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The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco .
Andy Schleck leading the yellow jersey winner Alberto Contador, Lance Armstrong and his brother Fränk Schleck, up Mont Ventoux on stage 20. The two chasers seen behind the four-man group are Vincenzo Nibali and Roman Kreuziger. The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
Overall Speed of the Tour de France. The 2022 edition was the fastest Tour de France in history. Jonas Vingegaard rode 3,349,8 km in 79h 33' 20", thus realising an overall speed of 42.102 km/h (26.161 mph). [17] The slowest Tour de France was the edition of 1919, when Firmin Lambot's average speed was 24.1 km/h. [18]
Only seven riders have won the equivalent of a career Triple Crown, meaning a Gold in the UCI Road World Championships road race, the Tour de France, and the Giro d'Italia. In addition to Merckx, Roche, Pogacar and Van Vleuten who won the triple crown in a single season they are Fausto Coppi , Felice Gimondi and Bernard Hinault .
8 July 2009 — Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan, 197 km. The Tour visited Cap d'Agde for only the second time ever, as the early Tour flat stages continued. Perpignan, on the other hand, is a traditional city for the Tour to visit, thought to symbolically indicate the Tour's entrance to (or exit from, in "counter-clockwise" years) the Pyrenees.
The winner of the Tour de France is determined by the general classification. In addition, there are some secondary classifications . The mountains classification , first calculated in 1933 and first associated with the polkadot jersey in 1975; [ 1 ] To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the race in 1953 , the points classification was ...
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