The UCI Road World Championships click into gear in Stuttgart on Wednesday with the elite men's road race taking place on Sunday.

The course for the race is 14 laps of the circuit totalling 267.4km and has two key demanding ascents.

The men's Under-23 Time Trial takes place on Wednesday, the same day as the women's elite time trial.

On Thursday, there is the elite men's time trial.

With a rest day on Friday, the women's elite road race takes place on Saturday morning, with the men's Under-23 race in the afternoon.

Provisional start list:

Martin Garrido Mayorga - Matias Medici - Luis Ministro Moyano - Juan José Haedo - Ariel Maximiliano Richeze - Juan Pablo Dotti (Argentina)

Bradley McGee - Cadel Evans - Ben Day - Michael Rogers - Mathew Hayman - Scott Davis - Simon Gerrans - Adam Hansen - Matthew Lloyd - Christopher Sutton - Trent Lowe - William Walker (Australia)

Gerrit Glomser - René Haselbacher - Christian Pfannberger - Bernhard Kohl - Thomas Rohregger (Austria)

Rik Verbrugghe - Mario Aerts - Jurgen Van De Walle - Björn Leukemans - Staf Scheirlinckx - Stijn Devolder - Frederik Willems - Tom Boonen - Jurgen Van Goolen - Johan Van Summeren - Sébastien Rosseler - Philippe Gilbert - Maxime Monfort - Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium)

Vasil Kiryienka - Andrei Kunitski - Alexandre Usov - Aleksandr Kuschynski - Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarus)

Luciano André Pagliarini - Renato Seabra - Murilo Antonio Fischer (Brazil)

Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bulgaria)

Svein Tuft - Andrew Randell - Michael Barry - Dominique Rollin - Cameron Evans (Canada)

Fuyu Li (China)

Victor Hugo Pena - Marlon Alirio Perez - Jose Rodolfo Serpa - Mauricio Alberto Ardila - Luis Felipe Laverde - Leonardo Duque - Alex Cano Ardila - Miguel Angel Rubiano (Colombia)

Radoslav Rogina - Hrvoje Miholjevic - Massimo Demarin - Tomislav Danculovic - Matija Kvasina - Emanuel Kiserlovski - Robert Kiserlovski - Kristijan Durasek (Croatia)

Petr Bencik - Richard Faltus - Martin Mares - Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic)

Lars Ytting Bak - Brian Vandborg - Matti Breschel - Chris Sörensen - Anders Lund (Denmark)

Erki Pütsep - Janek Tombak - Mart Ojavee - Rene Mandri (Estonia)

Benoît Vaugrenard - Stéphane Goubert - Cédric Vasseur - Stéphane Auge - Ludovic Turpin - Nicolas Vogondy - Pierrick Fedrigo - Sandy Casar - Anthony Charteau - Thomas Voeckler - Sylvain Chavanel - Amaël Moinard - Rémi Pauriol - Romain Feillu (France)

David Millar - Steven Cummings - Roger Hammond - Daniel Lloyd - Mark Cavendish (Great Britain)

Jens Voigt - Markus Fothen - Erik Zabel - Ronny Scholz - Stephan Schreck - David Kopp - Fabian Wegmann - Christian Knees - Stefan Schumacher - Marcel Sieberg - Linus Gerdemann - Marcus Burghardt - Heinrich Haussler - Gerald Ciolek (Germany)

Laszlo Bodrogi - Peter Kusztor (Hungary)

Hossein Askari - Seyed Mostafa Rezaei Khormizi - Ghader Mizbani Iranagh - Faridi Koviy Mahdi - Mahdi Sohrabi (Iran)

Nicolas Roche - Philip Deignan (Ireland)

Marzio Bruseghin - Vincenzo Nibali - Alessandro Bertolini - Davide Rebellin - Luca Mazzanti - Paolo Bettini - Matteo Tosatto - Danilo Di Luca - Andrea Tonti - Alessandro Ballan - Daniele Bennati - Filippo Pozzato - Damiano Cunego - Giovanni Visconti (Italy)

Fumiyuki Beppu - Takashi Miyazawa - Yukiya Arashiro (Japan)

Andrey Mizurov - Dmitriy Fofonov - Alexsandr Dyachenko - Serguei Yakovlev - Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan)

Raivis Belohvosciks - Olegs Melehs - Aleksejs Saramotins - Kalvis Eisaks (Latvia)

Dainius Kairelis (Lithuania)

Benoît Joachim - Christian Poos - Kim Kirchen - Frank Schleck - Laurent Didier - Andy Schleck (Luxembourg)

Joost Posthuma - Michiel Elijzen - Stef Clement - Maarten Den Bakker - Michael Boogerd - Koos Moerenhout - Karsten Kroon - Maarten Tjallingii - Bram Tankink - Laurens Ten Dam - Pieter Weening - Thomas Dekker - Sebastian Langeveld - Robert Gesink (Netherlands)

Kurt-Asle Arvesen - Gabriel Rasch - Mads Kaggestad - Thor Hushovd - Lars Petter Nordhaug (Norway)

Glen Alan Chadwick - Jeremy Venell - Hayden Roulston - Timothy Gudsell (New Zealand)

Lukasz Bodnar - Maciej Bodnar - Marcin Sapa - Sylvester Szmyd - Kristof Szczawinski - Przemyslaw Niemiec - Jacek Morajko - Tomasz Marczynski - Piotr Zielinski (Poland)

Hernani Broco - Ricardo Martins - José Rodrigues - Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa - Nuno Ribeiro - Hugo Sabido - Bruno Neves - Manuel Antonio Leal (Portugal)

David George - James Lewis Perry - Robert Hunter - Ian McLeod - Darren Lill - Daryl Impey (South Africa)

José Ivan Gutierrez - Iker Camano Ortuzar - Inigo Cuesta Lopez - Manuel Beltran Martinez - Luis Perez Rodriguez - Carlos Sastre Candil - Oscar Freire Gomez - Juan Manuel Garate - Juan Antonio Flecha - Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez - Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver - Xavier Florencio Cabre - Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spain)

Evgeni Petrov - Vladimir Karpets - Vladimir Gusev - Alexandre Botcharov - Serguei Ivanov - Denis Menchov - Vladislav Borisov - Alexei Markov - Alexandr Kolobnev - Vladimir Efimkin - Alexander Efimkin - Pavel Brutt - Alexander Khatuntsev - Sergey Kolesnikov (Russia)

Mitja Mahoric - Kristjan Fajt - Gorazd Stangelj - Tadej Valjavec - Jure Golcer - Matej Stare - Borut Bozichz - Matej Mugerli (Slovenia)

Dragan Spasic - Ivan Stevic - Der Zolt - Nebojsa Jovanovic (Serbia)

Fabian Cancellara - Beat Zberg - Martin Elmiger - Grégory Rast - Florian Stalder (Switzerland)

Matej Jurco - Jan Sipeky - Jan Valach - Martin Riska - Roman Bronis - Maros Kovac - Miroslav Keliar (Slovakia)

Magnus Backstedt - Gustav Erik Larsson - Thomas Lövkvist - Marcus Ljungqvist - Lucas Persson (Sweden)

Yaroslav Popovych - Andriy Grivko - Dmytro Grabovskyy - Mikhaylo Khalilov - Ruslan Pidgornyy - Volodymyr Bileka - Volodymyr Zagorodny - Denys Kostyuk - Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukraine)

Bobby Julich - George Hincapie - Jason McCartney - David Zabriskie - Guido Trenti - Christian Vandevelde - Danny Pate - Predrag Prokic - Tyler Farrar - John Devine (USA)

Sergey Lagutin - Muradjan Khalmuratov - Vladimir Tuychiev - Konstantin Volik - Yriy Ivoljatov (Uzbekistan)

Unai Etxebarria Arana - José Chacon - Tomas Aurelio Gil - Andris José Hernandez - Richard Ochoa Quintero (Venezuela)

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