The Tour 2009

The route

Running from Saturday July 4^th to Sunday July 26^th 2009, the 96^th 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).

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 20^th stage.

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