2009 Tour de Suisse
| 2009 UCI World Ranking, race 16 of 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 13–21 June | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,355 km (842.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 33h 05' 51" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
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(Team Saxo Bank) |
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| Second |
 Tony Martin (GER)
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(Team Columbia–High Road) | |
| Third |
 Roman Kreuziger (CZE)
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(Liquigas) | |
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Points |
Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
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(Team Saxo Bank) |
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Mountains |
Tony Martin (GER)
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(Team Columbia–High Road) |
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Sprints |
 Enrico Gasparotto (ITA)
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(Lampre–NGC) |
| Team | Team Saxo Bank | ||
The 2009 Tour de Suisse was the 73rd edition of the Tour de Suisse stage race. It took place from 13 June to 21 June and is part of both the 2009 UCI ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar. It began with a short individual time trial in Liechtenstein and ended with another time trial, in Bern. The race was won by Fabian Cancellara.
As the Tour de Suisse was a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTour teams were invited automatically. They were joined by two Professional Continental teams, Cervélo TestTeam and Vorarlberg–Corratec, to form the event's 20-team peloton.
The 20 teams participating in the race were:
13 June 2009 - Mauren (Liechtenstein) to Ruggell (Liechtenstein), 7.8 km (ITT)
The course for the brief individual time trial was deceptively difficult, with a categorized climb coming after 5 km and a technical descent down twisting, turning roads to the finish following it.
Two-time former world time trial champion and reigning Swiss national champion Fabian Cancellara was the winner of the opening individual time trial, taking the course 19 seconds faster than Liquigas' Roman Kreuziger. Despite the large gap Cancellara had over the man in second, most of the other times were tightly bunched, with 88 riders within a minute of Cancellara.
14 June 2009 - Davos, 150 km
This stage began at 1400 m in elevation, descended to around 500 m, and ended back around 1500 m. After a small climb that came just after the beginning of the stage, there was a 35 km descent to the valley below and over 60 km of flat racing. At that point, the race went back uphill, with both a first- and a third-category climb coming before the finish.
The day began with a breakaway involving Javier Armendia, Josef Benetseder, and Hervé Duclos-Lassalle, though their maximum advantage over the peloton was only 2'30". The three were caught with 25 km left to race, at which point Tony Martin launched a solo escape that got him over the first category climb before the finish in first position, giving him the lead in the mountains classification and its pink jersey. Martin was himself caught with 6 km to race as the teams of the sprinters worked to get the field together for a mass sprint finish. The sprint was so close between Bernhard Eisel, Gerald Ciolek, and Óscar Freire that even the riders themselves were unsure which of them had won. The photo finish showed Eisel to be the winner. Ninety-five riders had the same time as the stage winner, on a course that was not expected to produce a mass sprint finish.
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