2009 Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam season

The 2009 season was the fourth for the Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam cycling team.

Roster

Single day and stage races 2009^[1]
Date	Nation	Race	Cat.	Winner
25 February	New Zealand	Stage 1 Women's Tour of New Zealand	2.2	Rochelle Gilmore
26 February	New Zealand	Stage 2 Women's Tour of New Zealand	2.2	Rochelle Gilmore
9 May	Netherlands	Omloop Door Middag-Humsterland	1.2	Rochelle Gilmore
23 July	France	Stage 1 Tour Féminin en Limousin	2.2	Grace Verbeke
27 July	France	Tour Féminin en Limousin	2.2	Grace Verbeke
2 August	Belgium	Sparkassen Giro Bochum	1.1	Rochelle Gilmore
12 September	France	Stage 6 Tour Cycliste Féminin International Ardèche	2.2	Lizzie Armitstead

National, Continental and World champions 2009^[1]
Date	Discipline	Jersey	Winner
	British National Track Championships – Points race		Lizzie Armitstead
	British National Track Championships – Scratch		Lizzie Armitstead
	Norwegian National Road Race Championships		Linn Torp

Vera Koedooder, as part of the national team, broke together with Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters the Dutch team pursuit record three times in 2009

Time	Speed (km/h)	Cyclists	Event	Location of race	Date	Ref
3:31.045	51.250	Vera Koedooder^{[N 1]} (with Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters)	2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics – Round 5 (qualification)	Copenhagen	15 February 2009	^[2]
3:29.730	51.494	Vera Koedooder^{[N 2]} (with Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters)	2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics – Round 5 (gold-medal race)	Copenhagen	15 February 2009	^[3]
3:29.379	51.581	Vera Koedooder^{[N 3]} (with Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters)	2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships (bronze-medal race)	Pruszków	26 March 2009	^[4]

Grace Verbeke finished 9th in the individual and the team finished 7th in the teams overall standing.^[5]

Results at the World Cup races^[6]^[7]
Date	#	Race	Best rider	Place
29 March	1	Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
5 April	2	Tour of Flanders for Women
13 April	3	Ronde van Drenthe
22 April	4	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
10 May	5	Tour de Berne
30 May	6	Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal
31 July	7	Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
2 August	8	Open de Suède Vårgårda
22 August	9	Grand Prix de Plouay
13 September	10	Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt
Final individual classification			Grace Verbeke	9th
Final team classification			Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam	7th

Other major single day races
Date	Race	Rider	Place
26 March	UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit^{[M 1]}	Vera Koedooder (with Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters)	4th
23 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial^{[M 2]}	-	-
24 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race^{[M 3]}	Grace Verbeke (BEL)	9th

The team finished 4th in the UCI ranking for teams.^[5]

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^ "Finals". Tissottiming.com. 15 February 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
^ "Results and Final Classification". Tissottiming.com. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Ranking - Cycling - Road 2009". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
^ "Columbia Women 2009". cyclingarchives. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
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^ "2009 » 76th World Championships WE - Road Race (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.