Tour Stages
2009
- Jul. 32009 Pre-Race
- Jul. 4STAGE 1: Monaco TT (15.5km)

Riders face a significant challenge in the stage 1 individual time trial over the roads of the French Riviera’s independent city/state of ...
- Jul. 5STAGE 2: Monaco—Brignoles (187km)

Stage two continues along the Mediterranean coast with a hilly route that includes many of the climbs seen in the early season Paris-Nice ...
- Jul. 6STAGE 3: Marseille—La Grande-Motte (196km)

The Mistral winds should greet the peloton on the flattest stage of the Tour, which travels through the town of Arles on the way to the ...
- Jul. 7STAGE 4: Montpellier TTT (39km)

The stage 4 team time trial starts in the center of Montpellier at Place de la Comédie, home to the fountain, The Three Graces, dedicated ...
- Jul. 8STAGE 5: Le Cap d'Agde—Perpignan (196.5km)

The Tour continues along the Mediterranean coast, rolling over mostly flat roads toward the finish in Perpignan. The route takes a ...
- Jul. 9STAGE 6: Girona—Barcelona (181.5km)

Earlier this spring, the town of Girona officially welcomed the Garmin-Slipstream squad to town with an honorary ride and the traditional ...
- Jul. 10STAGE 7: Barcelona—Arcalis (224km)

The race sees both its longest stage and first mountain stage in its seventh day. Riders face five categorized climbs, culminating with ...
- Jul. 11STAGE 8: Andorre-la-Vieille—Saint-Girons (176.5km)

The second day in the Pyrénées covers three categorized climbs as the Tour returns to France for the finish in Saint-Girons. The stage ...
- Jul. 12STAGE 9: Saint-Gadens—Tarbes (160.5km)

The peloton faces two categorized climbs in the Tour’s final day in the Pyrénées – the perennial gauntlets of the Col d’Aspin and ...
- Jul. 132009 Rest Day 1
- Jul. 14STAGE 10: Limoges—Issoudun (194.5km)

Following the first rest day, Bastille Day sees the race transition from the high peaks of the Pyrénées to the Limousin region of ...
- Jul. 15STAGE 11: Vatan—Saint-Fargeau (192km)

The second of three mid-race sprinters’ stages, stage 11 continues through central France toward the awaiting Alps and features three ...
- Jul. 16STAGE 12: Tonnerre—Vittel (211.5km)

Riders face five categorized climbs and three intermediate sprints on stage 12, as the race reaches its most northerly point until the ...
- Jul. 17STAGE 13: Vittel—Colmar (200km)

The climbers awaken from a four-day respite as stage 13 features five categorized climbs and very little flat roadway. The stage includes ...
- Jul. 18STAGE 14: Colmar—Besancon (199km)

The Tour returns to the finish town of Besançon for the 17th time in this race through the rolling country of the Haut-Rhin and ...
- Jul. 19STAGE 15: Pontarlier—Verbier (207km)

The climbers return to the sharp end of the race for their third act during the first of four Alpine mountain stages. The action ramps up ...
- Jul. 202009 Rest Day 2
- Jul. 21STAGE 16: Martigny—Bourg-Saint-Maurice (160km)

Two massive border climbs greet riders as the Tour leaves Switzerland on a tour of northwest Italy before returning to France for the ...
- Jul. 22STAGE 17: Bourg-Saint-Maurice—Le Grand-Bornand (169km)

A brutal five-climb day faces the peloton ahead of the final time trial in Annecy. Four Category 1 climbs – Cormet de Roselend, Col des ...
- Jul. 23STAGE 18: Annecy TT (40km)

Riders face a technical, hilly and short individual time trial course that circumnavigates Lake Annecy in the Rhône-Alpes region in ...
- Jul. 24STAGE 19: Bourgoin-Jallieu—Aubenas (178km)

A transition stage to the uncharacteristically late stage 20 battle on Mount Ventoux, the race to Aubenas features two early Category 4 ...
- Jul. 25STAGE 20: Montélimar—Mont Ventoux (178km)

In a first for the Tour, organizers have left the final, decisive mountain stage to the penultimate day ahead of the finish on the ...
- Jul. 26STAGE 21: Montereau-Fault-Yonne—Paris Champs-Élysées (164km)

The bullet train delivers the race to the traditionally celebratory stage from Montereau-Fault-Yonne to Paris Champs-Élysées for the ...
- Jul. 272009 Post-Race