The 2009 GP Ouest-France was a one-day road race which took place on 23 August 2009 in Plouay, France. The race was held over 229 kilometres (142 mi), which is 12 laps of a circuit. 2009 was the fifth time that the race has been part of the UCI ProTour, but the race can be dated back to 1931 at its present location. The race was won by the Australian Simon Gerrans, his first victory in a major one-day race. Frenchman Pierrick Fédrigo came in second, with Paul Martens of Germany coming in third. Gerrans won a sprint from a five-man breakaway group which also included Anthony Roux of France and Dan Martin of Ireland.
The 2013 GP Ouest-France was the 77th edition of the GP Ouest-France, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 1 September 2013, over a distance of 243 km (151.0 mi), starting and finishing in Plouay, France. It was the twenty-fourth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.
The race was won by Lampre–Merida's Filippo Pozzato, Pozzato finished ahead RadioShack–Leopard's Giacomo Nizzolo and Ag2r–La Mondiale's Samuel Dumoulin, who completed the podium.
As the GP Ouest-France was a UCI World Tour event, all 19 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Five other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 24-team peloton.
The 24 teams that competed in the race were:
The 2006 GP Ouest-France, the 69th edition of the GP Ouest-France, took place on August 27, 2006 in the French region of Brittany, in a race in and around the village of Plouay.
Previously unheralded Vincenzo Nibali stunned the field with his victory, outsprinting Juan Antonio Flecha to take his first major win.
The 2012 GP Ouest-France was the 76th edition of the GP Ouest-France, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 26 August 2012, over a distance of 243 km (151.0 mi), starting and finishing in Plouay, France. It was the twenty-fourth race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.
The race was won by Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen, after breaking away from the peloton to catch solo leader Rui Costa of the Movistar Team, and accelerated away from him to beat the field by five seconds in Plouay. Costa managed to hold off the rest of the field for second place, while the bunch sprint for third place was taken by Garmin–Sharp's Heinrich Haussler.
As the GP Ouest-France was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Five other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 23-team peloton.
The 23 teams that competed in the race were:
The 2009 Grand Prix was a professional ranking tournament that took place between 3–11 October 2009 at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.
Neil Robertson won in the final 9–4 against Ding Junhui.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The draw for round one was made on the evening of 24 September 2009 at Pontins in Prestatyn and was streamed live by 110sport.com. The draw from round two up to and including the semi-finals was made on a random basis.
The order of play and table numbers for all matches up to the semi-finals was determined once the draw for that round was made and published by the Tournament Director.
All matches up to and including the quarter-finals were best of 9 frames, the semi-finals were best of 11 frames and the final was the best of 17 frames. (Seedings in parentheses, all times are BST.)
These matches took place between 21 to 24 September 2009 at Pontins in Prestatyn, Wales.