Floyd Landis (born October 14 1975) is an American cyclist. He is a time-trial specialist as well as a strong climber. Landis turned professional in 1999 with the Mercury Cycling Team. He joined the US Postal Service team in 2002, and moved to the Phonak Hearing Systems team in 2005. Landis was fired from the Phonak team on August 5, 2006, after testing revealed an abnormally high testosterone/epitestosterone ratio.

Thor Hushovd is a professional road bicycle racer, presently rider for the Crédit Agricole Professional team. Hushovd is renowned for his Sprinting and Time Trialing prowess. He is a former Norwegian National Time Trial Champion and was the first Norwegian to wear the coveted yellow jersey. Before turning a professional in 1998, Hushovd won the U23 Time-Trial World Championship and the U23-versions of the two bicycle classics Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours.

Alejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish cyclist. At age 27, he is thought to be one of the most talented cyclists of his generation. Valverde is an exciting prospect since he is unusual in the way in which he combines all the areas of cycling: Valverde is an excellent climber and more than respectable time trial rider, thus making him a threat for the general classification for the Grand Tours (Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España).

Denis Nikolayevich Menchov is a professional Russian road bicycle racer. Menchov is a good climber and a man for the General Classification. Menchov started his professional career in 2000, when he signed for the Banesto team of José Miguel Echevarri. His first success came in 2001, when he won the Tour de l'Avenir, a stage race for professional youth riders. The year after he won a stage and the King of the Mountains in the Dauphiné Liberé.

Sylvain Chavanel is a French professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Châtellerault and currently resides there. His brother Sebastien Chavanel is also a cyclist. He started his professional career in 2000 with Jean-René Bernaudeau's team "Bonjour", which then became "Brioches La Boulangère" in 2003. He is currently with Cofidis.

Fabian Cancellara (born March 18, 1981) is a Swiss Italian professional road bicycle racer. A time trial specialist, he is the current World Time Trial Champion. In 2006 he also became the only second Swiss winner of the Classic one-day race Paris-Roubaix, following Heiri Suter in 1923.

Marco Pinotti is an Italian professional cyclist. He was born on February 25, 1976 in Osio Sotto (Bergamo province, Italy). As an amateur he won 28 races and he turned professional in 1999 with the Lampre-Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvosciks and he won the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne. In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe.

Andreas Klöden is a professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Astana. His professional career began in 1998, two years after gaining the bronze medal in the U/23 World Time Trial Championships and winning two stages at the International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt in 1997. Fans claim that Klöden is born to be a cyclist, as he is a tall, lightly built racer with enough strength to place high in the overall classifications of major tours.

Vladimir Karpets (born September 20, 1980 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian road bicycle racer currently riding for UCI ProTeam Caisse d'Epargne, most notable for winning the white jersey for best young rider in the 2004 Tour de France. Karpets is a two-time Olympian. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Karpets competed in the men's team pursuit and men's individual pursuit track cycling events. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's road race.

Nathan O'Neill (born 23 November 1974 in Sydney) is a professional cyclist. On March 21, 2006 he won the Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, for the Time Trial finishing at 48.37.29 (hour-minute-second).

Luke Roberts (born 25 January, 1977) is an Australian cyclist specialising in both track cycling and road bicycle racing. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he resides both in Adelaide and in Cologne, Germany. Coming from a cycle racing family, he started competitive cycling at the age of 13, and turned professional in 2002. He was a member of the Comnet Senges team (2002-2004), and of Team CSC from 2005.

Edgar Laurence ("Dunc") Gray (July 17, 1906 - 30 August, 1996) was a track cyclist from Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia who won Australia's first Olympic Games medal in cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam: a bronze medal for the 1000m Time Trial. Four years later at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won Australia's first cycling gold medal in the same event in World and Olympic record time (1.13).

Patrick Lefevere (born January 6, 1955 in Moorslede) is a Belgian cycling team manager of the Quick Step-Innergetic cycling team. A former professional himself (1976-1979), he is from Flanders and has been involved with professional road bicycle racing for many years. He was a sporting director of the immensely successful Mapei of the 1990s, and he started the Domo-Farm Frites team of the early 2000s.

Jurgen Van Den Broeck (born February 1, 1983 in Morkhoven) is a professional Belgian cyclist from Flanders. He specializes in the time trial, having been Junior (U23) World Champion in time trialing. He has also shown promise in minor stage races such as the Tour de Romandie and Eneco Tour. He is signed to ride for Davitamon-Lotto in 2007.

Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm

Fränk Schleck is a professional road bicycle racer from Luxembourg currently riding for Team CSC. Before the 2005 season, Fränk Schleck got the company of his kid brother Andy Schleck on Team CSC, and they split the 2005 national championships between them, Fränk winning the road race, and Andy taking the time trial. Their father Johnny Schleck was also a road bicycle racer, professional between 1965 and 1974.

Amy Gillett (January 9, 1976 - July 18, 2005) was an Australian track cyclist and rower who represented Australia in both sports before her death in a training accident when a motorist crashed into the Australian squad of cyclists she was training with. She was born Amy Safe in Adelaide and was a world champion junior rower winning a gold medal in the coxless pairs in the Junior World Championships in 1993 and the women's single scull in 1994.

Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980 in Silkeborg) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer. He became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would win his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to Team CSC in 2005. Here, Lars Bak won the Danish Road Racing Championship, …

Arnie Baker (born August 6, 1953 in Montreal, Canada) is a bicycle coach, racer, and writer. He has coached road and mountain bike racers to several Olympic Games, more than 120 U.S. National Championships and 40 U.S. records. He is the National Cycling Coach for Team in Training, a program of more than 800 coaches and 30,000 participants that raises more than $80 million yearly for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Dominique Cornu (Beveren; born October 10, 1985) is a Belgian road and track cyclist from Flanders who specializes in the time trial. At the 2006 World Cycling Championship he was crowned U23 Time Trial World Champion. He had previously won the Junior Belgian Time Trial Championship in 2003 and 2004, and in 2005 he became the Belgian U23 time trial Champion.

Joane Somarriba Arrola (born on August 11, 1972 in Gernika, Vizcaya) is a former Spanish cyclist. She won the Grande Boucle, at the time the most prestigious stage race for women, in 2000, 2001 and 2003. She also achieved a time trial victory at the 2003 World Championships in Hamilton, Canada. Additionally, she was a time trial silver medallist at the 2005 World Championships in Madrid and took a road race bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships in Zolder/Hasselt, …

Andrea Peron (born August 14, 1971 in Varese, Italy) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Peron turned professional in 1993, riding for team Gatorade. He is a strong time trialist, with good results in the Italian championships, as well as a 5th place at the 1996 World Time-Trial Championships. Since 2002, he has been riding as an experienced domestique on Team CSC. Before the 2004 Tour de France, rumours surfaced in the French newspaper Le Monde that Peron, …

Melchor Mauri Prat is a Spanish (Catalan) professional cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1991. He has also won numerous other small stage races, mainly due to his abilities as a time triallist, and is a former World silver medallist in this disciplin.

Percy Thornley Stallard (1909? - 11 August 2001) was an English racing cyclist who pioneered massed-start road racing on British roads in the 1940s. Born in Wolverhampton, at his father's bicycle shop in Broad Street, Stallard became a member of the Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club and became a keen competitor in cycle races, competing for Great Britain in international races during the 1930s, including three consecutive world championships (1933-1935), …

Zulfiya Zabirova (born: December 19, 1973) is a Russian professional cycle racer who won the Gold medal in the time trial event in the 1996 Olympics and later, in 2002, won the World Time Trial Championship.

Anne-Caroline Chausson (born October 8, 1977 in Dijon, France) is a French downhill time trial and cross-country mass start, dual, and four-cross mountain bicycle racer, best known for having won fifteen Union Cycliste Internationale senior world championship "rainbow jerseys", fourteen continental championships, and seven Mountain Bike World Cup season-ending championships, and, in part in view of which, …

Sid Patterson was a world champion amateur and professional track cyclist from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. While a teenager, Patterson won every Victorian and Australian title between the distances of 1,000 metres and ten miles (16.1 km). He represented Australia in cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In 1949 he won every Australian track championship in the sprint, time trial, 1 mile, and 5 mile (8.05 km) events.

Giancarlo Ferretti (16 October 1941 -) is the former manager of the now-disbanded Italian professional road bicycle racing team Fassa Bortolo team, sponsored by the Italian cement company of the same name. Fassa Bortolo was a top-ranked team until the 2005 season, during which it was part of the UCI ProTour. Among its former riders, it counted classics specialist Michele Bartoli, super-sprinter Alessandro Petacchi, stage racer Ivan Basso, Juan Antonio Flecha, …

José Ángel Gómez Marchante is a Spanish road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Saunier Duval-Prodir. His career highlight to date is his win in 2006 Vuelta al País Vasco, in which he took victory in the time trial on the final stage to clinch the general classification. In 2004, while riding for the Costa de Almería-Paternina team, he finished eighth on the general classification in the Vuelta a España.

Jack Lauterwasser (born 4 June 1904 - died 2 February 2003) was an English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, who won a silver medal as part of the British team competing in the individual road race event at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Lauterwasser joined his local Finsbury Park cycling club and won his first 25-mile time trial before his 14th birthday. However, he moved on to specialise in longer distance time trials, including 12-hour events.

Alfred 'Alf' Robert Engers (born about 1940) was an English racing cyclist who set national records and won national championships in the individual time trial discipline from 1959 to the late 1970s. He established a new British 25 mile record of 49 minutes and 24 seconds in 1978, averaging 30.364 mph (or 49.190 km/h). He was the first rider to beat the 50 minute barrier and thus the first rider to average a speed of over 30mph.

Leonard Harvey Nitz (born September 30, 1956 in Hamilton, Ohio) is a retired track cyclist from the United States. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's 4.000m team pursuit and the bronze in the 4.000m individual pursuit. Nitz was among the top US cyclists for longer than anybody since the early part of the century.

František Raboň is a Czech road racingcyclist. Raboň turned pro in 2006 with German outfit T-Mobile Team, after having been European road champion the previous season and 3 times Czech Under 23 time trial and one time road race champion. He was the first rider to ride in the 2006 Giro d'Italia.

Marinus ("René") Augustinus Josephus Pijnen was a Dutch cyclist. He became Olympic champion of the Team 100k Time Trial in the 1968 Summer Olympics along with Joop Zoetemelk, Fedor den Hertog and Jan Krekels.

Eileen Sheridan, née Shaw was an English cyclist specialising in time trialling and road record breaking. She was arguably cycling's first woman superstar, dominating the scene until Beryl Burton came along. She began racing in the late 30s, riding for Coventry CC. She won the national time trial championship at 25 miles in 1945 and then took a break to start a family.

Willard Cable Prentiss (10 December 1897 - 6 October 1959) was an American racecar driver. He was born in Denver, Colorado. As well as two appearances in the Indianapolis 500, Prentiss competed in various races across the United States in the 1920s, including races at Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Sterling, Illinois. In 1927, Prentiss competed in the "Annual Fall Auto Races" at Oakley, Kansas. A win in the ten mile race was followed up by second place in the 25 mile race, …