The 2009

Tour of Qatar The Tour of Qatar was an annual professional cycling stage race held in Qatar. First organized in 2002, the event was part of the UCI Asia Tour until 2016. The 2017 edition was to have seen the event upgraded to the UCI World Tour for the first ...

was held from 1 February to 6 February 2009 in

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. It was a multiple stage

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that took part over six stages with a total of and was part of the 2008-2009 UCI Asia Tour. The Race was won by

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of the

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team. During the night after stage 4 Belgian cyclist Frederiek Nolf of the Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator team died in his sleep of a suspected heart attack. The organisers cancelled stage 5 and held a 'cycling procession' instead.

Stage summary

Other leading top threes

Men's top 10 overall

References

Official site

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