2009 UCI ProTour | |
Edition: | 5 |
Competition: | UCI ProTour |
Dates: | 20 January – 23 August |
Location: | Australia and Europe |
Rounds: | 14 |
Previous: | 2008 |
Next: | 2010 |
The 2009 UCI ProTour was the fifth series of the UCI ProTour. Two new teams, the American and the Russian, joined the ProTour, effectively taking over the licenses of and . Two existing teams changed title sponsors: from Denmark became, and changed name to . As in 2008, the races organized by the three Grand Tour organizers were not part of the ProTour. Rather than a ranking based only on the ProTour, the UCI designed a World Calendar, on which the Monument events and Grand Tours were included, with a corresponding 2009 UCI World Ranking.
The first race was the 2009 Tour Down Under in January, and the series ended with the 2009 GP Ouest-France in August.
width=100px | Dates | Race | width=200px | Winner | width=200px | UCI World Ranking leader |
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20–25 January | Tour Down Under | |||||
5 April | Tour of Flanders | |||||
8 April | ||||||
6–11 April | ||||||
19 April | Amstel Gold Race | ([2]) | ||||
28 April–3 May | Tour de Romandie | |||||
18–24 May | Volta a Catalunya | [3] | ||||
7–14 June | Dauphiné Libéré | align=center rowspan=2 | ||||
13–21 June | Tour de Suisse | |||||
1 August | Clásica de San Sebastián | [4] | ||||
2–8 August | Tour de Pologne | |||||
16 August | Vattenfall Cyclassics | |||||
20–27 August | / Tour of Benelux | |||||
23 August | GP Ouest-France |