 Henao started the year by winning the Colombian National Road Race Championships.In March he won the Paris–Nice race by a gap of two seconds after managing to fend off a final-day attack from 's Alberto Contador.Contador had trailed by 31 seconds overnight, but had gone clear with rider David de la Cruz and Marc Soler of the ; after taking a couple of seconds at an intermediate sprint, Contador was beaten to the line in Nice by de la Cruz, which cost him four bonus seconds and decided the race in favour of Henao.