2009 Eneco Tour
| 2009 UCI World Ranking, race 21 of 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 18—25 August | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7+Prologue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,128.1 km (701.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 26h 49' 40" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
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| Second |
 Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)
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| Third |
 Sebastian Langeveld (NED)
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(Rabobank) | |
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Points |
Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
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(Team Columbia–HTC) |
| Team | Rabobank | ||
The 2009 Eneco Tour was the fifth edition of the Eneco Tour cycling stage race. It took place from 18 August to 25 August 2009 in the Benelux. Like the previous years, parts of the Netherlands and Belgium were covered. It was part of the inaugural UCI World Ranking. It began with a short individual time trial in Rotterdam and ended with a longer one in Amersfoort.
As the Tour of Benelux is a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Three UCI Professional Continental teams, Skil–Shimano, Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, and Vacansoleil were also invited to the race, for a total of 21 teams. Each team was allowed eight riders, though Euskaltel–Euskadi sent only seven and Team Milram had a rider who planned to start withdraw due to injury before the prologue, meaning 166 riders began the event.
The 21 teams participating in the race are:
18 August 2009 - Rotterdam (Netherlands), 4.4 km (ITT)
The course for the prologue time trial was a quick, flat trip through downtown Rotterdam, taking a lap around the city's Southern Park. The course was not at all technical; it contained only gentle turns to form a rectangle, along with long straightaways.
Quick Step's Sylvain Chavanel picked up his second victory of the season in the prologue. Chavanel was one of the first men to take the course, and had to wait for ninety minutes to see if his time would hold up. His biggest threat came from Garmin-Slipstream rider Tyler Farrar, who clocked in .23 seconds slower than Chavanel. The Frenchman took the first leader's white jersey.
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