2009 in men's road cycling
Race Date Winner Second Third
Tour de Langkawi Feb 9 - Feb 15 José Serpa ( COL ) Jai Crawford ( AUS ) Jackson Rodríguez ( VEN )
Tour of California Feb 14 - Feb 22 Levi Leipheimer ( USA ) David Zabriskie ( USA ) Michael Rogers ( AUS )
Critérium International Mar 28 - Mar 29 Jens Voigt ( GER ) František Raboň ( CZE ) Danny Pate ( USA )
Three Days of De Panne Mar 31 - Apr 2 Frederik Willems ( BEL ) Joost Posthuma ( NED ) Tom Leezer ( NED )
Four Days of Dunkirk May 6 - May 11 Rui Costa ( POR ) David Lelay ( FRA ) Cyril Lemoine ( FRA )
Tour of Belgium May 27 - May 31 Lars Boom ( NED ) Bram Tankink ( NED ) Dominique Cornu ( BEL )
Bayern-Rundfahrt May 27 - May 31 Linus Gerdemann ( GER ) Maxime Monfort ( BEL ) David Lelay ( FRA )
Tour de Luxembourg Jun 3 - Jun 7 Fränk Schleck ( LUX ) Andreas Klöden ( GER ) Marco Marcato ( ITA )
Tour of Austria July 5 - July 12 Michael Albasini ( SUI ) Ruslan Pidgornyy ( UKR ) Stanislau Samoilav ( BLR )
Tour of Qinghai Lake July 17-26 Andrey Mizurov ( KAZ ) Ghader Mizbani ( IRI ) Mitja Mahoric ( SLO )
Tour de Wallonie July 25 - July 29 Julien El Fares ( FRA ) Pavel Brutt ( RUS ) Alexander Kolobnev ( RUS )
Tour of Denmark July 29 - Aug 2 Jakob Fuglsang ( DEN ) Maurizio Biondo ( ITA ) Roger Hammond ( GBR )
Vuelta a Burgos Aug 5 - Aug 9 Alejandro Valverde ( ESP ) Xavier Tondo ( ESP ) Tom Danielson ( USA )
Volta a Portugal Aug 5 - Aug 16 Nuno Ribeiro ( POR ) David Blanco ( ESP ) David Bernabeu ( ESP )
Tour of Missouri Sep 7 - Sep 13 David Zabriskie ( USA ) Gustav Larsson ( SWE ) Marco Pinotti ( ITA )
2.HC Category Races
In 2009 a number of prominent riders returned to professional cycling. Ivan Basso, Floyd Landis and Michele Scarponi had finished a suspension. Bjorn Leukemans was without a team for over a year due to doping-related allegations, which were proven to be ungrounded. Most notably, seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong returned after a three-and-half year break, starting his season as a -rider in the Tour Down Under. The teams and , both who were connected to some major doping cases in 2008, saw their title sponsors drop out. The Spanish squad found a new sponsor in Fuji Bikes and was granted another ProTour license as . However, race organizer ASO did not invite the team for their races, and they did not participate in the Tour de France. New teams in the ProTour are from the United States and (built from the former ) from Russia. One notable new ProContinental team, started from scratch, is the , which managed to sign 2008 Tour de France-winner Carlos Sastre and Norwegian sprinter Thor Hushovd. Like another new ProContinental team, from the Netherlands, Katusha and Cervélo immediately proved successful in the early months of the season. This year's World Championships will be held in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The UCI ProTour ranking, which was heavily devalued in 2008 due to the withdrawal from the ProTour by the three Grand Tour organizers, was replaced by the UCI World Ranking, based on a new World Calendar - effectively combining the existing 14 ProTour races with the Monuments and Grand Tours that are currently organized as Historic races.