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| x Tour de France |
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Road Bicycling Stage Race | July |
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race that covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) throughout France and bordering countries. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long...
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Road Bicycling Stage Race | May |
The Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy), also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. It is one of the three Grand Tours, and is...
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| x Vuelta a España |
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Road Bicycling Stage Race | September |
The Vuelta a España (English: Tour of Spain) is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar.
First held in 1935 and annually since 1955, the Vuelta runs for...
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| x Amgen Tour of California | Road Bicycling Stage Race |
The Tour of California is a professional cycling stage race on the UCI America Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that made its debut on February 19, 2006. Sponsored by the biotechnology company Amgen, the eight-day race covers between 650-700...
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| x Paris-Roubaix |
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Early | April |
Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France near the Belgian frontier. Since its beginning in 1896 until 1967 it started in Paris and ended in Roubaix (hence the name); since 1968 the start city is Compiègne (about...
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Road Bicycling Stage Race | March |
Paris–Nice, "the race to the sun", is a professional cycling stage race held each March.
The first Paris–Nice was in 1933 when the winner was Alfons Schepers from Belgium. The most successful cyclist in Paris–Nice was Seán Kelly from Ireland. He won...
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| x Dauphiné Libéré |
The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is an annual cycling road race, run over eight stages in the Dauphiné region in France during the first half of June. It is organised by the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper. Along with the Tour de Suisse, the Dauphiné...
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| x Tour de Suisse | Road Bicycling Stage Race | Middle | June |
The Tour de Suisse (English: Tour of Switzerland) is a UCI ProTour stage race held annually in June. The race debuted in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship. With the Dauphiné Libéré, it is a proving ground for the Tour de...
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| x Milan-Sanremo |
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One-Day Road Cycling Race | Middle | March |
Milan – San Remo (Italian: Milano–Sanremo), "the Spring classic" ("la classica di Primavera"), is an annual cycle race between Milan and San Remo. It is the longest professional one-day race at 298 km. The first was in 1907, when Lucien Petit-Breton...
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| x Liège-Bastogne-Liège |
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Liège-Bastogne-Liège, often called La Doyenne ("the oldest"), is one of the five 'Monuments' of the European professional road cycling calendar, and one of 24 races in which points can be gained towards the UCI World Ranking. The first edition was...
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| x La Flèche Wallonne |
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La Flèche Wallonne is a men's major professional cycle road race held in April each year in Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne (the Walloon Arrow) is today normally held mid-week between the Amstel Gold Race and...
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| x Amstel Gold Race |
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The Amstel Gold Race is a road bicycle race held (mostly) in the southern part of the province of Limburg, The Netherlands. Since 1989 it has been among the races included in season long rankings tables, as part of the UCI Road World Cup (1989-2004)...
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| x Tour of Flanders |
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One-Day Road Cycling Race | Early | April |
The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen, French: Tour des Flandres) is a road cycling race held in Flanders, Belgium. It is held every spring, a week before Paris-Roubaix. It is part of the UCI ProTour and one of the so-called monuments of...
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| x Gent-Wevelgem |
Gent-Wevelgem is a professional cycle road race held in Belgium in early April each year, falling on the Wednesday between the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix. The event was first run in 1934, and it is often called the sprinters' classic due...
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| x Tour of Lombardy | One-Day Road Cycling Race | Middle | October |
The Giro di Lombardia (English: Tour of Lombardy) is a cycling race, in Lombardy, Italy. It is the last 'Monument' of the European calendar, and although no longer part of the UCI ProTour, it is the last event in the UCI World Ranking calendar, and...
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| x Vuelta a Mallorca |
The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca (English: Tour of Majorca, Catalan: Challenge Volta Ciclista a Mallorca) is a series of five professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in early February. The event is used...
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| x Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise |
Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February around the city of Marseille, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually the first race of the...
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| x Omloop Het Nieuwsblad |
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (previously known as Omloop Het Volk) is a European semi classic single day cycle race held in the Belgian province of East Flanders.
The race was first held in 1945, organised by the newspaper Het Volk in response to Het...
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| x Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi | One-Day Road Cycling Race | Early | February |
The Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi is a one day professional cycling race between the towns of San Vincenzo and Donoratico on the Tuscany coast in Italy. The 193 kilometre long race takes place at the beginning of February and has now taken over...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Monaco |
The 2009 Tour began, as have many in the past, with an individual time trial, but instead of a very brief prologue, this 15 kilometer ride saw the race's overall favorites show themselves on day one.[1] The favourite for the stage, Fabian Cancellara...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Marseille to La Grande-Motte |
Stage 3 was another flat stage, with a finish on the waterfront at La Grande-Motte. Like in stage 2, a four-man breakaway formed, this time consisting of Maxime Bouet, Koen de Kort, Samuel Dumoulin and Rubén Pérez. They held a maximum advantage of...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Monaco to Brignoles |
This stage was largely flat, but had one third category, and three fourth category, climbs in its first 129km, and most of the last 15km was downhill. A four man breakaway (Stéphane Augé, Stef Clement, Cyril Dessel and Jussi Veikkanen) held a...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Andorra la Vella to Saint-Girons |
The Tour returned to France in the second of three Pyrenean stages, which featured three categorized climbs, including the imposing Port d'Envalira at just over 2,400 meters, before a steep descent. A number of early breakaways, including one...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Annecy |
The final time trial was held earlier in the race than is usual, and was not, as it had been for many years previously, the last stage which is competitive in terms of the overall classification. It followed a 40.5 km route around Lake Annecy, on a...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Barcelona to Andorra-Arcalis, Andorra |
This second stage in a row that did not visit French soil was both the longest stage, and the highest finish of this year's tour. The first key break of the day comprised three riders, and escaped after 8 km of cycling, but it was joined by a six...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand |
This stage had five categorized climbs on it, including four category 1 climbs, and was regarded the queen stage of this year's Tour. The first three quarters of the stage were dominated by the consolidation of the lead in both the climbers' and...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas |
This was a largely flat stage, but featured a category 2 climb 16 km from the finish. A twenty-rider breakaway after 9 km never gained more than three minutes advantage over a peloton paced by Team Milram and Rabobank, and an attack by Leonardo...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Cap d'Agde to Perpignan |
The Tour visited Cap d'Agde for only the second time ever, as the early Tour flat stages continued. Perpignan, on the other hand, is a traditional city for the Tour to visit, thought to symbolically indicate the Tour's entrance to (or exit from, in ...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Colmar to Besançon |
This was a relatively flat stage, with a category 3 climb either side of the halfway point. A woman was killed and two other spectators injured when they were hit by a police motorcycle in Wittelsheim, the first fatality connected to the Tour since...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Girona, Spain to Barcelona, Spain |
This last flat stage before the 2009 Tour entered the Pyrenees took place entirely within Spain, on a course that is frequently used in the Tour of Catalonia. The main break of the day was instigated by David Millar after 46km, and he was joined by...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Limoges to Issoudun |
The Bastille Day stage, one of two stages on which riders will not be in radio contact with their team cars, was flat, heading to the first-time finishing town of Issoudun.[9] The day's break was initiated by Thierry Hupond in the second kilometre,...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Martigny, Switzerland to Bourg-Saint-Maurice |
The return to racing after the second rest day featured two long climbs and their descents: the Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard , the highest point in this year's Tour at 2,473 meters, and the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, at which stage the race returned...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Montereau-Fault-Yonne to Paris Champs-Élysées |
The 2009 Tour ended, as it had for the previous 34 years, on the Champs-Élysées. The pace was casual in the early part of the stage, marked more by photo opportunities for the category leaders, but the pace increased once the race reached central...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Montpellier |
This was the first team time trial in the Tour since 2005. Riders finishing with the first five members of their team all received the same time: riders who became isolated from their team recorded an individual time. The time trial was won by...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Montélimar to Mont Ventoux |
This was the first time the Tour had had a mountain stage on its second-to-last day. The early stages, which included four categorised climbs, saw a group of 16 riders build a lead in excess of 10'30" before Team Saxo Bank started to limit their...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Saint-Gaudens to Tarbes |
The Pyrenees portion of the 2009 Tour ended with this stage which had two categorized climbs, the Col d'Aspin and the Col de Tourmalet and, as the previous day, a lengthy flat stretch before the finish, essentially neutralising the stage in terms of...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Tonnerre to Vittel |
This was considered a flat stage, but had 6 hills that contributed points towards the climbers' competition. After some unsuccessful attempts at breakaways early in the stage, a break after 64 km started by Laurent Lefèvre was followed by the leader...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Vatan to Saint-Fargeau |
This was another flat stage, with a two man breakaway, consisting of Johan Van Summeren and Marcin Sapa, which reached its largest advantage of 4'45" after 45 km and was caught with 5 km remaining. Mark Cavendish again dominated the sprint, taking...
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| x 2009 Tour De France - Vittel to Colmar |
This was a medium-mountain stage, with five categorized climbs, including one first category mountain, the Col du Platzerwasel. Christophe Moreau launched an attack after just 3 km, and was joined by Juan Manuel Gárate, Jens Voigt, Rigoberto Urán,...
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| x Tour de Romandie |
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The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI ProTour. It runs in the old Romandie region, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year celebration of the Swiss Cycling.
The race...
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| x Coors Classic | Road Bicycling Stage Race |
The Coors International Bicycle Classic (1979–1988) was a stage race sponsored by the Coors Brewing Company. Over the years, the event became America's unofficial national tour, listed as the fourth largest race in the world after the Tour de France...
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| x Tour Down Under |
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Road Bicycling Stage Race | Late | January |
The Tour Down Under is a cycling race in Adelaide, South Australia and surrounding area. The race starts on the third Tuesday of January each year and attracts riders from across Australia and the world. In 2005, the Tour Down Under was promoted by...
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