2009 Tour de Romandie

The 2009 Tour de Romandie (63rd Edition) cycling road race started on 28 April and finished on 3 May in Switzerland. It was the 6th event in the 2009 UCI ProTour, and the 12th event in the World 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: and , 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 and Cadel Evans took part, as teammates on the team. Other pre-race favourites included four of the top five in 2008 (Roman Kreuziger (), Marco Pinotti (), Dennis Menchov () and Mikel Astarloza ()) and 2008 ProTour champion Alejandro Valverde ().

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.

Stages

Prologue – 28 April 2009: [[Lausanne]], ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	František Raboň
**2**	Sandy Casar
**3**	Alejandro Valverde
**4**	Tyler Farrar
**5**	Roman Kreuziger

|| |General Classification after Prologue

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	František Raboň[[Image:Jersey gold.svg	20px]]
**2**	Sandy Casar
**3**	Alejandro Valverde
**4**	Tyler Farrar [[Image:Jersey white.svg	20px]]
**5**	Roman Kreuziger

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Stage 1 – 29 April 2009: [[Montreux]] > [[Fribourg]]

The stage was shortened due to snowfalls, from a scheduled 176.2 km to 87.6 km.

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Ricardo Serrano
**2**	Lars Bak
**3**	Grégory Rast
**4**	Tony Martin
**5**	Haimar Zubeldia

|| |General Classification after Stage 1

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Grégory Rast [[Image:Jersey gold.svg	20px]] [[Image:Jersey green.svg	20px]]
**2**	Ricardo Serrano [[Image:Jersey red.svg	20px]]
**3**	Lars Bak
**4**	František Raboň
**5**	Sandy Casar

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Stage 2 – April 30, 2009: [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]]

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Óscar Freire
**2**	František Raboň
**3**	Assan Bazayev
**4**	Roman Kreuziger
**5**	Dan Martin

|| |General Classification after Stage 2

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Grégory Rast [[Image:Jersey gold.svg	20px]] [[Image:Jersey green.svg	20px]]
**2**	Ricardo Serrano
**3**	Lars Bak
**4**	František Raboň
**5**	Óscar Freire

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Stage 3 – 1 May 2009: [[Yverdon-les-Bains]], ([[Team time trial|TTT]])

Team	Time
**1**
**2**
**3**
**4**
**5**

|| |General Classification after Stage 3

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	František Raboň [[Image:Jersey gold.svg	20px]]
**2**	Lars Bak
**3**	Tony Martin [[Image:Jersey white.svg	20px]]
**4**	Alejandro Valverde
**5**	Kanstantsin Sivtsov

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Stage 4 – 2 May 2009: [[Estavayer-le-Lac]] > [[Sainte-Croix, Switzerland|Sainte-Croix]]

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Roman Kreuziger
**2**	Rein Taaramäe
**3**	Vladimir Karpets
**4**	Fredrik Kessiakoff
**5**	Mikel Astarloza

|| |General Classification after Stage 4

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Roman Kreuziger [[Image:Jersey gold.svg	20px]]
**2**	Vladimir Karpets
**3**	Rein Taaramäe
**4**	Alejandro Valverde
**5**	Rigoberto Urán

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Stage 5 – 3 May 2009: [[Aubonne]] > [[Geneva]]

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Óscar Freire
**2**	Tyler Farrar
**3**	Koldo Fernández
**4**	Philippe Gilbert
**5**	Nico Sijmens

|| |General Classification after Stage 5

Cyclist	Team	Time
**1**	Roman Kreuziger [[Image:Jersey gold.svg	20px]]
**2**	Vladimir Karpets
**3**	Rein Taaramäe
**4**	Alejandro Valverde
**5**	Rigoberto Urán

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