2009 Tour de France
World rankings
Table:
Rider	Team	Nationality	Stage	Overall	Total

Alberto Contador	Astana	Spain	64	200	264

Andy Schleck	Team Saxo Bank	Luxembourg	22	150	172

Mark Cavendish	Team Columbia-HTC	United Kingdom	126	126

Lance Armstrong	Astana	USA	4	120	124

Fränk Schleck	Team Saxo Bank	Luxembourg	24	100	124

Bradley Wiggins	Garmin-Slipstream	United Kingdom	8	110	118

Andreas Klöden	Astana	Germany	4	90	94

Vincenzo Nibali	Liquigas	Italy	10	80	90

Christian Vande Velde	Garmin-Slipstream	USA	70	70

Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel-Euskadi	Spain	26	40	66

Roman Kreuziger	Liquigas	Czech Republic	60	60

Thor Hushovd	Cervélo TestTeam	Norway	56	56

Sandy Casar	Française des Jeux	France	20	30	50

Christophe Le Mével	Française des Jeux	France	50	50

Tyler Farrar	Garmin-Slipstream	USA	36	36

Fabian Cancellara	Team Saxo Bank	Switzerland	30	30

Pierrick Fédrigo	Bbox Bouygues Telecom	France	26	26

Brice Feillu	Agritubel	France	26	26

Serguei Ivanov	Team Katusha	Russia	24	24

Vladimir Karpets	Team Katusha	Russia	24	24

Consulting the tabular data along with the supplementary paragraphs listed at the end.

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Alberto Contador Velasco ( Spanish pronunciation : [ alˈβeɾto kontaˈðoɾ βeˈlasko ] ; born 6 December 1982 ) is a Spanish former professional cyclist . He is one of the most successful riders of his era , winning the Tour de France twice ( 2007 , 2009 ) , the Giro d'Italia twice ( 2008 , 2015 ) , and the Vuelta a España three times ( 2008 , 2012 , 2014 ) . He is one of only seven riders to have won all three Grand Tours of cycling . He has also won the Vélo d'Or a record 4 times . He was regarded as the natural successor of Lance Armstrong and won the 2007 Tour de France with the Discovery Channel team . During his time at the Astana team , he won the 2008 Giro d'Italia , the 2008 Vuelta a España and the 2009 Tour de France . Between 2007 and 2011 he won six consecutive Grand Tours that he entered . This included winning the 2010 Tour de France with Astana , although it later emerged that he had tested positive for clenbuterol during the race . After a long battle in court , he was suspended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and stripped of his 2010 Tour and 2011 Giro wins . Contador was known as an attacking rider who excelled as a climber , and on his best days was also an excellent time-trialist . He was also known for being able to turn races around to his favour , most notably during the Fuente Dé stage at the 2012 Vuelta a España . Following his return from suspension , he won the Vuelta twice and the Giro once more .
Astana Pro Team ( UCI team code : AST ) is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna , a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana ( which has since been renamed 'Nur-Sultan ' ) . Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural year , 2007 . Following a major doping scandal involving Kazakhstani rider Alexander Vinokourov , team management was terminated and new management brought in for the 2008 season . The team was then managed by Johan Bruyneel , former team manager of U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel team . Under Bruyneel the ethical nature of the team did not improve , although Astana in this period was very successful . With a lineup including Grand Tour winner Alberto Contador , as well as runner-up Andreas Klöden the results were there , however the team was on the verge of financial collapse in May 2009 . A battle for control of the team led to the return of Vinokourov for the 2009 Vuelta a España caused Bruyneel and at least fourteen of its riders to leave at the end of the 2009 season , most for Team RadioShack . Only four Spanish riders , including Contador , and most of the Kazakhs remained with the rebuilt team for 2010 . Those four Spaniards all left the team for Saxo Bank-SunGard in 2011 .
Andy Raymond Schleck ( pronounced [ ˈɑndi ˈʀɑɪ̯mont ˈʃlæk ] ; born 10 June 1985 ) is a Luxembourgish former professional road bicycle racer . He won the 2010 Tour de France , being awarded it retroactively in February 2012 after Alberto Contador 's hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport . He has also been the runner-up at the Tour twice ; in 2009 and 2011 . He is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck , also a professional rider between 2003 and 2016 . Their father Johny Schleck rode the Tour de France and Vuelta a España between 1965 and 1974 .
Tinkoff ( UCI team code : TNK ) was a Russian-registered professional cycling team from Russia . It competed in the UCI World Tour . The team was owned by Russian Oleg Tinkov and , from 1999 until March 2015 , was managed by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis . The team was sponsored by the Russian Tinkoff Bank , a credit systems company . Founded in 1998 as home-Jack & Jones , the team started in cycling 's second division . In 2000 it moved into the top division , now known as the UCI World Tour . Since 2000 , under differing sponsor names ( Memory Card-Jack & Jones and CSC-Tiscali ) , the team rode the Tour de France . It has won the overall classification in all three of the Grand Tours . In the 2008 Tour de France , Carlos Sastre won the general classification , Andy Schleck won the young rider classification , and the team won the overall team classification , and Ivan Basso won the 2006 Giro d'Italia , as well as finishing third and second in the 2004 and 2005 Tour de France . In addition , the team has won many major classics , including 6 Monuments . The team won the UCI ProTour 's team classification each year from 2005 through 2007 , and the team classification in the 2010 UCI World Ranking . In March 2015 the team confirmed that Riis had been removed from active duty due to differences between Riis and Tinkov .
Mark Simon Cavendish MBE ( born 21 May 1985 ) is a Manx professional road racing cyclist , who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bahrain-McLaren . As a track cyclist he specialises in the madison , points race , and scratch race disciplines ; as a road racer he is a sprinter . He is considered one of the greatest road sprinters of all time . In his first years as an elite track rider , Cavendish won gold in the madison at the 2005 and 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships riding for Great Britain , with Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins respectively , and in the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games riding for Isle of Man . After failing to win a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics he did not compete on track until 2015 , subsequently winning his third UCI Track Cycling World Championships title with Wiggins in the madison in 2016 , and an individual silver medal in the Omnium at the 2016 Summer Olympics . As a road cyclist , Cavendish turned professional in 2005 , and achieved eleven wins in his first professional season . Cavendish has won thirty Tour de France stages , putting him second on the all-time list , contributing to a joint third-highest total of forty-eight Grand Tour stage victories . He won the road race at the 2011 road world championships , becoming the second British rider to do so . Cavendish also won the points classification in all three of the grand tours : the 2010 Vuelta a España , the 2011 Tour de France , and the 2013 Giro d'Italia . In 2012 , he became the first person to win the final Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France in four consecutive years . He won seven Grand Tour stages in 2013 , one in 2015 and four in 2017 . This included a win on stage one of the 2016 Tour de France , claiming him his first Tour de France yellow jersey of his career .
HTC-Highroad ( UCI team code : THR ) is a former professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races . Their last title sponsor was HTC Corporation , a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones but dissolved at the end of the 2011 season from a failure to find a new sponsor . High Road Sports was the management company of team manager Bob Stapleton . Past title sponsors include Columbia Sportswear and Deutsche Telekom . The team was founded in 1991 as Team Telekom , sponsored by Deutsche Telekom . In 2004 their name changed to the T-Mobile Team . The team was under the management of Bob Stapleton and Rolf Aldag . Former leaders included Olaf Ludwig , Walter Godefroot and Eddy Vandenhecke ( managers ) , Luuc Eisenga ( spokesperson ) and Brian Holm , Valerio Piva ( sports directors ) .
Lance Edward Armstrong ( born Lance Edward Gunderson ; September 18 , 1971 ) is an American former professional road racing cyclist , notorious for the biggest doping scandal in cycling history . At age 16 , Armstrong began competing as a triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990 . In 1992 , Armstrong began his career as a professional cyclist with the Motorola team . He had notable success between 1993 and 1996 with the World Championship in 1993 , the Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995 , Tour DuPont in 1995 and 1996 , and a handful of stage victories in Europe , including stage 8 of the 1993 Tour de France and stage 18 of the 1995 Tour de France . In 1996 , he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer . After his recovery , he founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation ( now the Livestrong Foundation ) to assist other cancer survivors . Returning to cycling in 1998 , he was a member of the US Postal/Discovery team between 1998 and 2005 , when he won his Tour de France titles , as well as a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics . Armstrong retired from racing at the end of the 2005 Tour de France , but returned to competitive cycling with the Astana team in January 2009 , finishing third in the 2009 Tour de France later that year . Between 2010 and 2011 , he raced with Team Radio Shack , the UCI ProTeam he helped found . He retired for a second time in 2011 . Armstrong became the subject of doping allegations after he won the 1999 Tour de France . For years , he denied involvement in doping .
Fränk René Schleck ( born 15 April 1980 ) is a Luxembourgish former professional road bicycle racer , who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016 , for Team Saxo Bank and Trek-Segafredo . Schleck is the older brother of Andy , winner of the 2010 Tour de France . Their father , Johny Schleck , was a professional road bicycle racer between 1965 and 1974 , as was their grandfather , Gustave Schleck , who contested events in the 1930s . Schleck 's greatest achievements include five national road race championships , winning a blue riband mountain stage in the 2006 Tour de France which finished on the Alpe d'Huez , the 2006 edition of the Amstel Gold Race classic , and an alpine stage of the 2009 Tour de France , finishing in the sole company of his brother Andy and Alberto Contador . On 30 January 2013 , Schleck was suspended for 12 months following a positive test for xipamide at the 2012 Tour de France . The ban , backdated to the date of the positive test , expired on 13 July 2013 .
Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins , CBE ( born 28 April 1980 ) is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist , who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016 . Nicknamed Wiggo , he began his cycling career on the track , but made the transition to road cycling and is one of the few cyclists in the modern era to gain significant elite level success in both those forms of professional cycling . He is the only rider to have combined winning both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road , as well as winning the Tour de France , and holding the iconic track hour record . In addition , he has worn the leader 's jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions . The son of the Australian cyclist Gary Wiggins , Wiggins was born to a British mother in Ghent , Belgium , and raised in London from the age of two . He competed on the track from the early part of his career until 2008 . Between 2000 and 2008 he won ten medals at the track world championships , of which six were gold : three in the individual pursuit , two in the team pursuit and one in the madison . His first Olympic medal was a bronze in the team pursuit in Sydney 2000 , before winning three medals including the gold in the individual pursuit at the Athens 2004 , and two golds in the individual and team pursuit at the Beijing 2008 . On the road , Wiggins turned professional in 2001 but made it his focus from 2008 . Initially viewed as a time trial specialist and as a rouleur , he showed his ability in stage races when he came fourth in the 2009 Tour de France ; he was later promoted to third after Lance Armstrong 's results were annulled in 2012 . He signed with the newly formed Team Sky in 2010 , and in 2011 he claimed his first victory in a major stage race in the Critérium du Dauphiné , as well as finishing third , later promoted to second , in the Vuelta a España . In 2012 , Wiggins won the Paris-Nice , the Tour de Romandie , the Critérium du Dauphiné , and became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France and the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics .
EF Education First Pro Cycling ( UCI Code : EF1 ) , is an American professional cycling team . Founded in 2003 , they have competed in the UCI World Tour since 2009 . Headquartered in Boulder , Colorado , United States , the team maintains an equipment and training facility in Girona , Catalonia , Spain . In 2018 , EF Education First , an international education company - founded in Sweden but headquartered and incorporated out of Switzerland - purchased a controlling equity stake in Slipstream Sports , the sports management company behind the team . The founder and CEO is American Jonathan Vaughters and the head sporting director is Briton Charly Wegelius . [ a ] Between the 2009 and the 2019 UCI World Tours , the team finished inside the top-ten on six occasions . Notable results include : the 2009 Vattenfall Cyclassics and the 2010 Vattenfall Cyclassics with American Tyler Farrar , the 2010 Tour de Pologne , the 2013 Volta a Catalunya , the 2013 Liège-Bastogne-Liège , and the 2014 Giro di Lombardia with Irishman Dan Martin , the 2011 Tour Down Under with Australian Cameron Meyer , the 2011 Paris-Roubaix with Belgian Johan Vansummeren , the 2012 Giro d'Italia with Canadian Ryder Hesjedal , the 2014 Critérium du Dauphiné with American Andrew Talansky , the 2019 Tour of Flanders with Italian Alberto Bettiol , and the 2019 Bretagne Classic Ouest-France with Belgian Sep Vanmarcke . Between 2008 and 2019 , the team claimed 25 Grand Tour stages - eight in the Giro d'Italia , eight in the Tour de France , and nine in the Vuelta a España . Colombian Rigoberto Urán and Briton Bradley Wiggins finished second and third , respectively , in the 2017 and 2009 Tours de France . In 2010 , Garmin-Transitions signed Norwegian Thor Hushovd , the reigning UCI Road World Race Champion . In 2010 , Briton David Millar won the silver medal at the UCI Road World Time Trial Championships . In 2015 and 2018 , Lithuanian Ramūnas Navardauskas and Canadian Michael Woods won the bronze medal at their respective UCI Road World Race Championships .
Andreas Klöden ( born 22 June 1975 ) is a German former professional road bicycle racer , who competed as a professional between 1998 and 2013 . His major achievements include a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and finishing second in the general classification at the 2004 and 2006 Tour de France . Klöden is a tall , lightly built racer with enough strength to place high in the overall classifications of the Grand Tours , but his performances have been afflicted by injuries .
Vincenzo Nibali ( Italian pronunciation : [ vinˈtʃɛntso ˈniːbali ] ; born 14 November 1984 ) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer , who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Trek-Segafredo . Born near the Strait of Messina , his nickname is the Shark of the Strait , the Shark of Messina or simply The Shark . His first major win came at the 2006 GP Ouest-France , a UCI ProTour event . However , experts such as Michele Bartoli have said Nibali is most suited to competing in multi-stage races . He is a highly capable descender and bike handler , very good climber and good time trialist . Nibali is an all-rounder , and is considered one of the strongest stage race riders of his era . His biggest wins are the 2010 Vuelta a España , the 2014 Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice ( 2013 and 2016 ) , making him one of seven cyclists who have won the three Grand Tours in their career . He has also won the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race . Nibali is most well known for his Grand Tours performances , but he has proven to be a strong contender in classic cycle races as well , having won the 2014 and 2015 Italian National Championships , the GP Ouest-France in 2006 and three 'Monuments ' of road bicycle racing : the Giro di Lombardia in 2015 and 2017 and Milan-San Remo in 2018 . He has also achieved podiums in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and previous editions of the Milan-San Remo .
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team ( UCI team code : CAN ) , previously known as Liquigas , was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour .
Christian Vande Velde ( born May 22 , 1976 ) is a retired American professional road racing cyclist of Belgian descent , who rode professionally between 1998 and 2013 . Vande Velde competed for the U.S . Postal Service , Liberty Seguros , Team CSC and Garmin-Sharp squads . He is the son of United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee John Vande Velde .
Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau ( born 17 November 1979 in Gipuzkoa , Basque Country ) is a Basque former professional road bicycle racer , who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2009 , and 2011 to 2013 .
Euskaltel-Euskadi ( UCI team code : EUS ) was a professional road bicycle racing team from Spain , Europe . The team was commercially sponsored , but was also partly funded by the Basque Government until the end of 2013 , with riders either from the Basque Country , Navarre , La Rioja , Cantabria and the French Basque Country , or who had grown up in the cycling culture of those regions : This policy was abandoned to enable retention of World Tour status . Its sponsor was Euskaltel , a Basque telecom company . Euskaltel-Euskadi was famous for its all-orange team kits . Whenever the Tour de France passed through the Basque Country many spectators lined the route dressed in the team 's orange or the colours of the Basque flag . The Euskaltel team also has a second team inside the Fundacion Euskadi , this team rode in a continental category , the name of the team was Orbea . This team was created with the aim of forming the young cyclist before going to the Euskaltel-Euskadi .
Roman Kreuziger ( Czech pronunciation : [ ˈroman ˈkrojtsɪɡr̩ ] ; born 6 May 1986 ) is a Czech professional road bicycle racer , who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam NTT Pro Cycling . Kreuziger is an all-rounder , with climbing and time trial abilities , becoming a contender for the General classification of stage races . He is also considered one of the biggest talents of the sport after winning the 2004 Junior Road World Championships and the 2008 Tour de Suisse at the age of 22 . Next year , he won the 2009 Tour de Romandie and in 2013 , he was the victor of the Amstel Gold Race . His father , Roman Kreuziger Sr. , was also a bicycle racer who won the Tour of Austria in 1991 and the Cyclocross Junior World Championships in 1983 .
Thor Hushovd ( born 18 January 1978 ) is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer . He is known for sprinting and time trialing ; Hushovd is a three-time Norwegian national road race champion ( 2004 , 2010 , 2013 ) , and was the winner of the 2010 World Road Race Championships . He was the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France , and first Scandinavian to win the road race in cycling world road championship . He is also the Scandinavian with the most stage wins in Grand Tours . He is widely considered the greatest Norwegian cyclist of all time . He retired in September 2014 .
Cervélo TestTeam ( UCI team code : CTT ) is a former professional cycling team , whose license was held in Switzerland by the cycling management company Cycling United Racing . The team 's title sponsor was Cervélo , a Canadian manufacturer of bicycle frames that previously exclusively supplied CSC-Saxo Bank . They competed in 2010 as a UCI Professional Continental team , but folded after the season . The team formed in 2008 after Team CSC switched frames effective at the end of that season , to Specialized , after years of success with Cervélo . Their registration as a UCI Professional Continental Team was confirmed on December 2 . Earlier that year , Carlos Sastre , then a member of Team CSC Saxo Bank , rode a Cervélo bicycle to victory in the Tour de France . Probably the team 's most notable cyclist , Sastre said that being able to continually work with Cervélo to develop bicycle technology played a part in his decision to join the new team . The team 's first season was marked by success in one-day races , with several victories and podium finishes , and a rider in the top ten in nearly every race they entered . The team was prolific in winning individual stages in stage races , including in all three Grand Tours of the 2009 season .
Sandy Casar ( born 2 February 1979 ) is a French former professional racing cyclist , who competed as a professional between 2000 and 2013 , all for the Française des Jeux team . His greatest results have been winning three stages of the Tour de France , as well the overall classification of the Route du Sud in 2005 . He also won the one-day race Paris-Camembert in 2011 .
Groupama-FDJ ( UCI team code : GFC ) is a French cycling team at UCI WorldTeam level . The team is managed by Marc Madiot , a former road bicycle racer and winner of the Paris-Roubaix classic in 1985 and 1991 . The team is predominantly French .
Christophe Le Mével ( born 11 September 1980 in Lannion ) is a French former road racing cyclist , who competed professionally between 2002 and 2014 for the Crédit Agricole , Française des Jeux , Garmin-Sharp and Cofidis teams . Le Mével left Garmin-Sharp at the end of the 2012 season , and joined Cofidis on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards . He retired in November 2014 .
Tyler Farrar ( born June 2 , 1984 ) is an American former road racing cyclist , who rode professionally between 2003 and 2017 for the Jelly Belly-Carlsbad Clothing Company , Health Net-Maxxis , Cofidis , Garmin-Sharp and Team Dimension Data squads . Farrar 's achievements include winning the 2009 Circuit Franco-Belge and the 2009 and 2010 Vattenfall Cyclassics . In Grand Tours , Farrar has won six individual stages , as well as assisting in two team time trial wins .
Fabian Cancellara ( born 18 March 1981 ) , nicknamed Spartacus , is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTeam Trek-Segafredo . He was born in Wohlen bei Bern , Switzerland . Cancellara began road cycling after falling in love with an old bike at the age of thirteen . After that , he began to take the sport more seriously and won two consecutive World Junior Time Trial Championships in 1998 and 1999 . At age nineteen he turned professional and signed with the Mapei-Quick-Step team , where he rode as a stagiaire . He is known for being a quality time trialist , a one-day classics specialist , and a workhorse for his teammates who have general classification aspirations . After winning a few stages and small races in his starting years , Cancellara earned his first major victory at the 2004 Tour de France where he won the opening prologue time trial and wore race leader yellow jersey for one day . The following season saw fewer victories , but his 2006 season saw a victory in the men 's time trial at the UCI Road World Championships , along with victory at the Paris-Roubaix . Cancellara repeated as world champion in the time trial the next year , along with winning two stages at the Tour de France . During the 2008 calendar he won gold at the Summer Olympics in the individual time trial event and the Milan-San Remo . The next season saw Cancellara again become world time trial champion and lead both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España . In 2010 , he won the Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders .
Pierrick Fédrigo ( born 30 November 1978 ) is a French former racing cyclist , who rode professionally between 2002 and 2016 for the Crédit Agricole , Bbox Bouygues Telecom , FDJ.fr and Fortuneo-Vital Concept teams . He was the winner of the French National Road Race Championships in 2005 , and won four stages at the Tour de France .
Total Direct Energie ( UCI team code : TDE ) is a professional road bicycle racing team that competes as a UCI Professional Continental team in UCI Continental Circuits races , and UCI World Tour races when invited as a wild card entry . In previous years , the team was known as Brioches La Boulangère , Bonjour , Bouygues Télécom , and Bbox Bouygues Telecom and Europcar . The 2015 season was the last under the sponsorship of Europcar ; the team has been sponsored by Direct Énergie since 2016 .
Brice Feillu ( born 26 July 1985 ) is a French former road racing cyclist , who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the Agritubel , Vacansoleil , Leopard Trek , Sojasun and Arkéa-Samsic teams .
Agritubel Pro Cycling Team ( UCI team code : AGR ) was a French professional road race cycling team . The team 's title sponsor , Agritubel , is a worldwide provider and manufacturer of tubular metal products for cattle , livestock and farming . Agritubel mostly competed for wins at the UCI Europe Tour ; however , the team was selected as one of two wildcard teams ( that is , teams not on the UCI ProTour ) to compete at the 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , and 2009 Tour de France . In 2006 , Agritubel riders had competed at several other UCI ProTour events , including Paris-Nice , Paris-Roubaix , La Flèche Wallonne , Liège-Bastogne-Liège , and Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov ( Russian : Серге́й Валерьевич Иванов ) ( born 5 March 1975 in Chuvashia , Soviet Union ) is a former professional road bicycle racer , who competed between 1996 and 2011 . Ivanov had been a member of six different teams , competing for CSKA Lada-Samara , TVM-Farm Frites , Fassa Bortolo , T-Mobile Team , Astana and Team Katusha . In this time he completed in five Grand Tours , and also won six national championship titles . He also won the Tour de Pologne 1998 . He now lives in Bekkevoort , Belgium .
Katusha-Alpecin ( Russian : Катюша , UCI team code : TKA ) was a Swiss road bicycle racing team which competed at UCI WorldTeam level using Canyon bikes . The team was created in 2008 by Igor Makarov within the framework of the previously established Russian Global Cycling Project , which was intended to help cycling in Russia to move to a qualitatively new level . In 2017 the team took an international direction , still supported by Igor Makarov 's company ARETI International Group , clothing company Katusha Sports and German shampoo manufacturer Alpecin . The team competed as a UCI ProTeam/WorldTour team between 2009 and 2019 . Joaquim Rodríguez , Alexander Kristoff , Daniel Moreno , Simon Špilak , Filippo Pozzato , Luca Paolini , Ilnur Zakarin , and Tony Martin are some of the most successful riders who rode for Katusha . In 2019 , the team was taken over by Israel Cycling Academy , along with its UCI World Tour license .
Vladimir Alexandrovich Karpets ( Russian : Владимир Александрович Карпец ) ( born 20 September 1980 in Leningrad ) is a Russian road bicycle racer , who last rode for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team . Karpets is most notable for winning the white jersey for best young rider in the 2004 Tour de France and his victories in the overall classifications of the Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Suisse , both in 2007 . Karpets is also a two-time Olympian . Born in Leningrad , Karpets turned to cycling and , like fellow Russian Denis Menchov before him , moved to Spain where he joined iBanesto.com . At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Karpets competed on the track in the men 's team pursuit where Russia got eliminated in the quarter-finals by Great Britain and took eighth . He also participated in the men 's individual pursuit competition , finishing 11th . At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he competed in the men 's road race , helping his fellow countryman Alexandr Kolobnev to a place of tenth . In the 2004 Tour de France , he used his strong time trialing abilities to defeat Thomas Voeckler in the youth classification on the penultimate stage . In the 2005 season , he was not at the same level in the Tour de France , but nevertheless managed a top ten placing in the Giro d'Italia . In 2007 he won stage 1 at Vuelta a Castilla y León and took the overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Suisse .