Tour de France 2009/21. stage

00000 Result of the 21st stage 00000
		Mark Cavendish (THR)	4:02:18 h
2.		Mark Renshaw (THR)	equal time
3.		Tyler Farrar (CPT)	equal time
4th		Gerald Ciolek (MRM)	equal time
5.		Jauheni Hutarowitsch (FDJ)	equal time
6th		Thor Hushovd (CTT)	equal time
7th		Jose Joaquin Rojas (MOV)	equal time
8th.		Marco Bandiera (LAM)	equal time
9.		Daniele Bennati (CAN)	equal time
10.		William Bonnet (DEN)	equal time
		Fumiyuki Beppu (TGA)
Intermediate results after the 21st stage
		Alberto Contador (AST)	85:48:35 min
2.		Andy Schleck (TNK)	+4: 11 min
3.		Lance Armstrong (AST)	+5: 24 min
		Thor Hushovd (CTT)	280 pts.
2.		Mark Cavendish (THR)	270 pts.
3.		Gerald Ciolek (MRM)	172 pts.
		Franco Pellizotti (CAN)	210 pts.
2.		Egoi Martinez (EUS)	135 pts.
3.		Alberto Contador (AST)	126 pts.
		Andy Schleck (TNK)	85:52:46 h
2.		Vincenzo Nibali (CAN)	+3: 24 min
3.		Roman Kreuziger (CAN)	+10: 05 min
		Astana	256: 02: 58 h
2.		Garmin slipstream	+22: 35 min
3.		Team Saxo Bank	+28: 34 min

The Champs-Élysées looking towards the destination

The 21st stage of the Tour de France 2009 and the last stage on July 26th led over 164 km from Montereau-Fault-Yonne (southeast of Paris at the confluence of the Yonne River into the Seine ) to Paris on the circuit of the Champs-Élysées. There the tour ended as a classic road race over two intermediate sprints near the obelisk .

On the now classic 6.5-kilometer circuit between Tuileries , Rue de Rivoli , Place de la Concorde and Place Charles de Gaulle with the triumphal arch , the field of drivers crossed the finish line eight times before the sprint actually ended the tour on the ninth finish. This year, however, there was no change in the top positions in the overall ranking due to this last stage.

At the end of the 3459 km long tour , 156 of the 180 registered drivers who had started the prologue in Monaco reached the finish. Mark Renshaw drove into the sprint of stage winner Mark Cavendish and finished second ahead of the rest of the field.

Scoring

• Intermediate sprint on the Champs-Élysées after the 2nd passage of the finish line (kilometer 120; 60  m above sea level )

First	Samuel Dumoulin	6 pts.
Second	Fumiyuki Beppu	4 pts.
Third	Carlos Barredo	2 pts.

• 2nd intermediate sprint on the Champs-Élysées after the 4th passage of the finish line (kilometer 133)

First	Carlos Barredo	6 pts.
Second	Fabian Wegmann	4 pts.
Third	Alexandre Pichot	2 pts.

• Target sprint on the Champs-Élysées (kilometer 164; 45  m above sea level )

First	Mark Cavendish	35 pts.
Second	Mark Renshaw	30 pts.
Third	Tyler Farrar	26 pts.
Fourth	Gerald Ciolek	24 pts.
fifth	Jauheni Hutarowitsch	22 pts.
Sixth	Thor Hushovd	20 pts.
seventh	José Joaquín Rojas Gil	19 pts.
Eighth	Marco Bandiera	18 pts.
Ninth	Daniele Bennati	17 pts.
Tenth	William Bonnet	16 pts.
11.	Lloyd Mondory	15 pts.
12.	Geoffroy Lequatre	14 pts.
13.	Nikolai Trusov	13 pts.
14th	Cyril Lemoine	12 pts.
15th	Leonardo Duque	11 pts.
16.	Sebastian Lang	10 pts.
17th	Matteo Tosatto	9 pts.
18th	Steven de Jongh	8 pts.
19th	Fabian Cancellara	7 pts.
20th	Yukiya Arashiro	6 pts.
21st	Said Haddou	5 pts.
22nd	Sébastien Rosseler	4 pts.
23.	Fabio Sabatini	3 pts.
24.	Filippo Pozzato	2 pts.
25th	Stuart O'Grady	1 point

Web links

• Stage 21: Montereau-Fault-Yonne – Paris Champs-Élysées