Classification Leadership
| Stage | Winner | General classification |
Points classification |
Mountains classification |
Young rider classification |
Team classification |
Combativity award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Fabian Cancellara | Fabian Cancellara | Alberto Contador | Roman Kreuziger | Astana | no award |
| 2 | Mark Cavendish | Mark Cavendish | Jussi Veikkanen | Stef Clement | |||
| 3 | Mark Cavendish | Tony Martin | Samuel Dumoulin | ||||
| 4 | Astana | no award | |||||
| 5 | Thomas Voeckler | Mikhail Ignatiev | |||||
| 6 | Thor Hushovd | Stéphane Augé | David Millar | ||||
| 7 | Brice Feillu | Rinaldo Nocentini | Brice Feillu | Christophe Riblon | |||
| 8 | Luis León Sánchez | Thor Hushovd | Christophe Kern | Ag2r-La Mondiale | Sandy Casar | ||
| 9 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Egoi Martínez | |||||
| 10 | Mark Cavendish | Thierry Hupond | |||||
| 11 | Mark Cavendish | Mark Cavendish | Johan Van Summeren | ||||
| 12 | Nicki Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | Nicki Sørensen | ||||
| 13 | Heinrich Haussler | Thor Hushovd | Heinrich Haussler | ||||
| 14 | Sergei Ivanov | Ag2r-La Mondiale | Martijn Maaskant | ||||
| 15 | Alberto Contador | Alberto Contador | Andy Schleck | Astana | Simon Špilak | ||
| 16 | Sandy Casar* | ||||||
| 17 | Fränk Schleck | Thor Hushovd | |||||
| 18 | Alberto Contador | no award | |||||
| 19 | Mark Cavendish | Leonardo Duque | |||||
| 20 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Tony Martin | |||||
| 21 | Mark Cavendish | Fumiyuki Beppu | |||||
| Final | Alberto Contador | Thor Hushovd | Andy Schleck | Astana | |||
After stage 1, Fabian Cancellara was leading both the general and the points classifications. In stage 2, he wore the yellow jersey. Alberto Contador was placed second at the time in the green jersey points classification, but was the leader in the king of the mountains classification, and so forfeited the right to wear the green jersey. As a result, the third placed rider in the opening time trial, Bradley Wiggins wore the green jersey on stage 2.
* Stage 16 was originally won by Mikel Astarloza, who was found after the Tour to have tested positive for EPO before the race had started. The organisers have stripped him of the stage win, and former number two Sandy Casar became the official winner.
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