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Cycling race
The 2009
Tour de Romandie (63rd Edition) cycling road race started on 28 April and finished on 3 May in Switzerland. It was the 6th event in the
2009 UCI ProTour , and the 12th event in the
World Calendar .
In addition to the 18 ProTour teams, guaranteed entry to the event as it is promoted by the UCI, two wildcard entries were accepted:
Cervélo TestTeam and
BMC Racing Team , both of which have strong Swiss links.
Andreas Klöden did not defend the title he won the previous year, but the two previous winners of the event,
Thomas Dekker and
Cadel Evans took part, as teammates on the
Silence–Lotto team. Other pre-race favourites included four of the top five in 2008 (
Roman Kreuziger (
Liquigas ),
Marco Pinotti (
Team Columbia–High Road ),
Dennis Menchov (
Rabobank ) and
Mikel Astarloza (
Euskaltel–Euskadi )) and 2008 ProTour champion
Alejandro Valverde (
Caisse d'Epargne ).
Roman Kreuziger won the 4th stage, and in doing so put himself into a lead that he retained on the last day, thus going one better than his second place overall in 2008.
Stages
Prologue – 28 April 2009:
Lausanne , (
ITT )
Prologue Results
General Classification after Prologue
Stage won by
Ricardo Serrano before
Lars Bak and
Grégory Rast .
The stage was shortened due to snowfalls, from a scheduled 176.2 km to 87.6 km.
Stage 1 Results
General Classification after Stage 1
Stage 2 Results
General Classification after Stage 2
Stage 3 Results
General Classification after Stage 3
Stage 4 Results
General Classification after Stage 4
Stage 5 Results
General Classification after Stage 5
Final standings
General classification
Sprints classification
Mountain classification
Youth classification
Jersey progress
References
External links