2009 UCI ProTour

The 2009 UCI ProTour was the fifth series of the UCI ProTour. Two new teams, the American Garmin–Slipstream and the Russian Team Katusha, joined the ProTour, effectively taking over the licenses of Crédit Agricole and Gerolsteiner. Two existing teams changed title sponsors: Team CSC from Denmark became Team Saxo Bank, and Saunier Duval–Scott changed name to Fuji–Servetto. As in 2008, the races organized by the three Grand Tour organizers were not part of the ProTour. Rather than a ranking based only on the ProTour, the UCI designed a World Calendar, on which the Monument events and Grand Tours were included, with a corresponding 2009 UCI World Ranking.

2009 UCI ProTour
Fifth edition of the UCI ProTour
Details
Dates20 January – 23 August
LocationAustralia and Europe
Rounds14

The first race was the 2009 Tour Down Under in January, and the series ended with the 2009 GP Ouest-France in August.

2009 UCI ProTour races

[1]

Dates Race Winner UCI World Ranking leader
20–25 January Tour Down Under  Allan Davis (AUS)
(Quick-Step)		  Allan Davis (AUS)
(Quick-Step)
5 April Tour of Flanders  Stijn Devolder (BEL)
(Quick-Step)
8 April Gent–Wevelgem  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
(Team Columbia–High Road)
6–11 April Vuelta al País Vasco  Alberto Contador (ESP)
(Astana)		  Alberto Contador (ESP)
(Astana)
19 April Amstel Gold Race  Serguei Ivanov (RUS)
(Team Katusha)		  Heinrich Haussler (GER)
(Cervélo TestTeam[2])
28 April–3 May Tour de Romandie  Roman Kreuziger (CZE)
(Liquigas)
18–24 May Volta a Catalunya  Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
(Caisse d'Epargne)		  Allan Davis (AUS)
(Quick-Step)[3]
7–14 June Dauphiné Libéré  Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
(Caisse d'Epargne)		  Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
(Caisse d'Epargne)
13–21 June Tour de Suisse  Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
(Team Saxo Bank)
1 August Clásica de San Sebastián  Carlos Barredo (ESP)
(Quick-Step)		  Alberto Contador (ESP)
(Astana)[4]
2–8 August Tour de Pologne  Alessandro Ballan (ITA)
(Lampre–NGC)
16 August Vattenfall Cyclassics  Tyler Farrar (USA)
(Garmin–Slipstream)
20–27 August / Tour of Benelux  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
(Team Columbia–High Road)
23 August GP Ouest-France  Simon Gerrans (AUS)
(Cervélo TestTeam)

Teams

[5]

Code Official Team Name Country Website
ALM Ag2r–La Mondiale  France
AST Astana  Kazakhstan
BTL Bbox Bouygues Telecom  France
COF Cofidis  France
EUS Euskaltel–Euskadi  Spain
FDJ Française des Jeux  France
FUJ Fuji–Servetto  Spain
GCE Caisse d'Epargne  Spain
GRM Garmin–Slipstream  United States
KAT Team Katusha  Russia
LAM Lampre–NGC  Italy
LIQ Liquigas  Italy
MRM Team Milram  Germany
QST Quick-Step  Belgium
RAB Rabobank  Netherlands
SAX Team Saxo Bank  Denmark
SIL Silence–Lotto  Belgium
THR Team Columbia–HTC  United States

References
  1. "2009 UCI ProTour Races". UCI. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  2. Haussler had taken the lead in the World Rankings prior to the Amstel Gold Race, in the Paris–Roubaix race which is part of the World Rankings but not the ProTour
  3. Davis did not take part in the Volta a Catalunya, but had won enough points during the concurrent Giro d'Italia to regain the overall lead in the World Rankings
  4. Contador had taken the lead in the World Rankings prior to the Clásica de San Sebatián, in the Tour de France which is part of the World Rankings but not the ProTour.
  5. "UCI ProTour: 2009 teams". UCI. 2008-11-26. Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
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