2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11

Cycling race stages thumb|350px|Overview of the stages These are the individual stages of the 2009 Tour de France, with Stage 1 on July 4 and Stage 11 on July 15.2009-07-04 Tour de France 2009 https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2009/stages/ 2025-04-10 cyclingnews.com en Stages Stage 1 4 July 2009 — Monaco, 15.5 km (ITT) The 2009 Tour began, as have many in the past, with an individual time trial, but instead of a very brief prologue, this 15 kilometer ride saw the race's overall favorites show themselves on day one. Stage by Stage: Stage 1, Monaco – Monaco Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/100/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20100717022957/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/100/etape_par_etape.html 2010-07-17 dead The favourite for the stage, Fabian Cancellara, won with Alberto Contador coming in second. Time-trial specialist Bradley Wiggins came third. Stage 1 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI SAX 2009 19' 33" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 + 18" 3 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 19" 4 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 + 22" 5 Cadel Evans AUS SIL 2009 + 23" 6 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 + 30" 7 Roman Kreuziger CZE LIQ 2009 + 32" 8 Tony Martin GER THR 2009b + 33" 9 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 37" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 + 40"General classification after stage 1 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage 20px|Cancellara was awarded the green jersey as points classification leader after this stage SAX 2009 19' 33" 2 Alberto Contador ESP 20px|Contador was awarded the polkadot jersey as mountains classification leader after this stage AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 18" 3 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 19" 4 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 22" 5 Cadel Evans AUS SIL 2009 + 23" 6 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 30" 7 Roman Kreuziger CZE 20px|Kreuziger was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage LIQ 2009 + 32" 8 Tony Martin GER THR 2009b + 33" 9 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 37" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 40" Stage 2 thumb|right|Stage 2 riding profile 5 July 2009 — Monaco to Brignoles, 182 km This stage was largely flat, but had one third category, and three fourth category, climbs in its first 129 km, and most of the last 15 km was downhill. A four-man breakaway (Stéphane Augé, Stef Clement, Cyril Dessel and Jussi Veikkanen) held a maximum advantage of some 5 minutes, but they were caught with 10 km remaining, initially by Mikhail Ignatiev, and shortly after by the rest of the peloton. Ignatiev was caught with 5 km left, and some of the cyclists shaping to contest the sprint were disrupted by a crash and a missed turn in the last kilometre, allowing Mark Cavendish a clear win. Stage by Stage: Stage 2, Monaco – Brignoles Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/200/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090707085548/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/200/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-07 dead Stage 2 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Mark Cavendish GBR THR 2009b 4h 30' 02" 2 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2009 s.t. 3 Romain Feillu FRA AGR 2009 s.t. 4 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 s.t. 5 Yukiya Arashiro JPN BBO 2009 s.t. 6 Gerald Ciolek GER GRM 2009 s.t. 7 William Bonnet FRA BBO 2009 s.t. 8 Nicolas Roche IRL ALM 2009 s.t. 9 Koen de Kort NED SKS 2009 s.t. 10 Lloyd Mondory FRA ALM 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 2 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage SAX 2009 4h 49' 34" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 18" 3 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 19" 4 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 22" 5 Cadel Evans AUS SIL 2009 + 23" 6 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 30" 7 Roman Kreuziger CZE 20px|Kreuziger was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage LIQ 2009 + 32" 8 Tony Martin GER THR 2009b + 33" 9 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 37" 10 Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 40" Stage 3 thumb|Stage 3: Samuel Dumoulin, Koen de Kort, Rubén Pérez and Maxime Bouet in Arles thumb|right|upright|George Hincapie and Mark Cavendish in the green jersey 6 July 2009 — Marseille to La Grande-Motte, 196 km Stage 3 was another flat stage, with a finish on the waterfront at La Grande-Motte. Like in stage 2, a four-man breakaway formed, this time consisting of Maxime Bouet, Koen de Kort, Samuel Dumoulin and Rubén Pérez. They held a maximum advantage of about 13 minutes and were caught with a little less than 30 kilometres to go by a first group who had separated themselves from the rest of the peloton as a result of accelerating in the presence of strong winds near the coastline. The group contained 28 riders, including leader Fabian Cancellara, 7-time winner Lance Armstrong and the whole Team Columbia–HTC. After a sprint, Mark Cavendish finished first. Several of the favorites and riders classified in the top 10, such as Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans, Carlos Sastre, the Schleck brothers, Levi Leipheimer and Bradley Wiggins, were not present in this group and were 41 seconds behind at the finish. Stage by Stage: Stage 3, Marseille – La Grande-Motte Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/300/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090707210349/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/300/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-07 dead Stage 3 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Mark Cavendish GBR 20px|Cavendish wore green jersey as points classification leader during this stage THR 2009b 5h 01' 24" 2 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 s.t. 3 Cyril Lemoine FRA SKS 2009 s.t. 4 Samuel Dumoulin FRA COF 2009 s.t. 5 Jérôme Pineau FRA QST 2009 s.t. 6 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara wore the yellow jersey as general classification leader during this stage SAX 2009 s.t. 7 Fabian Wegmann GER MRM 2009 s.t. 8 Fumiyuki Beppu JPN SKS 2009 s.t. 9 Maxime Bouet FRA AGR 2009 s.t. 10 Linus Gerdemann GER MRM 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 3 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage SAX 2009 9h 50' 58" 2 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 33" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 40" 4 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 59" 5 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 1' 00" 6 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 1' 03" 7 Linus Gerdemann GER MRM 2009 + 1' 03" 8 Cadel Evans AUS SIL 2009 + 1' 04" 9 Maxime Monfort BEL THR 2009b + 1' 10" 10 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 1' 11" Stage 4 7 July 2009 — Montpellier, 38 km (TTT) thumb|Between the time points of Grabels and Murviel-lès-Montpellier, kilometer 17, the right curb where the four riders of BBO 2009 and Piet Rooijakkers exited the road. Un 'chrono' en images Midi Libre Montpellier 2009-07-08 This was the first team time trial in the Tour since 2005. Riders finishing with the first five members of their team all received the same time: riders who became isolated from their team recorded an individual time. The time trial was won by AST 2009, beating GRM 2009, who rode about half the race with only 5 riders left, by 18 seconds. Fabian Cancellara and SAX 2009 took 40 seconds longer than Astana, Cancellara thus having the same overall time as Lance Armstrong but retaining the yellow jersey by virtue of the fractions of a second recorded in the opening time trial. After the race, some riders complained that the course was too dangerous and that this course was unworthy of a major race like this. During the race several riders had indeed crashed, amongst them Denis Menchov, Alessandro Ballan, Bingen Fernández, Jurgen Van den Broeck, 4 riders of BBO 2009 and also Piet Rooijakkers. Rooijakkers fractured his arm and was rushed off to a hospital, ending his tour. Stage by Stage: Stage 4, Montpellier – Montpellier Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/400/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090707211446/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/400/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-07 dead Stage 4 result Rank Team Time 1 AST 2009 20px|Astana riders wore the yellow numbers as team classification leader during this stage 46' 29" 2 GRM 2009 + 18" 3 SAX 2009 + 40" 4 LIQ 2009 + 58" 5 THR 2009b + 59" 6 KAT 2009 + 1' 23" 7 GCE 2009 + 1' 29" 8 CTT 2009 + 1' 37" 9 ALM 2009 + 1' 48" 10 EUS 2009 + 2' 09"General classification after stage 4 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage SAX 2009 10h 38' 07" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 0" 3 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 19" 4 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 23" 5 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 31" 6 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 38" 7 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded the yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 51" 8 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 52" 9 David Zabriskie USA GRM 2009 + 1' 06" 10 David Millar GBR GRM 2009 + 1' 07" Stage 5 8 July 2009 — Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan, 197 km The Tour visited Cap d'Agde for only the second time ever, as the early Tour flat stages continued. Perpignan, on the other hand, is a traditional city for the Tour to visit, thought to symbolically indicate the Tour's entrance to (or exit from, in "counter-clockwise" years) the Pyrenees. A six rider breakaway, consisting of Anthony Geslin, Yauheni Hutarovich, Mikhail Ignatiev, Marcin Sapa, Albert Timmer and Thomas Voeckler, formed within the first kilometre, and achieved a maximum lead of more than nine and a half minutes. Attacks by Ignatiev in the last 10 km had reduced the escape group to four, until with 5 km Voeckler made what proved to be the decisive break. Ignatiev finished second just in front of Cavendish and the rest of the pack. During the race, the peloton had split into several groups as a result of the wind, as had happened two days before. Among the absentees in the first group of the peloton were Denis Menchov and Tom Boonen, but they and their group managed to return to the main group after several kilometres of chasing. Robert Gesink, who had crashed just before the windy passage along the coastline started, eventually had to let the peloton go and finished more than nine minutes behind with what in the end proved to be a broken wrist. Stage by Stage: Stage 5, Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/500/etape_par_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20130513004941/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/us/500/etape_par_etape.html 2013-05-13 dead Stage 5 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Thomas Voeckler FRA BBO 2009 4h 29' 35" 2 Mikhail Ignatiev RUS KAT 2009 + 7" 3 Mark Cavendish GBR 20px|Cavendish wore green jersey as points classification leader during this stage THR 2009b s.t. 4 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2009 s.t. 5 Gerald Ciolek GER MRM 2009 s.t. 6 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2009 s.t. 7 José Joaquín Rojas ESP GCE 2009 s.t. 8 Lloyd Mondory FRA ALM 2009 s.t. 9 Óscar Freire ESP RAB 2009 s.t. 10 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 5 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage SAX 2009 15h 07' 49" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 0" 3 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 19" 4 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 23" 5 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 31" 6 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 38" 7 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers jersey as team classification leader after this stage + 51" 8 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 52" 9 David Zabriskie USA GRM 2009 + 1' 06" 10 David Millar GBR GRM 2009 + 1' 07" Stage 6 9 July 2009 — Girona (Spain) to Barcelona (Spain), 175 km This last flat stage before the 2009 Tour entered the Pyrenees took place entirely within Spain, on a course that is frequently used in the Tour of Catalonia. The main break of the day was instigated by David Millar after 46 km, and he was joined by Stéphane Augé, who took the King of the Mountains leadership, and Sylvain Chavanel, and eventually by Amets Txurruka. Millar, 10th at the beginning of the stage, was virtual leader of the tour for much of the day, as the lead extended to 3'45", and he attacked and left behind his fellow escapees with 29 km remaining. The uphill approach to the finish on Montjuïc did not suit some of the sprinters, but there was a group of about 60 at the head of the field when Millar was caught near the 1 km red flag, and with some GC contenders and climbers contesting the finish, Thor Hushovd emerged as stage winner. The day was marked by numerous rain showers, and a number of falls, with Michael Rogers the main overall contender to lose considerable time. Stage 6 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 4h 21' 33" 2 Óscar Freire ESP RAB 2009 s.t. 3 José Joaquín Rojas ESP GCE 2009 s.t. 4 Gerald Ciolek GER MRM 2009 s.t. DSQ Franco Pellizotti ITA LIQ 2009 s.t. 5 Filippo Pozzato ITA KAT 2009 s.t. 6 Alessandro Ballan ITA LAM 2009 s.t. 7 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA ALM 2009 s.t. 8 Cadel Evans AUS SIL 2009 s.t. 9 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara wore yellow jersey as general classification leader during this stage SAX 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 6 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara SUI 20px|Cancellara was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage SAX 2009 19h 29' 22" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 0" 3 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 19" 4 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 23" 5 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 31" 6 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 38" 7 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 52" 8 Christian Vande Velde USA GRM 2009 + 1' 16" 9 Gustav Larsson SWE SAX 2009 + 1' 22" 10 Maxime Monfort BEL THR 2009b + 1' 29" Stage 7 10 July 2009 — Barcelona (Spain) to Andorra-Arcalis (Andorra)- 224 km This second stage in a row that did not visit French soil was both the longest stage, and the highest finish of this year's tour. The first key break of the day comprised three riders, and escaped after 8 km of cycling, but it was joined by a six-man chase group shortly after the first of the day's minor climbs, but this was the day on which the race reached the high mountains. The escapees stretched their advantage to more than 14 minutes before reaching the major climbs, but as they included Rinaldo Nocentini, who was 32nd in the general classification and only 3'13" behind the yellow jersey, the peloton, driven by the Astana squad, made a chase. Although the lead was greatly reduced, all but one of the escapees finished before the elite riders, and Nocentini retained a big enough advantage to take over the race leadership. Brice Feillu attacked the other four escapees who were at the head of the field with 5.5 km remaining, and stayed away to claim his first professional win in his first Tour de France. After an attempted attack on the other contenders for the Tour victory by Cadel Evans, 2007 winner Alberto Contador made a successful attack on the elite group with 3 km to go, beating them to the line by 21 seconds, and taking second place overall, while after five days in the yellow jersey, Cancellara finished more than nine minutes behind the stage winner, having been dropped on the final climb. Stage 7 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Brice Feillu FRA AGR 2009 6h 11' 31" 2 Christophe Kern FRA COF 2009 + 5" 3 Johannes Fröhlinger GER MRM 2009 + 25" 4 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA ALM 2009 + 26" 5 Egoi Martínez ESP EUS 2009 + 45" 6 Christophe Riblon FRA ALM 2009 + 1' 05" 7 Jérôme Pineau FRA QST 2009 + 2' 32" 8 Iván Gutiérrez ESP GCE 2009 + 3' 14" 9 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders wore yellow numbers as team classification leader during this stage + 3' 26" 10 Cadel Evans AUS SIL 2009 + 3' 47"General classification after stage 7 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA 20px|Nocentini was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage ALM 2009 25h 44' 32" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 6" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 8" 4 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 39" 5 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 46" 6 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 20px|Astana riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage + 54" 7 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 1' 00" 8 Christian Vande Velde USA GRM 2009 + 1' 24" 9 Andy Schleck LUX SAX 2009 + 1' 49" 10 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 1' 54" Stage 8 11 July 2009 — Andorra la Vella (Andorra) to Saint-Girons, 176 km The Tour returned to France in the second of three Pyrenean stages, which featured three categorized climbs, including the imposing Port d'Envalira at just over 2,400 meters, before a steep descent. A number of early breakaways, including one featuring Cadel Evans, and one that enabled Thor Hushovd to take sufficient points in intermediate sprints to claim the green jersey, came to nothing, and by the top of the final climb three riders, Mikel Astarloza (later suspended for EPO use), Vladimir Efimkin and Luis León Sánchez, were at the front of the race, with an array of chasers and struggling former members of breakaways between them and a group that included all the GC contenders and the yellow jersey wearer, Nocentini, who was part of a group, also including Denis Menchov, that had recovered a 30-second deficit on the elite group shortly before the top of the climb. Meanwhile, GCE 2009 leader and 2006 Tour winner, Óscar Pereiro, became the highest profile rider to abandon the race. On the 42 km descent, Sandy Casar caught the three leaders, and this group of four maintained a comfortable lead over the peloton, and the race among these riders was triggered when Efimkin broke clear with 4 km remaining, a move that at one stage looked as though it might succeed, but he was caught by the other three escapees just before the red kite, and Sánchez won the sprint from Casar. There was no change to the position of the race favorites. Stage by Stage: Stage 8, Andorra la Vella – Saint-Girons Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/800/journal_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090707025814/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/800/journal_etape.html 2009-07-07 dead Stage 8 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Luis León Sánchez ESP GCE 2009 4h 31' 50" 2 Sandy Casar FRA FDJ 2009 s.t. DSQ Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 s.t. 3 Vladimir Efimkin RUS ALM 2009 + 3" 4 José Joaquín Rojas ESP GCE 2009 + 1' 54" 5 Christophe Riblon FRA 20px|Riblon was awarded the red number as the previous day's winner of the combativity award ALM 2009 s.t. 6 Peter Velits SVK MRM 2009 s.t. 7 Sébastien Minard FRA COF 2009 s.t. 8 Jérémy Roy FRA FDJ 2009 s.t. 9 Thomas Voeckler FRA BBO 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 8 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA 20px|Nocentini was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage 30h 18' 16" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 + 6" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 + 8" 4 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 + 39" 5 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 46" 6 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 + 54" 7 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 1' 00" 8 Christian Vande Velde USA GRM 2009 + 1' 24" 9 Andy Schleck LUX SAX 2009 + 1' 49" 10 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 1' 54" Stage 9 12 July 2009 — Saint-Gaudens to Tarbes, 160 km The Pyrenees portion of the 2009 Tour ended with this stage which had two categorized climbs, the Col d'Aspin and the Col de Tourmalet and, as the previous day, a lengthy flat stretch before the finish, essentially neutralising the stage in terms of challenges relevant to the overall classification. An early break of twelve riders became thirteen after extensive effort by the LIQ 2009 squad to get Franco Pellizotti across the divide. After not much more than half an hour, the escape group was reduced to four: Pellizotti, Jens Voigt, Pierrick Fédrigo and Leonardo Duque, who was dropped on the climb of the Col d'Apsin, while a chase group of 9 riders formed behind, including Egoi Martínez, who was to gain enough points over the cols to take the polkadot jersey at the end of the day. By the top of that mountain, the leading trio held an advantage of 2'45 over the counter-attack and 3'30 over the peloton; at the top of the Tourmalet only Pellizotti and Fédrigo remained at the front, with seven surviving chasers at 2'40 and the peloton at 5'05. The descent and flat run in saw all the escapees except the two leaders reeled in, as RAB 2009 and GCE 2009 sought to engineer an opportunity for their sprinters, but Pellizotti and Fédrigo held on to contest the stage win between themselves, the Frenchman emerging as victor. Stage by Stage: Stage 9, Saint-Gaudens – Tarbes Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/900/journal_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090706220318/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/900/journal_etape.html 2009-07-06 dead Stage 9 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Pierrick Fédrigo FRA BBO 2009 4h 05' 31" DSQ Franco Pellizotti ITA LIQ 2009 s.t. 2 Óscar Freire ESP RAB 2009 + 34" 3 Serguei Ivanov RUS KAT 2009 s.t. 4 Peter Velits SVK MRM 2009 s.t. 5 José Joaquín Rojas ESP GCE 2009 s.t. 6 Greg Van Avermaet BEL SIL 2009 s.t. 7 Geoffroy Lequatre FRA AGR 2009 s.t. 8 Alessandro Ballan ITA LAM 2009 s.t. 9 Nicolas Roche IRL ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders wore yellow numbers as team classification leader during this stage s.t.General classification after stage 9 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA 20px|Nocentini was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage 34h 24' 21" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 + 6" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 + 8" 4 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 + 39" 5 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 46" 6 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 + 54" 7 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 1' 00" 8 Christian Vande Velde USA GRM 2009 + 1' 24" 9 Andy Schleck LUX SAX 2009 + 1' 49" 10 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 1' 54" Rest day 13 July 2009 — Limoges After a lengthy transfer, the rest day was spent at the site of the beginning of the next day's stage. Stage 10 14 July 2009 — Limoges to Issoudun, 193 km The Bastille Day stage, one of two stages on which it was intended riders will not be in radio contact with their team cars, was flat, heading to Issoudun for the first time on the Tour de France. Weislo Laura Two Tour stages to be run without radios Cyclingnews.com 2009-06-18 http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/two-tour-stages-to-be-run-without-radios 2009-07-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20090621224314/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/two-tour-stages-to-be-run-without-radios 21 June 2009 live The day's break was initiated by Thierry Hupond in the second kilometre, and he was joined by Mikhail Ignatiev and Benoît Vaugrenard, and after a hold-up at a level crossing, by Samuel Dumoulin. The group's lead never reached four minutes, but over the latter stages the peloton found the gap slow to close. The catch was finally made with a little over 1½ km left, Hupond being the last member of the breakaway to yield to the chasers, and THR 2009b's train again delivered Mark Cavendish for a win in the sprint, ahead of Thor Hushovd, who retained the green jersey. It was initially announced that a split in the field meant that most of the peloton, including Levi Leipheimer and Bradley Wiggins, two of the top five in the overall classification at the beginning of the day, lost 15 seconds to the first 52 finishers, but this was rescinded the following day. Stage 10 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Mark Cavendish GBR THR 2009b 4h 46' 43" 2 Thor Hushovd NOR 20px|Hushovd wore the green jersey as points classification leader during this stage CTT 2009 s.t. 3 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2009 s.t. 4 Leonardo Duque COL COF 2009 s.t. 5 José Joaquín Rojas ESP GCE 2009 s.t. 6 Lloyd Mondory FRA ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders wore yellow numbers as team classification leader during this stage s.t. 7 Kenny van Hummel NED SKS 2009 s.t. 8 William Bonnet FRA BBO 2009 s.t. 9 Daniele Bennati ITA LIQ 2009 s.t. 10 Saïd Haddou FRA BBO 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 10 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA 20px|Nocentini was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage 39h 11' 04" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 + 6" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 + 8" 4 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 + 39" 5 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 46" 6 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 + 54" 7 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 1' 00" 8 Christian Vande Velde USA GRM 2009 + 1' 24" 9 Andy Schleck LUX SAX 2009 + 1' 49" 10 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 1' 54" Stage 11 15 July 2009 — Vatan to Saint-Fargeau, 192 km This was another flat stage, with a two-man breakaway, consisting of Johan Van Summeren and Marcin Sapa, which reached its largest advantage of 4'45" after 45 km and was caught with 5 km remaining. Mark Cavendish again dominated the sprint, taking his fourth stage of the tour and regaining the green jersey. Stage by Stage: Stage 11, Vatan – Saint-Fargeau Letour.fr http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/1100/journal_etape.html 2009-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090707083159/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/1100/journal_etape.html 2009-07-07 dead Stage 11 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Mark Cavendish GBR THR 2009b 4h 17' 55" 2 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2009 s.t. 3 Yauheni Hutarovich BLR FDJ 2009 s.t. 4 Óscar Freire ESP RAB 2009 s.t. 5 Thor Hushovd NOR 20px|Hushovd wore the green jersey as points classification leader during this stage CTT 2009 s.t. 6 Leonardo Duque COL COF 2009 s.t. 7 Gerald Ciolek GER MRM 2009 s.t. 8 Lloyd Mondory FRA ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders wore yellow numbers as team classification leader during this stage s.t. 9 William Bonnet FRA BBO 2009 s.t. 10 Nikolay Trusov RUS KAT 2009 s.t.General classification after stage 11 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA 20px|Nocentini was awarded the yellow jersey as general classification leader after this stage ALM 2009 20px|Ag2r–La Mondiale riders were awarded yellow numbers as team classification leader after this stage 43h 28' 59" 2 Alberto Contador ESP AST 2009 + 6" DSQ Lance Armstrong USA AST 2009 + 8" 4 Levi Leipheimer USA AST 2009 + 39" 5 Bradley Wiggins GBR GRM 2009 + 46" 6 Andreas Klöden GER AST 2009 + 54" 7 Tony Martin GER 20px|Martin was awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader after this stage THR 2009b + 1' 00" 8 Christian Vande Velde USA GRM 2009 + 1' 24" 9 Andy Schleck LUX SAX 2009 + 1' 49" 10 Vincenzo Nibali ITA LIQ 2009 + 1' 54" 2009 Tour de France 1 11 12 21 References 1 To Stage 11 France France Category:Tour de France stages