The Tour 2009

Map of the Tour

Carte du Tour 2009

Sporting aspects

The route

Running from Saturday July 4th to Sunday July 26th 2009, the 96th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

  • 10 flat stages,
  • 7 mountain stages,
  • 1 medium mountain stage,
  • 2 individual time-trial stages,
  • 1 team time-trial stage.

Distinctive aspects of the race

  • 3 mountain finishes,
  • 2 rest days,
  • 55 kilometres of individual time-trials,
  • 20 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.

8 new stop-over towns

Brignoles, Gérone (Espagne), Issoudun, Martigny (Suisse), Saint-Fargeau, Tonnerre, vatan, Verbier (Suisse).

Mountains 24 hours before Paris

The Mont Ventoux on the day before the Champs-Élysées

Never in the history of the event has a mountain been on the programme the day before the finish in Paris. This will be the case this year with the Ventoux mountain finish on the 20th stage.

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The stages
Stage Type Date Start and Finish Distance Details
1 Individual time-trial Saturday 4 July Monaco > Monaco 15.5 km
2 Plain Sunday 5 July Monaco > Brignoles 187 km
3 Plain Monday 6 July Marseille > La Grande-Motte 196.5 km
4 Team TT Tuesday 7 July Montpellier > Montpellier 39 km
5 Plain Wednesday 8 July Le Cap d’Agde > Perpignan 196.5 km
6 Plain Thursday 9 July Gérone > Barcelone 181.5 km
7 High Mountains Friday 10 July Barcelone > Andorre Arcalis 224 km
8 High Mountains Saturday 11 July Andorre-la-Vieille > Saint-Girons 176.5 km
9 High Mountains Sunday 12 July Saint-Gaudens > Tarbes 160.5 km
R Rest Day Monday 13 July Limoges
10 Plain Tuesday 14 July Limoges > Issoudun 194.5 km
11 Plain Wednesday 15 July Vatan > Saint-Fargeau 192 km
12 Plain Thursday 16 July Tonnerre > Vittel 211.5 km
13 Medium mountains Friday 17 July Vittel > Colmar 200 km
14 Plain Saturday 18 July Colmar > Besançon 199 km
15 High Mountains Sunday 19 July Pontarlier > Verbier 207.5 km
R Rest Day Monday 20 July Verbier
16 High Mountains Tuesday 21 July Martigny > Bourg-Saint-Maurice 159 km
17 High Mountains Wednesday 22 July Bourg-Saint-Maurice > Le Grand-Bornand 169.5 km
18 Individual time-trial Thursday 23 July Annecy > Annecy 40.5 km
19 Plain Friday 24 July Bourgoin-Jallieu > Aubenas 178 km
20 High Mountains Saturday 25 July Montélimar > Mont Ventoux 167 km
21 Plain Sunday 26 July Montereau-Fault-Yonne > Paris Champs-Élysées 164 km