2007 UCI ProTour

2007 UCI ProTour

Third edition of the UCI ProTour
Details
Dates	March 11 – October 20
Location	Europe
Rounds	26
Champions
Individual champion	Cadel Evans (AUS) (Predictor–Lotto)
Teams' champion	Team CSC
Nations' champion	Spain

The 2007 UCI ProTour is the third year of the UCI ProTour system. Following a dispute and power struggle between the UCI and the organisers of the Grand Tours, ASO, RCS and Unipublic, a number of events were run as ProTour events, although without ProTour licences. This meant the races counted towards the ProTour standings, although the organisers were not obliged to invite all 20 UCI ProTeams, notably not inviting Unibet.com.

After numerous doping scandals in previous years, culminating with Floyd Landis' doping scandal in the 2006 Tour de France, the Phonak team was disbanded when the new title sponsor, iShares, decided to cease sponsoring and pull out of cycling. As of December, 2006, the ProTour license abandoned by Phonak has been granted to the Unibet.com, and the Active Bay group of Manolo Saiz has lost its license, which was given to the Astana. The links between the ProTour and the organisers of the three Grand Tours (ASO, RCS MediaGroup and Unipublic) remain strained.

The 2007 Paris–Nice race was the focus of a dispute between (ASO) and the UCI. ASO have requested that the 2007 edition be downgraded from ProTour status to NE (national calendar status), therefore lacking UCI world-ranking points and threatening the participation of the ProTeams.^[1] This was resolved to an extent though and Paris–Nice took place as the first ProTour race of the season, although without Unibet.com.

2007 ProTour races

Dates	Race	Winner	ProTour leader
March 11–18	Paris–Nice	Alberto Contador (ESP) (Discovery Channel)	Alberto Contador (ESP) (Discovery Channel)
March 14–20	Tirreno–Adriatico	Andreas Klöden (GER) (Astana)
March 24	Milan–San Remo	Óscar Freire (ESP) (Rabobank)
April 8	Tour of Flanders	Alessandro Ballan (ITA) (Lampre–Fondital)
April 11	Gent–Wevelgem	Marcus Burghardt (GER) (T-Mobile Team)	Óscar Freire (ESP) (Rabobank)
April 9–14	Vuelta al País Vasco	Juan José Cobo (ESP) (Saunier Duval–Prodir)
April 15	Paris–Roubaix	Stuart O'Grady (AUS) (Team CSC)	Stuart O'Grady (AUS) (Team CSC)
April 22	Amstel Gold Race	Stefan Schumacher (GER) (Gerolsteiner)	Davide Rebellin (ITA) (Gerolsteiner)
April 25	La Flèche Wallonne	Davide Rebellin (ITA) (Gerolsteiner)
April 29	Liège–Bastogne–Liège	Danilo Di Luca (ITA) (Liquigas)
May 1–6	Tour de Romandie	Thomas Dekker (NED) (Rabobank)
May 21–27	Volta a Catalunya	Vladimir Karpets (RUS) (Caisse d'Epargne)
May 12–June 3	Giro d'Italia	Danilo Di Luca (ITA) (Liquigas)	Danilo Di Luca (ITA) (Liquigas)
June 10–17	Dauphiné Libéré	Christophe Moreau (FRA) (Agritubel)
June 16–24	Tour de Suisse	Vladimir Karpets (RUS) (Caisse d'Epargne)
June 24	TTT Eindhoven	Team CSC
July 7–29	Tour de France	Alberto Contador (ESP) (Discovery Channel)
August 4	Clásica de San Sebastián	Leonardo Bertagnolli (ITA) (Liquigas)
August 10–18	Deutschland Tour	Jens Voigt (GER) (Team CSC)
August 19	Vattenfall Cyclassics	Alessandro Ballan (ITA) (Lampre–Fondital)
August 22–29	/ Eneco Tour of Benelux	Iván Gutiérrez (ESP) (Caisse d'Epargne)
September 2	GP Ouest-France	Thomas Voeckler (FRA) (Bouygues Télécom)
September 1–23	Vuelta a España	Denis Menchov (RUS) (Rabobank)
September 9–15	Tour de Pologne	Johan Van Summeren (BEL) (Predictor–Lotto)
October 14	Paris–Tours	Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) (Team Milram)
October 20	Giro di Lombardia	Damiano Cunego (ITA) (Lampre–Fondital)	Cadel Evans (AUS) (Predictor–Lotto)

Züri-Metzgete race was scheduled in Switzerland for October 7, but the race was cancelled.

Teams

Code	Official Team Name	Country	Website
ALM	AG2R Prévoyance	France
AST	Astana	Switzerland
BTL	Bouygues Télécom	France
GCE	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain
COF	Cofidis	France
C.A	Crédit Agricole	France
CSC	Team CSC	Denmark
DSC	Discovery Channel	United States
PRL	Predictor–Lotto	Belgium
EUS	Euskaltel–Euskadi	Spain
FDJ	Française des Jeux	France
GST	Gerolsteiner	Germany
LAM	Lampre–Fondital	Italy
LIQ	Liquigas	Italy
MRM	Team Milram	Italy
QSI	Quick-Step–Innergetic	Belgium
RAB	Rabobank	Netherlands	(in Dutch)
SDV	Saunier Duval–Prodir	Spain
TMO	T-Mobile Team	Germany	--
UNI	Unibet.com	Sweden

Individual standings

Final classification^[2]

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1	Cadel Evans (AUS)	Predictor–Lotto	247
2	Davide Rebellin (ITA)	Gerolsteiner	197
3	Alberto Contador (ESP)	Discovery Channel	191
4	Alejandro Valverde (ESP)	Caisse d'Epargne	190
5	Óscar Freire (ESP)	Rabobank	182
6	Denis Menchov (RUS)	Rabobank	172
7	Damiano Cunego (ITA)	Lampre–Fondital	165
8	Kim Kirchen (LUX)	Team High Road	165
9	Samuel Sánchez (ESP)	Euskaltel-Euskadi	159
10	Vladimir Karpets (RUS)	Caisse d'Epargne	145
11	Alessandro Ballan (ITA)	Lampre–Fondital	135
12	Carlos Sastre (ESP)	Team CSC	127

• 241 riders have scored at least one (1) point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.

Team standings

Final classification^[3]

Rank	Team	Nationality	Points
1	Team CSC	Denmark	392
2	Liquigas	Italy	354
3	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain	337
4	AG2R Prévoyance	France	324
5	Quick-Step–Innergetic	Belgium	310
6	Saunier Duval–Prodir	Spain	306
7	Discovery Channel	United States	300
8	Rabobank	Netherlands	300
9	Predictor–Lotto	Belgium	293
10	Lampre–Fondital	Italy	258
11	Euskaltel–Euskadi	Spain	227
12	Astana	Switzerland	218
13	Team High Road	Germany	212
14	Gerolsteiner	Germany	207
15	Crédit Agricole	France	182
16	Bouygues Télécom	France	178
17	Cofidis	France	177
18	Team Milram	Italy	148
19	Française des Jeux	France	137
20	Unibet.com	Sweden	127

Nation standings

Final standings^[4]

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Spain	849
2	Italy	728
3	Australia	520
4	Russia	437
5	Luxembourg	377
6	Germany	337
7	Netherlands	293
8	Belgium	281
9	United States	215
10	France	180

• Riders from 30 nations scored at least one UCI ProTour point

2007 ProTour Points System

• If a rider is not part of UCI ProTour, no points are given. The points corresponding to the place are not awarded
• Top 20 teams get points in scale 20-19-18...1.
• Team time trials in stage races doesn't give points for riders.
• In Eindhoven time trial rider has to finish to earn points.
• In country ranking, top 5 riders of each country count towards the ranking.

References

External links

• Official Website