belgium)14:34:00
22Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)14:35:00
21Artem Ovechkin (Russian Federation)14:36:00
20Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania)14:37:00
19Tiago Machado (Portugal)14:38:00
18Alex Rasmussen (Denmark)14:39:00
17Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)14:40:00
16Marco Pinotti (Italy)14:41:00
15Aleksejs Saramotins (Latvia)14:42:00
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Group 5
14Thomas Danielson (United States Of America)15:30:00
13Mikhail Ignatiev (Russian Federation)15:31:00
12Lars Boom (Netherlands)15:32:00
11Alexandre Vinokourov (Kazakhstan)15:33:00
10Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia)15:34:00
9Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)15:35:00
8Frantisek Rabon (Czech Republic)15:36:00
7Svein Tuft (Canada)15:37:00
6Sébastien Rosseler (Belgium)15:38:00
5Tony Martin (Germany)15:39:00
4Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)15:40:00
3Gustav Larsson (Sweden)15:41:00
2Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)15:42:00
1Bert Grabsch (Germany)15:43:00