Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2009

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Final score
First SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde 26:33:15 h
Second AustraliaAustralia Cadel Evans + 0:16 min
Third SpainSpain Alberto Contador + 1:18 min
Fourth NetherlandsNetherlands Robert Gesink + 2:41 min
fifth SpainSpain Mikel Astarloza + 3:40 min
Sixth DenmarkDenmark Jakob Fuglsang + 4:08 min
seventh ItalyItaly Vincenzo Nibali + 4:21 min
Eighth SpainSpain Haimar Zubeldia + 5:05 min
Ninth United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Millar + 5:28 min
Tenth FranceFrance Christophe Le Mével + 6:19 min
Scoring AustraliaAustralia Cadel Evans 97
Second SpainSpain Alberto Contador 66
Third SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde 59
Mountain scoring FranceFrance Pierrick Fédrigo 111
Second FranceFrance David Moncoutié 88
Third SpainSpain Juan Manuel Gárate 71
Team evaluation LuxembourgLuxembourg Team Astana 79:58:20 h
Second NetherlandsNetherlands Rabobank + 4:41 min
Third FranceFrance ag2r La Mondiale + 5:56 min

The 61st Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was a cycling stage race that took place from June 7th to 14th, 2009. It was held in six stages and two individual time trials and was part of the UCI ProTour 2009 .

Field of participants

Participating teams
UCI ProTeams
BelgiumBelgium Quick Step
BelgiumBelgium Silence lotto
DenmarkDenmark Team Saxo Bank
GermanyGermany Team Milram
FranceFrance ag2r La Mondiale
FranceFrance Bbox Bouygues Telecom
FranceFrance Cofidis
FranceFrance Française des Jeux
ItalyItaly Lampre-NGC
ItalyItaly Liquigas
LuxembourgLuxembourg Astana
NetherlandsNetherlands Rabobank
RussiaRussia Katyusha
SpainSpain Caisse d'Epargne
SpainSpain Euskaltel-Euskadi
SpainSpain Fuji Servetto
United StatesUnited States Team Columbia Highroad
United StatesUnited States Garmin slipstream
Professional Continental Teams
SwitzerlandSwitzerland BMC Racing Team

All 18 UCI ProTeams and the UCI Professional Continental Team BMC Racing Team take part.

Stages

Overview

stage Day begin target km Stage winner Leader's jersey Leader
1st stage ( EZF ) 0June 7th Nancy Nancy 012 AustraliaAustralia Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia Cadel Evans
2nd stage 08th June Nancy Dijon 228 ItalyItaly Angelo Furlan AustraliaAustralia Cadel Evans
3rd stage 0June 9th Tournus Saint-Etienne 182 NetherlandsNetherlands Niki Terpstra NetherlandsNetherlands Niki Terpstra
4th stage ( EZF ) June 10th Bourg-lès-Valence Valence 042 GermanyGermany Bert Grabsch AustraliaAustralia Cadel Evans
5th stage June 11th Valence Mont Ventoux 154 PolandPoland Sylwester Szmyd SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde
6th stage June 12 Gap Briançon 106 FranceFrance Pierrick Fédrigo SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde
7th stage June 13th Briançon Saint-François-Longchamp 157 FranceFrance David Moncoutié SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde
8th stage 14th June Faverges Grenoble 146 NetherlandsNetherlands Stef Clement SpainSpain Alejandro Valverde

1st stage: Nancy

Result 1st stage
driver nation team time
1. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL 15:36 min
2. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 0:08 min
3. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE + 0:23 min
4th Sébastien Rosseler BelgiumBelgium QSI + 0:33 min
5. Vincenzo Nibali ItalyItaly LIQ + 0:34 min

2nd stage: Nancy – Dijon

Result 2nd stage
driver nation team time
1. Angelo Furlan ItalyItaly LAM 5:35:04 h
2. Markus Zberg SwitzerlandSwitzerland BMC same time
3. Tom Boonen BelgiumBelgium QSI same time
4th Marco Bandiera ItalyItaly LAM same time
5. Marcel Sieberg GermanyGermany THR same time
Overall ranking after the 2nd stage
driver nation team time
1. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL 5:50:40 h
2. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 0:08 min
3. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE + 0:23 min
4th Sébastien Rosseler BelgiumBelgium QSI + 0:33 min
5. Vincenzo Nibali ItalyItaly LIQ + 0:34 min

3rd stage: Tournus – Saint-Étienne

Result 3rd stage
driver nation team time
1. Niki Terpstra NetherlandsNetherlands MRM 4:32:34 h
2. Ludovic Turpin FranceFrance ALM same time
3. Yuri Trofimov RussiaRussia BBO same time
4th Rémi Pauriol FranceFrance COF same time
5. Iñigo Landaluze SpainSpain EUS same time
Overall ranking after the 3rd stage
driver nation team time
1. Niki Terpstra NetherlandsNetherlands MRM 10:23:45 h
2. Rémi Pauriol FranceFrance COF + 0:26 min
3. Yuri Trofimov RussiaRussia BBO + 0:27 min
4th Ludovic Turpin FranceFrance ALM + 0:36 min
5. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL + 1:01 min

4th stage: Bourg-lès-Valence – Valence

Result 4th stage
driver nation team time
1. Bert Grabsch GermanyGermany THR 51:26 min
2. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL + 0:07 min
3. David Millar United KingdomUnited Kingdom GRM + 0:39 min
4th František Raboň Czech RepublicCzech Republic THR + 0:40 min
5. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 0:44 min
Overall ranking after the 4th stage
driver nation team time
1. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL 11:16:19 h
2. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 0:45 min
3. Bert Grabsch GermanyGermany THR + 0:48 min
4th František Raboň Czech RepublicCzech Republic THR + 1:07 min
5. David Millar United KingdomUnited Kingdom GRM + 1:09 min

5th stage: Valence – Mont Ventoux

Result 5th stage
driver nation team time
1. Sylwester Szmyd PolandPoland LIQ 4:05:04 h
2. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE same time
3. Haimar Zubeldia SpainSpain AST + 1:14 min
4th Robert Gesink NetherlandsNetherlands RAB + 1:50 min
5. Jakob Fuglsang DenmarkDenmark SAX + 1:59 min
Overall ranking after the 5th stage
driver nation team time
1. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE 15:23:17 h
2. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL + 0:16 min
3. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 1:04 min
4th David Millar United KingdomUnited Kingdom GRM + 1:43 min
5. Haimar Zubeldia SpainSpain AST + 2:21 min

6th stage: Gap – Briançon

Result 6th stage
driver nation team time
1. Pierrick Fédrigo FranceFrance BBO 2:48:17 h
2. Jurgen Van De Walle BelgiumBelgium QSI + 0:04 min
3. Stéphane Goubert FranceFrance ALM + 0:05 min
4th Juan Manuel Gárate SpainSpain RAB + 0:14 min
5. Lars Bak DenmarkDenmark SAX + 0:25 min
Overall ranking after the 6th stage
driver nation team time
1. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE 18:15:46 h
2. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL + 0:16 min
3. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 1:04 min
4th Mikel Astarloza SpainSpain EUS + 1:49 min
5. David Millar United KingdomUnited Kingdom GRM + 1:52 min

7th stage: Briançon – Saint-François-Longchamp

Result 7th stage
driver nation team time
1. David Moncoutié FranceFrance COF 4:44:26 h
2. Robert Gesink NetherlandsNetherlands RAB + 0:41 min
3. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL same time
4th Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE same time
5. Jakob Fuglsang DenmarkDenmark SAX + 0:53 min
Overall ranking after the 7th stage
driver nation team time
1. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE 23:00:53 h
2. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL + 0:16 min
3. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 1:18 min
4th Robert Gesink NetherlandsNetherlands RAB + 2:41 min
5. Mikel Astarloza SpainSpain EUS + 3:40 min

8th stage: Faverges – Grenoble

Result 8th stage
driver nation team time
1. Stef Clement NetherlandsNetherlands RAB 3:30:17 h
2. Timothy Duggan United StatesUnited States GRM same time
3. Sébastien Joly FranceFrance FDJ + 0:02 min
4th Adam Hansen AustraliaAustralia THR + 1:31 min
5. Alyaksandr Kuschynski Belarus 1995Belarus LIQ same time
Final result after the 8th stage
driver nation team time
1. Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain GCE 26:33:15 h
2. Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia SIL + 0:16 min
3. Alberto Contador SpainSpain AST + 1:18 min
4th Robert Gesink NetherlandsNetherlands RAB + 2:41 min
5. Mikel Astarloza SpainSpain EUS + 3:40 min

Ratings in the course of the race

The table shows the leader in the respective classification after the respective stage.

stage Overall rating Sprint scoring Mountain scoring Team evaluation
1st stage Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Silence lotto
2nd stage Alexandre Pichot
3rd stage Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra Rémi Pauriol Team Milram
4th stage Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Team Columbia
5th stage Alejandro Valverde Sylwester Szmyd Team Astana
6th stage Pierrick Fédrigo
7th stage
8th stage Alejandro Valverde Cadel Evans Pierrick Fédrigo Team Astana

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