The 2007 edition of the UCI Road World Championships Time Trial took place on September 27. The Championships was hosted by the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 city of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, and featured two laps of an urban circuit, amounting to 44.9 kilometres of racing against the clock.

This time trial

Individual time trial

An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

 was shorter than that of the 2006 edition

TT World Championships 2006

The Men's Individual Time Trial at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships took place on September 21, 2006, in the Austrian city of Salzburg. The race was part of the UCI Road World Championships...

 in Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

, which was won by Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 Fabian Cancellara

Fabian Cancellara

Fabian Cancellara is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . A time trial specialist, he is a four-time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist...

. Cancellara, nicknamed Mr. Chrono just like Chris Boardman

Chris Boardman

Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...

, repeated his 2006 success in the World Championships Time Trial by going 52 seconds faster than Hungarian László Bodrogi

László Bodrogi

László Bodrogi is a professional road bicycle racer from Hungary riding for , specializing in the individual time trial.- Biography :László was born in 1976 in Budapest, Hungary...

. The 26 year-old who scored his first gold medal in Salzburg blasted through all the intermediate time checks in top spot, and closed out the 44.9-kilometre parcours in Stuttgart with a time of 55'41". Dutchman Stef Clement

Stef Clement

Stef Clement is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank. He specializes in the time trial, in which discipline he is the reigning Dutch national champion. He also won the bronze medal at the Time Trial of the 2007 UCI Road World Championships.- Palmarès :20032005...

 rounded out the podium at almost one minute back from Cancellara.

His storming ride over the dampened roads from the morning ended shortly after 16:00. The Swiss caught his two-minute man, American David Zabriskie

David Zabriskie

David Zabriskie is a professional road bicycle racer from the United States who rides for . His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races and winning the US National Time Trial Championship six times...

, charged up the Am Kochenhof and then pumped his right fist in the air after crossing the finish line.

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Time
		00:55.41,35
		+ 0.52,1
		+ 0.57,8
4.		+ 1.12,2
5.		+ 1.17,5
6.		+ 1.47,0
7.		+ 1.56,2
8.		+ 2.02,7
9.		+ 2.03,5
10.		+ 2.10,8
11.		+ 2.11,0
12.		+ 2.13,9
13.		+ 2.19,8
14.		+ 2.20,1
15.		+ 2.30,5
16.		+ 2.32,0
17.		+ 2.38,0
18.		+ 2.40,1
19.		+ 2.42,1
20.		+ 2.43,0
21.		+ .48,4
22.		+ 2.57,8
23.		+ 3.03,2
24.		+ 3.07,9
25.		+ 3.21,4
26.		+ 3.22,8
27.		+ 3.26,2
28.		+ 3.39,3
29.		+ 3.45,9
30.		+ 3.46,0
31.		+ 3.48,9
32.		+ 3.49,5
33.		+ 3.50,1
34.		+ 4.00,3
35.		+ 4.00,8
36.		+ 4.04,3
37.		+ 4.09,6
38.		+ 4.10,9
39.		+ 4.12,9
40.		+ 4.30,7
41.		+ 4.32,8
42.		+ 4.42,0
43.		+ 4.48,9
44.		+ 4.52,7
45.		+ 5.05,9
46.		+ 5.07,6
47.		+ 5.09,5
48.		+ 5.10,0
49.		+ 5.11,5
50.		+ 5.15,5
51.		+ 5.17,0
52.		+ 5.24,0
53.		+ 5.25,2
54.		+ 5.26,2
55.		+ 5.42,9
56.		+ 5.43,2
57.		+ 5.52,0
58.		+ 6.01,5
59.		+ 6.31,0
60.		+ 6.37,5
61.		+ 6.38,4
62.		+ 6.39,2
63.		+ 7.16,4
64.		+ 7.22,1
65.		+ 7.29,1
66.		+ 8.35,2
67.		+ 9.13,5
68.		+ 9.22,4
69.		+ 9.46,6