Paris – Nice 2010

Final result after the 8th stage
winner	Alberto Contador	18:35:35 h
Second	Alejandro Valverde	+ 0:11 min
Third	Luis León Sánchez	+ 0:25 min
Fourth	Roman Kreuziger	+ 0:26 min
fifth	Samuel Sánchez	+ 0:30 min
Sixth	Jens Voigt	+ 0:35 min
seventh	Joaquim Rodríguez	+ 0:37 min
Eighth	Purely Taaramäe	+ 1:07 min
Ninth	Jean-Christophe Péraud	+ 1:16 min
Tenth	Jérôme Coppel	+ 1:17 min
Scoring	Peter Sagan	112 P.
Second	Alejandro Valverde	105 p.
Third	Jens Voigt	104 P.
Mountain scoring	Amael Moinard	75 p.
Second	Thomas Voeckler	29 p.
Third	Alberto Contador	24 p.
Young talent evaluation	Roman Kreuziger	28:36:01 h
Second	Purely Taaramäe	+ 0:41 min
Third	Jérôme Coppel	+ 0:51 min
Team evaluation	ag2r La Mondiale	85:35:50 h
Second	Cofidis	+ 0:14 min
Third	Team RadioShack	+ min

The 68th Paris – Nice cycle race took place from March 7th to 14th, 2010. It was held in eight stages over a distance of 1,288 kilometers. It was the second race in the UCI World Calendar 2010 after the Tour Down Under .

Teams

The following teams took part in the tour:

ProTeams : ag2r La Mondiale , Astana , Caisse d'Epargne , Euskaltel-Euskadi , Française des Jeux , Garmin-Transitions , Lampre-Farnese Vini , Liquigas , Omega Pharma-Lotto , Quick Step , Rabobank , Sky , HTC-Columbia , Katjuscha , Team RadioShack , Saxo Bank

Professional Continental Teams: Bbox Bouygues , Cervélo TestTeam , Cofidis , Saur-Sojasun , Skil-Shimano , Vacansoleil

Stages

Course of the tour

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Yellow jersey
prolog	7th March	Montfort-l'Amaury	8th		Lars Boom	Lars Boom
1st stage	8th of March	Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines - Contres	201.5		Greg Henderson	Lars Boom
2nd stage	9th March	Contres - Limoges	201		William Bonnet	Lars Boom
3rd stage *	March 10th	Saint-Junien - Aurillac	208		Peter Sagan	Jens Voigt
4th stage	March 11	Maurs - Mende	173.5		Alberto Contador	Alberto Contador
5th stage	March 12th	Pernes-les-Fontaines - Aix-en-Provence	157		Peter Sagan	Alberto Contador
6th stage	March 13th	Peynier - Tourrettes-sur-Loup	220		Xavier Tondo	Alberto Contador
7th stage	the 14th of March	Nice - Nice	119		Amael Moinard	Alberto Contador

^* The 3rd stage was shortened from 208 to 155 kilometers due to snowfall and started about two hours later. As a result, the first two mountain classifications and one sprint classification were not driven.

Jerseys in the course of the race

stage	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team evaluation
prolog	Lars Boom	Lars Boom	Lars Boom	Lars Boom	Team RadioShack
1st stage					Caisse d'Epargne
2nd stage		Luis León Sánchez	Laurent lack
3rd stage	Jens Voigt	Peter Sagan		Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Doimo
4th stage	Alberto Contador			Roman Kreuziger	Caisse d'Epargne
5th stage			Amael Moinard
6th stage					Liquigas-Doimo
7th stage	Alberto Contador	Peter Sagan	Amael Moinard	Roman Kreuziger	ag2r La Mondiale

Web links

• Paris-Nice website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report of the stage on live-Radsport.ch