Vuelta a España 2009

Final result after the 21st stage
	Spain Alejandro Valverde	GCE	87:22:37 h
02.	Spain Samuel Sánchez	EUS	+ 00:55 min
03.	Australia Cadel Evans	SIL	+ 01:32 min
04th	Italy Ivan Basso	LIQ	+ 02:12 min
05.	Spain Ezequiel Mosquera	XAC	+ 04:27 min
06th	Netherlands Robert Gesink	RAB	+ 06:40 min
07th	Spain Joaquim Rodríguez	GCE	+ 09:08 min
08th.	Italy Paolo Tiralongo	LAM	+ 09:11 min
09.	Ireland Philip Deignan	CTT	+ 11:08 min
10.	Spain Juan José Cobo	FUJ	+ 11:27 min
	Germany André Greipel	THR	150 p.
2.	Spain Alejandro Valverde	GCE	111 P.
3.	Italy Daniele Bennati	LIQ	101 P.
	France David Moncoutié	COF	186 P.
2.	Spain David de la Fuente	FUJ	99 P.
3.	Spain Julián Sánchez	MCO	73 P.
	Spain Alejandro Valverde	GCE	7 p.
2.	Spain Samuel Sánchez	EUS	17 p.
3.	Spain Ezequiel Mosquera	XAC	17 p.
Team evaluation	Spain Xacobeo Galicia	XAC	261: 57: 19 h
2.	Spain Caisse d'Epargne	GCE	+ 23:43 min
3.	Luxembourg Team Astana	AST	+ 31:39 min
	Spain Serafín Martínez	XAC

The 64th Vuelta a España took place from August 29, 2009 to September 20, 2009 and was 3263.7 kilometers long. It was won by the Spanish professional cyclist Alejandro Valverde .

The three-week cycle stage race consisted of 21 stages and was started in the Netherlands . This was the second international start of the Vuelta after 1997 . The prologue was driven on the Assen motorcycle racetrack . In the third stage, the tour near Nijmegen led over 26.5 kilometers through Germany. The fourth stage led to Belgium and from there it was transferred to Spain on the first day of rest . The tour included u. a. two time trials and eight mountain stages.

Starting position

Teams

Of the 29 cycling teams that applied to take part in the race, 21 were ultimately invited. Only Katjuscha and Fuji-Servetto were missing from the UCI ProTeams . The Spanish team Fuji fought for the right to participate before the International Sports Court and was subsequently admitted.

The following 17 ProTeams took part in the Vuelta 2009:

and the following 5 Professional Continental Teams :

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Favorites

Of the top three of last year's Vuelta - Alberto Contador , Levi Leipheimer and Carlos Sastre - not a single one is at the start this year, after they all contested the Tour de France. Nevertheless, the starting field is very well filled. The announcement of the comeback of doping offender Alexander Vinokurov , who is contesting his first Grand Tour since the 2007 Tour de France , certainly caused the greatest stir . Another driver convicted of doping among the favorites is Ivan Basso , who has already contested the Giro d'Italia this year. Alejandro Valverde is tackling his first Grand Tour of the year as he is banned in Italy and also led the Tour de France 2009 through Italy. Other favorites include third in the 2007 Vuelta, Samuel Sánchez , fourth in the 2007 Vuelta and second in the 2008 Tour de France, Cadel Evans , fifth in the 2007 Vuelta and fourth in the 2008 Vuelta, Ezequiel Mosquera, and second in the 2007 Giro and 2009 Tour de France Andy Schleck . Outsider chances could include Damiano Cunego , Roman Kreuziger , Igor Antón or Robert Gesink .

Placement of the favorites in the last three Grand Tours
driver	team	Vuelta 08	Giro 09	Tour 09
Luxembourg A. Schleck	SAX	DNS	DNS	2.
Spain Mosquera	XAC	4th	DNS	DNS
Italy Basso	LIQ	DNS	5.	DNS
Spain Valverde	GCE	5.	DNS	DNS
Netherlands Sink	RAB	7th	DNS	DNF
Czech Republic Crucifer	LIQ	DNS	DNS	9.
Italy Cunego	LAM	DNF	19th	DNS
Australia Evans	SIL	DNS	DNS	30th
Spain Antón	EUS	DNF	DNS	66.
Spain Sánchez	EUS	DNS	DNS	DNS
Kazakhstan Vinokurov	AST	DNS	DNS	DNS

Race course

As in this year's Tour de France, Fabian Cancellara won the first stage and was the first to wear the golden jersey. Since the following two stages were both decided in a mass sprint, the Swiss could defend his jersey.

During the fourth stage, there were repeated small falls due to rain and shortly before the end of the stage there was a mass fall at the head of the field, in which two riders (Kišerlovski, Horner) broke bones and had to end the tour as a result. Earlier on this stage, the Dane Jakob Fuglsang had collided with a tanker truck parked on the roadside and sustained serious injuries to his left shin, which had to be sewn later, but he was able to continue the race. Seven riders - all of them members of the Columbia and Quick Step teams - benefited from the mass crash, with the German André Greipel ultimately winning the sprint. However, since the fall happened shortly after the 3 km limit, those who had fallen were counted with the time of the stage winner and so Cancellara, who was also involved in the fall, retained the overall lead on the first day of rest.

The first stage on Spanish soil was again a thing for the sprinters. Despite stronger competition than on the previous stage, André Greipel remained victorious and took over the overall lead of Cancellara thanks to the 20 second time bonus that he received for the stage victory.

After another sprint decision on the 6th stage, Greipel retained the lead before the second individual time trial of this tour followed with the 7th stage. This was dominated by the Swiss Fabian Cancellara with over half a minute ahead of the runner-up David Millar and celebrated his second stage victory after the first stage. With this victory he also took the lead in the overall standings from Greipel, who lost over two minutes, and was now leading with over fifty seconds ahead of Tom Boonen and David Herrero .

The 8th stage was the first real mountain stage, so it was unlikely that the time trial specialist Cancellara would defend the golden jersey and major changes in the overall standings were also expected. A breakaway group soon formed, which also included last year's winner of the Vuelta mountain classification, David Moncoutié . This group had a lead of more than twelve minutes at times and a few kilometers from the finish Moncoutie, who had gradually left all his competitors behind, already looked like the sure winner before he was surprisingly overtaken by Damiano Cunego . He had pulled out of a chasing group with Alejandro Valverde , Cadel Evans and Ivan Basso and finally won the stage well ahead of Moncoutie. Australian Evans took over the overall leader's gold jersey two seconds ahead of Valverde and eight seconds ahead of Samuel Sánchez . One of the favorites for overall victory, Andy Schleck , had to end the race early during this stage due to stomach cramps that had persisted since the day before .

On the 9th stage there was the first Spanish stage victory of this Vuelta by Gustavo César Veloso . He was the strongest of a breakaway group on the mountain finish and brought a 40-second lead over the favorites to the finish. Behind Marco Marzano , Valverde secured third place by overtaking his compatriot David de la Fuente shortly before the finish and thus taking over the overall lead from Cadel Evans, who had crossed the finish line just one second after him, with the help of the 8 second time bonus.

The 10th stage was also decided by a breakaway group. Of the 19 drivers, four remained in the end, this group included co-favorite Alexander Vinokurow , who at this point was already 18 minutes behind in the overall standings. In the sprint, the Australian Simon Gerrans prevailed and thus moved up into the select group of riders who could win a stage on each of the three Grand Tours. There were no changes at the top of the overall standings after this stage.

The breakaway group was caught up early on the 11th stage, and Rémy Di Gregorio's subsequent breakaway attempt was also unsuccessful and so the stage was decided in the mass sprint. This was won by the American Tyler Farrar , who celebrated his first stage win on a Grand Tour before he left the Vuelta voluntarily the next day. There were again no changes in the overall ranking.

Stage 12 was the first of three difficult mountain stages after the second day of rest. Here Ryder Hesjedal was the first Canadian to win a stage of the Vuelta from a breakaway group and ensured the second victory for his Garmin team in a row. Alexander Vinokourow was also in the breakaway group, just like during the 10th stage, but did not finish and had to end his comeback early. Of the favorites, Robert Gesink made the strongest impression, he brought an important 10-second lead over Valverde to the finish and received an additional 8-second time bonus as third in the stage and thus also consolidated his third place overall.

The 13th stage was dominated by the solo escape of the Frenchman David Moncoutié , who in addition to the stage win also collected important points for the mountain classification, whereby he was now almost unassailable in the lead in this classification. Valverde, as third in the stage, was again awarded important seconds, of the favorites only Ezequiel Mosquera was able to make up for him in second. The loser of the day was Cadel Evans, who had a technical defect in the finish, had to wait a long time for his support vehicle and was unable to make up the gap of over a minute on Valverde and Basso. Thus, in the overall standings, he fell back from a promising 2nd place as a good time trial to 5th place. Another loser was Tom Danielson , who lost almost 7 minutes on this stage and therefore had to bury his chances of overall victory. The 13th stage also had an aftermath for some drivers. Evans received a 10-second time penalty because, in the opinion of the commissioners, he had let his support vehicle help him too much in his catch-up. Mosquera and a few other drivers received a 20-second time penalty for illegally taking meals from the team car, although this is prohibited on the last 20 kilometers of a stage. But the worst hit was probably the sprinters, who crossed the finish line in a group of over 50 men, over 39 minutes behind, which would have been over the waiting period for this stage. In order to prevent all these drivers from being eliminated, the waiting period was increased, but as a penalty, all of these drivers received 25 points from the points evaluation. This was particularly detrimental to André Greipel, who was the leader in this class, as it reduced his lead over Valverde to 6 points. However, he also lost some of his strongest competitors, as Tom Boonen and Óscar Freire , among others , could not finish the stage.

On the 14th stage Damiano Cunego celebrated his second stage victory during this Vuelta, after he had already won the first mountain stage of the tour. He benefited from the fact that he had lost almost half an hour on the 13th stage and was no longer a threat to the favorites. With the latter, a few kilometers from the finish it looked as if Valverde could be left behind, but then he started again and passed Gesink, Evans and Basso again. He finally lost just a few seconds to Sánchez and Mosquera, but consolidated his overall lead. With the 5th stage rank, he now also took the lead in the points evaluation of Greipel.

The 15th stage was used by most of the riders to rest after the strenuous mountain stages, so it happened that a 13-man breakaway group had a lead of over 20 minutes and also brought it to the finish. The strongest from this group was finally the Dutchman Lars Boom , who won the stage. There were no changes in the classifications, except that the lead in the team classification changed from Caisse d'Epargne to Xacobeo Galicia, as two riders from this team were in the breakaway group.

Stage 16 was similar to the previous one, except that this time there was no breakaway group, but Jesús Rosendo managed a solo escape . The peloton allowed him to gain a lead of over 12 minutes at times, but caught up with him in time for the finish. So the stage ended in a mass sprint, which the favorite André Greipel decided for himself and took back the green jersey from Valverde. However, shortly before the finish line, there was a fall in which the sprinter Wouter Weylandt, among others , fell and suffered a fracture on his wrist. There were no changes in the overall ranking.

The 17th stage was after two rather leisurely days one of the most exciting of the entire Vuelta. Five drivers managed to escape and a few kilometers from the finish it looked as if they could be overtaken. But the Frenchman Anthony Roux broke away from the other outliers on the last kilometer and only saved a few meters on the approaching sprinters to the finish. Greipel again collected important points for the green jersey as third, otherwise nothing changed in the ratings. During the stage, some of the top riders in the overall standings - Gesink, Mosquera, Danielson - fell, but were able to continue the stage. Gesink even had to be sewn on the knee after crossing the finish line, but was able to continue the race. The ninth-placed US American Tom Danielson, however, had to retire during the next stage.

Section 18 was again a mountain stage. A large group was able to pull away, of which Roman Kreuziger and Philip Deignan remained in the end and the Irishman ultimately had the stronger legs and won the stage. As a result, he moved up to 9th place in the overall standings. Otherwise there were no changes in the rankings.

The 19th stage was the last mountain stage, again there was a breakaway group, but this was caught in time. From the group with the favorites, the Spaniard Juan José Cobo, who came tenth overall, surprisingly won the stage. With 2nd and 3rd place, Valverde and Evans secured the time bonuses. The loser of the day was Robert Gesink, who could no longer keep up after his fall during the 17th stage and lost over 4 minutes. As a result, he lost his second place overall and fell back to sixth place.

Stage 20 was the third individual time trial during this Vuelta and, as the penultimate section, the last chance to bring about changes in the overall standings. In the absence of the winner of the first two time trials, Fabian Cancellara, the runner-up of the 7th stage, David Millar , won this stage. Valverde finished 7th to keep his overall lead. The real winner of this stage, however, was Cadel Evans, who made up for almost a minute on Basso as third party and thus took third place overall from the Italian.

Traditionally, there were no more attacks on the overall standings on the last stage to Madrid. The goal was on a circuit in the Spanish capital. As expected, there was a mass sprint, which the three-time stage winner and wearer of the green jersey André Greipel won. Valverde crossed the finish line with the peloton and celebrated the first Grand Tour win of his career ahead of Sánchez and Evans.

Stage overview

stage	Type	Day	begin	target	km	Stage winner	Golden jersey
01st stage	EZF	29th August	Assen ( NED )	Aces	004.8	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara
02nd stage		August 30th	Aces	Emmen (NED)	203.7	Gerald Ciolek
03rd stage		August 31	Zutphen (NED)	Venlo (NED)	189.7	Greg Henderson
04th stage		0September 1	Venlo	Liege ( BEL )	225.5	André Greipel
		0September 2nd	1st day of rest
05th stage		0September 3	Tarragona	Vinaròs	174.0	André Greipel	André Greipel
06th stage		0September 4th	Xàtiva	Xàtiva	176.8	Borut Božič	André Greipel
07th stage	EZF	05th September	Valencia	Valencia	030.0	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara
08th stage		0September 6th	Alzira	Alto de Aitana	204.7	Damiano Cunego	Cadel Evans
09th stage		07th of September	Alcoi	Xorret de Catí	188.8	Gustavo César Veloso	Alejandro Valverde
10th stage		0September 8th	Alicante	Murcia	171.2	Simon Gerrans
11th stage		0the 9th of September	Murcia	Caravaca de la Cruz	200.0	Tyler Farrar
		September 10	2nd day off
12th stage		September 11	Almeria	Alto de Velefique	179.3	Ryder Hesjedal
13th stage		12th September	Berja	Sierra Nevada	172.4	David Moncoutié
14th stage		13.september	Granada	Sierra de la Pandera	157.0	Damiano Cunego
15th stage		September 14th	Jaén	Cordoba	167.7	Lars Boom
16th stage		September 15th	Cordoba	Puertollano	170.3	André Greipel
17th stage		16th September	Ciudad Real	Talavera de la Reina	165.0	Anthony Roux
18th stage		17th of September	Talavera de la Reina	Ávila	165.0	Philip Deignan
19th stage		September 18	Ávila	La Granja de San Ildefonso	179.8	Juan José Cobo
20th stage	EZF	September 19th	Toledo	Toledo	027.8	David Millar
21st stage		September 20th	Rivas-Vaciamadrid	Madrid	110.2	André Greipel

Ratings in the course of the tour

At the Vuelta a España 2009 there are four different rating jerseys . The jersey that marks the overall leader or winner of the race is the golden jersey. For this evaluation, the times of all stages driven are added up for each driver and the driver with the lowest time receives the jersey.

There is also a points evaluation, the leader of which wears a green jersey. In order to score points for this classification, a rider must be in the top 15 at the finish of a stage. There the first receives 25 points, the second 20, the third 16, the fourth 14, the fifth 12, the sixth 10 and so on, graduated up to the fifteenth, who still receives one point. It is not - like z. B. in the Tour de France, where these points are only available for flat stages - a distinction is made between flat, mountain and time trial stages. As a result, the drivers who are ahead in the overall standings also have a chance of victory in this classification and not just the sprinters. In addition, points can be scored in intermediate sprints during stages.

There is also a red jersey for the best in the mountain classification. Points for this classification are given to those drivers who are the first to cross certain mountains or to cross the finish line first. These mountains are divided into five categories with different scores.

Finally, there is the combination classification, for which a white jersey is awarded. For the ranking in this classification, the placements in the three previous ratings are added up for each driver and the driver with the lowest number of points is the leader (if a driver is e.g. leader in the overall and points classification and fifth in the mountain classification, then receives he for the combined scoring 1 + 1 + 5 = 7 points.). However, only drivers are taken into account who are already classified in each of the three ratings, i.e. have scored points for both the points and the mountain classification (e.g. Fabian Cancellara lost the white jersey after the fourth stage because in this one Stage for the first time mountain points were awarded but the Swiss could not achieve any points for the mountain classification).

There is also a team ranking. For this, the times of the best three drivers of each team are added up at each stage.

The red number on the back is given to the rider who won the so-called solidarity sprint in the previous stage . He also receives 125 euros for this, the overall winner in this ranking receives 2500 euros.

Furthermore, the first three of each stage (except time trials) receive a time bonus of 20, 12 or 8 seconds for the overall ranking.

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

	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Combination scoring	Team evaluation	Red number on the back
01st stage	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	not forgiven	Fabian Cancellara	Liquigas	EZF: not awarded
02nd stage		Tom Boonen	Tom Leezer			Lieuwe Westra
03rd stage		Tom Boonen	Tom Leezer			Lars Boom
04th stage		André Greipel	Lars Boom	Dominik Roels		Javier Ramírez
05th stage	André Greipel		Aitor Hernández	Serafín Martínez		Serafín Martínez
06th stage	André Greipel		José Antonio López	Serafín Martínez		Matthé Pronk
07th stage	Fabian Cancellara		José Antonio López	Dominik Roels	Garmin slipstream	EZF: not awarded
08th stage	Cadel Evans		David Moncoutié	Cadel Evans	Caisse d'Epargne	Sébastien Hinault
09th stage	Alejandro Valverde		David Moncoutié			Gustavo César Veloso
10th stage			David de la Fuente			Aitor Perez
11th stage			David Moncoutié			Serafín Martínez
12th stage				Alejandro Valverde		David García
13th stage						Koos Moerenhout
14th stage		Alejandro Valverde				Gonzalo Rabuñal
15th stage		Alejandro Valverde			Xacobeo Galicia	Serafín Martínez
16th stage		André Greipel				Jesús Rosendo
17th stage						Francisco José Martínez
18th stage						Philippe Gilbert
19th stage						Serafín Martínez
20th stage						EZF: not awarded
21st stage						Serafín Martínez

If a driver is the leader in two or more ratings at the same time, the "less important" jersey will be worn by the next placed who is not already wearing a different jersey. The "value" of the jerseys corresponds to the ranking of the jerseys in the table above from left to right.

During the 2nd stage, Tyler Farrar wore the green jersey as 3rd in the points classification (the leader of the classification, Fabian Cancellara, wore the yellow and 2nd of the classification, Tom Boonen, had to wear the Belgian national championship jersey) and Jens Mouris the white jersey .
Tom Leezer wore the red jersey during the 2nd and 3rd stages, although no mountain points had been awarded in the first three stages, as he had won a mountain classification on the 2nd stage.
Gerald Ciolek wore the white jersey during the 3rd stage .
Greg Henderson wore the white jersey during the 4th stage .
During the 6th stage, Tyler Farrar wore the green jersey as on the 2nd stage as 3rd in the points classification behind Greipel and Boonen.
During the 7th stage, Tom Boonen wore the green jersey because as the Belgian road champion he was not allowed to wear his jersey during the time trial.
Damiano Cunego wore the white jersey during the 9th stage .
During the 13th stage, Cadel Evans wore the white jersey.
Robert Gesink wore the white jersey from the 14th to the 19th stage .
André Greipel wore the green jersey during the 15th and 16th stages.
Ezequiel Mosquera wore the white jersey during the 20th stage .
Samuel Sánchez wore the white jersey during the 21st stage .

Retired drivers

Of the 198 riders who started, 139 reached the finish in Madrid. The teams Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel, Cofidis and Liquigas finished the Vuelta with all nine drivers.

stage	driver	team	reason
DNF 0 4.	Charles Wegelius	Silence lotto	fatigue
DNS 0 5.	Robert Kišerlovski	Fuji Servetto	Broken collarbone in a mass fall during the 4th stage
DNS 0 5.	Christopher Horner	Team Astana	Broken left hand in a mass fall during the 4th stage
DNS 06.	Kim churches	Team Columbia-HTC	stomach problems
DNF 06.	Manuel Ortega	Andalucía-Cajasur	unknown
DNF 06.	Óscar García-Casarrubios	Contentpolis-AMPO	unknown
DNF 08.	Giovanni Bernaudeau	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	unknown
	Vincent Jérôme	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	Consequences of falls
	Andy Schleck	Team Saxo Bank	stomach problems
DNF 09.	Laurent Lefèvre	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	unknown
	Mikel Gaztañaga	Andalucía-Cajasur	unknown
	Carlos Barredo	Quick Step	Gastrointestinal inflammation
	Allan Davis	Quick Step	Gastrointestinal inflammation
DNS 10.	Thomas Rohrgger	Team Milram	Fever & consequences of falls
DNF 10.	José Antonio López	Andalucía-Cajasur	unknown
DNS 11.	Frank Schleck	Team Saxo Bank	knee surgery
DNF 11.	John Gadret	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
DNF 11.	Michael Albasini	Team Columbia-HTC	unknown
DNS 12.	Tyler Farrar	Garmin slipstream	Preparation for the Road World Championship
	Vitaly Buz	Lampre-NGC	unknown
	Linus Gerdemann	Team Milram	Consequences of falls from the 10th stage
	Marco Marcato	Vacansoleil	unknown
	Alberto Fernández	Xacobeo Galicia	unknown
DNF 12.	José Luis Rubiera	Team Astana	unknown
	Alexander Vinokurov	Team Astana	unknown
	Pierrick Fédrigo	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	unknown
	Francesco Tomei	Lampre-NGC	unknown
	Paul Martens	Rabobank	fever
DNF 13.	Rinaldo Nocentini	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
	Franck Bouyer	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	unknown
	Simon Gerrans	Cervélo TestTeam	unknown
	Dominique Rollin	Cervélo TestTeam	unknown
	Sébastien Chavanel	Française des Jeux	unknown
	Eros Capecchi	Fuji Servetto	unknown
	Davide Viganò	Fuji Servetto	unknown
	Tom Boonen	Quick Step	Preparation for the Road World Championship
	Óscar Freire	Rabobank	Preparation for the Road World Championship
	Björn Schröder	Team Milram	Consequences of falls from the 4th stage
DNS 14.	Xavier Tondo	Andalucía-Cajasur	unknown
	Ignatas Konovalovas	Cervélo TestTeam	unknown
	Fabian Cancellara	Team Saxo Bank	Preparation for the Road World Championship
DNF 14.	Sandy Casar	Française des Jeux	unknown
DNF 14.	Marco Marzano	Lampre-NGC	unknown
DNF 15.	Svein Tuft	Garmin slipstream	Preparation for the Road World Championship
DNS 17.	Damiano Cunego	Lampre-NGC	Preparation for the Road World Championship
	Alessandro Ballan	Lampre-NGC	Preparation for the Road World Championship
	Wouter Weylandt	Quick Step	Scaphoid fracture in a fall during the 16th stage
	Stuart O'Grady	Team Saxo Bank	unknown
DNF 17.	Alexander Efimkin	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
DNS 18.	Maxim Iglinski	Team Astana	unknown
	Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin slipstream	unknown
	Christian Meier	Garmin slipstream	Death in the family
	Bert Grabsch	Team Columbia-HTC	Preparation for the Road World Championship
DNF 18.	Julien Loubet	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
	Tom Danielson	Garmin slipstream	Consequences of falls from the 17th stage
	Gerald Ciolek	Team Milram	exhaustion
	Bjorn Leukemans	Vacansoleil	unknown
DNF 19.	Sergio Domínguez	Contentpolis-AMPO	Consequences of falls
DNF 19.	Matteo Tosatto	Quick Step	unknown

DNS (Did not start): The driver did not start at the specified stage
DNF (Did not finish): The driver did not finish the specified stage
DSQ (Disqualified): The driver has been disqualified

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Vuelta a España 2009 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website (English, French, Spanish)

[1] Penalties on the 13th stage.

[2] Serious injury to Robert Gesink.

[3] Fränk Schleck gets out.

[4] Tyler Farrar gets out.

[5] Linus Gerdemann no longer competes after the day of rest.

[6] Paul Martens has to give up.

[7] Freire and Boonen get out.

[8] Björn Schröder injured more seriously than expected.

[9] Cunego, Ballan and Weylandt outside.

[10] Bert Grabsch is preparing for the World Cup.

[11] Ciolek and seven others get out of the Vuelta.