UCI ProTour 2007

The UCI ProTour was from cycling's governing body UCI important in the years 2005-2010 organized series stage wins and one-day races of road cycling . The ProTour took place for the third time in 2007.

On the conflict between the UCI and the organizers of the three major country tours ASO (including Tour de France ), RCS-Sport (including Giro d'Italia ) and Unipublic ( Vuelta a España ):

→ Main article : "Conflicts and the end of the ProTour" in the article UCI ProTour

course

Alberto Contador was the first driver to receive the white jersey of the overall leader after his victory at Paris-Nice . It was only after the fifth ProTour event that he was replaced by his compatriot Óscar Freire , who only kept the jersey for a few days until the Australian Stuart O'Grady took the lead with his triumph at Paris-Roubaix . But he too could only defend the lead for a short time and the Italian Davide Rebellin won the white jersey with a second place in the Amstel Gold Race and extended his lead three days later by winning the Walloon Arrow . However, Danilo Di Luca , ProTour overall winner of 2005, reduced the gap to compatriot Rebellin in the next race and with the victory at the Giro d'Italia in early June he moved up to first place. Di Luca defended the white jersey without any major problems and was still in the lead over the Australian Cadel Evans , who finished second in the three-week tours after the Paris – Tours race on October 14th , the penultimate event of the ProTour season Tour de France and Vuelta a España could score. On October 18, Di Luca was stripped of all points in the ProTour overall standings after he had been banned from doping in the course of the three-month period, whereby Cadel Evans moved up to first place. In the last race of the season, the Tour of Lombardy , Evans finished sixth and was able to win the UCI ProTour 2007. Davide Rebellin from the German team Gerolsteiner crossed the finish line in fifth and came in second behind Evans in the ProTour overall standings. As in the previous year , the best German was Stefan Schumacher , who won the Amstel Gold Race in April, in 24th place overall, followed by his compatriots Jens Voigt and Erik Zabel in 25th and 26th place.

As in the previous two years, Team CSC won the team championship and was able to celebrate this success after 26 of 27 ProTour events. The German teams T-Mobile Team and Gerolsteiner, however, fell in comparison to the previous season and reached positions 13 and 14. In the national ranking, the Spaniards defended the title again from the Italians. Australia followed, who were able to improve by one place. Germany, however, slipped to sixth place.

run

date	Cycling race	winner	Result	ProTour leader
11-18 March	Paris – Nice 1	Alberto Contador	Result	Alberto Contador
14.-20. March	Tirreno – Adriatico 1	Andreas Klöden	Result	Alberto Contador
March 24th	Milan – Sanremo 1	Óscar Freire		Alberto Contador
April 8th	Tour of Flanders	Alessandro Ballan		Alberto Contador
9-14 April	Basque Country Tour	Juan José Cobo	Result	Óscar Freire
11 April	Gent – ​​Wevelgem	Marcus Burghardt		Óscar Freire
April 15th	Paris – Roubaix 1	Stuart O'Grady		Stuart O'Grady
April 22	Amstel Gold Race	Stefan Schumacher		Davide rebel
April 25	Walloon arrow 1	Davide rebel		Davide rebel
April 29	Liège – Bastogne – Liège 1	Danilo Di Luca		Davide rebel
1-6 May	Tour de Romandie	Thomas Dekker	Result	Davide rebel
May 12th - June 3rd	Giro d'Italia 1st	Danilo Di Luca	Result	Danilo Di Luca
21.-27. May	Tour of Catalonia	Vladimir Karpets	Result	Davide rebel
10-17 June	Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré	Christophe Moreau	Result	Danilo Di Luca
16.-24. June	Tour de Suisse	Vladimir Karpez	Result	Danilo Di Luca
June 24th	Team time trial Eindhoven	Team CSC		Danilo Di Luca
7-29 July	Tour de France 1st	Alberto Contador	Result	Danilo Di Luca
4th of August	Clásica San Sebastián	Leonardo Bertagnolli		Danilo Di Luca
10-18 August	Germany tour	Jens Voigt	Result	Danilo Di Luca
August 19th	Vattenfall Cyclassics	Alessandro Ballan		Danilo Di Luca
22-29 August	Eneco tour	José Iván Gutiérrez	Result	Danilo Di Luca
1st - 23rd September	Vuelta a España 1	Denis Menshov	Result	Danilo Di Luca
September 2nd	GP Ouest France-Plouay	Thomas Voeckler		Danilo Di Luca
9-15 September	Tour of Poland	Johan Vansummeren	Result	Danilo Di Luca
October 7th	Championship of Zurich	called off
October 14th	Paris – Tours 1	Alessandro Petacchi		Danilo Di Luca
the 20th of October	Lombardy Tour 1	Damiano Cunego		Cadel Evans

¹ These races are on the UCI ProTour calendar, but are held without a ProTour license, so the ProTour rules do not apply to these races.

Teams

France Bouygues Telecom Cofidis Crédit Agricole Française des Jeux ag2r Prévoyance	Spain Caisse d'Epargne Euskaltel-Euskadi Saunier Duval-Prodir	Italy Lampre-Fondital Liquigas Team Milram	Belgium Predictor Lotto Quick Step Innergetic	Germany Gerolsteiner T-Mobile team
Netherlands Rabobank	Denmark Team CSC	Switzerland Team Astana	United States Discovery Channel	Sweden Unibet.com

particularities

• The teams Astana and Unibet.com had no automatic start authorization for the following races and had to hope for invitations from the organizers: Paris – Nice, Tirreno – Adriatico, Milan-Sanremo, Paris – Roubaix, Wallonischer Pfeil, Liège – Bastogne – Liège, Giro d ' Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, Paris – Tours and Lombardy tour.
• The Spanish-Basque Euskaltel-Euskadi team exclusively employed Basque Spaniards and French as well as Latin Americans of Basque origin.
• The Saunier Duval-Prodir team had a Spanish license, but its actual headquarters were in Switzerland.
• Team Milram was named after its sponsor, a German dairy cooperative. Since it emerged from the Italian team Domina Vacanze, it had an Italian license and was also operated by an Italian operating company based in Bergamo.
• The Caisse d'Epargne team was named after its sponsor, a French savings bank. However, the team drove under a Spanish license.
• Team Astana was named after its sponsor, a consortium of Kazakh companies. However, the team drove under a Swiss license.

Final score

Status: October 20, 2007 (after Lombardy tour and the withdrawal of points from the previous leader Danilo Di Luca (242 points))

space driver Points 1. Cadel Evans 247 2. Davide rebel 197 3. Alberto Contador 191 4th Alejandro Valverde 190 5. Óscar Freire 182 6th Denis Menshov 172 7th Damiano Cunego 165 8th. Kim churches 165 9. Samuel Sánchez 159 10. Vladimir Karpez 145 11. Alessandro Ballan 135 12. Carlos Sastre 127 13. Alessandro Petacchi 120 14th Levi Leipheimer 118 15th Andy Schleck 111 16. Riccardo Riccò 111 17th Frank Schleck 101 18th Thomas Dekker 95 19th Christophe Moreau 88 20th Robbie McEwen 88 21st Tom Boonen 87 22nd Paolo Bettini 82 23. Stuart O'Grady 79 24. Stefan Schumacher 78 25th Jens Voigt 78 26th Erik Zabel 73 27. Robert Gesink 71 28. David López García 71 29 Leonardo Bertagnolli 70 30th Leif Hoste 70

space team Points 1. Team CSC 392 2. Liquigas 354 3. Caisse d'Epargne 337 4th ag2r Prévoyance 324 5. Quick Step Innergetic 310 6th Saunier Duval-Prodir 306 7th Discovery Channel 300 8th. Rabobank 300 9. Predictor Lotto 293 10. Lampre-Fondital 258 11. Euskaltel-Euskadi 227 12. Team Astana 218 13. T-Mobile team 212 14th Team Gerolsteiner 207 15th Crédit Agricole 182 16. Bouygues Telecom 178 17th Cofidis 177 18th Team Milram 148 19th Française des Jeux 137 20th Unibet.com 127

space country Points 1.  Spain 849 2.  Italy 728 3.  Australia 520 4th  Russia 437 5.  Luxembourg 377 6th  Germany 337 7th  Netherlands 293 8th.  Belgium 281 9.  United States 215 10.  France 180 11.  United Kingdom 109 12.  Slovenia 83 13.  Norway 81 14th  Ukraine 67 15th  Sweden 61 16.  Switzerland 48 17th  Denmark 35 18th  Colombia 35 19th  Czech Republic 30th 20th  Lithuania 29 21st  Belarus 18th 22nd  Kazakhstan 15th 23.  Hungary 9 24.  Brazil 9 25th  Poland 7th 26th  Portugal 7th 27.  People's Republic of China 7th 28.  Austria 3 29  Ireland 3 30th  Japan 2

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 18, 2007: UCI takes Di Luca out of ProTour classification