2009 Tour de Romandie

The 2009 Tour de Romandie (63rd Edition) cycling road race started on 28 April and finished on 3 May in Switzerland. It was the 6th event in the 2009 UCI ProTour, and the 12th event in the World Calendar.

2009 UCI World Ranking, race 12 of 24
Race details
Dates	28 April–3 May 2009
Stages	5 & Prologue
Results
Winner  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) (Liquigas)   Second  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) (Team Katusha)   Third  Rein Taaramäe (EST) (Cofidis)   Mountains  Laurens ten Dam (NED) (Rabobank)   Youth  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) (Liquigas)   Sprints  Grégory Rast (SUI) (Astana)
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In addition to the 18 ProTour teams, guaranteed entry to the event as it is promoted by the UCI, two wildcard entries were accepted: Cervélo TestTeam and BMC Racing Team, both of which have strong Swiss links. Andreas Klöden did not defend the title he won the previous year, but the two previous winners of the event, Thomas Dekker and Cadel Evans took part, as teammates on the Silence–Lotto team. Other pre-race favourites included four of the top five in 2008 (Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas), Marco Pinotti (Team Columbia–High Road), Dennis Menchov (Rabobank) and Mikel Astarloza (Euskaltel–Euskadi)) and 2008 ProTour champion Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne).

Roman Kreuziger won the 4th stage, and in doing so put himself into a lead that he retained on the last day, thus going one better than his second place overall in 2008.

Stages

Prologue – 28 April 2009: Lausanne, (ITT)

Prologue Results Cyclist Team Time 1  František Raboň (CZE) Team Columbia–High Road 3' 44.56" 2  Sandy Casar (FRA) Française des Jeux + 2" 3  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 3" 4  Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin–Slipstream + 4" 5  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas + 4"

General Classification after Prologue Cyclist Team Time 1  František Raboň (CZE) Team Columbia–High Road 3' 44" 2  Sandy Casar (FRA) Française des Jeux + 2" 3  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 3" 4  Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin–Slipstream + 4" 5  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas + 4"

Stage 1 – 29 April 2009: Montreux > Fribourg

Stage won by Ricardo Serrano before Lars Bak and Grégory Rast.

The stage was shortened due to snowfalls, from a scheduled 176.2 km to 87.6 km.

Stage 1 Results Cyclist Team Time 1  Ricardo Serrano (ESP) Fuji–Servetto 2h 08' 35" 2  Lars Bak (DEN) Team Saxo Bank s.t. 3  Grégory Rast (SUI) Astana s.t. 4  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 28" 5  Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) Astana + 28"

General Classification after Stage 1 Cyclist Team Time 1  Grégory Rast (SUI) Astana 2h 12' 17" 2  Ricardo Serrano (ESP) Fuji–Servetto + 5" 3  Lars Bak (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 12" 4  František Raboň (CZE) Team Columbia–High Road + 35" 5  Sandy Casar (FRA) Française des Jeux + 35"

Stage 2 – April 30, 2009: La Chaux-de-Fonds

Stage 2 Results Cyclist Team Time 1  Óscar Freire (ESP) Rabobank 4h 06' 56" 2  František Raboň (CZE) Team Columbia–High Road s.t. 3  Assan Bazayev (KAZ) Astana s.t. 4  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas s.t. 5  Dan Martin (IRL) Garmin–Slipstream s.t.

General Classification after Stage 2 Cyclist Team Time 1  Grégory Rast (SUI) Astana 6h 19' 13" 2  Ricardo Serrano (ESP) Fuji–Servetto + 5" 3  Lars Bak (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 12" 4  František Raboň (CZE) Team Columbia–High Road + 27" 5  Óscar Freire (ESP) Rabobank + 28"

Stage 3 – 1 May 2009: Yverdon-les-Bains, (TTT)

Stage 3 Results Team Time 1 Team Columbia–High Road 18' 37" 2 Caisse d'Epargne + 10" 3 Team Saxo Bank + 16" 4 Liquigas + 24" 5 Silence–Lotto + 25"

General Classification after Stage 3 Cyclist Team Time 1  František Raboň (CZE) Team Columbia–High Road 6h 38' 17" 2  Lars Bak (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 1" 3  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 8" 4  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 19" 5  Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR) Team Columbia–High Road + 21"

Stage 4 – 2 May 2009: Estavayer-le-Lac > Sainte-Croix

Stage 4 Results Cyclist Team Time 1  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas 4h 11' 44" 2  Rein Taaramäe (EST) Cofidis s.t. 3  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 7" 4  Fredrik Kessiakoff (SWE) Fuji–Servetto + 17" 5  Mikel Astarloza (ESP) Euskaltel–Euskadi + 45"

General Classification after Stage 4 Cyclist Team Time 1  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas 10h 50' 25" 2  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 18" 3  Rein Taaramäe (EST) Cofidis + 25" 4  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 46" 5  Rigoberto Urán (COL) Caisse d'Epargne + 48"

Stage 5 – 3 May 2009: Aubonne > Geneva

Stage 5 Results Cyclist Team Time 1  Óscar Freire (ESP) Rabobank 3h 29' 49" 2  Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin–Slipstream s.t. 3  Koldo Fernández (ESP) Euskaltel–Euskadi s.t. 4  Philippe Gilbert (BEL) Silence–Lotto s.t. 5  Nico Sijmens (BEL) Cofidis s.t.

General Classification after Stage 5 Cyclist Team Time 1  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas 14h 20' 14" 2  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 18" 3  Rein Taaramäe (EST) Cofidis + 25" 4  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 46" 5  Rigoberto Urán (COL) Caisse d'Epargne + 48"

Final standings

General classification Cyclist Team Time 1  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas 14h 20' 14" 2  Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Team Katusha + 18" 3  Rein Taaramäe (EST) Cofidis + 25" 4  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 46" 5  Rigoberto Urán (COL) Caisse d'Epargne + 48" 6  Lars Bak (DEN) Team Saxo Bank + 1' 01" 7  Cadel Evans (AUS) Silence–Lotto + 1' 07" 8  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 1' 08" 9  Fredrik Kessiakoff (SWE) Fuji–Servetto + 1' 16" 10  Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR) Team Columbia–High Road + 1' 21"

Sprints classification Cyclist Team Time 1  Grégory Rast (SUI) Astana 15 pts 2  Florent Brard (FRA) Cofidis 12 pts 3  Jérôme Coppel (FRA) Française des Jeux 9 pts 4  Sandy Casar (FRA) Française des Jeux 7 pts 5  Philippe Gilbert (BEL) Silence–Lotto 6 pts

Mountain classification Cyclist Team Time 1  Laurens ten Dam (NED) Rabobank 36 pts 2  Matthieu Sprick (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom 28 pts 3  David Moncoutié (FRA) Cofidis 26 pts 4  Ricardo Serrano (ESP) Fuji–Servetto 20 pts 5  Florent Brard (FRA) Cofidis 20 pts

Youth classification Cyclist Team Time 1  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas 14h 20' 14" 2  Rein Taaramäe (EST) Cofidis + 25" 3  Rigoberto Urán (COL) Caisse d'Epargne + 48" 4  Tony Martin (GER) Team Columbia–High Road + 1' 08" 5  Mathias Frank (SUI) BMC Racing Team + 1' 26"

Jersey progress

Stage (Winner)	General Classification	Sprints Classification	Mountains Classification	Youth Classification	Team Classification	Combativity Prize
0Prologue (ITT) (František Raboň)	František Raboň	None Awarded	None Awarded	Tyler Farrar	Française des Jeux	František Raboň
0Stage 1 (Ricardo Serrano)	Grégory Rast	Grégory Rast	Ricardo Serrano	Tony Martin	Astana	Ricardo Serrano
0Stage 2 (Óscar Freire)			Matthieu Sprick			Matthieu Sprick
0Stage 3 (TTT) (Team Columbia–High Road)	František Raboň				Team Columbia–High Road	Alexandre Moos
0Stage 4 (Roman Kreuziger)	Roman Kreuziger		Laurens ten Dam	Roman Kreuziger	Caisse d'Epargne	Laurens ten Dam
0Stage 5 (Óscar Freire)						Michael Schär
0Final	Roman Kreuziger	Grégory Rast	Laurens ten Dam	Roman Kreuziger	Caisse d'Epargne	David Moncoutié

References

External links

• Official website