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2009 Vuelta a Castilla y León

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1460224 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2009 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 24th edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León road cycling stage race, started on 23 March in Paredes de Nava, and concluded on 27 March in Valladolid. The race was won by Levi Leipheimer.

Teams

Seventeen teams of up to eight riders started the race:

Stages

Stage 1

23 March 2009 – Paredes de Nava to Baltanás, 168.3 km (104.6 mi)

Stage 2

24 March 2009 – Palencia (ITT), 28.2 km (17.5 mi)

Stage 3

25 March 2009 – Sahagún to Estación Inv.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Vuelta, Castilla and León is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2009 Vuelta a Castilla y León” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.