2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

The 2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 61st edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race. It took place from 7 June to 14 June, and was part of both the 2009 UCI ProTour

2009 UCI ProTour

The 2009 UCI ProTour was the fifth series of the UCI ProTour. Two new teams, the American and the Russian , joined the ProTour, effectively taking over the licenses of and . Two existing teams changed title sponsors: from Denmark became , and changed name to . As in 2008, the races organized by...

and the inaugural World Calendar

2009 UCI World Ranking

The 2009 UCI World Ranking is the first edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union , replacing the rankings previously part of the UCI ProTour. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 20 January, and consists of 13 stage races and 11 one-day...

. It began in Nancy, France with an individual time trial

Individual time trial

An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

, and ended in Grenoble

Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

. It began with a time trial, two flat stages and another time trial, and ended with four consecutive mountain stages.

Teams

As the Dauphiné Libéré is a UCI ProTour

UCI ProTour

The UCI ProTour was a series of road bicycle races in Europe, Australia and Canada organised by the UCI . Created by Hein Verbruggen, former president of the UCI, it comprises a number of 'ProTour' cycling teams, each of whom are required to compete in every round of the series...

event, the 18 ProTour teams are invited automatically. They were joined by , a Professional Continental team, to form the event's 19-team peloton.

The 19 teams invited to the race are:

Stage 1

7 June 2009 – Nancy, 12.1 km (ITT
Individual time trial
An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

)

The course for the opening individual time trial was mostly flat, with the category four Côte du Haut-du-Lièvre coming after 3 km. Three of the favourites for the final classification took the podium places, benefiting from improving weather after Iván Gutiérrez

Iván Gutiérrez

José Iván Gutiérrez Palacios is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was Spanish Road national champion, three time Spanish time trial champion and won a silver medal in the 2005 Time Trial World Championships...

had held the lead for nearly an hour.

Stage 1 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			15' 36"
2			+ 8"
3			+ 23"
4			+ 33"
5			+ 34"

General Classification after Stage 1

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			15' 36"
2			+ 8"
3			+ 23"
4			+ 33"
5			+ 34"

Stage 2

8 June 2009 – Nancy to Dijon
Dijon
Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....

, 228 km

This was the longest stage of the 2009 Dauphiné, and its profile is mostly flat. It saw very gentle undulation until the fairly steep descent from the category four Côte de Montcharvot, 100 km from the finish. There was one other fourth-category climb on the stage. A group of five riders held an advantage over the peloton that reached more than six minutes, but they were caught in the last ten km. David Millar

David Millar

David Millar is a British road racing cyclist riding for . He has won three stages of the Tour de France, two of the Vuelta a España and one Stage of the Giro d'Italia. He was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both in 2007...

attempted a late escape, but he was overhauled by the sprinters, including stage winner Angelo Furlan

Angelo Furlan

Angelo Furlan is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides for Christina Watches-Onfone who he joined in March 2011.- Palmarès :2001...

Stage 2 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			5h 35' 04"
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.

General Classification after Stage 2

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			5h 50' 40"
2			+ 8"
3			+ 23"
4			+ 33"
5			+ 34"

Stage 3

9 June 2009 – Tournus
Tournus
Tournus is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.-Geography:Tournus is located on the right bank of the Saône, 20 km. northeast of Mâcon on the Paris-Lyon railway.-Sights:...

to Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne is a city in eastern central France. It is located in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes region, along the trunk road that connects Toulouse with Lyon...

, 182 km

This was another largely flat stage, with four small category four climbs, including a relatively steep (though short) one about 40 km from the finish. A group of five riders escaped after 34 km, and were able to stay more than a minute and a half clear of the main group to the finish. Niki Terpstra

Niki Terpstra

Niki Terpstra is a Dutch racing cyclist with UCI ProTeam . He is the silver medal winner of the team pursuit in the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, together with Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris and Peter Schep...

won in a sprint finish over his fellow escapees, and took the yellow leader's jersey from Cadel Evans

Cadel Evans

Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...

Stage 3 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			4h 32' 34"
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.

General Classification after Stage 3

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			10h 23' 45"
2			+ 26"
3			+ 27"
4			+ 36"
5			+ 1' 01"

Stage 4

10 June 2009 – Bourg-lès-Valence
Bourg-lès-Valence
Bourg-lès-Valence is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.-Population:-References:*...

to Valence
Valence, Drôme
Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, south of Lyon on the railway to Marseilles.Its inhabitants are called Valentinois...

, 42.4 km (ITT
Individual time trial
An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

)

The second individual time trial is very similar to the first in profile, featuring only a single fourth-category climb. Bert Grabsch

Bert Grabsch

Bert Grabsch is a German road bicycle racer racing for UCI ProTour squad . He is the younger brother of fellow road racing cyclist Ralf Grabsch, and is a former UCI time trial world champion, having won the title in Varese, Italy on September 25, 2008.He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games...

, the current time trial world champion, won the stage. Cadel Evans

Cadel Evans

won the yellow jersey back beating last stage's yellow jersey winner Niki Terpstra

Niki Terpstra

, who fell and finished on a replacement bike, by over 5 minutes.

Stage 4 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			51' 26"
2			+ 7"
3			+ 39"
4			+ 40"
5			+ 52"

General Classification after Stage 4

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			11h 16' 19"
2			+ 45"
3			+ 48"
4			+ 1' 07"
5			+ 1' 09"

Stage 5

11 June 2009 – Valence
Valence, Drôme
Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, south of Lyon on the railway to Marseilles.Its inhabitants are called Valentinois...

to Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the Drôme département. It is the largest mountain in the region and has been nicknamed the "Giant of Provence", or "The Bald...

, 154 km

The first of the 2009 Dauphiné's four straight mountain stages sees the peloton ascend to the peak colloquially known as "Mount Baldy," some six weeks before the mountain hosts a critical stage finish in the 2009 Tour de France

2009 Tour de France

The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco...

. There are three fourth-category climbs and a third-category climb on course, while the finish itself to Mont Ventoux is an Hors Categorie

Hors Categorie

Hors catégorie is a French term used in cycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization", an incredibly tough climb. Most climbs in cycling are designated from Category 1 to Category 4 , based on both steepness and length...

, or outside categorization climb. Sylwester Szmyd

Sylwester Szmyd

Sylwester Szmyd is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Major achievements :200120022003...

and Alejandro Valverde

Alejandro Valverde

Alejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish road racing cyclist currently under suspension. He last rode for UCI ProTour team . Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a España, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008 and 2006 UCI ProTour series championship...

managed to break away on the ascent of Mount Ventoux, and worked to gain over a minute lead to Haimar Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia Agirre is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist who rides for on the UCI ProTour....

. Szmyd took the stage win, while Valverde took the yellow jersey from Cadel Evans

Cadel Evans

, who finished just over 2 minutes behind. After the stage, Ivan Basso

Ivan Basso

Ivan Basso is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who is currently racing with UCI ProTeam . Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, is among the best mountain riders in the professional field in the 21st century, and is considered one of the strongest stage race riders...

dropped out.

Stage 5 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			4h 05' 04"
2			s.t.
3			+ 1' 14"
4			+ 1' 50"
5			+ 1' 59"

General Classification after Stage 5

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			15h 23' 17"
2			+ 16"
3			+ 1' 04"
4			+ 1' 43"
5			+ 2' 21"

Stage 6

12 June 2009 – Gap to Briançon
Briançon
Briançon a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....

, 106 km

This short stage features another outside categorization climb, the Col d'Izoard

Col d'Izoard

Col d'Izoard is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Hautes-Alpes in France.It is accessible in summer via the D902 road, connecting Briançon on the north and the valley of the Guil in Queyras, which ends at Guillestre in the south. There are forbidding and barren scree slopes...

, which is visited 20 km before the finish line. The fourth-category Côte du Châteauroux-les-Alpes is visited earlier on in the stage, and the finish into Briançon is also a categorized climb. 14 men formed a breakaway early in the stage, and Pierrick Fédrigo

Pierrick Fédrigo

Pierrick Fédrigo is a French racing cyclist who rides for . He was the French national road champion in 2005 and won Stage 14 of the 2006 Tour de France in Gap, Stage 9 of the 2009 Tour de France in Tarbes, and Stage 16 of the 2010 Tour de France in Pau...

, Jurgen Van de Walle

Jurgen Van de Walle

Jurgen Van de Walle is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Palmares :20002006-External links:...

, Stéphane Goubert

Stéphane Goubert

Stéphane Goubert is a French retired professional road bicycle racer.- Tour de France :* 1999: 74th* 2001: 31st* 2002: 17th* 2003: 31st* 2004: 20th* 2005: 34th* 2006: 37th* 2007: 27th* 2008: 21st* 2009: 16th...

and Juan Manuel Gárate

Juan Manuel Gárate

Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He currently rides for the Rabobank team. He is perceived to be a climbing specialist, and to date his greatest achievements have been in the Giro d'Italia, where he placed fourth overall in 2002, fifth overall in 2005 and won...

broke free of the lead group on the ascent on Col d'Izoard. Fédrigo won the stage, and Alejandro Valverde

Alejandro Valverde

finished together with Cadel Evans

Cadel Evans

, defending the yellow jersey.

Stage 6 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			2h 48' 17"
2			+ 4"
3			+ 5"
4			+ 14"
5			+ 25"

General Classification after Stage 6

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			18h 15' 46"
2			+ 16"
3			+ 1' 04"
4			+ 1' 49"
5			+ 1' 52"

Stage 7

13 June 2009 – Briançon
Briançon
Briançon a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....

to Saint-François-Longchamp
Saint-François-Longchamp
Saint-François-Longchamp is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-References:*...

, 157 km

This is the queen stage of the 2009 Dauphiné Libéré, with two outside categorization climbs on course and a first-category climb to the finish in Saint-François-Longchamp. The first of those outside categorization climbs is the Col du Galibier

Col du Galibier

Col du Galibier is a mountain pass in the southern region of the French Dauphiné Alps near Grenoble. It is the ninth highest paved road in the Alps and the sixth highest mountain pass. It is often the highest point of the Tour de France....

, which at 2556 m is the highest point of the 2009 Dauphiné.

Stage 7 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			4h 44' 26"
2			+ 41"
3			+ 41"
4			+ 41"
5			+ 53"

General Classification after Stage 7

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			23h 00' 53"
2			+ 16"
3			+ 1' 18"
4			+ 2' 41"
5			+ 3' 40"

Stage 8

14 June 2009 – Faverges
Faverges
Faverges is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It occupies the glacial valley which gave birth to Lake Annecy.-Geology:...

to Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

, 146 km

This is branded as a mountain stage, but it is significantly less imposing than the previous three stages. There are two third-category climbs within the first 57 km of the stage, along with the first-category Montée de Saint-Bernard-du-Touvet coming 27 km from the finish. After a rapid descent from that climb, there is a stretch of 12 km to the finish that is mostly flat.

Stage 8 Results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			3h 30' 17"
2			s.t.
3			+ 2"
4			+ 1' 31"
5			+ 1' 31"

Final General Classification

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			26h 33' 15"
2			+ 16"
3			+ 1' 18"
4			+ 2' 41"
5			+ 3' 40"

Classification leadership progress table

Stage	Winner	General classification General Classification The general classification in bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for bicycle riders in multi-stage bicycle races...	Mountains classification	Points classification Points classification The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning intermediate sprints. The points classification is the top prize for many cycling sprinters and therefore is often known as the Sprint Classification;...
1	Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...	Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...	Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...	Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...
2	Angelo Furlan Angelo Furlan Angelo Furlan is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides for Christina Watches-Onfone who he joined in March 2011.- Palmarès :2001...		Alexandre Pichot Alexandre Pichot Alexandre Pichot is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .- Palmares :200920072003- External links :*...
3	Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra is a Dutch racing cyclist with UCI ProTeam . He is the silver medal winner of the team pursuit in the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, together with Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris and Peter Schep...	Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra is a Dutch racing cyclist with UCI ProTeam . He is the silver medal winner of the team pursuit in the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, together with Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris and Peter Schep...	Rémi Pauriol Rémi Pauriol Rémi Pauriol is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team . In 2007, he won the French race Route Adélie.-Palmares:2006 – Crédit Agricole...	Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra is a Dutch racing cyclist with UCI ProTeam . He is the silver medal winner of the team pursuit in the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, together with Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris and Peter Schep...
4	Bert Grabsch Bert Grabsch Bert Grabsch is a German road bicycle racer racing for UCI ProTour squad . He is the younger brother of fellow road racing cyclist Ralf Grabsch, and is a former UCI time trial world champion, having won the title in Varese, Italy on September 25, 2008.He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games...	Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...		Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...
5	Sylwester Szmyd Sylwester Szmyd Sylwester Szmyd is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Major achievements :200120022003...	Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish road racing cyclist currently under suspension. He last rode for UCI ProTour team . Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a España, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008 and 2006 UCI ProTour series championship...	Sylwester Szmyd Sylwester Szmyd Sylwester Szmyd is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Major achievements :200120022003...
6	Pierrick Fédrigo Pierrick Fédrigo Pierrick Fédrigo is a French racing cyclist who rides for . He was the French national road champion in 2005 and won Stage 14 of the 2006 Tour de France in Gap, Stage 9 of the 2009 Tour de France in Tarbes, and Stage 16 of the 2010 Tour de France in Pau...		Pierrick Fédrigo Pierrick Fédrigo Pierrick Fédrigo is a French racing cyclist who rides for . He was the French national road champion in 2005 and won Stage 14 of the 2006 Tour de France in Gap, Stage 9 of the 2009 Tour de France in Tarbes, and Stage 16 of the 2010 Tour de France in Pau...
7	David Moncoutié David Moncoutié David Moncoutié is a French professional road racing cyclist with the French team Cofidis, with whom he turned professional in 1997. He is a climber, and won his first professional race in a mountain stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré...
8	Stef Clement Stef Clement Stef Clement is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank. He specializes in the time trial, in which discipline he is the reigning Dutch national champion. He also won the bronze medal at the Time Trial of the 2007 UCI Road World Championships.- Palmarès :20032005...
Final		Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish road racing cyclist currently under suspension. He last rode for UCI ProTour team . Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a España, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008 and 2006 UCI ProTour series championship...	Pierrick Fédrigo Pierrick Fédrigo Pierrick Fédrigo is a French racing cyclist who rides for . He was the French national road champion in 2005 and won Stage 14 of the 2006 Tour de France in Gap, Stage 9 of the 2009 Tour de France in Tarbes, and Stage 16 of the 2010 Tour de France in Pau...	Cadel Evans Cadel Evans Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...

General classification

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			26h 33' 15"
2			+ 16"
3			+ 1' 18"
4			+ 2' 41"
5			+ 3' 40"

Points classification

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1			97
2			66
3			59
4			43
5			42

Climbers' classification

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1			111
2			88
3			71
4			57
5			53

Team classification

	Team	Time
1		79h 58' 20"
2		+ 4' 41"
3		+ 5' 56"
4		+ 6' 27"
5		+ 18' 33"

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