Cycling race
The2009Tour de Romandie (63rd Edition) cycling road race started on 28 April and finished on 3 May in Switzerland. It was the 6th event in the2009 UCI ProTour , and the 12th event in theWorld Calendar .
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 andBMC 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 andCadel Evans took part, as teammates on theSilence–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 ) andMikel Astarloza (Euskaltel–Euskadi )) and 2008 ProTour championAlejandro 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.
Prologue Results General Classification after Prologue
Stage won byRicardo Serrano beforeLars Bak andGrégory Rast . The stage was shortened due to snowfalls, from a scheduled 176.2 km to 87.6 km.
Stage 1 Results General Classification after Stage 1
Stage 2 Results General Classification after Stage 2
Stage 3 Results General Classification after Stage 3
Stage 4 Results General Classification after Stage 4
Stage 5 Results General Classification after Stage 5
General classification [ edit ] Sprints classification [ edit ]
Mountain classification [ edit ] Youth classification [ edit ]
