Full 2009 Tour de France route details released

By Nigel Wynn

4-Jun-2009 | 0 comments

Full details of each stage of the 2009 Tour de France have been published on the race's official website today.

Tour organiser Amaury Sports Organisation provides a comprehensive breakdown of each of the 21 stages in this year's race, including estimated time schedule.

This year's Tour starts in Monaco with a 15.5km time trial on Saturday July 4 and finishes three weeks later on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Sunday July 26.

The 3,500km route comprises of 10 flat stages, eight mountain stages, two individual time trial stages and one team time trial stage. Three of the stages end with a mountain top finish.

Those taking part in the 2009 Etape du Tour (Monday, July 20) will want to study the schedule for stage 20 to Mont Ventoux to see exactly what they are letting themselves in for.

Earlier in the year we picked out which stages we think that Britain's Mark Cavendish has a chance of winning. Cycling Weekly's week-by-week guide to the 2009 Tour is in the News section

Stage	Date	From	To	Length
1	Saturday 4 July	Monaco	Monaco	15.5km
2	Sunday 5 July	Monaco	Brignoles	187km
3	Monday 6 July	Marseille	La Grande-Motte	196.5km
4	Tuesday 7 July	Montpellier	Montpellier	39km
5	Wednesday 8 July	Le Cap d’Agde	Perpignan	196.5km
6	Thursday 9 July	Gérone	Barcelone	181.5km
7	Friday 10 July	Barcelone	Andorre Arcalis	224km
8	Saturday 11 July	Andorre-la-Vieille	Saint-Girons	176.5km
9	Sunday 12 July	Saint-Gaudens	Tarbes	160.5km
R	Monday 13 July	Rest day, Limoges	-	-
10	Tuesday 14 July	Limoges	Issoudun	194.5km
11	Wednesday 15 July	Vatan	Saint-Fargeau	192km
12	Thursday 16 July	Tonnerre	Vittel	211.5km
13	Friday 17 July	Vittel	Colmar	200km
14	Saturday 18 July	Colmar	Besançon	199km
15	Sunday 19 July	Pontarlier	Verbier	207.5km
R	Monday 20 July	Rest day, Verbier	-	-
16	Tuesday 21 July	Martigny	Bourg-Saint-Maurice	159km
17	Wednesday 22 July	Bourg-Saint-Maurice	Le Grand-Bornand	169.5km
18	Thursday 23 July	Annecy	Annecy	40.5km
19	Friday 24 July	Bourgoin-Jallieu	Aubenas	178km
20	Saturday 25 July	Montélimar	Mont Ventoux	167km
21	Sunday 26 July	Montereau-Fault-Yonne	Paris Champs-Élysées	164km