| 2009 UCI World Ranking, race 17 of 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Route of the 2009 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 4–26 July 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,459.5 km (2,150 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 85h 48' 35" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco. The race visited six countries: Monaco, France, Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy, and finished on 26 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
The total length was 3,445 kilometres (2,141 mi), including 93 kilometres (58 mi) in time-trials. There were seven mountain stages, three of which had mountaintop finishes, and one medium-mountain stage.[3] The race had a team time trial for the first time since 2005, the shortest distance in individual time trials since 1967, and the first penultimate-day mountain stage in the Tour's history.
2007 winner Alberto Contador won the race by a margin of 4′11″, having won both a mountain and time trial stage. His Astana team also took the team classification.[4] and supplied the initial third-place finisher, Lance Armstrong. Armstrong's achievement was later voided by the UCI in October 2012 following his non-dispute of a doping accusation by USADA, and fourth place Bradley Wiggins was promoted to the podium.[5][6] Andy Schleck, second overall, won the young riders' competition as he had the previous year. Franco Pellizotti originally won the polka dot jersey as the King of the Mountains, but had that result (along with all his 2009 results) stripped by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2011 due to his irregular values in the UCI's biological passport program detected in May 2010.[1] and the King of the Mountains title was retroactively awarded to Egoi Martínez.[2] Mark Cavendish won six stages, including the final stage on the Champs-Élysées, but was beaten in the points classification by Thor Hushovd, who consequently won the green jersey.[7]
- ^ a b "The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) imposes a two-year ban on the Italian cyclists Pietro Caucchioli and Franco Pellizotti" (PDF) (Press release). Lausanne: Court of Arbitration for Sport. 8 March 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Results – Tour de France 2009 – Mountain Classification".
- ^ "The Tour 2009". LeTour.fr. Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
- ^ "Contador seals 2009 Tour victory". BBC Sport. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
- ^ "Wiggins 3e en 2009" (in French). L'Equipe. Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ^ "Wiggins handed 3rd place on 2009 Tour". Wide World of Sports. Archived from the original on 10 May 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ^ "How the 2009 Tour was won". BBC Sport. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
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