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The stages for the 2009 Tour de France announced on Wednesday:

July 4 – Monaco – Monaco, 15 km (individual time-trial)
5 – Monaco – Brignoles, 182 km
6 – Marseille – La Grande-Motte, 196 km
7 – Montpellier, 38 km (team time-trial)
8 – Le Cap d’Agde – Perpignan, 197 km
9 – Girona (Spain) – Barcelona (Spain), 175 km
10- Barcelona – Andorra 224 km
11- Andorra-la-Vieille – Saint-Girons, 176 km
12- Saint-Gaudens – Tarbes, 160 km
13- Rest day at Limoges
14- Limoges – Issoudun, 193 km
15- Vatan – Saint-Fargeau, 192 km
16- Tonnerre – Vittel, 200 km
17- Vittel – Colmar, 200 km
18- Colmar – Besançon, 199 km
19- Pontarlier – Verbier (Suisse), 207 km
20- Rest day at Verbier
21- Martigny (Switzerland) – Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 160 km
22- Bourg-Saint-Maurice – Le Grand-Bornand, 169 km
23- Annecy – Annecy, 40 km (individual time-trial)
24- Bourgoin-Jallieu – Aubenas, 195 km
25- Montélimar – Mont Ventoux, 167 km
26- Montereau-Fault-Yonne – Paris Champs-Elysées, 160 km

Tour de France climbs

Stage 7 (Andorra Arcalis):
Port d’Oliana, 7.7 km at 7.1 percent average gradient (1160 m altitude)
Climb to Arcalis, 10.6 km at 6.1 percent (2240 m)

Stage 8 (Saint-Girons):
Port d’Envalira, 23.2 km at 5.1 percent (2407 m)
Col de Port, 11.4 km at 5.5 percent (1249 m)
Col d’Agnes, 12.4 km at 6.5 percent (1570 m)

Stage 9 (Tarbes):
Col d’Aspin, 12 km at 6.6 percent (1490 m)
Col du Tourmalet, 17 km at 7.5 percent (2115 m altitude)

Stage 13 (Colmar):
Col de la Schlucht, 8.9 km at 4.1 percent (1139 m)
Col de Platzerwasel, 8.7 km at 7.6 percent (1193 m)
Col du Firstplan, 8.4 km at 5.4 percent (722 m)

Stage 15e (Verbier):
Col des Mosses, 13.8 km at 4 percent (1445 m)
Climb to Verbier, 8.8 km at 7.1 percent (1468 m)

Stage 16 (Bourg-Saint-Maurice):
Col du Grand Saint-Bernard, 24.4 km at 6.2 percent (2473 m)
Col de Petit Saint-Bernard, 22.6 km at 5.1 percent (2184 m)

Stage 17 (Le Grand-Bornand):
Cormet de Roselend, 18 km at 6.1 percent (1968 m)
Col des Saisies, 15.1 km at 6 percent (1650 m)
Araches climb, 6.3 km at 7 percent (964 m)
Col de Romme, 8.8 km at 8.9 percent (1295 m)
col de la Colombière, 7,5 km à 8,5 % (1618 m)

Stage 20 (Mont Ventoux):
Mont Ventoux, 21.2 km at 7.6 percent (1912 m)