2009 Paris–Nice

The 2009 Paris–Nice was the 67th edition of the Paris–Nice cycle race and was held from 8 March to 15 March 2009. The race started in Amilly and finished in Nice. It was won by Luis León Sánchez.^[2]

2009 Paris–Nice

2009 UCI World Ranking, race 2 of 24
Race details
Dates	8–15 March 2009
Stages	8
Distance	1,252.8[1] km (778.5 mi)
Winning time	30h 53' 51"
Results
Winner  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) (Caisse d'Epargne)   Second  Fränk Schleck (LUX) (Team Saxo Bank)   Third  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) Points  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) (Quick-Step) Mountains  Tony Martin (GER) (Team Columbia–High Road) Youth  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) (Quick-Step)   Team Team Saxo Bank
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Favorites to win included Alberto Contador, who won in 2007, Cadel Evans, and Fränk Schleck. The 2008 winner, Davide Rebellin, did not take part in the event.^[3] The race was the second event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking.

Teams

The following twenty UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams, containing a total of 159 riders, were selected to the 2009 Paris–Nice:^[4]

• Ag2r–La Mondiale
• Silence–Lotto
• Rabobank
• Garmin–Slipstream
• Quick-Step
• Astana
• Caisse d'Epargne
• Française des Jeux
• Team Saxo Bank
• Team Columbia–High Road
• Liquigas
• Cofidis
• Euskaltel–Euskadi
• Bbox Bouygues Telecom
• Team Katusha
• Agritubel
• Lampre–NGC
• Team Milram
• Cervélo TestTeam
• Skil–Shimano

Route

Stage characteristics and winners^[5]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	8 March	Amilly	9.3 km (5.8 mi)		Individual time trial	Alberto Contador (ESP)
2	9 March	Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire to La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin	195.5 km (121.5 mi)		Flat stage	Heinrich Haussler (GER)
3	10 March	Orval to Vichy	178 km (111 mi)		Hilly stage	Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)
4	11 March	Vichy to Saint-Étienne	173.5 km (107.8 mi)		Hilly stage	Christian Vande Velde (USA)
5	12 March	Annonay to Vallon-Pont-d'Arc	204 km (127 mi)		Medium mountain stage	Jérémy Roy (FRA)
6	13 March	Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to La Montagne de Lure [fr]	182.5 km (113.4 mi)		Mountain stage	Alberto Contador (ESP)
7	14 March	Manosque to Fayence	191 km (119 mi)		Hilly stage	Luis León Sánchez (ESP)
8	15 March	Nice to Nice	119 km (74 mi)		Mountain stage	Antonio Colóm (ESP)

Stages

Stage 1

8 March 2009 — Amilly, 9.3 km (5.8 mi) (ITT)^[5]

Stage 1 results[6] Cyclist Team Time 1  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 11' 05" 2  Bradley Wiggins (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 7" 3  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 9" 4  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 11" 5  David Millar (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 14" 6  Joost Posthuma (NED) Rabobank + 18" 7  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 19" 8  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha s.t. 9  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 21" 10  Rémi Pauriol (FRA) Cofidis + 22"

General Classification after Stage 1 Cyclist Team Time 1  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 11' 05" 2  Bradley Wiggins (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 7" 3  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 9" 4  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 11" 5  David Millar (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 14" 6  Joost Posthuma (NED) Rabobank + 18" 7  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 19" 8  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha s.t. 9  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 21" 10  Rémi Pauriol (FRA) Cofidis + 22"

Stage 2

9 March 2009 — Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire to La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin, 195.5 km (121.5 mi)^[5]

Stage 2 results[7] Cyclist Team Time 1  Heinrich Haussler (GER) Cervélo TestTeam 4h 45' 01" 2  Mark Renshaw (AUS) Team Columbia–High Road s.t. 3  Mirco Lorenzetto (ITA) Lampre–NGC s.t. 4  Tom Veelers (NED) Skil–Shimano s.t. 5  Murilo Fischer (BRA) Liquigas s.t. 6  Sébastien Chavanel (FRA) Française des Jeux s.t. 7  Sébastien Hinault (FRA) Ag2r–La Mondiale s.t. 8  Samuel Dumoulin (FRA) Cofidis s.t. 9  Romain Feillu (FRA) Agritubel s.t. 10  Mathew Hayman (AUS) Rabobank s.t.

General Classification after Stage 2 Cyclist Team Time 1  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 4h 56' 06" 2  Bradley Wiggins (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 7" 3  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 9" 4  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 11" 5  David Millar (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 14" 6  Joost Posthuma (NED) Rabobank + 18" 7  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 19" 8  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha s.t. 9  Heinrich Haussler (GER) Cervélo TestTeam + 20" 10  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 21"

Stage 3

10 March 2009 — Orval to Vichy, 178 km (111 mi)^[5]

Stage 3 results Cyclist Team Time 1  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step 4h 33' 12" 2  Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP) Rabobank s.t. 3  Sebastian Langeveld (NED) Rabobank s.t. 4  Stéphane Augé (FRA) Cofidis s.t. 5  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step s.t. 6  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank s.t. 7  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) Silence–Lotto s.t. 8  Marcus Burghardt (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 40" 9  Heinrich Haussler (GER) Cervélo TestTeam + 1' 09" 10  Sébastien Turgot (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom s.t.

General Classification after Stage 3 Cyclist Team Time 1  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step 9h 29' 27" 2  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank + 32" 3  Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP) Rabobank + 33" 4  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 35" 5  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) Silence–Lotto + 37" 6  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana + 1' 03" 7  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 1' 12" 8  Stéphane Augé (FRA) Cofidis + 1' 14" 9  David Millar (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 1' 17" 10  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 1' 22"

Stage 4

11 March 2009 — Vichy to Saint-Étienne, 173.5 km (107.8 mi)^[5]

Stage 4 results[8] Cyclist Team Time 1  Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin–Slipstream 4h 01' 31" 2  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 14" 3  Mirco Lorenzetto (ITA) Lampre–NGC s.t. 4  Christophe Moreau (FRA) Agritubel s.t. 5  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank s.t. 6  Amaël Moinard (FRA) Cofidis s.t. 7  Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) Team Saxo Bank s.t. 8  Maxime Monfort (BEL) Team Columbia–High Road s.t. 9  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank s.t. 10  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank s.t.

General Classification after Stage 4 Cyclist Team Time 1  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step 13h 31' 36" 2  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank + 6" 3  Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP) Rabobank + 36" 4  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana s.t. 5  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 37" 6  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 45" 7  David Millar (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 50" 8  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 55" 9  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 57" 10  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 03"

Stage 5

12 March 2009 — Annonay to Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, 204 km (127 mi)^[5]

Stage 5 results Cyclist Team Time 1  Jérémy Roy (FRA) Française des Jeux 4h 58' 47" 2  Thomas Voeckler (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom s.t. 3  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 3" 4  Heinrich Haussler (GER) Cervélo TestTeam + 2' 33" 5  Murilo Fischer (BRA) Liquigas s.t. 6  Romain Feillu (FRA) Agritubel s.t. 7  Cyril Lemoine (FRA) Skil–Shimano s.t. 8  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) Silence–Lotto s.t. 9  Mirco Lorenzetto (ITA) Lampre–NGC s.t. 10  Sébastien Hinault (FRA) Ag2r–La Mondiale s.t.

General Classification after Stage 5 Cyclist Team Time 1  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step 18h 32' 56" 2  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank + 6" 3  Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP) Rabobank + 36" 4  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana s.t. 5  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 37" 6  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 45" 7  David Millar (GBR) Garmin–Slipstream + 50" 8  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 55" 9  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 57" 10  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 03"

Stage 6

13 March 2009 — Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to La Montagne de Lure [fr], 182.5 km (113.4 mi)^[5]

Stage 6 results Cyclist Team Time 1  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 4h 47' 46" 2  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 58" 3  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne s.t. 4  Cadel Evans (AUS) Silence–Lotto + 1' 27" 5  David Moncoutié (FRA) Cofidis s.t. 6  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 29" 7  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel–Euskadi + 1' 31" 8  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 1' 34" 9  Christophe Moreau (FRA) Agritubel + 1' 44" 10  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 46"

General Classification after Stage 6 Cyclist Team Time 1  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 23h 21' 08" 2  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 1' 13" 3  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 1' 24" 4  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 38" 5  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 2' 01" 6  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 2' 06" 7  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel–Euskadi + 2' 14" 8  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 2' 29" 9  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 2' 35" 10  Yury Trofimov (RUS) Bbox Bouygues Telecom + 3' 09"

Stage 7

14 March 2009 — Manosque to Fayence, 191 km (119 mi)^[5]

Stage 7 results Cyclist Team Time 1  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 4h 43' 34" 2  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 50" 3  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank s.t. 4  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step s.t. 5  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 56" 6  David Moncoutié (FRA) Cofidis + 1' 31" 7  Hubert Dupont (FRA) Ag2r–La Mondiale s.t. 8  Jurgen Van den Broeck (BEL) Silence–Lotto s.t. 9  Christophe Moreau (FRA) Agritubel s.t. 10  Amaël Moinard (FRA) Cofidis s.t.

General Classification after Stage 7 Cyclist Team Time 1  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 28h 5' 45" 2  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 1' 09" 3  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 21" 4  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana + 1' 50" 5  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 59" 6  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 2' 16" 7  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 2' 29" 8  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 2' 57" 9  Yury Trofimov (RUS) Bbox Bouygues Telecom + 3' 37" 10  Christophe Le Mével (FRA) Française des Jeux + 4' 00"

Stage 8

15 March 2009 — Nice to Nice, 119 km (74 mi)^[5]

Stage 8 results Cyclist Team Time 1  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha 2h 47' 49" 2  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana s.t. 3  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 1" 4  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 17" 5  Christophe Moreau (FRA) Agritubel s.t. 6  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step s.t. 7  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank s.t. 8  Christophe Le Mével (FRA) Française des Jeux s.t. 9  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank s.t. 10  Sandy Casar (FRA) Française des Jeux s.t.

General Classification after Stage 8 Cyclist Team Time 1  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 30h 53' 51" 2  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 00" 3  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 1' 09" 4  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana + 1' 24" 5  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 1' 47" 6  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 59" 7  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 2' 29" 8  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 2' 57" 9  Yury Trofimov (RUS) Bbox Bouygues Telecom + 3' 37" 10  Christophe Le Mével (FRA) Française des Jeux + 4' 00"

Final standings

General classification Cyclist Team Time 1  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 30h 53' 51" 2  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 00" 3  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step + 1' 09" 4  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana + 1' 24" 5  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha + 1' 47" 6  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 59" 7  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step + 2' 29" 8  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 2' 57" 9  Yury Trofimov (RUS) Bbox Bouygues Telecom + 3' 37" 10  Christophe Le Mével (FRA) Française des Jeux + 4' 00"

Points classification Cyclist Team Points 1  Sylvain Chavanel (FRA) Quick-Step 94 2  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 84 3  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha 76 4  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank 75 5  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 71 6  Jens Voigt (GER) Team Saxo Bank 67 7  Heinrich Haussler (GER) Cervélo TestTeam 65 8  Christophe Moreau (FRA) Agritubel 58 9  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano 55 10  Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Rabobank 48

Young Rider Classification Cyclist Team Time 1  Kevin Seeldrayers (BEL) Quick-Step 30h 56' 20" 2  Jonathan Hivert (FRA) Skil–Shimano + 28" 3  Yury Trofimov (RUS) Bbox Bouygues Telecom + 1' 08" 4  Pierre Rolland (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom + 10' 28" 5  Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 18' 58" 6  Tom Peterson (USA) Garmin–Slipstream + 20' 30" 7  Matthieu Ladagnous (FRA) Française des Jeux + 25' 38" 8  Albert Timmer (NED) Skil–Shimano + 26' 19" 9  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 28' 07" 10  Rein Taaramäe (EST) Cofidis + 28' 49"

Mountains classification Cyclist Team Points 1  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road 55 2  Alberto Contador (ESP) Astana 48 3  Jérémy Roy (FRA) Française des Jeux 32 4  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 22 5  Joan Horrach (ESP) Team Katusha 21 6  Aitor Hernández (ESP) Euskaltel–Euskadi 19 7  Sandy Casar (FRA) Française des Jeux 18 8  Fränk Schleck (LUX) Team Saxo Bank 17 9  Antonio Colóm (ESP) Team Katusha 17 10  Martin Velits (SVK) Team Milram 13

Team Classification

	Team	Time
1	Team Saxo Bank	92h 52' 45"
2	Française des Jeux	+ 10' 29"
3	Caisse d'Epargne	+ 13' 58"
4	Euskaltel–Euskadi	+ 15' 14"
5	Quick-Step	+ 17' 23"
6	Ag2r–La Mondiale	+ 17' 33"
7	Silence–Lotto	+ 20' 09"
8	Team Katusha	+ 20' 38"
9	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	+ 24' 52"
10	Rabobank	+ 42' 33"

Jersey progress

Stage (Winner)	General Classification	Points Classification	Mountains Classification	Young Rider Classification	Team Classification
0Stage 1 (ITT) (Alberto Contador)	Alberto Contador	Alberto Contador	None Awarded	Tony Martin	Astana Team
0Stage 2 (Heinrich Haussler)		Heinrich Haussler	Aitor Hernández
0Stage 3 (Sylvain Chavanel)	Sylvain Chavanel	Sylvain Chavanel	Stéphane Augé	Kevin Seeldrayers	Rabobank
0Stage 4 (Christian Vande Velde)		Mirco Lorenzetto
0Stage 5 (Jérémy Roy)			Tony Martin
0Stage 6 (Alberto Contador)	Alberto Contador				Team Saxo Bank
0Stage 7 (Luis León Sánchez)	Luis León Sánchez	Sylvain Chavanel
0Stage 8 (Antonio Colóm)
0Final	Luis León Sánchez	Sylvain Chavanel	Tony Martin	Kevin Seeldrayers	Team Saxo Bank

Jersey wearers when one rider is leading two or more competitions

• Bradley Wiggins wore the green jersey in Stage 2
• Heinrich Haussler wore the green jersey in Stage 4

Withdrawals

Type	Stage	Cyclist	Team	Reason
DNF	2	Rémi Pauriol	Cofidis	Broken collarbone
DNS	3	José Ángel Gómez Marchante	Cervélo TestTeam	Broken arm sustained from crash in Stage 2
DNS	3	Dan Martin	Garmin–Slipstream	Illness
DNS	3	Joost Posthuma	Rabobank	Illness
DNF	3	Matteo Bono	Lampre–NGC
DNF	3	Anthony Charteau	Caisse d'Epargne
DNS	4	Sylvain Calzati	Agritubel
DNS	4	Bradley Wiggins	Garmin–Slipstream	Death in the family
DNF	4	Jussi Veikkanen	Française des Jeux
DNS	5	Íñigo Cuesta	Cervélo TestTeam
DNS	5	Enrico Franzoi	Liquigas
DNF	5	Steven Cozza	Garmin–Slipstream
DNF	5	Philippe Gilbert	Silence–Lotto
DNF	5	Brian Vandborg	Liquigas
DNS	6	Jelle Vanendert	Silence–Lotto
DNF	6	Jose Luis Arrieta	Ag2r–La Mondiale
DNF	6	Sébastien Chavanel	Française des Jeux
DNF	6	Simon Špilak	Lampre–NGC
DNF	6	Thomas Voeckler	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	Shoulder injury sustained from crash
DNS	7	Sebastian Langeveld	Rabobank
DNF	7	Samuel Sánchez	Euskaltel–Euskadi
DNF	7	Mikaël Cherel	Française des Jeux
DNF	7	Thomas Fothen	Team Milram
DNF	7	Marcel Sieberg	Team Columbia–High Road
DNF	7	Tom Veelers	Skil–Shimano
DNF	7	Mickaël Buffaz	Cofidis
DNF	7	Javier Aramendia	Euskaltel–Euskadi
DNF	7	Romain Feillu	Agritubel