Critérium International 2009

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Final result after the 3rd stage
winner Jens Voigt 7:23:00 h
Second František Raboň + 0:02 min
Third Danny godfather + 0:09 min
Fourth Maxime Monfort + 0:12 min
fifth Cyril Lemoine + 0:18 min
Sixth Jérôme Coppel + 0:23 min
seventh Juan José Oroz + 0:30 min
Eighth Jean-Eudes Demaret + 0:34 min
Ninth Rinaldo Nocentini + 0:35 min
Tenth Yevgeny Petrov + 0:37 min
Scoring Jens Voigt 22 p.
Second Danny godfather 17 p.
Third Tony Martin 15 p.
Mountain scoring Jens Voigt 29 p.
Second Rémy Di Gregorio 20 p.
Third David Le Lay 12 p.
Young talent evaluation Jérôme Coppel 7:23:23 h
Second Jean-Eudes Demaret + 0:11 min
Third Nicolas Roche + 0:15 min
Team evaluation Team Saxo Bank 22:10:05 h
Second Française des Jeux + 0:16 min
Third Team Katyusha + 0:49 min

The 78th Critérium International is a cycling stage race that took place from March 28-29, 2009. It was held in a flat stage, a difficult mountain stage and a short individual time trial over a total distance of 296.8 kilometers. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour 2009 and classified there in the highest category 2.HC.

Field of participants

11 UCI ProTeams and 5 UCI Professional Continental Teams took part in the Critérium International 2009 .

UCI ProTeams
FranceFrance ag2r La Mondiale
KazakhstanKazakhstan Astana
FranceFrance Bbox Bouygues Telecom
SpainSpain Caisse d'Epargne
FranceFrance Cofidis
SpainSpain Euskaltel-Euskadi
FranceFrance Française des Jeux
United StatesUnited States Garmin slipstream
United StatesUnited States Team Columbia-HTC
RussiaRussia Katyusha
DenmarkDenmark Team Saxo Bank
UCI Professional Continental Teams
FranceFrance Agritubel
FranceFrance Besson Chaussures soy sun
United StatesUnited States BMC Racing Team
NetherlandsNetherlands Skil-Shimano
NetherlandsNetherlands Vacansoleil

Stages

stage Day Start finish km Stage winner Leader
1st stage 28th March Monthois - Charleville-Mézières 190 FranceFrance Jimmy Casper FranceFrance Jimmy Casper
2a. stage March 29 Les Mazures - Monthermé 98.5 GermanyGermany Jens Voigt GermanyGermany Jens Voigt
2 B. stage March 29 Charleville-Mézières – Charleville-Mézières 8.3 ( EZF ) GermanyGermany Tony Martin GermanyGermany Jens Voigt

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