2009 Vuelta a España

2009 Vuelta a España

Race details
Dates		29 August–20 September
Stages		21
Distance		3,292.3 km (2,046 mi)
Winning time		87h 22' 37" (37.7 km/h/23.4 mph)
Palmarès
	Winner	Alejandro Valverde (Spain)	(Caisse d'Epargne)
	Second	Samuel Sánchez (Spain)	(Euskaltel–Euskadi)
	Third	Cadel Evans (Australia)	(Silence-Lotto)
	Points	André Greipel (Germany)	(Team Columbia)
	Mountains	David Moncoutié (France)	(Cofidis)
	Combination	Alejandro Valverde (Spain)	(Caisse d'Epargne)
	Team	Xacobeo–Galicia
← 2008 2010 →

The 2009 Vuelta a España was the 64th Vuelta a España. The event took place from 29 August to 20 September 2009. For only the second time in the race's history, it began away from Spanish soil, with the race not in fact reaching Spain until Stage 5.

The 2009 Vuelta has been described as having an easy start and a hard finish.^[1] This is because of the short individual time trial and three perfectly flat stages in the Netherlands (along with another in Spain in the race's first week), and eight of the final fourteen stages being mountain stages, with four mountaintop finishes.

The race was won by Spain's Alejandro Valverde who claimed his first grand tour victory.^[2][3]

Contents 1 Teams 2 Stages 3 Classification leadership 4 Final standings 4.1 General Classification 4.2 Points Classification 4.3 King of the Mountains Classification 4.4 Combination Classification 4.5 Teams Classification 5 World Rankings points 6 Vuelta 7 References 8 External links

Teams

29 teams sought places in the race, of which 21 were initially invited to compete.^[4] Fuji-Servetto, one of two UCI ProTour teams omitted from the list of invited teams, appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and were subsequently granted the right to enter. Team Katusha are thus the only ProTour team absent from the race.

Ag2r-La Mondiale Andalucía-Cajasur Astana Bbox Bouygues Telecom Cervélo TestTeam Caisse d'Epargne Cofidis Contentpolis-Ampo

Euskaltel-Euskadi Française des Jeux Fuji-Servetto Garmin-Slipstream Lampre-NGC Liquigas Quick Step

Rabobank Silence-Lotto Team Columbia-HTC Team Milram Team Saxo Bank Vacansoleil Xacobeo-Galicia

Stages

^[5] For details see 2009 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11 and 2009 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	29 Aug	Assen (Netherlands)	4.8 km (3 mi)		Individual time trial	Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
2	30 Aug	Assen (Netherlands) to Emmen (Netherlands)	203.7 km (127 mi)		Flat stage	Gerald Ciolek (GER)
3	31 Aug	Zutphen (Netherlands) to Venlo (Netherlands)	189.7 km (118 mi)		Flat stage	Greg Henderson (NZL)
4	1 Sept	Venlo (Netherlands) to Liège (Belgium)	225.5 km (140 mi)		Flat stage	André Greipel (GER)
	2 Sept	Rest/travel day
5	3 Sept	Tarragona to Vinaròs	174.0 km (108 mi)		Flat stage	André Greipel (GER)
6	4 Sept	Xàtiva	176.8 km (110 mi)		Flat stage	Borut Božič (SLO)
7	5 Sept	Valencia	30.0 km (19 mi)		Individual time trial	Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
8	6 Sept	Alzira to Alto de Aitana	204.7 km (127 mi)		Mountain stage	Damiano Cunego (ITA)
9	7 Sept	Alcoy to Xorret del Catí	188.8 km (117 mi)		Mountain stage	Gustavo César Veloso (ESP)
10	8 Sept	Alicante to Murcia	171.2 km (106 mi)		Flat stage	Simon Gerrans (AUS)
11	9 Sept	Murcia to Caravaca de la Cruz	200.0 km (124 mi)		Transition stage	Tyler Farrar (USA)
	10 Sept	Rest day
12	11 Sept	Almería to Alto de Velefique	179.3 km (111 mi)		Mountain stage	Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)
13	12 Sept	Berja to Sierra Nevada	172.4 km (107 mi)		Mountain stage	David Moncoutié (FRA)
14	13 Sept	Granada to La Pandera	157.0 km (98 mi)		Mountain stage	Damiano Cunego (ITA)
15	14 Sept	Jaén to Córdoba	167.7 km (104 mi)		Flat stage	Lars Boom (NED)
16	15 Sept	Córdoba to Puertollano	170.3 km (106 mi)		Flat stage	André Greipel (GER)
17	16 Sept	Ciudad Real to Talavera de la Reina	193.6 km (120 mi)		Flat stage	Anthony Roux (FRA)
18	17 Sept	Talavera de la Reina to Ávila	165.0 km (103 mi)		Transition stage	Philip Deignan (IRL)
19	18 Sept	Ávila to La Granja de San Ildefonso	179.8 km (112 mi)		Mountain stage	Juan José Cobo (ESP)
20	19 Sept	Toledo	27.8 km (17 mi)		Individual time trial	David Millar (GB)
21	20 Sept	Rivas-Vaciamadrid to Madrid	110.2 km (68 mi)		Flat stage	André Greipel (GER)
	TOTAL		3,292.3 km (2,046 mi)

Classification leadership

In the 2009 Vuelta a España, four different jerseys are awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist after deduction of time bonuses for high placings in stage finishes and at intermediate sprints, the leader receives a golden jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Vuelta a España, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Vuelta.

Additionally, there is also a points classification, which awards a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists receive points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. The winner gets 25 points, second place 20, third 16, fourth 14, fifth 12, sixth 10, and one point per place less down the line, to a single point for fifteenth. In addition, some points can be won in intermediate sprints.

There is also a mountains classification, which awards a red jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb is categorized, with most of the climbs being either first, second, third, or fourth category. There are also three "special category" climbs (equivalent to Hors Categorie in the Tour de France); these are the stage finishes on the Alto de Aitana, the Alto de Sierra Nevada, and the Sierra de La Pandera. These climbs award even more points than a first-category climb.

Finally, there is the combination classification. This is calculated by adding the rankings in the general, points and mountains classifications; the cyclist with the lowest combined ranking is the leader in the combination classification, and receives a white jersey.

There is also a classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage are added, and the team with the lowest time is the leader.

Stage	Winner	General classification Maillot Oro	Points classification Maillot Puntos	Mountains classification Maillot Montaña	Combination Classification Maillot Combinada	Team classification Clasificación por equipos
1	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	Not Awarded	Fabian Cancellara	Liquigas
2	Gerald Ciolek		Tom Boonen	Tom Leezer
3	Greg Henderson
4	André Greipel		André Greipel	Lars Boom	Dominik Roels	Team Columbia-HTC
5	André Greipel	André Greipel		Aitor Hernández	Serafín Martínez	Liquigas
6	Borut Božič			José Antonio López Gil
7	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara			Dominik Roels	Garmin-Slipstream
8	Damiano Cunego	Cadel Evans		David Moncoutie	Cadel Evans	Caisse d'Epargne
9	Gustavo Cesar Veloso	Alejandro Valverde
10	Simon Gerrans			David De La Fuente
11	Tyler Farrar			David Moncoutie
12	Ryder Hesjedal				Alejandro Valverde
13	David Moncoutie
14	Damiano Cunego		Alejandro Valverde
15	Lars Boom					Xacobeo-Galicia
16	André Greipel		André Greipel
17	Anthony Roux
18	Philip Deignan
19	Juan José Cobo
20	David Millar
21	André Greipel
Final		Alejandro Valverde	André Greipel	David Moncoutié	Alejandro Valverde	Xacobeo-Galicia

Jersey wearers when one rider is leading two or more competitions

If a cyclist leads two or more competitions at the end of a stage, he receives all those jerseys. In the next stage, he can only wear one jersey, and he wears the jersey representing leadership in the most important competition (golden first, then green, then red, then white). The other jerseys that the cyclists owns are worn in the next stage by the second-place (or, if needed, third or fourth-place) rider in that classification.

• In Stage 2, Tom Boonen wore the green jersey, and Tyler Farrar wore the white jersey
• In Stage 3, Gerald Ciolek wore the white jersey
• In Stage 4, Greg Henderson wore the white jersey
• In Stages 6 & 7, Tom Boonen wore the green jersey
• In Stage 9, Damiano Cunego wore the white jersey
• In Stage 13, Cadel Evans wore the white jersey
• In Stages 14–19, Robert Gesink wore the white jersey
• In Stage 15 & 16, André Greipel wore the green jersey
• In Stage 20, Ezequiel Mosquera wore the white jersey
• In Stage 21, Samuel Sánchez wore the white jersey

Final standings

After stage 21

General Classification Rider Team Time 1  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 87h 22' 37" 2  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi + 55" 3  Cadel Evans (AUS) Silence-Lotto + 1' 32" 4  Ivan Basso (ITA) Liquigas + 2' 12" 5  Ezequiel Mosquera (ESP) Xacobeo-Galicia + 4' 27" 6  Robert Gesink (NED) Rabobank + 6 ' 40" 7  Joaquin Rodriguez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 9' 08" 8  Paolo Tiralongo (ITA) Lampre-NGC + 9' 11" 9  Philip Deignan (IRL) Cervélo TestTeam + 11' 08" 10  Juan José Cobo (ESP) Fuji-Servetto + 11' 27"

Points Classification Rider Team Points 1  André Greipel (GER) Team Columbia-High Road 150 2  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 111 3  Daniele Bennati (ITA) Liquigas 101 4  Cadel Evans (AUS) Silence-Lotto 99 5  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi 89 6  Borut Bozic (SLO) Vacansoleil 68 7  Ezequiel Mosquera (ESP) Xacobeo-Galicia 68 8  Robert Gesink (NED) Rabobank 68 9  Ivan Basso (ITA) Liquigas 64 10  Leonardo Duque (COL) Cofidis 64

King of the Mountains Classification Rider Team Points 1  David Moncoutié (FRA) Cofidis 186 2  David de la Fuente (ESP) Fuji-Servetto 99 3  Julián Sánchez Pimienta (ESP) Contentpolis-Ampo 73 4  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 67 5  Ezequiel Mosquera (ESP) Xacobeo-Galicia 61 6  Pieter Weening (NED) Rabobank 60 7  Javier Ramírez Abeja (ESP) Andalucía-Cajasur 59 8  Robert Gesink (NED) Rabobank 58 9  Johnny Hoogerland (NED) Vacansoleil 54 10  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi 52

Combination Classification Rider Team Points 1  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 7 2  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 3  Ezequiel Mosquera (ESP) Xacobeo-Galicia 17 4  Cadel Evans (AUS) Silence-Lotto 19 5  Robert Gesink (NED) Rabobank 22 6  Ivan Basso (ITA) Liquigas 29 7  David Moncoutié (FRA) Cofidis 40 8  Johnny Hoogerland (NED) Vacansoleil 52 9  Juan José Cobo (ESP) Fuji-Servetto 53 10  Joaquin Rodriguez (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 58

Teams Classification

	Team	Time
1	Xacobeo-Galicia	261h 57' 19"
2	Caisse d'Epargne	+ 23' 43"
3	Astana	+ 31' 39"
4	Cofidis	+ 39' 37"
5	Fuji-Servetto	+ 52' 13"
6	Rabobank	+ 57' 35"
7	Euskaltel-Euskadi	+ 1h 04' 40"
8	Silence-Lotto	+ 1h 07' 04"
9	Cervélo TestTeam	+ 1h 19' 27"
10	Liquigas	+ 1h 34' 05"

World Rankings points

The Vuelta was the penultimate event in the 2009 UCI World Ranking. The rankings leader, Alberto Contador, did not compete in the event, but five of the top ten did, including the race winner, Valverde, who earned enough points to ensure that the title was not yet decided. Valverde, however, remained banned from riding in Italy, and so did not take part in the final ranking event, the 2009 Giro di Lombardia.

Vuelta

Rider	Team	Nationality	Stage points	Points for final position	Total
Valverde, AlejandroAlejandro Valverde	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain	18	170	188
Sanchez, SSamuel Sánchez	Euskaltel-Euskadi	Spain	14	130	144
Evans, CadelCadel Evans	Silence-Lotto	Australia	10	100	110
Mosquera, EzequielEzequiel Mosquera	Xacobeo-Galicia	Spain	12	80	92
Basso, IvanIvan Basso	Liquigas	Italy	1	90	91
Gesink, RobertRobert Gesink	Rabobank	Netherlands	11	70	81
Greipel, AndréAndré Greipel	Team Columbia-HTC	Germany	73		73
Deignan, PhilipPhilip Deignan	Cervélo TestTeam	Ireland	16	44	60
Rodríguez, JoaquimJoaquim Rodríguez	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain		60	60
Cobo, Juan JoséJuan José Cobo	Fuji-Servetto	Spain	16	38	54
Tiralongo, PaoloPaolo Tiralongo	Lampre-NGC	Italy		52	52
Cunego, DamianoDamiano Cunego	Lampre-NGC	Italy	33		33
Moreno, DanielDaniel Moreno	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain	1	32	33
Cancellara, FabianFabian Cancellara	Team Saxo Bank	Switzerland	32		32
Farrar, TylerTyler Farrar	Garmin-Slipstream	United States	31		31
Božič, BorutBorut Božič	Vacansoleil	Slovenia	28		28
Hoogerland, JohnnyJohnny Hoogerland	Vacansoleil	Netherlands		26	26
Hesjedal, RyderRyder Hesjedal	Garmin-Slipstream	Canada	24		24
Millar, DavidDavid Millar	Garmin-Slipstream	United Kingdom	24		24
Moncoutié, DavidDavid Moncoutié	Cofidis	France	24		24
Bennati, DanieleDaniele Bennati	Liquigas	Italy	23		23
Navarro, DanielDaniel Navarro	Astana	Spain		22	22
Bonnet, WilliamWilliam Bonnet	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	France	18		18
Cesar, GustavoGustavo Cesar	Xacobeo-Galicia	Spain	18		18
Ciolek, GeraldGerald Ciolek	Team Milram	Germany	18		18
Zubeldia, HaimarHaimar Zubeldia	Astana	Spain		18	18
Boonen, TomTom Boonen	Quick Step	Belgium	17		17
Boom, LarsLars Boom	Rabobank	Netherlands	16		16
Fuglsang, JakobJakob Fuglsang	Team Saxo Bank	Denmark	16		16
Gerrans, SimonSimon Gerrans	Cervélo TestTeam	Australia	16		16
Henderson, GregGreg Henderson	Team Columbia-HTC	New Zealand	16		16
Roux, AnthonyAnthony Roux	Française des Jeux	France	16		16
Vazquez, MManuel Vázquez	Contentpolis-Ampo	Spain	2	14	16
Kiryienka, VasilVasil Kiryienka	Caisse d'Epargne	Belarus	1	10	11
Herrero, DavidDavid Herrero	Xacobeo-Galicia	Spain	10		10
Kreuziger, RomanRoman Kreuziger	Liquigas	Czech Republic	9		9
García, DavidDavid García	Xacobeo-Galicia	Spain	8		8
Gilbert, PhilippePhilippe Gilbert	Silence-Lotto	Belgium	8		8
Grabsch, BertBert Grabsch	Team Columbia-HTC	Germany	8		8
Marzano, MarcoMarco Marzano	Lampre-NGC	Italy	8		8
Sabatini, FabioFabio Sabatini	Liquigas	Italy	8		8
Szmyd, SylwesterSylwester Szmyd	Liquigas	Poland		8	8
Weylandt, WouterWouter Weylandt	Quick Step	Belgium	8		8
Moinard, AmaëlAmaël Moinard	Cofidis	France		6	6
Hammond, RogerRoger Hammond	Cervélo TestTeam	United Kingdom	4		4
Duque, LeonardoLeonardo Duque	Cofidis	Colombia	4		4
Freire, ÓscarÓscar Freire	Rabobank	Spain	4		4
Hernández, JesúsJesús Hernández	Astana	Spain		4	4
Marcato, MarcoMarco Marcato	Vacansoleil	Italy	4		4
Roels, DominikDominik Roels	Team Milram	Germany	4		4
de la Fuente, DavidDavid de la Fuente	Fuji-Servetto	Spain	2		2
De Weert, KevinKevin De Weert	Quick Step	Belgium		2	2
Isasi, IñakiIñaki Isasi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	Spain	2		2
Mouris, JensJens Mouris	Vacansoleil	Netherlands	2		2
Pacheco, Francisco JoséFrancisco José Pacheco	Contentpolis-Ampo	Spain	2		2
Sieberg, MarcelMarcel Sieberg	Team Columbia-HTC	Germany	2		2
Viganò, DavideDavide Viganò	Fuji-Servetto	Italy	2		2
Vinokourov, AlexanderAlexander Vinokourov	Astana	Kazakhstan	2		2
Antón, IgorIgor Antón	Euskaltel-Euskadi	Spain	1		1
Hansen, AdamAdam Hansen	Team Columbia-HTC	Australia	1		1
Hinault, SébastienSébastien Hinault	Ag2r-La Mondiale	France	1		1
Iglinsky, MaximMaxim Iglinsky	Astana	Kazakhstan	1		1
Velo, MarcoMarco Velo	Quick Step	Italy	1		1

References

External links

• Official website
• cyclingnews.com

2009 UCI World Ranking Tour Down Under • Paris–Nice • Tirreno–Adriatico • Milan – San Remo • Ronde van Vlaanderen • Gent–Wevelgem • Tour of the Basque Country • Paris–Roubaix • Amstel Gold Race • La Flèche Wallonne • Liège–Bastogne–Liège • Tour de Romandie • Giro d'Italia • Volta a Catalunya • Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré • Tour de Suisse • Tour de France • Clásica de San Sebastián • Tour de Pologne • Vattenfall Cyclassics • Eneco Tour • GP Ouest-France • Vuelta a España • Giro di Lombardia

Vuelta a España 1935 · 1936 suspended due to Spanish Civil War 1941  · 1942 suspended due to World War II 1945 · 1946 · 1947 · 1948 · 1949 · 1950 · 1951 · 1952 · 1953 · 1954 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959 · 1960 · 1961 · 1962 · 1963 · 1964 · 1965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 General classification Points classification Mountains classification Combination classification

2009 Vuelta a España List of teams and cyclists in the 2009 Vuelta a España Stage 1–11  · Stage 12–21