2008 Tour of Missouri

Infobox Cycling race report
name = 2008 Tour of Missouri


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series = UCI America Tour
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date = September 8–September 14
stages = 7
distance = 601.2
unit = mi
time = 21h 23' 26"
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first = Christian Vande Velde
first_nat = USA
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first_team = Team Garmin-Chipotle
second = Michael Rogers
second_nat = AUS
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second_team = Team Columbia
third = Svein Tuft
third_nat = CAN
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third_team = Symmetrics Cycling Team
points = Mark Cavendish
points_nat = GBR
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points_team = Team Columbia
mountains = Dominique Rollin
mountains_nat = CAN
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mountains_team = Toyota-United
youth = Roman Kreuziger
youth_nat = CZE
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youth_team = Team Liquigas
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team = Team Columbia
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The 2008 Tour of Missouri is the second annual edition of a professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Missouri. It began on September 8, 2008 with seven days of racing. Run by same organizers as the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen Tour of California, the Tour of Missouri is being billed as the third highest profile domestic race in the United States. The race will be broadcast on Universal Sports, a network being carried on the digital subchannels of twenty-one television stations throughout the country. [ [http://www.universalsports.com//SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23000&KEY=&SPID=13044&SPSID=105620 Universal Sports: Cycling Schedule] ]

tage Results

tage 1, September 8, Saint Joseph - Kansas City, 90 mi / 144.81 km

tage 2, September 9, Clinton - Springfield, 125 mi / 201.13 km

=Stage 3, September 10, Branson, 18 mi / 28.6 km (Individual Time Trial)=

tage 4, September 11, Lebanon - Rolla, 105 mi / 168.95 km

tage 5, September 12, St. James - Jefferson City 100 mi / 160.9 km

tage 6, September 13, Hermann - St. Charles 110 mi / 177 km

=Stage 7, September 14, St. Louis 53.2 mi / 85.61 km=

Jersey progress

Participating teams

;UCI ProTour Teams
* LIQ - flagicon|ITA Team Liquigas
* THR - flagicon|USA Team Columbia

;UCI Professional Continental Teams
* BMC - flagicon|USA BMC Racing Team
* TSL - flagicon|USA Garmin-Chipotle presented by H30

;UCI Continental Teams -- America Tour
* BPC - flagicon|USA Bissell Pro Cycling Team
* COL - flagicon|USA Colovita Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light
* HNM - flagicon|USA Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis
* JBC - flagicon|USA Jelly Belly Cycling Team
* KBM - flagicon|USA Kelly Benefit Strategies / Medifast
* RRC - flagicon|USA Rock Racing
* SYM - flagicon|CAN Symmetrics Cycling Team
* TUA - flagicon|MEX Tecos de la Universidad de Guadalajara
* TUP - flagicon|USA Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team

;UCI Continental Team -- Europe Tour
* RB3 - flagicon|NED Rabobank
* TSP - flagicon|GER Team Sparkasse

References

External links

* [http://www.tourofmissouri.com/ Official Site]