List of teams and cyclists in the 2009 Tour de France

This Tour featured 180 riders from 30 countries on 20 cycling teams, starting in the principality of Monaco on 4 July and finishing on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July.

[3] The three Professional Continental teams included were Agritubel, Skil–Shimano and Cervélo TestTeam.

Each of the 20 teams invited to the race entered a squad of nine riders.

[4] Twenty-four riders abandoned the three-week race before reaching Paris.

[5] Alberto Contador of the Astana team won the race; after winning the 15th stage to Verbier, and thus taking over the yellow jersey which he kept until the end of the race.

Four cyclists riding up a mountain, chased by two more cyclists. On each side of the road, spectators cheer on the riders.
Andy Schleck leading the yellow jersey winner Alberto Contador , Lance Armstrong and his brother Fränk Schleck , up Mont Ventoux on stage 20 . The two chasers seen behind the four-man group are Vincenzo Nibali and Roman Kreuziger .
A man, presumably sitting on a bicycle, wearing a green jersey and a black cap with sunglasses on. In the background one can spot spectators.
Thor Hushovd , the winner of the Points classification , wearing his green jersey at the last stage in Paris.