Tour of California 2007
Encyclopedia
The Amgen Tour of California 2007 is the second edition of an eight-day, 650-mile (1,045 km) stage race that races through the California redwoods, wine country and the Pacific Coast. The road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

 event was held February 17 through 25, 2007. The 2007 Tour of California is part of the 2006-2007 UCI America Tour and the inaugural 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour
2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour
The 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour is the inaugural year of a professional road bicycle racing series organized by USA Cycling.Levi Leipheimer and the team won the overall individual and team titles respectively. Leipheimer finished the season with 381 points over teammate George Hincapie,...

.

On November 28, 2006, the UCI upgraded the multi-day event from 2.1 (category 1) to 2.HC .

Prologue: San Francisco 

Held Sunday, February 18, 2007, the prologue is an individual time trial
Individual time trial
An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

 held in San Francisco. Native Californian and last year's prologue champion Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major results are winning the 2007–2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2006 Dauphiné Libéré and the 2005 Deutschland Tour, coming in second in the 2008 Vuelta a España, third in the 2001 Vuelta a...

 edged out Colorado's Jason Donald from and former NCAA Road Champion Benjamin Jacques-Maynes
Benjamin Jacques-Maynes
Benjamin Jacques-Maynes is an American road bicycle racing cyclist from Watsonville, California. He currently rides for Bissell Pro Cycling Team...

.
Prologue Result
Cyclist Team Time
1 4"49"
2 +0.01
3 +0.05
b>General Classification after Prologue
Cyclist Team Time
1 4'49"
2 + 0'01"
3 + 0'05"


{|
|Mountain Classification after Prologue
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 4 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 3 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 2 pts
|}

Stage 1: Sausalito to Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

 

Held Monday, February 19, 2007. A breakaway of four riders including Adam Hansen
Adam Hansen
Adam Hansen is an Australian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour .-Palmares:2004...

 of was reeled in shortly before the finish in Santa Rosa. During the second of the three finishing laps in Santa Rosa, a crash took down most of the peloton, including leader Levi Leipheimer. Those not involved in the crash fought for the stage victory, taken by Graeme Brown
Graeme Brown
Graeme Allen Brown OAM is a professional cyclist and dual Olympic gold medallist from Australia.-Cycling career - road and track:...

 by mere millimetres.

Riders involved in the crash lost several minutes, but the race officials decided to credit most of them with the winner's time, meaning that Leipheimer retained the leader's jersey. This decision, which meant extending the "safety zone" to 6 miles (10 km) before the end, was criticised by some riders and team staff.

{|
|Stage 1 Result
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 4h 17"19"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|}
||
|General Classification after Stage 1
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 4h 22'08"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'01"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'05"
|}
|}

{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 1
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 11 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 10 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 4 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 1
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 20 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 15 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 12 pts
|}
|}

Stage 2: Santa Rosa to Sacramento
Sacramento
Sacramento is the capital of the state of California, in the United States of America.Sacramento may also refer to:- United States :*Sacramento County, California*Sacramento, Kentucky*Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta...

 

Held Tuesday, February 20, 2007.

{|
|Stage 2 Result
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 4h 40"39"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|-
|3
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|
|align="right"| s.t.
|}
||
|General Classification after Stage 2
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 9h 02'47"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'01"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'05"
|}
|}
{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 2
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 13 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 2
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 27 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 20 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 18 pts
|}
|}

Stage 3: Stockton
Stockton, California
Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...

 to San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

 

Held Wednesday, February 21, 2007.

{|
|Stage 3 Result
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 3h 43"44"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|}
||
|General Classification after Stage 3
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 12h 46'31"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'03"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'15"
|}
|}

{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 3
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 13 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 3
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 27 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 20 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 20 pts
|}
|}

Stage 4: Seaside
Seaside, California
Seaside is a city in Monterey County, California, United States, with a population of 33,025 as of the 2010 census. Seaside is located east-northeast of Monterey, at an elevation of 33 feet...

 to San Luis Obispo 

Held Thursday, February 22, 2007, reigning Olympic and World Champion Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006...

 captured Stage 4, the event's longest stage, by just edging Gerald Ciolek
Gerald Ciolek
Gerald Michael Ciolek is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . In 2005, Ciolek won the German National Championship road race at age 18, the youngest ever rider to do so....

, Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo is an Argentine professional road racing cyclist and former track cyclist on . He is the brother of Lucas Sebastian Haedo...

 and Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer riding . He has signed for from 2012 onwards. He is known for sprinting and time trialing and is the 2010 Norwegian and world road champion. He is the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road...

 in a sprint finish after the peloton reeled in a seven-man breakaway consisting of Hilton Clarke
Hilton Clarke
Hilton Clarke is an Australian cyclist.He became a professional in 2001. He was introduced to the sport by his father, an Olympic cyclist, at the age of 9...

 , Aaron Olson , Kirk O'Bee
Kirk O'Bee
Kirk O'Bee is a former professional road racing cyclist from the United States. He won two national championships – in 1997 the USPRO pursuit championship, and in 2001 the USPRO criterium championship....

 , Alejandro Acton
Alejandro Acton
Alejandro José Acton is an Argentine professional racing cyclist.-Career highlights:1998200020012002Alejandro José Acton is an Argentine professional racing cyclist....

 , Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent is a French former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :* Tour of California - Mountains Classification * Tour de l'Avenir - Mountains Classification * Les Boucles d'Artois...

 , Lucas Euser , and Sean Sullivan .

{|
|Stage 4 Result
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|1
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|
|align="right"| 5h 05"47"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
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|3
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|
|align="right"| s.t.
|}
||
|General Classification after Stage 4
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 17h 52'12"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'03"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'15"
|}
|}
{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 4
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 26 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 4
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 28 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 26 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 24 pts
|}
|}

Stage 5: Solvang
Solvang, California
Solvang is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is one of the communities that make up the Santa Ynez Valley. The population was 5,245 at the 2010 census, down from 5,332 at the 2000 census...

 time trial
Individual time trial
An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

 

Held Friday, February 23, 2007, Stage 5 is an individual time trial
Individual time trial
An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

. Yellow jersey holder Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major results are winning the 2007–2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2006 Dauphiné Libéré and the 2005 Deutschland Tour, coming in second in the 2008 Vuelta a España, third in the 2001 Vuelta a...

 extended his lead over second place Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . Voigt is known for his propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton...

 and the rest of the field.

{|
|Stage 5 Result
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 29"41"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'18"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'25"
|}
||
|General Classification after Stage 5
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 17h 52'12"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'21"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'54"
|}
|}
{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 5
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 26 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 5
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 28 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 26 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 24 pts
|}
|}

Stage 6: Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

 to Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita can refer to:* Santa Clarita, California* Santa Clarita Valley* Valencia, California...

 

{|
|Stage 6 Result
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 3h56"04"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| s.t.
|}
||
|General Classification after Stage 6
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:yellow"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 22h 17'56"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'21"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'54"
|}
|}
{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 6
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 28 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 25 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 6
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 43 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 32 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 31 pts
|}
|}

Young Rider Classification
  1. , , 22.20.46


Most Aggressive Rider:,

Team classification
  1. , 66.56.17
  2. , +2.19
  3. , +3.20

Stage 7: Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

 circuit race
Criterium
A criterium, or crit, is a bike race held on a short course , often run on closed-off city center streets....

 

Held Sunday, February 25, 2007.

{|
|Stage 7 Result
{| class="wikitable"
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!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
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|1
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|align="right"| 2h39"28"
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|2
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|align="right"| s.t.
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|3
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|align="right"| s.t.
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|}

Final results

General Classification after Stage 7 (Final results)
{| class="wikitable"
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!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
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|- style="background:yellow"
|1
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|
|align="right"| 24h 57'24"
|-
|2
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|
|align="right"| + 0'21"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'54"
|-
|4
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'06"
|-
|5
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'16"
|-
|6
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'24"
|-
|7
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'32"
|-
|8
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'38"
|-
|9
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'41"
|-
|10
|
|
|align="right"| + 1'57"
|}

{|
|Mountain Classification after Stage 7
(Final results)

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:pink"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 28 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 25 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 16 pts
|}
||
|Points Classification after Stage 7
(Final results)

{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightgreen"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 44 pts
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| 41 pts
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| 36 pts
|}
|}

{|
|Young Rider Classification after Stage 7
(Final results)

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
!Cyclist
!Team
!Time
|- style="background:white"
|1
|
|
|align="right"| 25h00'14"
|-
|2
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'41"
|-
|3
|
|
|align="right"| + 0'53"
|}
||
|Team Classification after Stage 7
(Final results)

{| class="wikitable"
!
!Team
!Time
|-
|- style="background:lightyellow"
|1
|
|align="right"| 74h54'41"
|-
|2
|
|align="right"| + 2'19"
|-
|3
|
|align="right"| + 3'20"
|}
|}

Jersey progress

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size:smaller;"
|- style="background-color: #efefef;"
! width="14%" | Stage
(Winner)
! style="background:#ffc80b;" width="14%"|General Classification

! style="background:#a4d049;" width="14%"|Sprint Classification

! style="background:#d56221;" width="14%"|Mountains Classification

! style="background:LightBlue;" width="14%"|Youth Classification

! style="background:;" width="14%"|Team Classification

! style="background:#cc0000;" width=14%|Most Aggressive
|-
| Prologue
(Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major results are winning the 2007–2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2006 Dauphiné Libéré and the 2005 Deutschland Tour, coming in second in the 2008 Vuelta a España, third in the 2001 Vuelta a...

)
| style="background:#ffc80b" rowspan="8"| Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major results are winning the 2007–2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2006 Dauphiné Libéré and the 2005 Deutschland Tour, coming in second in the 2008 Vuelta a España, third in the 2001 Vuelta a...


| style="background:" rowspan="1"| no award
| style="background:#d56221;" rowspan="1"| Brian Sheedy
| style="background:LightBlue;" rowspan="3"| Taylor Tolleson
| style="background: rowspan="3"|
| style="background:" rowspan="1"| no award
|-
| Stage 1
(Graeme Brown
Graeme Brown
Graeme Allen Brown OAM is a professional cyclist and dual Olympic gold medallist from Australia.-Cycling career - road and track:...

)
| style="background:#a4d049;" rowspan="3"| Allan Davis
Allan Davis
Allan Howard Davis is an Australian professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team . Born in Ipswich, Queensland, Davis resides in Bundaberg, Queensland and in Spain. Known for his sprinting ability, he started competitive cycling at the age of 10, and turned professional in 2002...


| style="background:#d56221;" rowspan="3"| Thomas Peterson
Thomas Peterson
Thomas Peterson is a professional racing cyclist who rides for . In 2004 he became the Junior US National Road Race Champion.-Career accomplishments:200420062007-External links:...


| style="background:#cc0000;" rowspan="1"| Jurgen Van de Walle
Jurgen Van de Walle
Jurgen Van de Walle is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Palmares :20002006-External links:...


|-
| Stage 2
(Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo is an Argentine professional road racing cyclist and former track cyclist on . He is the brother of Lucas Sebastian Haedo...

)
| style="background:#cc0000;" rowspan="1"| Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent is a French former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :* Tour of California - Mountains Classification * Tour de l'Avenir - Mountains Classification * Les Boucles d'Artois...


|-
| Stage 3
(Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . Voigt is known for his propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton...

)
| style="background:LightBlue;" rowspan="2"| Matthew Lloyd
Matthew Lloyd (cyclist)
Matthew Lloyd is an Australian professional road bicycle racer currently without a team, having last ridden for UCI ProTour team . Lloyd is the first Australian cyclist to win a King of the Mountains competition in a grand tour...


| style="background:" rowspan="5"|
| style="background:#cc0000;" rowspan="1"| Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . Voigt is known for his propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton...


|-
| Stage 4
(Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006...

)
| style="background:#a4d049;" rowspan="4"| Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo is an Argentine professional road racing cyclist and former track cyclist on . He is the brother of Lucas Sebastian Haedo...


| style="background:#d56221;;" rowspan="4"| Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent is a French former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :* Tour of California - Mountains Classification * Tour de l'Avenir - Mountains Classification * Les Boucles d'Artois...


| style="background:#cc0000;" rowspan="1"| Alejandro Acton
Alejandro Acton
Alejandro José Acton is an Argentine professional racing cyclist.-Career highlights:1998200020012002Alejandro José Acton is an Argentine professional racing cyclist....


|-
| Stage 5
(Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major results are winning the 2007–2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2006 Dauphiné Libéré and the 2005 Deutschland Tour, coming in second in the 2008 Vuelta a España, third in the 2001 Vuelta a...

)
| style="background:LightBlue;" rowspan="3"| Robert Gesink
Robert Gesink
Robert Gesink is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank.-Early years:At the Junior World Championships of 2004 UCI Road World Championships in Verona, Gesink finished eighth in the individual time trial and sixth in the road race, while riding for team De Peddelaars in...


| style="background:" rowspan="1"| no award
|-
| Stage 6
(Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo is an Argentine professional road racing cyclist and former track cyclist on . He is the brother of Lucas Sebastian Haedo...

)
| style="background:#cc0000;" rowspan="1"| Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady OAM , nicknamed Stuey, is an Australian professional road bicycle racer on UCI ProTeam , who started as a track cyclist. He and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics...


|-
| Stage 7
(Ivan Dominguez
Ivan Dominguez
Iván Domínguez was a Cuban professional road bicycle racer for the Franco MRI Racing Team. In 2009 Dominguez also known as "The Cuban Missile" acquired U.S. citizenship....

)
| style="background:#cc0000;" rowspan="1"| Danny Pate
Danny Pate
Danny Pate is a professional bicycle racer who currently rides for and for 2012 will join . He was born on 23 March 1979 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is experienced and accomplished in road, cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing....


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Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major results are winning the 2007–2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2006 Dauphiné Libéré and the 2005 Deutschland Tour, coming in second in the 2008 Vuelta a España, third in the 2001 Vuelta a...


| style="background:#a4d049" rowspan="1"| Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo
Juan José Haedo is an Argentine professional road racing cyclist and former track cyclist on . He is the brother of Lucas Sebastian Haedo...


| style="background:#d56221" rowspan="1"| Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent
Christophe Laurent is a French former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :* Tour of California - Mountains Classification * Tour de l'Avenir - Mountains Classification * Les Boucles d'Artois...


| style="background:LightBlue;" rowspan="1"| Robert Gesink
Robert Gesink
Robert Gesink is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank.-Early years:At the Junior World Championships of 2004 UCI Road World Championships in Verona, Gesink finished eighth in the individual time trial and sixth in the road race, while riding for team De Peddelaars in...


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Teams

UCI ProTour
UCI ProTour
The UCI ProTour was a series of road bicycle races in Europe, Australia and Canada organised by the UCI . Created by Hein Verbruggen, former president of the UCI, it comprises a number of 'ProTour' cycling teams, each of whom are required to compete in every round of the series...

 teams
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  • DSC -
  • GST -
  • LIQ -
  • PRL -
  • QSI -
  • RAB -
  • TMO -
  • CSC -

UCI Professional Continental teams
  • HNM -
  • NIC -
  • TSL -


UCI Continental teams
  • BMC -
  • TUT -


USA Cycling
USA Cycling
USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States. It covers the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross, BMX and collegiate racing...

 registered teams
  • COL -
  • JBC -
  • ABB -
  • USA - USA Cycling
    USA Cycling
    USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States. It covers the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross, BMX and collegiate racing...

    National Development Team


External links

- 2007 Tour Archive
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