Fourth edition of the UCI ProTour | |
Details | |
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Dates | 22 January – 21 September |
Location | Australia and Europe |
Races | 15 |
Champions | |
Individual champion | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Caisse d'Epargne) |
Teams' champion | Caisse d'Epargne |
Nations' champion | Spain |
The 2008 UCI ProTour is the fourth year of the UCI ProTour system. Following protracted disagreement between the organisers of the Grand Tours (ASO, RCS and Unipublic) and the UCI, all races organized by ASO, RCS and Unipublic were withdrawn from the ProTour calendar. This removed all three Grand Tours (Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España), four of the five monuments (Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and Giro di Lombardia) and four further races (Paris–Nice, Tirreno–Adriatico, La Flèche Wallonne and Paris–Tours). As such, the quality of the races of the ProTour was diminished. The Australian race, the Tour Down Under was added to the calendar, making it the first race outside Europe on the ProTour (although races had previously been held outside Europe as part of the UCI Road World Cup).
The highly successful U.S. Postal Service ceased operations at the end of the 2007 season. Johan Bruyneel signed on to become the directeur sportif and revamp the embattled Astana; joining him are 2007 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador and 2007 Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer. Other major signings included American George Hincapie moving to Team High Road and Daniele Bennati from Lampre to Liquigas, while Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca left Liguigas for the UCI Professional Continental team LPR Brakes–Ballan.
As of September 28, 2008.[1]
As of 6 December 6, 2007[2][3]
Code | Official Team Name | Country | Website |
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ALM | Ag2r–La Mondiale | France | [1] Archived 2007-05-21 at the Wayback Machine |
AST | Astana | Luxembourg | [2] |
BTL | Bouygues Télécom | France | [3] |
GCE | Caisse d'Epargne | Spain | [4] |
COF | Cofidis | France | [5] |
C.A | Crédit Agricole | France | [6] |
CSC | Team CSC | Denmark | [7] |
SIL | Silence–Lotto | Belgium | [8] |
EUS | Euskaltel–Euskadi | Spain | [9] |
FDJ | Française des Jeux | France | [10] |
GST | Gerolsteiner | Germany | [11] |
LAM | Lampre | Italy | [12] |
LIQ | Liquigas | Italy | [13] |
MRM | Team Milram | Germany | [14] |
QST | Quick-Step | Belgium | [15] |
RAB | Rabobank | Netherlands | [16] |
SDV | Saunier Duval–Scott | Spain | [17] |
THR | Team High Road | United States | [18] Archived 2020-09-23 at the Wayback Machine |
Unibet.com Cycling Team, whose sponsors have pulled out of cycling, failed to submit its application renewal by the November 20, 2007 deadline.
Rank | Name | Team | Points |
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1 | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) | Caisse d'Epargne | 123 |
2 | Damiano Cunego (ITA) | Lampre | 104 |
3 | Andreas Klöden (GER) | Astana | 96 |
4 | Roman Kreuziger (CZE) | Liquigas | 94 |
5 | Cadel Evans (AUS) | Silence–Lotto | 85 |
6 | André Greipel (GER) | Team High Road | 62 |
7 | Mikel Astarloza (ESP) | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 60 |
8 | Alberto Contador (ESP) | Astana | 58 |
9 | Thomas Dekker (NED) | Rabobank | 54 |
10 | Stijn Devolder (BEL) | Quick-Step | 50 |
Rank | Team | Nationality | Points |
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1 | Caisse d'Epargne | Spain | 147 |
2 | Astana | Kazakhstan | 145 |
3 | Team CSC | Denmark | 126 |
4 | Euskaltel–Euskadi | Spain | 114 |
5 | Team High Road | United States | 111 |
6 | Saunier Duval–Scott | Spain | 109 |
7 | Silence–Lotto | Belgium | 108 |
8 | Liquigas | Italy | 107 |
9 | Rabobank | Netherlands | 105 |
10 | Gerolsteiner | Germany | 102 |
11 | Française des Jeux | France | 102 |
12 | Quick-Step | Belgium | 95 |
13 | Crédit Agricole | France | 76 |
14 | Ag2r–La Mondiale | France | 94 |
15 | Bouygues Télécom | France | 93 |
16 | Cofidis | France | 73 |
17 | Lampre | Italy | 63 |
18 | Team Milram | Germany | 54 |
Rank | Nation | Points |
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1 | Spain | 336 |
2 | Italy | 237 |
3 | Germany | 198 |
4 | Belgium | 155 |
5 | France | 147 |
6 | Australia | 113 |
7 | Czech Republic | 94 |
8 | Luxembourg | 94 |
9 | Netherlands | 80 |
10 | Russia | 86 |
Place | Tour Down Under Tour of Flanders Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco Tour de Romandie Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré Tour de Suisse Deutschland Tour Eneco Tour Tour de Pologne |
Gent–Wevelgem Amstel Gold Race Vattenfall Cyclassics Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian GP Quest France-Plouay |
Eindhoven Team Time Trial | ||
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Overall Classification | |||||
1st | 50 | 40 | 10 | ||
2nd | 40 | 30 | 9 | ||
3rd | 35 | 25 | 8 | ||
4th | 30 | 20 | 7 | ||
5th | 25 | 15 | 6 | ||
6th | 20 | 11 | 5 | ||
7th | 15 | 7 | 4 | ||
8th | 10 | 5 | 3 | ||
9th | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||
10th | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Stage wins (if applicable) | |||||
1st | 3 | ||||
2nd | 2 | ||||
3rd | 1 |