Fifth edition of the UCI ProTour | |
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Dates | 20 January – 23 August |
Location | Australia and Europe |
Races | 14 |
The 2009 UCI ProTour was the fifth series of the UCI ProTour. Two new teams, the American Garmin–Slipstream and the Russian Team Katusha, joined the ProTour, effectively taking over the licenses of Crédit Agricole and Gerolsteiner. Two existing teams changed title sponsors: Team CSC from Denmark became Team Saxo Bank, and Saunier Duval–Scott changed name to Fuji–Servetto. 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.
Code | Official Team Name | Country | Website |
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ALM | Ag2r–La Mondiale | France | [1] Archived 2007-05-21 at the Wayback Machine |
AST | Astana | Kazakhstan | [2] |
BTL | Bbox Bouygues Telecom | France | [3] |
COF | Cofidis | France | [4] |
EUS | Euskaltel–Euskadi | Spain | [5] |
FDJ | Française des Jeux | France | [6] |
FUJ | Fuji–Servetto | Spain | [7] Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine |
GCE | Caisse d'Epargne | Spain | [8] |
GRM | Garmin–Slipstream | United States | [9] Archived 2009-01-29 at the Wayback Machine |
KAT | Team Katusha | Russia | [10] |
LAM | Lampre–NGC | Italy | [11] |
LIQ | Liquigas | Italy | [12] |
MRM | Team Milram | Germany | [13] |
QST | Quick-Step | Belgium | [14] |
RAB | Rabobank | Netherlands | [15] |
SAX | Team Saxo Bank | Denmark | [16][permanent dead link] |
SIL | Silence–Lotto | Belgium | [17] |
THR | Team Columbia–HTC | United States | [18] Archived 2020-09-23 at the Wayback Machine |