2009 Tour de Romandie


The 2009 Tour de Romandie cycling road race started on 28 April and finished on 3 May in Switzerland. It was the 6th event in the 2009 UCI ProTour, and the 12th event in the World Calendar.
In addition to the 18 ProTour teams, guaranteed entry to the event as it is promoted by the UCI, two wildcard entries were accepted: and, both of which have strong Swiss links. Andreas Klöden did not defend the title he won the previous year, but the two previous winners of the event, Thomas Dekker and Cadel Evans took part, as teammates on the team. Other pre-race favourites included four of the top five in 2008, Marco Pinotti, Dennis Menchov and Mikel Astarloza ) and 2008 ProTour champion Alejandro Valverde.
Roman Kreuziger won the 4th stage, and in doing so put himself into a lead that he retained on the last day, thus going one better than his second place overall in 2008.

Stages

Prologue – 28 April 2009: [Lausanne], (ITT">Individual time trial">ITT)

Stage 1 – 29 April 2009: [Montreux] > [Fribourg]

The stage was shortened due to snowfalls, from a scheduled 176.2 km to 87.6 km.
Stage 1 Results

Stage 2 – April 30, 2009: [La Chaux-de-Fonds]

Stage 3 – 1 May 2009: [Yverdon-les-Bains], (TTT">Team time trial">TTT)

Stage 4 – 2 May 2009: [Estavayer-le-Lac] > Sainte-Croix">Sainte-Croix, Switzerland">Sainte-Croix

Stage 5 – 3 May 2009: [Aubonne] > [Geneva]

Final standings

General classification

Sprints classification

Mountain classification

Youth classification

Jersey progress

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