2009 UCI ProTour

Template:Short description Template:Infobox cycling season The 2009 UCI ProTour was the fifth series of the UCI ProTour. Two new teams, the American Template:Cycling data GRM and the Russian Template:Cycling data KAT, 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 Template:Cycling data FUJ changed name to Template:Cycling data FUJ. 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.

2009 UCI ProTour races

Dates	Race	Winner	UCI World Ranking leader
20–25 January	Template:Flagicon Tour Down Under	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data QST)	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data QST)
5 April	Template:Flagicon Tour of Flanders	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data QST)
8 April	Template:Flagicon Gent–Wevelgem	Template:Flagathlete (Team Columbia–High Road)
6–11 April	Template:Flagicon Vuelta al País Vasco	Template:Flagathlete (Astana)	Template:Flagathlete (Astana)
19 April	Template:Flagicon Amstel Gold Race	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data KAT)	Template:Flagathlete (Cervélo TestTeam)
28 April–3 May	Template:Flagicon Tour de Romandie	Template:Flagathlete (Liquigas)
18–24 May	Template:Flagicon Volta a Catalunya	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data GCE)	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data QST)
7–14 June	Template:Flagicon Dauphiné Libéré	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data GCE)	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data GCE)
13–21 June	Template:Flagicon Tour de Suisse	Template:Flagathlete (Team Saxo Bank)
1 August	Template:Flagicon Clásica de San Sebastián	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data QST)	Template:Flagathlete (Astana)
2–8 August	Template:Flagicon Tour de Pologne	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data LAM)
16 August	Template:Flagicon Vattenfall Cyclassics	Template:Flagathlete (Template:Cycling data GRM)
20–27 August	Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Tour of Benelux	Template:Flagathlete (Team Columbia–High Road)
23 August	Template:Flagicon GP Ouest-France	Template:Flagathlete (Cervélo TestTeam)

Teams

Code	Official Team Name	Country	Website
ALM	Template:Cycling data ALM		[1]
AST	Astana		[2]Template:Category handler
BTL	Template:Cycling data BBO		[3]
COF	Template:Cycling data COF		[4]
EUS	Template:Cycling data EUS		[5]
FDJ	Française des Jeux		[6]
FUJ	Template:Cycling data FUJ		[7]
GCE	Template:Cycling data GCE		[8]
GRM	Template:Cycling data GRM		[9]
KAT	Template:Cycling data KAT		[10]
LAM	Template:Cycling data LAM		[11]
LIQ	Liquigas		[12]
MRM	Team Milram		[13]
QST	Template:Cycling data QST		[14]
RAB	Template:Cycling data RAB		[15]
SAX	Team Saxo Bank		[16]
SIL	Template:Cycling data SIL		[17]Template:Category handler
THR	Team Columbia–HTC		[18]