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2007 UCI ProTour

The 2007 UCI ProTour was the third year of the UCI ProTour system. Following a dispute and power struggle between the UCI and the organisers of the Grand Tours, ASO, RCS and Unipublic, a number of events were run as ProTour events, although without ProTour licences. Races counted towards the ProTour standings, although the organisers were not obliged to invite all 20 UCI ProTeams, notably not inviting Unibet.com.

2007 UCI ProTour
Third edition of the UCI ProTour
Details
DatesMarch 11 – October 20
LocationEurope
Races26
Champions
Individual champion Cadel Evans (AUS) (Predictor–Lotto)
Teams' championTeam CSC
Nations' champion Spain
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After numerous doping scandals in previous years, culminating with Floyd Landis' doping scandal in the 2006 Tour de France, the Phonak team was disbanded when the new title sponsor, iShares, decided to cease sponsoring and pull out of cycling. As of December, 2006, the ProTour license abandoned by Phonak has been granted to the Unibet.com, and the Active Bay group of Manolo Saiz has lost its license, which was given to the Astana. The links between the ProTour and the organisers of the three Grand Tours (ASO, RCS MediaGroup and Unipublic) remain strained.

The 2007 Paris–Nice race was the focus of a dispute between (ASO) and the UCI. ASO have requested that the 2007 edition be downgraded from ProTour status to NE (national calendar status), therefore lacking UCI world-ranking points and threatening the participation of the ProTeams.[1] This was resolved to an extent though and Paris–Nice took place as the first ProTour race of the season, although without Unibet.com.

2007 ProTour races

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Dates Race Winner ProTour leader
March 11–18   Paris–Nice   Alberto Contador (ESP)
(Discovery Channel) 		  Alberto Contador (ESP)
(Discovery Channel)
March 14–20   Tirreno–Adriatico   Andreas Klöden (GER)
(Astana)
March 24   Milan–San Remo   Óscar Freire (ESP)
(Rabobank)
April 8   Tour of Flanders   Alessandro Ballan (ITA)
(Lampre–Fondital)
April 11   Gent–Wevelgem   Marcus Burghardt (GER)
(T-Mobile Team) 		  Óscar Freire (ESP)
(Rabobank)
April 9–14   Vuelta al País Vasco   Juan José Cobo (ESP)
(Saunier Duval–Prodir)
April 15   Paris–Roubaix   Stuart O'Grady (AUS)
(Team CSC) 		  Stuart O'Grady (AUS)
(Team CSC)
April 22   Amstel Gold Race   Stefan Schumacher (GER)
(Gerolsteiner) 		  Davide Rebellin (ITA)
(Gerolsteiner)
April 25   La Flèche Wallonne   Davide Rebellin (ITA)
(Gerolsteiner)
April 29   Liège–Bastogne–Liège   Danilo Di Luca (ITA)
(Liquigas)
May 1–6   Tour de Romandie   Thomas Dekker (NED)
(Rabobank)
May 21–27   Volta a Catalunya   Vladimir Karpets (RUS)
(Caisse d'Epargne)
May 12–June 3   Giro d'Italia   Danilo Di Luca (ITA)
(Liquigas) 		  Danilo Di Luca (ITA)
(Liquigas)
June 10–17   Dauphiné Libéré   Christophe Moreau (FRA)
(Agritubel)
June 16–24   Tour de Suisse   Vladimir Karpets (RUS)
(Caisse d'Epargne)
June 24   TTT Eindhoven Team CSC
July 7–29   Tour de France   Alberto Contador (ESP)
(Discovery Channel)
August 4   Clásica de San Sebastián   Leonardo Bertagnolli (ITA)
(Liquigas)
August 10–18   Deutschland Tour   Jens Voigt (GER)
(Team CSC)
August 19   Vattenfall Cyclassics   Alessandro Ballan (ITA)
(Lampre–Fondital)
August 22–29   /  Eneco Tour of Benelux   Iván Gutiérrez (ESP)
(Caisse d'Epargne)
September 2   GP Ouest-France   Thomas Voeckler (FRA)
(Bouygues Télécom)
September 1–23   Vuelta a España   Denis Menchov (RUS)
(Rabobank)
September 9–15   Tour de Pologne   Johan Van Summeren (BEL)
(Predictor–Lotto)
October 14   Paris–Tours   Alessandro Petacchi (ITA)
(Team Milram)
October 20   Giro di Lombardia   Damiano Cunego (ITA)
(Lampre–Fondital) 		  Cadel Evans (AUS)
(Predictor–Lotto)

Züri-Metzgete race was scheduled in Switzerland for October 7, but the race was cancelled.

Teams

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Code Official Team Name Country Website
ALM AG2R Prévoyance   France [1] Archived 2007-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
AST Astana   Switzerland [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]
DSC Discovery Channel   United States [8]
PRL Predictor–Lotto   Belgium [9]
EUS Euskaltel–Euskadi   Spain [10]
FDJ Française des Jeux   France [11]
GST Gerolsteiner   Germany [12]
LAM Lampre–Fondital   Italy [13]
LIQ Liquigas   Italy [14]
MRM Team Milram   Italy [15]
QSI Quick-Step–Innergetic   Belgium [16]
RAB Rabobank   Netherlands [17] (in Dutch)
SDV Saunier Duval–Prodir   Spain [18]
TMO T-Mobile Team   Germany --
UNI Unibet.com   Sweden [19]

Individual standings

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Final classification[2]
Rank Name Team Points
1   Cadel Evans (AUS) Predictor–Lotto 247
2   Davide Rebellin (ITA) Gerolsteiner 197
3   Alberto Contador (ESP) Discovery Channel 191
4   Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne 190
5   Óscar Freire (ESP) Rabobank 182
6   Denis Menchov (RUS) Rabobank 172
7   Damiano Cunego (ITA) Lampre–Fondital 165
8   Kim Kirchen (LUX) Team High Road 165
9   Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel–Euskadi 159
10   Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Caisse d'Epargne 145
11   Alessandro Ballan (ITA) Lampre–Fondital 135
12   Carlos Sastre (ESP) Team CSC 127
  • 241 riders have scored at least one point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.

Team standings

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Final classification[3]
Rank Team Nationality Points
1 Team CSC   Denmark 392
2 Liquigas   Italy 354
3 Caisse d'Epargne   Spain 337
4 AG2R Prévoyance   France 324
5 Quick-Step–Innergetic   Belgium 310
6 Saunier Duval–Prodir   Spain 306
7 Discovery Channel   United States 300
8 Rabobank   Netherlands 300
9 Predictor–Lotto   Belgium 293
10 Lampre–Fondital   Italy 258
11 Euskaltel–Euskadi   Spain 227
12 Astana   Switzerland 218
13 Team High Road   Germany 212
14 Gerolsteiner   Germany 207
15 Crédit Agricole   France 182
16 Bouygues Télécom   France 178
17 Cofidis   France 177
18 Team Milram   Italy 148
19 Française des Jeux   France 137
20 Unibet.com   Sweden 127

Nation standings

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Final standings[4]
Rank Nation Points
1   Spain 849
2   Italy 728
3   Australia 520
4   Russia 437
5   Luxembourg 377
6   Germany 337
7   Netherlands 293
8   Belgium 281
9   United States 215
10   France 180
  • Riders from 30 nations scored at least one UCI ProTour point

2007 ProTour Points System

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Place Tour de France Giro d'Italia
Vuelta a España 		Milan–San Remo
Tour of Flanders
Paris–Roubaix
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Giro di Lombardia
Lesser stage races 		Lesser one-day races Eindhoven Time Trial
Overall Classification
1st 100 85 50 40 10
2nd 75 65 40 30 9
3rd 60 50 35 25 8
4th 55 45 30 20 7
5th 50 40 25 15 6
6th 45 35 20 11 5
7th 40 30 15 7 4
8th 35 26 10 5 3
9th 30 22 5 3 2
10th 25 19 2 1 1
11th 20 16
12th 15 13
13th 12 11
14th 10 9
15th 8 7
16th 6 5
17th 5 4
18th 4 3
19th 3 2
20th 2 1
Stage wins (if applicable)
1st 10 8 3
2nd 5 4 2
3rd 3 2 1
  • If a rider is not part of UCI ProTour, no points are given. The points corresponding to the place are not awarded
  • Top 20 teams get points in scale 20-19-18...1.
  • Team time trials in stage races doesn't give points for riders.
  • In Eindhoven time trial rider has to finish to earn points.
  • In country ranking, top 5 riders of each country count towards the ranking.

References

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  1. ^ "UCI instructs all ProTour teams to not race Paris–Nice". Cyclingnews.com. 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  2. ^ "Rankings as of 2007.10.20 updated after Paris-Tours". UCI. 2007-10-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
  3. ^ "Rankings as of 2007.10.20 updated after Giro di Lombardia". UCI. 2007-10-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
  4. ^ "Rankings as of 2007.10.20 updated after Giro di Lombardia". UCI. 2007-10-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
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