the art of cycling

by HORST BROZY

Calendar 2009

idea, work of art & design: Horst Brozy, (www.brozy.eu), distribution: Van Bracht Services, the (www.paintingsfromeurope.com), printed by enßen print, Germany (www.enssenprint.de), all rights are reserved © 2009 the art of cycling 01

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1 , World Champion Cycle Cross 2008 (Treviso, ITA) 2 , World Champion U-23 Cycle Cross 2008 (Treviso, ITA) 3 Bart Wellems, Team Fideas 4 , National (Herford, GER) + World Champion Cycle Cross 2008 (Treviso)

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1 , Team Silence-Lotto, stage-winner, Ansalusia Tour 2008 (SPA) 2 , Team Rabobank, winner stage 3, Tour of 2008 (USA) 3 , Team HighRoad, winner stage 6, 2008 (USA) 4 “Mario is back”, , Team Rock Racing, Tour of California 2008 (USA) 5 , Team Astana, winner: Tour of California 2008 (USA)

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1 , Team Gerolsteiner, winner: -Nice 2008 (FRA) 2 Clement Lhotellierie, Team Skil + stage 3 winner Kjell Carlström, Team , Paris-Nice 2008 (FRA) 3 , Team Française de Jeux, winner Omloop Het Volk 2008 (BEL) 4 , Team CSC, winner: Milano-San Remo 2008 (ITA)

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1 winner , Davide Rebellin + Fränk Schleck, Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2008 (BEL) 2 , Team Lampre, winner 2008 (NED) 3 + , Team Quick Step, Paris 2008 (FRA) 4 Tom Boonen, Team Quick Step, winner: Paris Roubaix 2008 (FRA)

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Giro d’Italia 2008 (ITA) 1 Pavel Brutt, Team Credit Systems, winner of stage 5 2 , Team Astana, winner of the Giro d’Italia 2008 3 , Team Liquigas, winner of stage 3 4 André Greipel, Team HighRoad, winner of stage 17 5 Team Slipstream Chipotle, winner of stage 1 (team time trail) 6 Giovanni Visconti, Team Quick Step, leads the race during the Giro

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1 Albert Timmer, Team Skil-Shimano 2008 (NED) 2 Greg van Avermaert, Team Silence-Lotto, time trail, Tour of 2008 3 , Team Gerolsteiner, champion of Germany 2007+2008 4 Lars Boom, Team Rabobank, champion of the Netherlands 2008 5 Dauphiné Libéré 2008 (FRA) leading group (Evans, Valverde, Leipheimer) 6 , Team Silence-Lotto, champion of Australia 2008 7 , Team HighRoad, in the gold jersey of the 2008

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Tour de 2008 (FRA) 1 Cadel Evans, Team Silence-Lotto, 2nd place 2 , Team CSC, winner: 2008 3 Oscar Pereiro, Team Caisse d’Epargne, bad crash on stage 15 4 Oscar Freire, Team Rabobank, winner of the 5 Mark Cavendish, Team Columbia, winner of 4 etaps 6 , Team Rabobank, 3rd place 7 , Team Quick Step, winner of stage 21

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Olympia 2008, (CHN), olympic champions 1 Marianne Vos (NED) 2 Samuel Sanchez (SPA) 3 Great Britain 4 Walter Perez + Juan Curuchet (ARG) 5 Fabian Cancellara (SUI) 6 Sabine Spitz (GER)

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1 Snapshot, 2008 (GER) 2 , Team Columbia, winner of stage 5, Deutschland Tour 2008 (GER) 3 “Dinner time”, Deutschland Tour 2008 (GER) 6 4 Robbie McEwen, Team Silence-Lotto, winner of Vattenfall Cyclassics 2008 (GER) 5 Alberto Contador, Team Astana, winner of stage 13+14, Vuelta a España 2008 (SPA) 6 Daniele Bennati, Team Liquigas, winner of stage 4, Vuelta a España 2008 (SPA)

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World Championships 2008, (ITA) 1 , World Champion U-23 time trail 2 Amber Neben, World Champion Elite Women time trail 3 “Time to say goodbye”, & 4 , World Champion time trail 5 , World Champion Elite Women 6 Fabio Andres Durate Arevalo, World Champion U-23 7 , World Champion

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1 Netherlands happiness, Joop Zijlaard, 6-daagse van Rotterdam 2008 (NED) 2 + 6-daagse van Rotterdam 2008 (NED) 3 Sprintfinal between Robert Slippens + , 6-daagse van Gent (BEL) 4 Derny race, Dortmunder 6-Tage Rennen 2007 (GER) 5 Robert Bartko + Andreas Beikirch, Dortmunder 6-Tage Rennen 2007 (GER)

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1 Christian Dippel & Jan Eric Schwarzer, Steherrennen (GER) 2 Erik Zabel, , finished his career 2008 (GER) 3 preparation for heavy machines, Dortmunder 6-Tage Rennen (GER) 4 Joop Zijlaard & Matthe Pronk, race behind dernies, Alkmaar (NED) 5 , Steenbergcross, Cycle Cross 2008 (BEL) 6 Aart Vierhouten & Andreas Beikirch, 6-daagse van Zuidlaren (NED)

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