2009 UCI ProTour

2009 UCI ProTour
Fifth edition of the UCI ProTour
Details
Dates	20 January – 23 August
Location	Australia and Europe
Races	14
	← 2008 2010 →

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.

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 edit

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)	Heinrich Haussler (GER) (Cervélo TestTeam^[2])
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)	Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Caisse d'Epargne)
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)

Code	Official Team Name	Country	Website
ALM	Ag2r–La Mondiale	France	[1] Archived 2007-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
AST	Astana	Kazakhstan	[2]
BTL	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	France	[3]
COF	Cofidis	France	[4]
EUS	Euskaltel–Euskadi	Spain	[5]
FDJ	Française des Jeux	France	[6]
FUJ	Fuji–Servetto	Spain	[7] Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
GCE	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain	[8]
GRM	Garmin–Slipstream	United States	[9] Archived 2009-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
KAT	Team Katusha	Russia	[10]
LAM	Lampre–NGC	Italy	[11]
LIQ	Liquigas	Italy	[12]
MRM	Team Milram	Germany	[13]
QST	Quick-Step	Belgium	[14]
RAB	Rabobank	Netherlands	[15]
SAX	Team Saxo Bank	Denmark	[16]^{[permanent dead link]}
SIL	Silence–Lotto	Belgium	[17]
THR	Team Columbia–HTC	United States	[18] Archived 2020-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

^ "2009 UCI ProTour Races". UCI. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
^ 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
^ 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
^ 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.
^ "UCI ProTour: 2009 teams". UCI. 2008-11-26. Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.