User:Green-eyed girl/2009 Team Saxo Bank season

The 2009 season for is ongoing. As a UCI ProTeam, they are automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the UCI ProTour, and have also been invited to every event in the inaugural UCI World Calendar as well.

Team Saxo Bank has a reputation as one of the most well-rounded teams in professional cycling, as they routinely choose to put team support behind whichever rider is in the best form on a given day. As such, their season victories are well spread out, as nine different riders have multiple victories for the team on the season. The team showed strongly at the Tour de France, with Fabian Cancellara winning the opening individual time trial and wearing the yellow jersey for six days, and Andy Schleck winning the white jersey as best young rider while also finishing second overall. The team also took stage wins at the Tour with Nicki Sørensen and Fränk Schleck.

The team's manager is Bjarne Riis, in his eleventh season with the team.

2009 roster
Ages as of January 1, 2009.


 * Riders who joined the team for the 2009 season


 * Riders who left the team during or after the 2008 season