2009 Volta a Catalunya

2009 Volta a Catalunya 2009 UCI World Ranking 14 24 18–24 May 2009 7 987.9 km 24h 12' 10" Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 white Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 Julián Sánchez ESP Contentpolis-Ampo red Samuel Dumoulin FRA COF 2009 blue AST 2009 2008 2010 The 2009 Volta a Catalunya was the 89th edition of the Volta. It took place between 18 May and 24 May, and was part of both the ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar. It began with a short individual time trial in Lloret de Mar and ended in Montmeló at the Circuit de Catalunya. Teams As the Volta a Catalunya is a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTour teams were invited automatically. They were joined by three Professional Continental teams.Equips inscrits https://web.archive.org/web/20090508083458/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/89volta.htm 2009-05-08 VoltaCatalunya.cat ca 22em QST 2009 SIL 2009 SAX 2009 ALM 2009 BBO 2009 COF 2009 FDJ 2009 MRM 2009 LAM 2009 LIQ 2009 AST 2009 RAB 2009 KAT 2009 Andalucía–CajaSur GCE 2009 Contentpolis-Ampo EUS 2009 FUJ 2009 CTT 2009 GRM 2009 THR 2009a Route +Stage characteristics and winnershttps://www.bikeraceinfo.com/stageraces/Catalonia/catalonia-2009.html Volta a Catalunya (Pro Tour), Spain BikeRaceInfo 13 February 2020http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09?id=stages 89th Volta a Catalunya – UPT Cycling News 13 February 2020 Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 18 May Lloret de Mar to Lloret de Mar 3.6 km 1 on 20px|link=|alt= Individual time trial Thor Hushovd NOR 2 19 May Girona to Roses 163.1 km 1 on Matti Breschel DEN 3 20 May Roses to La Pobla de Lillet 182.9 km 1 on Alejandro Valverde ESP 4 21 May La Pobla de Lillet to Vallnord 175.7 km 1 on Julián Sánchez ESP 5 22 May La Seu d'Urgell to Torredembarra 201.3 km 1 on Nikolay Trusov RUS 6 23 May Torredembarra to Barcelona 150.5 km 1 on Thor Hushovd NOR 7 24 May Sant Cugat to Circuit de Catalunya 110.8 km 1 on Greg Henderson NZL Stages Stage 1 18 May 2009 – Lloret de Mar, 3.6 km (ITT) The course for the brief individual time trial is perfectly flat.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090509082609/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa1.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya May 9, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 Despite clocking in ten seconds slower than he had on the identical course in the 2008 Volta, Thor Hushovd was the winner of the short individual time trial for the second year in a row, narrowly edging out Alejandro Valverde to don the first white jersey.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya091 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 1 Results and General Classification after Stage 1 CyclistTeamTime 1 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 4' 47" 2 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 + 1" 3 Greg Henderson NZL THR 2009a + 2" 4 Mathieu Ladagnous FRA FDJ 2009 + 3" 5 Sylvain Chavanel FRA QST 2009 + 3" 6 Jussi Veikkanen FIN FDJ 2009 + 3" 7 Dominique Cornu BEL QST 2009 + 3" 8 Niki Terpstra NED MRM 2009 + 4" 9 Daniel Oss ITA LIQ 2009 + 4" 10 Brett Lancaster AUS CTT 2009 + 4" Stage 2 19 May 2009 – Girona to Roses, 163.1 km This course was hilly, with three categorized climbs, including one about 15 kilometers from the finish.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090509085200/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa2.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya May 9, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 A four-man breakaway was away for much of the stage. They claimed the intermediate sprints and the first two climbs, putting Samuel Dumoulin and Lloyd Mondory, respectively, in the leading jerseys for those classifications. They were caught on the last climb of the day, the Alt de San Pere De Rodes, during which race leader Thor Hushovd was dropped and his Cervélo team decided to work for Xavier Florencio. A group of 54 riders was together at the finish for a final sprint, won by Matti Breschel. The race lead transferred to Alejandro Valverde, who was surprised to get it, since he did not contest the sprint and did not get any time bonuses.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya092 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 2 Results CyclistTeamTime 1 Matti Breschel DEN SAX 2009 4h 11' 34" 2 Jérôme Pineau FRA QST 2009 s.t. 3 Xavier Florencio ESP CTT 2009 s.t. 4 Nicolas Roche IRL ALM 2009 s.t. 5 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 s.t. 6 Yury Trofimov RUS BBO 2009 s.t. 7 Paul Martens GER RAB 2009 s.t. 8 Juan Antonio Flecha ESP RAB 2009 s.t. 9 Cyril Dessel FRA ALM 2009 s.t. 10 Michael Albasini SUI THR 2009a s.t.General Classification after Stage 2 CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 4h 16' 22" 2 Jérôme Pineau FRA QST 2009 + 0" 3 Xavier Florencio ESP CTT 2009 + 1" 4 Sylvain Chavanel FRA QST 2009 + 2" 5 Jussi Veikkanen FIN FDJ 2009 + 2" 6 Matti Breschel DEN SAX 2009 + 3" 7 Nicolas Roche IRL ALM 2009 + 4" 8 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 4" 9 Vladimir Karpets RUS KAT 2009 + 4" 10 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 + 5" Stage 3 20 May 2009 – Roses to La Pobla de Lillet, 182.8 km This was a mountainous stage, and it was thought to see a definitive split between those riders who aimed for the final podium and those who didn't. The stage started at sea level, but climbed to 1,031 meters after about 80 kilometers on the road. There were two other categorized climbs on the course, including a steep climb to 1,200 meters right before the end of the stage, which came on the descent from that climb.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090509085205/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa3.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya May 9, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 This stage saw race leader Alejandro Valverde extend his lead with a stage win. After the peloton, paced by his team Caisse d'Epargne, caught the morning's breakaway, Valverde himself attacked at the foot of the day's last climb, and the group of nine GC contenders who were able to hold his wheel contested the finish together.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya093 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 3 Results CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 4h 46' 53" 2 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 s.t. 3 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 s.t. 4 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 s.t. 5 Xavier Tondó ESP Andalucía–CajaSur s.t. 6 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 s.t. 7 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 s.t. 8 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 s.t. 9 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 s.t. 10 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 s.t.General Classification after Stage 3 CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 9h 03' 05" 2 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 14" 3 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 + 15" 4 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 + 17" 5 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 + 18" 6 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 + 19" 7 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 + 21" 8 Xavier Tondó ESP 20px|Tondó was awarded the red jersey as mountains classification leader after the stage Andalucía–CajaSur + 23" 9 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 + 25" 10 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 + 28" Stage 4 21 May 2009 – La Pobla de Lillet to Vallnord Sector Pal (Andorra), 175.7 km This stage was undulating at first, and then became mountainous. The Coll del Port (a pass in Catalonia, not to be confused with the pass in France with a very similar name) was visited, and the finish into Andorra was an outside categorization climb, which began 10 kilometers from the finish line.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090615015450/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa4.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya June 15, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 It has been called the 2009 Volta's queen stage.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/ www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 This stage was conquered by a member of the morning's breakaway, Julián Sánchez. Sánchez and seven others who came clear of the peloton early on in the stage. While the others were absorbed before the Vallnord climb, Sánchez still had a 90-second lead at its foot and managed to stay away just long enough, giving victory in the queen stage of this UCI ProTour event to a non-ProTour team. The GC favorites who had otherwise dominated on the climb were within a kilometer of Sánchez at the finish, with Dan Martin coming the closest to catching him, for second on the stage and a slight time again against race leader Alejandro Valverde. Martin moved from sixth to second in the GC after the stage. As the stages that follow this one are all seen as potentially sprinters' stages, Valverde's team made it clear after this stage that they would work with the teams of the sprinters to ensure mass finishes the rest of the way and protect his 15-second lead over Martin.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya094 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 4 Results CyclistTeamTime 1 Julián Sánchez ESP Contentpolis-Ampo 4h 46' 29" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 + 6" 3 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 + 8" 4 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 12" 5 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 + 21" 6 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 + 21" 7 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 + 25" 8 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 + 31" 9 Xavier Tondó ESP20px|Tondó wore the red jersey as mountains classification leader during the stage Andalucía–CajaSur + 37" 10 John Gadret FRA ALM 2009 + 1' 06"General Classification after Stage 4 CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 13h 49' 38" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 + 15" 3 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 22" 4 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 + 34" 5 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 + 38" 6 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 + 45" 7 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 + 49" 8 Xavier Tondó ESP 20px|Tondó was awarded the red jersey as mountains classification leader again after the stage Andalucía–CajaSur + 56" 9 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 + 1' 42" 10 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 + 1' 52" Stage 5 22 May 2009 – La Seu d'Urgell to Torredembarra, 201.3 km A fair amount of descending faced the riders in this stage, being that it began at 670 meters in elevation and ended near sea level. Most of the descending took place right before the finish line.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090509085210/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa5.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya May 9, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 A four-man breakaway came clear of the peloton within the first 10 km of the stage. Their maximum advantage was 4' 30", with Steven Cozza attacking and staying out front for a short while as the peloton absorbed his three breakaway mates. Cozza was also eventually caught, and the finish was contested in a mass sprint, won by Katusha's Nikolay Trusov. Team Katusha came to the Volta thinking that Alexei Markov would be their primary sprinter, but Markov was not with the peloton at the finish. They therefore worked for Trusov in the sprint, as he narrowly edged out accomplished sprinter Thor Hushovd at the line. The top ten in the GC were unchanged by the day's results.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya095 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 5 Results CyclistTeamTime 1 Nikolay Trusov RUS KAT 2009 4h 28' 58" 2 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 s.t. 3 Fabio Sabatini ITA LIQ 2009 s.t. 4 Greg Henderson NZL THR 2009a s.t. 5 Pablo Urtasun ESP EUS 2009 s.t. 6 Leonardo Duque COL COF 2009 s.t. 7 Lloyd Mondory FRA ALM 2009 s.t. 8 Hilton Clarke AUS FUJ 2009 s.t. 9 Angelo Furlan ITA LAM 2009 s.t. 10 Matti Breschel DEN SAX 2009 s.t.General Classification after Stage 5 CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 18h 18' 36" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 + 15" 3 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 22" 4 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 + 34" 5 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 + 38" 6 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 + 45" 7 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 + 49" 8 Xavier Tondó ESP 20px|Tondó was awarded the red jersey as mountains classification leader again after the stage Andalucía–CajaSur + 56" 9 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 + 1' 42" 10 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 + 1' 52" Stage 6 23 May 2009 – Torredembarra to Barcelona, 150.5 km This stage was expected to end in a mass sprint, in spite of the three categorized climbs the course featured. In the last 40 kilometers, there was only a very short climb and a lengthy flat stretch to the finish.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090509085215/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa6.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya May 9, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 The sprint indeed took place, with the man who was pipped at the line the day before, Thor Hushovd, coming across the line first to claim his second stage win of the Volta. The lead in the mountains classification transferred to Julián Sánchez, who was tied with Xavier Tondó by points, but got the jersey because of his victory on the outside categorization climb in Stage 4. The top ten in the GC were again unchanged, and with only a very short, very flat stage remaining, it was believed that they would be unchanged again for the end of the race.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya096 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 6 Results CyclistTeamTime 1 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 3h 26' 43" 2 Fabio Sabatini ITA LIQ 2009 s.t. 3 Greg Henderson NZL THR 2009a s.t. 4 Matti Breschel DEN SAX 2009 s.t. 5 Leonardo Duque COL COF 2009 s.t. 6 Marco Bandiera ITA LAM 2009 s.t. 7 Brett Lancaster AUS CTT 2009 s.t. 8 Samuel Dumoulin FRA20px|Dumoulin wore the blue jersey as sprint classification leader during the stage COF 2009 s.t. 9 Nicolas Roche IRL ALM 2009 s.t. 10 Roy Sentjens BEL SIL 2009 s.t.General Classification after Stage 6 CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 21h 45' 19" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 + 15" 3 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 22" 4 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 + 34" 5 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 + 38" 6 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 + 45" 7 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 + 49" 8 Xavier Tondó ESP Andalucía–CajaSur + 56" 9 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 + 1' 42" 10 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 + 1' 52" Stage 7 24 May 2009 – Centre d'Alt Rendiment to Circuit de Catalunya Montmeló, 110.8 km This course climbed to just over 600 meters. The climb was originally uncategorized, but with Xavier Tondó and Julián Sánchez tied by points for the King of the Mountains jersey, race officials decided to offer points for the climb to have a definitive winner in that classification. The descent from that height took about 50 kilometers, with 10 flat kilometers to race before the finish at the race track in Montmeló.https://www.voltacatalunya.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20090509085220/http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/09etapa7.htm dead Web oficial de Volta Ciclista a Catalunya May 9, 2009 www.voltacatalunya.cat Sep 6, 2019 The short distance and relatively flat profile of the stage kept any breakaways from staying clear. Sánchez managed to outsprint Tondó to the summit of the climb to clinch the red jersey victory for the Contentpolis rider. The majority of the peloton was together for the finish, a sprint which was won by Columbia–High Road's Greg Henderson.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/may09/catalunya09/?id=results/catalunya097 www.cyclingnews.com presents the 89th Volta a Catalunya autobus.cyclingnews.com Sep 6, 2019 Stage 7 Results CyclistTeamTime 1 Greg Henderson NZL THR 2009a 2h 26' 51" 2 Lloyd Mondory FRA ALM 2009 s.t. 3 Fabio Sabatini ITA LIQ 2009 s.t. 4 Thor Hushovd NOR CTT 2009 s.t. 5 Pablo Urtasun ESP EUS 2009 s.t. 6 Matti Breschel DEN SAX 2009 s.t. 7 Sebastian Lang GER SIL 2009 s.t. 8 Leonardo Duque COL COF 2009 s.t. 9 William Bonnet FRA BBO 2009 s.t. 10 Roy Sentjens BEL SIL 2009 s.t.Final General Classification CyclistTeamTime 1 Alejandro Valverde ESP GCE 2009 24h 12' 10" 2 Dan Martin IRL GRM 2009 + 15" 3 Haimar Zubeldia ESP AST 2009 + 22" 4 Mikel Astarloza ESP EUS 2009 + 34" 5 José Ángel Gómez Marchante ESP CTT 2009 + 38" 6 Jakob Fuglsang DEN SAX 2009 + 45" 7 Alexsandr Dyachenko KAZ AST 2009 + 49" 8 Xavier Tondó ESP Andalucía–CajaSur + 56" 9 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2009 + 1' 42" 10 David de la Fuente ESP FUJ 2009 + 1' 52" Riders' jersey progress table In the 2009 Volta a Catalunya, three different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass start stages, the leader received a white jersey with green stripes on the sleeves. This classification is considered the most important of the Volta a Catalunya, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Volta a Catalunya. Additionally, there was also a sprint classification, indicated with a blue jersey. In the sprint classification, cyclists got points for being one of the first three in intermediate sprints, with six points awarded for first place, four for second, and two for third. There was also a mountains classification, indicated with a red jersey. In the mountains classifications, points are won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. All climbs were categorized, with most either first, second, third, or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. There was also an outside categorization climb at the end of Stage 4, which awarded even more points than the first-category climbs. Stage Winner General Classification Mountains Classification Sprint Classification Team Classification 1 Thor Hushovd Thor Hushovd no award no award CTT 2009 2 Matti Breschel Alejandro Valverde Lloyd Mondory Samuel Dumoulin 3 Alejandro Valverde Xavier Tondó EUS 2009 4 Julián Sánchez AST 2009 5 Nikolay Trusov 6 Thor Hushovd Julián Sánchez 7 Greg Henderson FinalAlejandro ValverdeJulián SánchezSamuel DumoulinAST 2009 References External links CAT http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/89volta.htm ca ESP http://www.voltacatalunya.cat/espanol/89volta.htm es cyclingnews.com 2009 Volta Category:2009 in Spanish road cycling Category:2009 UCI ProTour Category:2009 in Andorran sport Category:2009 UCI World Ranking Category:Cycle races in Andorra Category:May 2009 sports events in Spain