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69th Tour de Luxembourg - 2.HC

Luxembourg, June 3-7, 2009

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The Stages

  • Prologue - June 3: Luxembourg - Luxembourg, 2.70km
  • Stage 1 - June 4: Luxembourg - Mondorf-les-Bains, 157km
  • Stage 2 - June 5: Schifflange - Differdange, 188km
  • Stage 3 - June 6: Wiltz - Diekirch, 185km
  • Stage 4 - June 7: Mersch - Luxembourg, 148km

Schleck brothers stars at Tour de Luxembourg

The five-day Tour de Luxembourg welcomes an international field of riders to its stage race, including home stars, brothers Fränk and Andy Schleck. The race starts Wednesday in the country's capital of Luxembourg City.

Riders face a 2.7-kilometre prologue on the first day. The next four days consist of road stages from 148 to 188 kilometres in distance.

Fränk and Andy Schleck will lead a strong Saxo Bank squad that also includes Fabian Cancellara and Stuart O'Grady. Andreas Klöden, winner of the Giro del Trentino, will lead locally registered team Astana.

There are a total of 15 teams participating: Astana, Bbox Bouygues, Cofidis, Euskaltel, Katusha, Saxo Bank, Agritubel, Barloworld, CSF, ISD, Landbouwkrediet, Skil, Vacansoleil, Vorarlberg and CT Differdange.

Last year's winner Joost Posthuma is unable his title as team Rabobank is not racing.

Start list

Astana                             BBox Bouygues Telecom
 
1 Grégory Rast (Swi)               11 Franck Bouyer (Fra)
2 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)            12 Mathieu Claude (Fra)
3 Andreas Klöden (Ger)             13 Damien Gaudin (Fra)
4 Assan Bazayev (Kaz)              14 Vincent Jerome (Fra)
5 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz)           15 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra)
6 Bolat Raimbekov (Kaz)            16 Rony Martias (Fra)
7 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz)          17 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra)
8 Michael Schär (Swi)              18 Sébastien Turgot (Fra)
 
Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne        Euskatel - Euskadi 
 
21 Alexandre Usov (Blr)            31 Amets Txurruka (Spa)
22 Alexandre Blain (Fra)           32 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa)
23 Guillaume Blot (Fra)            33 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa)
24 Florent Brard (Fra)             34 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa)
25 Michaël Buffaz (Fra)            35 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa)
26 Sébastien Portal (Fra)          36 Ivan Velasco Murillo (Spa)
27 Nico Sijmens (Bel)              37 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa)
28 Romain Villa (Fra)              38 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa)
 
Team Katusha                       Team Saxo Bank 
 
41 Kenny Dehaes (Bel)              51 Andy Schleck (Lux)
42 Joan Horrach (Spa)              52 Chris Anker Sorensen (Den)
43 Alexei Markov (Rus)             53 Fränk Schleck (Lux)
44 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus)        54 Gustav Larsson (Swe)
45 Danilo Napolitano (Ita)         55 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe)
46                                 56 Stuart O'grady (Aus)
47 Maxime Vantomme (Bel)           57 Matti Breschel (Den)
48                                 58 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor)
 
Agritubel                          Barloworld 
 
61 Romain Feillu (Fra)             71 Francesco Bellotti (Ita)
62 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra)     72 Diego Caccia (Ita)
63 Steven Caethoven (Bel)          73 Patrick Calcagni (Swi)
64 Rémi Cusin (Fra)                74 Marco Corti (Ita)
65 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra)          75
66 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra)        76 Michele Merlo (Ita)
67 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra)         77 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita)
68 Anthony Ravard (Fra)            78 Robert Hunter (RSA)
 
CSF Group - Navigare               ISD
 
81 Canuti Ederico (Ita)            91 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr)
82 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita)      92 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr)
83 Marco Frapporti (Ita)           93 Igor Abakoumov (Bel)
84 Mauro Finetto (Ita)             94 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr)
85 Alan Marangoni (Ita)            95 Vitalyy Kondrut (Ukr)
86 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita)        96 Emanuele Vona (Ita)
87 Enrico Zen (Ita)                97 Gianluca Mirenda (Ita)
88 Filippo Savini (Ita)            98 Maxim Belkov (Rus)
 
Landbouwkrediet - Colnago          Skil - Shimano 
 
102 Jonathan Bertrand (Bel)        111 Mitchell Docker (Aus)
103 Sébastine Delfosse (Bel)       112 Koen De Kort (Ned)
104 Mathieu Drouilly (Fra)         113 Theo Eltink (Ned)
105 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel)         114 Jonathan Hivert (Fra)
106 Rob Peeters (Bel)              115 Steve Houanard (Fra)
107 Martial Ricci Poggi (Fra)      116 Tom Veelers (Ned)
108 Geert Verheyen (Bel)           117 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn)
                                   118 Bert De Backer (Bel)
 
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team       Vorarlberg - Corratec 
 
121 Borut Bozic (Slo)              131 Wim Van Huffel (Bel)
122 Matteo Carrara (Ita)           132 Daniel Musiol (Ger)
123 Baden Cooke (Aus)              133 Reto Hollenstein (Swi)
124 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb)           134 Rene Haselbacher (Aut)
125 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel)          135 Philipp Ludescher (Aut)
126 Martin Mortensen (Den)         136 Christoph Sokoll (Aut)
127 Gerben Lowik (Ned)             137 Josef Benetseder (Aut)
128 Marco Marcato (Ita)            138 Silvere Ackermann (Swi)
 
Continental Team Differdange       
 
141 Hannes Blank (Ger)             
142 Ludovic Capelle (Bel)          
143 Jempy Drucker (Lux)            
144 Fredrik Johansson (Swe)        
145 Hakan Nilsson (Swe)            
146 Robert Retschke (Ger)          
147 Christian Poos (Lux)           
148 Cyrille Heymans (Lux)          

Past winners

2008 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank
2007 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana
2006 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC
2005 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 
2004 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 
2003 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 
2002 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team Fakta
2001 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team Fakta
2000 Alberto Elli (Ita) Telekom
1999 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank
1998 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service
1997 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) 
1996 Alberto Elli (Ita)
1995 Rolf Järmann (Swi)
1994 Frans Maassen (Ned)
1993 Maximilian Sciandri (Ita)
1992 Jean-Philippe Dojwa (Fra)
1991 Gert-Jan Theunisse (Ned)
1990 Christophe Lavainne (Fra)
1989 Michel Cornelisse (Ned)
1988 Richard Trinkler (Swi)
1987 Sören Lilnedt (Den)
1986 Steven Rooks (Ned)
1985 Jelle Nijdam (Ned)
1984 Christophe Lavainne (Fra)
1983 Lucien Didier (Lux)
1982 Bernard Hinault (Fra)
1981 Youri Barinov (Rus)
1980 Bert Oosterbosch (Ned)
1979 Lucien Didier (Lux)
1978 Ludo Peeters (Bel)
1977 Bert Pronk (Ned)
1976 Frans Verbeeck (Bel)
1975 Frans Verbeeck (Bel)
1974 Freddy Maertens (Bel)
1973 Sylvain Vasseur (Fra)
1972 Roger Rosiers (Bel)
1971 Andre Diericks (Bel)
1970 Edy Schutz (Lux)
1969 David Boifava (Ita)
1968 Edy Schutz (Lux)
1967 Frans Brands (Bel)
1966 Edy Schutz (Lux)
1965 Vincent Denson (GB)
1964 Arie den Hartog (Ned)
1963 Yvon Molenaers (Bel)
1962 Jeff Plankaert (Bel)
1961 Charly Gaul (Lux)
1960 Marcel Ernzer (Lux)
1959 Charly Gaul (Lux)
1958 Jempy Schmitz (Lux)
1957 Gerard Saint (Fra)
1956 Charly gaul (Lux)
1955 Louison Bobet (Fra)
1954 Jempy Schmitz (Lux)
1953 Robert van den Stock (Bel)
1952 Jean Kirchen (Lux)
1951 Marcel Ernzer (Lux)
1950 Isidore de Ryck (Bel)
1949 Bim Diederich (Lux)
1948 Jean Goldschmit (Lux)
1947 Mett Clemens (Lux)
1946 Brik Schotte (Bel)
1939 Mett Clemens (Lux)
1938 Lucien Vlaeminck (Bel)
1937 Mett Clemens (Lux)
1936 Mett Clemens (Lux)
1935 Mett Clemens (Lux)