2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Indianapolis Colts
The Texans were primed for an upset, heading to the lockers with a 20-7 halftime lead. But a big second half for the Colts ruined things as the Texans fell to 5-6.


2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. New England Patriots
Houston earned its first ever winning season after 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter. Tom Brady left and re-entered the game after reports that he had been playing for the past several weeks with three broken ribs emerged. Wes Welker received an injured knee early in the first quarter. This was the Texans' lone win versus New England until 2019.


2009 Houston elections
The 2009 Houston elections took place on May 9, June 12, and November 3, 2009. All City Council Posts, the City Controller, and the Mayor all had elections. All positions are non-partisan.


2009 Houston elections, Mayor
Candidates listed in order of how they appear on the official ballot.


2009 Houston elections, City Controller
Incumbent Controller Annise Parker was unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. She is ran for Mayor.


2009 Houston elections, City Council At-large 1
Incumbent Peter Brown did not be seek a third term because he was running for Mayor.


2009 Houston elections, City Council At-large 3
Incumbent Melissa Noriega will be seeking a second full term. So far she is unopposed.


2009 Houston elections, City Council At-large 4
Incumbent Ronald Green will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. He is running for City Controller.


2009 Houston elections, City Council District A
Incumbent Toni Lawrence will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits.


2009 Houston elections, City Council District B
Incumbent Jarvis Johnson will be seeking a third term. So far he is unopposed.


2009 Houston elections, City Council District C, Candidates
There also is an official write-in candidate for the District C race:


2009 Houston elections, City Council District F
Incumbent M. J. Khan will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. He is running for City Controller.


2009 Houston elections, City Council District G
Incumbent Pam Holm will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. She is running for City Controller.


2009 Houston elections, City Council District H
Before the end of his term, Adrian Garcia resigned to become the Harris County sheriff. After a crowded special election, Edward Gonzalez and Maverick Welsh went into a runoff. Gonzalez won the runoff and now is going to general election unopposed.


2009 Houston elections, City Council District I
Incumbent James Rodriguez will be seeking a second term. So far he is unopposed.


2009 Houston mayoral election
The Houston mayoral election of 2009 took place on November 3, 2009, to elect the successor to incumbent Mayor Bill White. White was ineligible for re-election, having served three terms. The race is officially nonpartisan. After no candidate received a majority of the votes, the top two candidates – City Controller Annise Parker and former City Attorney Gene Locke – faced each other in a runoff election on December 12, 2009. On November 11, councilman Peter Brown (who finished third in the first round) publicly endorsed Parker in the Mayor's race. Annise Parker won the run-off.


2009 Houston mayoral election
With the election, Houston became the largest city to elect an openly gay mayor.


2009 Houston mayoral election, Candidates
Candidates listed in order of how they appear on the official ballot.


2009 Houston mayoral election, Aftermath
Parker was re-elected in 2011 and 2013. Locke served as Harris County interim commissioner in 2016, finishing the term of El Franco Lee, who had died unexpectedly in January of that year.


2009 Hualien earthquake
The 2009 Hualien earthquake occurred  on December 19 at 21:02:14 (local time) with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The oblique-slip event took place off the coast of Hualien, Taiwan. Strong shaking could be felt in Hualien City (Shindo 5 according to Central Weather Bureau) and Taipei (Shindo 4 according to Central Weather Bureau). The earthquake could also be felt in Hong Kong and Xiamen, China, and on several islands between Yonaguni and Tarama, Japan.


2009 Hualien earthquake, Casualties and damage
Two cars were damaged by fallen water towers in Taipei. Ten people were hospitalized following a chlorine leak in a hotel in Hualien. The outer decorative wall of a restaurant in Hualien collapsed.


2009 Huddersfield Giants season
2009 was the Huddersfield Giants' 146th year in rugby league, entering their eleventh Super League season and the 2009 Challenge Cup.


2009 Huddersfield Giants season, League table
Source: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision
On August 8, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. (15:53 UTC), nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey. The aircraft were in an area known as the "Hudson River VFR Corridor", which extends from the surface of the river to altitudes of 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m) at various locations along the Hudson River in the immediate area of New York City. Within this corridor, aircraft operate under visual flight rules (VFR), under which the responsibility to see and avoid other air traffic rests with the individual pilots rather than with the air traffic controller.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision
Because of the heavy commercial air traffic into Newark, LaGuardia, and Kennedy airports, an air traffic control clearance is required to operate in much of the airspace around the city. Since ATC is often unwilling to grant this discretionary VFR clearance because of traffic volume, many airplanes that need to transit the New York metro area use the VFR corridor as an alternative to going east of the city (over water) or west (toward Pennsylvania). The corridor is also heavily used by helicopter tour companies, which take passengers on sight-seeing tours of the New York skyline.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Background
Visual flight rules on the river corridors by Manhattan have been subject to considerable debate since the 2006 New York City plane crash, in which New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into an apartment building while flying using visual flight rules on the East River. This was the first aircraft collision over the Hudson River since 1976.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Background
The collision, which occurred opposite 14th Street in Manhattan, was about 40 blocks south of where US Airways Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, with no loss of life, after the plane suffered a complete loss of thrust following a bird strike.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
The light aircraft was a 6-seat Piper PA-32R-300 Cherokee Lance built in 1976 piloted by Steven Altman with two passengers. Altman was given clearance from the tower at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, at 11:48 a.m. to take off. It departed at 11:49 a.m., and was headed for Ocean City, New Jersey.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
The helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350 carrying five Italian tourists and its pilot, took off from the West 30th Street Heliport at 11:52 a.m. At about the same time, Teterboro tower radioed Altman in the Piper at take-off requesting him to pick his flight path towards Ocean City, and indicate whether he wished to head there via the Hudson River, or take a southwest tack. Altman replied "Either". "Let me know" was the response from the tower, with Altman answering "OK, tell you what, I will take down the river."


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
Altman was then instructed to contact Newark Liberty International Airport, a directive he agreed to. However, he did not contact the tower at Newark. It later transpired that, in acknowledging the instruction to contact Newark, Altman had read back the wrong frequency (127.8 MHz instead of 127.85), an error that the controller did not correct. Soon after, a controller at Newark who was concerned about aircraft in the Piper's path contacted the Teterboro controller and asked the him to attempt to re-establish contact. All attempts to contact Altman and change his aircraft's heading were unsuccessful. After the failure to contact Altman, a radar alert about a possible collision occurred in both the Newark and Teterboro towers. However, the two controllers did not remember seeing or hearing this alert.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
While heading south down river, the airplane was seen to be behind the sightseeing helicopter, which was going about half the speed of the airplane. The pilot of another helicopter (who was refueling at the heliport) saw the impending accident, and attempted to warn both the airborne helicopter and the plane by radio, but received no response. At 11:53:14 a.m., the Piper's left wing crashed into the Eurocopter, severing the left wing of the airplane and rotor blades from the helicopter.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
Most witnesses reported the plane entering a nose dive while spiraling into the river, while the helicopter dropped into the water. The collision occurred at approximately 1,100 feet (340 m) MSL altitude and was caught on tape by an Italian tourist. Less than a minute after the collision occurred, the Teterboro controller contacted the Newark tower to inquire about the airplane, and was told that the airplane had not contacted Newark.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
Nine people were killed in the collision. All recovered victims died from blunt trauma to the head, torso and extremities, according to the NYC medical examiner's office.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
National Weather Service weather conditions at noon in New York City stations on the day of the collision were described as "sunny" or "partly sunny" with a temperature of between 73 and 75 °F (23 and 24 °C) and variable wind speed of 3–10 mph (5–16 km/h; 3–9 kn).


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision
Authorities said the Piper's "low wing" design made it difficult to see below the aircraft and the helicopter's rotors make it difficult to see above. In addition, neither small aircraft was required to have a flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Rescue
Immediately following the accident, the Coast Guard had reported that the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) had rescued one survivor from the Hudson River; however, this report was shown to be incorrect. In addition to FDNY, six rescue boat crews from Coast Guard Station New York, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, several Coast Guard Auxiliary assets, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), New Jersey State Police, and local emergency services all participated in the rescue effort. The Red Cross and the New York Harbor Police also assisted in the efforts. At about 3:00 p.m., Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, addressed questions in a press conference. Calling the crash "an accident which we do not believe was survivable," Bloomberg announced that the mission was no longer a rescue mission, but rather a recovery mission.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Rescue
On the night of August 8, 2009, the US Coast Guard maintained a two-mile safety zone from the Holland Tunnel to the Lincoln Tunnel, requiring vessels to move slowly and stay within 400 yards of the Manhattan side while passing through the area. The safety zone was maintained by the Coast Guard cutter Penobscot Bay.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Recovery
On the afternoon of the crash, divers had recovered two bodies from the water. By the next morning, a total of four bodies had been found, while the other five victims were presumed dead. Meanwhile, the helicopter's wreckage was found in about 30 feet (9 m) of water, far from the wreckage fields of the plane. Aided by a sonar, investigators attempted to discover the plane's debris in deeper water near the mid-channel point of the Hudson. Their efforts were hindered, however, by poor visibility underwater and a storm on August 9.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Recovery
The efforts succeeded on August 10, when the plane's wreckage was discovered in approximately 60 ft (18 m) of water, and was recovered from the river on the afternoon of August 11. Additionally, the last few bodies were found in the wreckage of the plane, ending the search for bodies. The recovery effort was led by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with the aid of NYPD boats, New Jersey State Police divers, and the FDNY.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation
On August 14, 2009, the National Transportation Safety Board released a report regarding the incident. The report discussed several aspects of the collision, including locations of origin of the aircraft, planned destination, and air traffic control communications. In addition, the report discussed how one of the controllers at Teterboro Airport was on a phone call and did not warn the airplane pilot of the potential conflict. The National Air Traffic Controller's Union (NATCA) then issued their own press release disputing some of the phrasing in the NTSB's report.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation
The NTSB then retracted some of its statements regarding the controller's part in the crash, saying that the controller could not have warned the plane about the tour helicopter because the tour helicopter was not on the controller's radar. The NTSB also removed NATCA as a party to the investigation as a result of NATCA's press release, as parties to NTSB investigations agree to let the NTSB control publicity during the investigation. NATCA may still submit information to the board regarding the accident, but they will not hold a seat on the investigation board.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation
Due to the accident, the FAA put the Teterboro controller and his supervisor on leave and made comments about the phone call, which was deemed improper behavior. However, the NTSB rebuked the FAA for doing so, stating that only the NTSB has the authority to determine the controller's contribution to the incident.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation
On September 14, 2010, the NTSB released its final report on the incident. The report cited two primary causes of the accident: (1) the "inherent limitations" of the see-and-avoid concept, which meant that from the airplane pilot's point of view, the helicopter would have appeared as a small, stationary object against a backdrop of the New York City skyline until the final seconds before the collision; and (2) the Teterboro controller's personal phone call, which distracted him from his air traffic control duties and prevented him from correcting the airplane pilot's incorrect readback of the Newark control tower's radio frequency.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, Reaction
Reaction from government officials, aviation industry groups, and individuals has been widespread. The FAA convened a "New York Airspace Working Group" on August 14, 2009. The group will solicit comments from helicopter and aircraft operators, and will review the operating procedures of the Hudson and East River VFR corridors. They will report to FAA administrator Babbitt on August 28. A NOTAM issued on August 11, 2009, advises pilots flying in the area to turn on their lights, use the designated self-announce radio frequencies, and fly at a speed of 140 knots or less.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, Reaction
Fifteen members of Congress, led by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), sent a letter to FAA administrator J. Randolph Babbitt calling for "immediate action to provide greater oversight of small aircraft operations".


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, Reaction
In a press conference on August 8, 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (an airplane and helicopter pilot himself) stated that "Until the National Transportation Safety Board makes a determination, nothing is a fact", and stressed that the investigation will take weeks or months before those facts are known. Representatives from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), including AOPA President Craig Fuller, have appeared on numerous news programs and collaborated with news sources to explain the workings of the Hudson River VFR corridor and the safety record of flights in that area.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, NTSB recommendations
The NTSB issued a "Safety Recommendation" to the FAA on August 27, 2009. Because of the accident airplane's intended flight path, the NTSB believes that the pilot may have wanted to climb out of the uncontrolled VFR corridor into the controlled Class B airspace above. However, for reasons unknown as yet, he was not in communication with any air traffic controllers after he switched frequencies from Teterboro tower. He also apparently was not communicating on the Corridor's self-announce frequency.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, NTSB recommendations
The NTSB recommended that the FAA revise the procedures for ATC facilities in the area to facilitate the process for VFR traffic that wishes to transit Class B airspace. This included establishing procedures to coordinate such requests between facilities; requiring controllers to instruct pilots to self-announce on the VFR corridor frequency if they are unable to immediately enter Class B airspace; adding information to area Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) broadcasts reminding pilots to use the self-announce frequency; and ensuring that pilots are provided with traffic advisories if they are in contact with a controller.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, NTSB recommendations
Additionally, the NTSB recommended that ATC controllers and supervisors be briefed in the circumstances of this accident; that a Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) be established for the location requiring special training for pilots transiting the area; and that helicopters be required to operate at lower altitudes than airplanes in the corridor to minimize the speed differences.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, FAA changes
On September 2, 2009, the FAA announced a plan to improve safety of flights in the corridor. The proposed changes include standardizing the height of the VFR corridor to 1,300 feet (400 m). In addition, many existing procedures that have been treated as "Suggested" items for flying the corridor will now be mandatory, including operating landing lights; maintaining a speed of 140 knots (160 mph) or less while flying in the corridor; monitoring and announcing on the area Common Traffic Advisory Frequency; and travelling along the west shore when southbound and along the east shore when northbound. Pilots will be required to have appropriate charts available, and to familiarize themselves with the applicable rules before flying in the corridor. Additionally, pilot training courses for both transient pilots and charter helicopter pilots will be developed. An implementation timeline was not initially announced.


2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, FAA changes
The FAA instituted new rules for the Hudson River corridor beginning November 19, 2009, establishing three air traffic zones. Under 1,000 feet (300 m), planes and helicopters for sightseeing and lingering would be allowed. From 1,000 to 1,300 feet (300 to 400 m), aircraft would be allowed to fly without air traffic control handling. Above 1,300 feet (400 m), aircraft would be allowed to traverse the corridor under the handling of air traffic control.


2009 Hull FC season
In 2009, Hull F.C. competed in their twelfth Super League season, in their 145th year after the club's foundation in 1865. They also competed in the 2009 Challenge Cup.


2009 Hull FC season, Transfers
†: Subject to successful visa application. This process was initially delayed due to Crocker's past conviction of affray in 2005. On 29 January 2009, Hull FC confirmed Crocker's visa application had been rejected.


2009 Hull FC season, League table
Source: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2009 Hull Kingston Rovers season
In 2009, Hull Kingston Rovers, competing in their 128th season, played in their third Super League season, as well as the 2009 Challenge Cup.


2009 Hull Kingston Rovers season, Fixtures and results
Source: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2009 Hull Kingston Rovers season, Notes
Note A: Warrington won 24–25 via the golden point rule.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl
The 2009 Humanitarian Bowl was the thirteenth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho, on the campus of Boise State University. The game started at 2:30 pm MST on Wednesday, December 30, 2009, and was telecasted on ESPN. Idaho defeated Bowling Green 43–42.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl
As of this game, the Humanitarian Bowl was the longest continuously running cold weather bowl. The 2009 game was Idaho's first bowl game in more than a decade, when they defeated Southern Mississippi in the 1998 Humanitarian Bowl. Bowling Green, in its debut at the Humanitarian Bowl, filled a spot usually reserved for the Mountain West Conference; however, the MWC champion TCU was selected to play in the Fiesta Bowl and the conference did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill out its usual bowl commitments. Bowling Green played in the GMAC Bowl the previous season, where it lost 63–7 to Tulsa. The game also marked the first time the two schools had met in competition.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl
Both teams entered the game with 7-5 records in the regular season: Idaho began the 2009 season at 6–1, but lost four of its last five. Meanwhile, Bowling Green was 1–4 early in the season, but won six of its last seven games.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary
Idaho wore their home black jerseys with gold pants. Bowling Green wore their away white jerseys with white pants.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary
A bowl game that promised much offense certainly delivered, with just one turnover and a blocked field goal, both in Idaho's favor. The teams traded touchdowns all day and Idaho won its first bowl game in 11 years in one of the most exciting bowl games of the season.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary
Tied in the final minute and with 3rd down and 11 at their own 49, the Falcons took a 42-35 lead with 32 seconds left on a 51-yard pass from Tyler Sheehan to Freddie Barnes, who easily slipped behind the Idaho secondary for his 17th catch of the game and number 155 in his record-setting season.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary
After the ensuing kickoff, the Vandals had 24 seconds to work with and completed an incredible 46-yard pass for a first down at the BGSU 16-yard line. After an incomplete pass stopped the clock with 8 seconds remaining, wide receiver Max Komar cradled a sliding 16-yard touchdown catch with 4 seconds left to put the Vandals within a point. Head coach Robb Akey decided to go for the win and forego overtime; QB Nathan Enderle found Preston Davis alone in the back of the end zone for the two-point conversion to seal the comeback victory.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary
De'Maundray Woolridge carried Idaho with 126 yards on 22 rushes and two third-quarter touchdowns. Enderle finished the game completing 15 of his 28 passes for 240 yards and four touchdowns, after starting the game 1 of 6.


2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary
Sheehan was 33 of 47 for 387 yards and four touchdowns for Bowling Green, but it was the 14th consecutive bowl loss for the Mid-American Conference. For their efforts on offense, Woolridge and Barnes were named MVP's for the game.


2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. The Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) resumed sponsoring football as of the 2009 season, so Humboldt State no longer competed as an independent.


2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 2009 Lumberjacks were led by second-year head coach Rob Smith. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5, 1–5 GNAC). Each team played the other conference teams twice during the season (home and away). The Lumberjacks outscored their opponents 276–220 for the 2009 season.


2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Humboldt State players were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft.


2009 Hun Sen Cup
The Hun Sen Cup is the main football knockout tournament in Cambodia. The 2009 Hun Sen Cup was the 3rd season of the Hun Sen Cup, the premier knockout tournament for association football clubs in Cambodia involving Cambodian League and provincial teams organized by the Football Federation of Cambodia.


2009 Hun Sen Cup
Phnom Penh Crown were the defending champions, having beaten Preah Khan Reach 1–0 in the previous season's final.


2009 Hun Sen Cup, Group stage
The matches were arranged in four regions, two groups in each region. The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the eight groups in Group stage progressed to the Round of 16 playing in Phnom Penh.


2009 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships
The 2009 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships (Hungarian: Senior Országos Bajnokság 2009) took place between December 20 and 21, 2008 at the Budapest Gyakorló Jégpálya in Budapest. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Hungarian teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix
The 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 ING Magyar Nagydíj 2009) was a Formula One motor race held on 26 July 2009 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, 18 km (11 mi) north of Budapest, Hungary. It was the tenth race of the 2009 Formula One season. The 70-lap race was won by 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton for McLaren-Mercedes, after starting from fourth place on the grid. The 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen finished second for Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber finishing third. Championship leader Jenson Button had a poor race to finish seventh, losing ground to Webber in the championship.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix
Hamilton's win was his first since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, which was also the last time he had appeared on the podium. The result also marked the first time that a car equipped with a regenerative brake system (KERS) had won a race. Räikkönen's second place was Ferrari's best result of the season so far, but his teammate Felipe Massa suffered a serious accident during the second part of the Saturday afternoon qualifying session which left him with a fractured skull.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix
The race also saw the debut of World Series by Renault racer and 2008 British Formula Three champion Jaime Alguersuari, who became the youngest Formula One driver in the championship's 59-year history, at the age of 19 years and 125 days, and the first to be born in the 1990s. He replaced the fired Sébastien Bourdais at Scuderia Toro Rosso.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Heading into the weekend, Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship on 68 points for Brawn GP, 21 points clear of Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel. Vettel's teammate Mark Webber, who signed a new one-year contract before the race weekend, was 1.5 points behind Vettel and an equal number ahead of Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Brawn GP also held the lead in the Constructors' Championship, with a lead of 19.5 points from a resurgent Red Bull Racing, who were a further 48 points clear of Toyota. Toyota held an advantage of only 1.5 points over defending champions Scuderia Ferrari.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Webber won the previous race in Germany from pole position, to claim his first win at the 130th attempt. Despite an early drive-through penalty assessed for a dangerous manoeuvre to keep the Brawn GP car of Barrichello behind him at the start, the Australian driver had enough time in hand to rejoin out front and win by nearly ten seconds from Red Bull Racing teammate Vettel.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
"I don't really care what all the people say, I just do my work. I do what I know, to be honest. I am here because Red Bull just asked me to, as I do Formula 3 or World Series or GP2, I don't care. I just drive the cars. That's my job and that's what I enjoy doing in life. I'm here because Red Bull just sent me a message telling me that I have to drive this car so I'm here. I don't care what other people say, that's the main thing, first of all.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
And the second thing is that I know what my expectation is, I know what my target is. I know that today I didn't make any mistakes and I hope tomorrow I don't and even in the race and that's how I work at the end. My target here is to drive the car and not make mistakes. Then we will talk about times and about speed. But I don't feel I am a danger, not really."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Jaime Alguersuari, who was unfazed by the criticism directed at him for being too inexperienced for Formula One.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Felipe Massa was third, to earn his first podium of the 2009 season to date. Championship leader Button could only muster a fifth-place finish, after being overhauled by the one-stopping Williams of Nico Rosberg, who finished fourth having started fifteenth.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Prior to the race, the Hungarian Grand Prix had produced different winners for each of the last seven years, with Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes; 2008), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren–Mercedes; 2007), Button (Honda; 2006), Kimi Räikkönen (McLaren–Mercedes; 2005), Michael Schumacher (Ferrari; 2004), Fernando Alonso (Renault; 2003) and Barrichello (Ferrari; 2002) taking the chequered flag. The Hungaroring had also been the scene of the maiden victories of Button, Alonso and Kovalainen.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background
Much of the talk prior to the weekend was about the appointment of Jaime Alguersuari to replace Sébastien Bourdais at Scuderia Toro Rosso. Alguersuari did not have any circuit testing experience in a Formula One car, and had only undertaken straight-line aerodynamic tests the week before the Grand Prix, in Faenza. Felipe Massa felt that Alguersuari—who had 118 prior single-seater races under his belt, with 17 wins—was too young and inexperienced to be driving a contemporary Formula One car. Mark Webber and Jenson Button also expressed their fears about Alguersuari driving at the Hungaroring. However, Sebastian Vettel came to the support of the Spaniard, saying that he should take his time to build up speed.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
"I’ve got the full upgrade package that Lewis raced at the Nurburgring and the car now feels much better to drive. We’ve got a new floor, new front wing, updated bodywork and some small changes to the suspension. It’s a big package—and I know how hard the team has worked to get everything here. There are still components arriving at the circuit today! The grip level is so much higher now. Stability under braking is much better, and the guys have done a fantastic job to improve the balance at the rear.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
We still have to keep working hard to make further improvements—but this is a great starting point. I still think we need to look at the data and analyse the strength of the opposition. Of course, it would be fantastic to carry this over into qualifying and the race, but we need to be realistic: I’m sure tomorrow morning will give us a much clearer idea of the position of the Brawns and the Red Bulls. But after today’s performance, I’ll definitely be going for it."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
Three practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes with weather conditions dry throughout, the air temperature at 24 °C (75 °F), and the track temperature at 30 °C (86 °F). for session one. Session two saw the air temperature at 28 °C (82 °F), and the track temperature at 45 °C (113 °F).


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted an hour, and was also dry throughout, with the air temperature at 21 °C (70 °F), and the track temperature at 26 °C (79 °F). McLaren were the pace-setters in both Friday practice sessions, with Kovalainen topping the first and Hamilton topping the second.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
Apart from the upturn in McLaren's performance, the usual Friday pace-setters were also competitive, with Williams drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima both setting times that were good enough for top five positions in both sessions. The Red Bull of Mark Webber was also in the top five in both sessions, as he continued his recent good form.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
Brawn GP implemented their usual strategy of running with fuel during Friday practice sessions. In the first session, Jenson Button was tenth and Rubens Barrichello was thirteenth. In the second session, Barrichello improved to seventh place, while Button dropped back to thirteenth. That said, Button's lap time was only 0.727 seconds off the fastest time of Hamilton, in an extremely tight session.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
Jarno Trulli was the top Toyota in both sessions, finishing up sixth and eighth, beating teammate Timo Glock, who was fourteenth and tenth. Renault had a mixed session, with Alonso and Nelson Piquet Jr. struggling to get the ideal setup for the car. Alonso was seven tenths of a second off in both sessions, while Piquet improving to just a tenth and half behind his teammate. Massa and Räikkönen posted times good enough for P7 and P8 in the first session, but were adrift in the second session, with neither driver in the top ten, which left the Ferrari drivers disappointed with the lack of pace.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
BMW Sauber were another team to struggle in practice, with times some six tenths of a second off the pace, which left both drivers unhappy with the setup. Nick Heidfeld's time in the second session was their best showing, ending up in ninth position. Force India outpaced Toro Rosso in both sessions, with both cars lapping within a second of the best times. Giancarlo Fisichella (16th and 17th) and Adrian Sutil (18th and 16th) were both confident that they could improve on those times on Saturday. Sébastien Buemi found himself doing much of the setup work for the Italian outfit, improving his lap time by eight tenths of a second, between sessions. Alguersuari produced a solid performance in both sessions, but still ranked last in both sessions. Each driver completed 82 laps over the two sessions.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice
McLaren again topped the times during the Saturday practice session with Hamilton posting the best time. Heidfeld was a surprise second for BMW Sauber, with Nico Rosberg in third. Kovalainen was fourth, ahead of the Toro Rosso of Buemi and the Toyota of Glock. Glock's session was far from trouble-free, as his Toyota developed a hydraulic leak during its first flying lap. He returned to the track just before the end of the session, to record the sixth best time. Only seven tenths of a second split Heidfeld in second from Barrichello's Brawn in thirteenth. At one point, Jaime Alguersuari was as high as second position, before falling down to 18th by the end. Both Force Indias lapped slower than the teenager, with Sutil also having an incident, misjudging turn eight and hit the barrier.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
"It was quite a stressful qualifying to be honest. In Q1 we had the yellow flag from Toro Rosso I think in turn 13, so we were P15 at that moment and we had to get the lap to go through turn one. We did it at the end and then in the end in Q3 as you said the times were not working, so we were waiting in parc ferme, chatting between us drivers, asking what time you did, what time you did and try to find in which position you were.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Now confirmation arrived that we are on pole. A fantastic effort from the team. We put some new stuff on the car at the Nürburgring that worked very well and here we confirmed that we made a step forward. But, obviously, it is not enough. We need to keep working but finally we found the direction to go."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Fernando Alonso, after taking Renault's first pole position since the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
The qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. The first part ran for 20 minutes, and cars that finished the session 16th or lower were eliminated from qualifying. The second part of qualifying lasted 15 minutes and eliminated cars that finished in positions 11 to 15. The final part of qualifying determined the positions from first to tenth, and decided pole position. Cars which failed to make the final session could refuel before the race, so ran lighter in those sessions.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Cars which competed in the final session of qualifying were not allowed to refuel before the race, and as such carried more fuel than in the previous sessions. Weather conditions for the session saw the air temperature at 23 °C (73 °F), and the track temperature at 41 °C (106 °F).


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
The first part of qualifying saw Rosberg top the times, with a lap of 1:20.793, towards the end of the session. Hamilton and Webber were the only other drivers to record laps in the 1:20s. Alguersuari, who was 19th with several minutes remaining, slowed out of turn 12 with a hydraulic failure that left him unable to return to the pits. He fell to 20th and last on the grid, after Sutil (who moved up to 18th) lapped quicker than he did. The two were joined on the sidelines by the BMW Saubers of Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, and the second Force India of Fisichella.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
After a seven-minute break, the second part of the qualifying session got underway. With just a second covering the fifteen remaining drivers, many drivers set their quickest laps in the final few minutes of the session. As the session ended, the Ferrari of Massa, who was sixth at the time, was involved in a serious accident at turn four. Replays showed debris striking his Schuberth helmet, 1 inch above the left eye, when he was travelling at 261 km/h (162 mph). The impact knocked him unconscious, with his car straying towards the grass verge on the inside of turn four.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
The onboard footage from his car showed that he had his feet on both the accelerator and the brake pedals. The Ferrari decelerated at a force of between 0.6 and 1.4g and impacted with the barrier at 100 km/h (62 mph). After the car imbedded itself in the tyre barrier, the engine could be heard still revving on the limiter, indicating that Massa's foot was still pressing the accelerator and that he was thus unconscious.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
This accident came just six days after FIA Formula Two Championship driver Henry Surtees was fatally injured after being struck on the head by a wheel bouncing across the circuit at the Brands Hatch track in the United Kingdom, and provoked some discussion about the safety of open cockpit racing cars. The debris, a spring from the rear suspension damper (weighing around 800 grams), was suspected of having come from the car of Barrichello, who had reported that something had come loose minutes beforehand. Brawn confirmed the part had indeed come from Barrichello's car, and changed the same part on teammate Button's car ahead of the race. It was also subjected to an inspection during the third qualifying session, leaving Button with only one run for qualifying, due to the lengthy inspection.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Despite Massa's accident, some drivers improved their times towards the end of the session as they had passed the zone before the accident, meaning that Massa fell to eighth position. Button and Nakajima both progressed into the third part of qualifying, with their times set despite the yellow flag at turn four for Massa's accident. Barrichello's problem meant that he and the Brawn team missed out on the top ten shootout for the first time this season. He was joined on the sidelines by Buemi, Glock, Nelson Piquet Jr. and Trulli.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Even though Massa's time was quick enough to progress to Q3, his crash ruled him out of any further participation in the session. He was slowly extricated from his damaged Ferrari, and taken to the infield medical centre, where he was stabilised before being airlifted to hospital. This meant that there were only nine drivers in the final part of qualifying, which was delayed by twenty minutes due to the lengthy amount of time taken to remove Massa, repair the tyre barrier and check the track for any further debris.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
With qualifying nearing its conclusion, the official timing system malfunctioned, leaving the drivers bemused in the pit lane afterwards, asking each other their times for comparisons. The problem was later revealed by Formula One Management and LG as being a broken cable. When the timing system came back online, Fernando Alonso discovered that he had set the fastest time, recording his first pole since the 2007 Italian Grand Prix. Joining him on the front row was Vettel, with Webber and Hamilton on row two.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
On row three were Rosberg, who was top when the system went down, and defending race-winner Kovalainen. When the cars' starting weights were released post-qualifying, Alonso was light compared to all those around him. He was some 17.5 kg lighter than Vettel, and at the extreme, 27 kg lighter than Button, who qualified eighth.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Ferrari latterly confirmed that Massa would miss the Grand Prix due to his accident. He suffered a head cut, bone damage to his skull and a concussion, and remained under observation in intensive care, in the Állami Egészségügyi Központ military hospital in Budapest. He underwent successful surgery for the injuries he suffered in his accident. This meant that for the first time since the 2005 United States Grand Prix, a field of fewer than 20 drivers took part in a Grand Prix. It was also the first time that Ferrari fielded only one car in the race since the 2002 French Grand Prix when Rubens Barrichello failed to start due to ignition problems.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
The conditions on the grid were dry before the race, the air temperature at 26 °C (79 °F), and the track temperature at 43 °C (109 °F). The formation lap for the race began at 14:00 local time (UTC+2), with the race beginning a couple of minutes later. Alonso retained his pole position lead into the first corner, followed by a fast-starting Hamilton, Webber, Räikkönen and Vettel, who had made a slow start from the "dirty" side of the grid.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton and Räikkönen nearly touched on the run to turn one, which in effect slowed the Finn slightly and allowed Webber to maintain third. Hamilton ran slightly wide on the exit of the first corner, which allowed Webber to challenge him. The counter-effect caused Räikkönen and Vettel to stack up, with the German's Red Bull making slight contact with the rear of the Ferrari. Vettel lost further places to Rosberg and Kovalainen as a result of the incident. Räikkönen would latterly be investigated after the race for both of his first lap incidents.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
At the end of the first lap, Sutil came into the pits from 19th place with water pressure problems. The problem was terminal and he became the first retirement of the afternoon. Alonso started to pull away from the field, setting his fastest lap of the race (1:23.529) on lap four.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
Positions remained static until the start of lap five. Hamilton pressured Webber in turn one, and with the aid of the KERS button, overtook the Australian before turn two. Once clear of Webber, Hamilton started to cut into the gap that Alonso had built up at the front.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
Alonso's Renault was suffering from graining on its rear tyres (when the tyres shed little bits of rubber before sticking to the tread of the tyre, effectively separating the tyre from the track surface very slightly), and also a fuel pump problem, which forced him to change to a different fuel setting on the car. Alonso pitted on lap twelve, and was stationary for 6.4 seconds. However, he was released with his front right wheel incorrectly attached, causing the wheel-mounted brake duct or "spinner" to rotate while the wheel was turning.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
The duct then fell off and disintegrated at turn four, as Alonso continued to go round the circuit. The wheel then parted from the car at turn nine, and Alonso drove the car back to the pits on three wheels. The missing wheel was replaced, enabling him to continue in the race, but he returned to the pits on the following lap, as the earlier fuel pump problem proved terminal.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
With Hamilton extending his lead to almost six seconds—including his fastest lap of 1:22.479 on lap sixteen—Räikkönen and Webber both pitted on lap nineteen. Räikkönen was at a standstill for 8.3 seconds, while a slight problem with the fuel rig cost Webber valuable seconds. He was eventually released just as the Ferrari was trundling down the pit lane. The two cars just avoided a collision, which almost caused the Red Bull to career into a number of the Williams mechanics, who were standing in the pit lane at the time.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton pitted the following lap, but was slightly delayed by Rosberg's Williams, which had entered the pit lane as Hamilton was about to exit the McLaren pit box. This promoted Kovalainen into the lead, followed by Vettel but both drivers pitted at the end of lap 21, to hand the lead back to Hamilton. Vettel's sluggish pit-stop cost him track position, as he filtered out behind Rosberg.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
During Hamilton's stint on a second set of super-soft tyres, he was told by race engineer Phil Prew to look after his tyres as he had a comfortable gap of 15 seconds over Räikkönen. Championship leader Button, who was heavily fuelled at the start, had improved up to second by the time of his first stop on lap 25. Vettel was struggling with his car, and was passed for eighth position by Barrichello on lap 27. He then reported to his race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin that something was broken on his car.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
He pitted at the end of the lap from eleventh position, having lost more places, and his pit crew routinely replaced the nosecone and took a detailed look at the rear suspension. He rejoined a lap down before retiring on lap 30. Debutant Alguersuari made his first Formula One pit stop on lap 28, when running in thirteenth place. Glock also moved into the points-scoring positions at this stage of the race by using the strategy of a long 32-lap first stint. Buemi spun at turn two on lap 38, and subsequently rejoined the circuit behind his teammate Alguersuari.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton was left unchallenged for the rest of the race, making his final pit stop on lap 46, and came home to win his first race as World Champion. This was his first victory since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, his tenth in total, and also the first time that he had won at a circuit twice, having won at nine different circuits previously. This was also the first occasion on which a KERS car had won a Grand Prix; Räikkönen (in another KERS car) came in second, setting his fastest lap on the final lap.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race
Webber finished third, a result which moved him into second in the championship standings past Vettel. Webber also recorded the first fastest lap of his career, with a lap of 1:21.931 on lap 65. Rosberg finished fourth for the third race in succession, heading home Kovalainen, Glock, Button and Trulli rounded out the top eight point scorers. Outside the point-scoring positions were Nakajima, Barrichello (the first time that a Brawn car had finished a race outside the points), Heidfeld, Piquet, Kubica, Fisichella and the Toro Rossos of Alguersuari and Buemi. With Button's seventh place, his lead in the drivers' championship over Webber was cut by four points, to 18.5 points.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
"Yeah, I was able to manage them quite well but something I want to say is that yesterday was, I think, and maybe I can speak for all of us drivers, quite a sad day to see Felipe not with us here today. Hopefully I speak on behalf of all of us when I say we miss him and wish him well and wish him a speedy recovery. But back to the car, it was just fantastic.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
The team asked me to look after the tyres in which through all the great experiences I have had—good or bad—I was able to apply that today, so really a big thank you to all the guys and all the fans that have always given me support and never gave me up and to all my family."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Lewis Hamilton, reflecting on how well his car looked after its tyres, and also the previous day's events with Felipe Massa's accident.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
The top three finishers appeared on the podium and in the subsequent press conference, where Hamilton was overjoyed at being back at the front of the field: "It’s an incredible feeling to be back here after what feels such a long time away and with such a struggle with me and my team. But as I said on the in lap I am just so proud of the guys, as I go into the factory and I see how hard everyone is pushing. Everyone wants to win just as much as I do and they never gave up.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
They have never given up which is something very rare to see in such a large group of people. I am very, very proud of them. We didn’t expect to win this weekend. Undoubtedly we have caught up quite a bit but we never felt we had the pace to win. But the car felt fantastic and it is incredibly special to get back up here, not only on the podium, but to get a win. It is amazing."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Räikkönen also achieved his best result of the 2009 season to date, but was unaware that the moves that he made at the start of the race were under investigation, to be looked at after the race.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
I don’t know about the whole thing, so if you can tell me what it’s about that would be nice...I haven’t even noticed if I touched somebody. I was in-between, I think, Mark and somebody else but I don’t know what is going on. That is the first time when you told me but I didn’t feel any touching or anything, so I cannot comment on that.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Webber's podium finish moved him into second place in the championship standings. He was surprised, however, at the way proceedings played out, describing his result as "a little bit of a surprise. I think we expected to be a little bit quicker after our running on Friday but to be honest we knew these guys would be around us. It was a pretty difficult venue for us and we knew that we didn’t have the advantage maybe that we had in the last few events.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
All in all for me I am still pretty happy to get the result we did. I think we had a better chance to fight Kimi if maybe we did a slightly different pit stop and maybe chose a different tyre but that was my call. I was worried about how long the length of the stint was and it was quite difficult to know which tyre to put on but overall we still have a lot of positives. We are still up here. We haven’t been blown away by any means. We are in the hunt and we can take our car to a lot of venues and be competitive, so our guys and Renault have a lot to be proud of. We are still very much a force, so it is still a positive day for us."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Two hours after the race's conclusion, representatives of Ferrari, Red Bull and Renault were summoned to see the race stewards due to the various incidents that occurred during the race. Ferrari and Räikkönen were cleared of any wrongdoing in either of his incidents with race-winner Hamilton and Vettel on the first lap of the race. Red Bull were given a reprimand for the second race running, due to the unsafe release of Webber into the direct path of Räikkönen in the pit lane, at the first round of pit stops.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Red Bull had been in a similar situation at the German Grand Prix, when Vettel was released unsafely into the path of Kazuki Nakajima during qualifying, and the team were given a €10,000 fine. Renault received the harshest punishment of the three incidents, in the form of a suspension from the next race of the season, the European Grand Prix. The race stewards felt that Renault "knowingly released car no. 7


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
[Alonso] from the pitstop position without one of the retaining devices for the wheel-nuts being securely in position, this being an indication that the wheel itself may not have been properly secured. Being aware of this, [Renault] failed to take any action to prevent the car from leaving the pitlane. [


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Renault] failed to inform the driver of this problem or to advise him to take appropriate action given the circumstances, even though the driver contacted the team by radio believing he had a puncture, resulting in a heavy car part detaching at Turn 5, and the wheel itself detaching at Turn 9." which was in breach of Articles 3.2 and 23.1.i in the Sporting Regulations. Within half an hour of the decision, Renault filed the mandatory cost of €6,000 to appeal against the decision. The International Court of Appeal heard the case on August 17; the Monday before the European Grand Prix and the court upheld bid for the suspension to be overturned. The team was fined $50,000 for the breach of the regulations in Hungary, and were allowed to race at Valencia.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
"I don't remember anything and that's why what the doctors did had to be explained to me. When I saw Rob [Smedley], he asked me if I remembered Rubens, but the last thing I remembered was when I was behind him at the end of my fast lap in Q2, and then it's blank. It's difficult to explain. I'm feeling much better now and I want to recover as soon as possible to get back behind the wheel of a Ferrari."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Massa's condition continued to improve over the course of the weekend, the Brazilian having been sedated in a coma for 48 hours. After being visited by Ferrari and Fiat president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and also Rubens Barrichello, doctors from the Állami Egészségügyi Központ military hospital released a statement saying that Massa could make a full recovery. Massa could be released from hospital within a week to ten days, depending on how well he progresses.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Massa's doctor, Dino Altmann, also told the media that he is certain that Massa will race again, having stated that the trauma suffered by the Brazilian was not as bad as first thought, and that his condition has improved rapidly, taking his first steps since the crash, when he left the intensive care unit. Massa left hospital on August 3, returning home to Brazil to recuperate. He checked into the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Hospital Albert Einstein in São Paulo for a series of medical tests that would allow him to recuperate at home, rather than in hospital. All the results of the tests for abnormalities came back negative, and Massa was given the all-clear to continue his recuperation.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
"Whoever sits in the car at the next race in Valencia, it will not be Michael Schumacher. I am not 100 per cent sure; I am 200 per cent sure. The pressure on him would be huge. He would be expected to win, but he has not driven this car. When Michael was racing he would get as close to perfection as possible. In this case, it would not be perfection; it would be a gamble—and that's not Michael's style."


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Willi Weber, on rumours that Michael Schumacher would be replacing Massa.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Rumours began circulating that any one out of Ferrari advisor Michael Schumacher, and the team's two test drivers Luca Badoer and Marc Gené would be replacing Massa for the European Grand Prix, and the succeeding events. On July 29, Schumacher agreed to drive the car until Massa was fit enough to return, subject to medical tests. However, Schumacher called off his return on August 11, due to a lingering neck injury which he had suffered six months earlier, while testing a Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle at Circuito Cartagena.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
Badoer replaced Massa in Valencia, and competed in his first Grand Prix since 1999. The gap of nine years, nine months and 24 days was the second-longest gap between Grands Prix competed, with only Jan Lammers (ten years, three months; when he returned to Formula One in 1992), having a lengthier spell between races.


2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race
The Hungarian Grand Prix was also the last race for Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr. as he parted company with the team on August 3, 2009 and he would not race in a Formula One Grand Prix again. Romain Grosjean was announced as his replacement, with his GP2 Series team Barwa Addax signing up Davide Valsecchi to replace him; ending his title aspirations.


2009 Hungaroring GP2 Series round
The 2009 Hungarian GP2 round was the sixth round of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on July 25 and July 26, 2009 at Hungaroring at Budapest, Hungary. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2009 Hungaroring GP2 Series round
Lucas di Grassi got his first ever pole position in GP2, despite being in the series for three years. Nico Hülkenberg won the first race, the German's third win in succession. Giedo van der Garde got the first points for iSport International since Spain with seventh, and followed that up with victory in the sprint race, his first victory in GP2.


2009 Hungaroring GP2 Series round
Hülkenberg left Hungary with 57 points, still in the lead of the championship. ART Grand Prix and Barwa Addax Team were separated by 2 points in the teams championship.


2009 Hypo-Meeting
The 35th edition of the annual Hypo-Meeting took place on 30 and 31 May 2009 in Götzis, Austria. The track and field competition, featuring a decathlon (men) and a heptathlon (women) event, was part of the 2009 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge.


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election
There was a by-election in France for the municipality of Hénin-Beaumont held on 8 July. It was triggered after the mayor, Gérard Dalongeville, was convicted for embezzlement of public funds, corruption, forgery in private writing, favoritism and conceal of favoritism. The election was notable due to the fact that Steeve Briois, a Front National councillor for the town made it to the second round where he was eventually beaten by a coalition against FN. Steeve Briois was eventually elected mayor in 2014.


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Background
In the 2008 municipal elections, Parti Socialiste candidate, Gérard Dalongeville got 44.30% in the first round followed by Steeve Briois with 28.48% Daniel Duquenne got 19.23% in 2008.


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Background
Only a year later on 7 March 2009, Gérard Dalongeville was placed in custody in Lille under claims that he had committed embezzlement and as the case developed, he was suspended from PS on 21 April and then on 27 April was suspended as mayor.


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, First round
In the first round, there were 9 candidates standing for Mayor with Steeve Briois and Daniel Duquenne appearing as the front runners after a poll from La Voix du Nord shown that Steeve Briois had 35% of the vote, an increase of 7% from 2008 and Daniel Duquenne close behind


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, First round
On the night of 28 June, the Front National came in 39% of the vote, an 11% increase from 2008 and 800 more votes. This was followed by Daniel Duquenne and Pierre Ferrari, who obtained 20.19% and 17.01% respectively. After the FN got into the second round, numerous mainstream politicians called for citizens of Hénin-Beaumont to vote against Steeve Briois. This included Hervé Morin, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse and Jean-François Copé. In reaction to the UMP endorsement of Duquenne, Briois said "It's like the cherry on top".


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, First round
French actor, Dany Boon called for people to vote against FN saying that "the National Front conveys ideas to the opposite of the Nord-Pas de Calais" To this statement, Marine Le Pen replied saying that he was a good actor but he didn't understand the situation of the people in Hénin-Beaumont.


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Second round
As the second round started, candidate for the PS and Modem offered Pierre Ferrari to ally with Daniel Duquenne, Duquenne refused and after realizing the endorsements were in Duquenne's favor, he dropped out of the race.


2009 Hénin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Second round
On 5 July 2009, Daniel Duquenne won the election with 6,054 votes or 52.38% where Steeve Briois who obtained 5,504 votes or 47.62% came second. Following this defeat, Marine Le Pen said "there are defeats that are extremely honorable and this one of them."


2009 I-League 2nd Division
The 2009 I-League 2nd Division season ran from February 2009 to April 19, 2009. Initially 15 teams were divided in three groups of five teams and then the top two teams in each group were advanced to final round of qualification.


2009 I-League 2nd Division
Four teams were promoted to I-league 2010 season. Promoted teams include Pune FC, Lajong SSC, Viva Kerala and Salgaocar.


2009 IAAF Golden League
The 2009 Golden League is the 12th edition of the IAAF's annual series of six athletics meets, held across Europe, with athletes having the chance to win the Golden League Jackpot of $1 million.


2009 IAAF Road Race Label Events
The 2009 IAAF Road Race Label Events were the second edition of the global series of road running competitions given Label status by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). All five  World Marathon Majors had Gold Label status. The series included a total of 49 road races, 19 Gold and 30 Silver. In terms of distance, 34 races were marathons, 8 were half marathons, 5 were 10K runs, and 2 were held over other distances.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Final
The 7th IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 12 and September 13, 2009. The competition represented the culmination of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, a selection of athletics meetings which began on September 20, 2008 at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. The Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association (SEGAS) won the rights to hold the event in April 2008.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Final
The competitors in each event were decided by the final standings of the 2009 World Athletics Tour. Having scored points for their performances at specified meetings throughout the season, the seven athletes with the most points in each event qualified to compete, while eleven athletes were selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to take the place of qualified athletes who could not attend the final.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Final – Results
These are the results of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 12 and 13 September.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Final – Results
The year's top seven athletes, based on their points ranking of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, qualified to compete in each event, with an extra four athletes selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to replace the qualified athletes that could not attend the final.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour
The 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour was the fourth and final edition of the annual global circuit of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series featured 25 one-day meetings, consisting of the six meetings of the 2009 IAAF Golden League, five IAAF Super Grand Prix meetings, and fourteen IAAF Grand Prix meetings. In addition, there were 29 Area Permit Meetings that carried point-scoring events. The series culminated in the two-day 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 12–13 September.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva scored the most points during the circuit, with a total of 106. Five other athletes achieved a total of 100 points: distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, hurdler Dayron Robles, sprinters Kerron Stewart and Sanya Richards, and high jumper Blanka Vlašić.


2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, Points standings
Athletes earned points at meetings during the series. The following athletes were the top performers for their event prior to the World Athletics Final.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 28, 2009. The races were held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan. Four races took place, one for men, women, junior men and junior women respectively. All races encompassed both individual and team competition. Amman is also only the second occasion on which Asia has hosted the World Cross Country Championships, which are the oldest IAAF World Athletics Series event, first celebrated under the IAAF banner in 1973.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Competition notes
The senior male team for Kenya won their 22nd team title in 24 years despite the fact that no senior male runner from Kenya has won an individual title since 1999.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Competition notes
Florence Kiplagat was the first Kenyan senior women's winner since Helen Chepngeno in 1994. She was quoted saying, ‘’I would like to thank God,” she said. “Kenya has not won since 1994. We are determined to perform at the same level as Kenyan men.”


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Competition notes
Further race reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Senior men's race (12 km)
Complete results for senior men and for senior men's teams were published.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Junior men's race (8 km)
Complete results for junior men and for junior men's teams  were published.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Senior women's race (8 km)
Complete results for senior women and for senior women's teams were published.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Junior women's race (6 km)
Complete results for junior women and for junior women's teams were published.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 459 athletes from 59 countries participated, two athletes less (senior women) than the official number published


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
The Junior men's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 119 athletes from 29 countries participated in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race
The Junior women's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 99 athletes from 27 countries participated in the Junior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
The Senior men's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 145 athletes from 44 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from  Zimbabwe did not show.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
The Senior women's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.


2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 96 athletes from 34 countries participated in the Senior women's race, two athletes less than the official number published.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
The 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held in Birmingham, United Kingdom on 11 October 2009. It was the final event of the International Association of Athletics Federations' 2009 World Athletics Series.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Organisation
The city of Birmingham was selected by the IAAF Council after a presentation by UK Athletics and the Birmingham City Council. It was the third time the championships were held in Great Britain, after the 1992 event on Tyneside and the 2001 edition in Bristol. A number of events were scheduled to coincide with the Championships: a three-day convention for Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, as well as an IAAF press conference to discuss the future and progression of the sport.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Organisation
In addition to the main World Championship races, the Birmingham Half Marathon started thirty minutes after the women's World Championship race. Organised by Birmingham City Council and sponsored by EDF Energy, it was the second edition of the mass race which attracted over 9000 runners in 2008. A total of 12,068 people signed up to run the Birmingham Half Marathon.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Organisation
A total of 47 IAAF member federations sent athletes to the championships, the highest number since the 2002 edition.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Course
The men's race and women's race started at BST 9.00 am and 9:30 am, respectively. The course passed through Birmingham city centre and the city's southern suburbs, Centenary Square acting as the start and end point of the race. Highlights along the route included Cannon Hill Park, Cadbury World and the Bournville model village, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Victoria Square and the Bull Ring. The course is largely straight and flat, although there is an abrupt descent and ascent at the start and finish of the route, and slight rises and falls between the 10 and 16 km marks around Selly Park.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race
Eritrean runner Zersenay Tadese, who had won the last two World Half Marathons as well as the 20 km race in 2006, announced that he would attempt to defend his title and his chances improved after world leader Patrick Makau Musyoki was not listed from the Kenyan squad. The defending women's champion Lornah Kiplagat did not attempt to defend her title due to a knee injury, and three-time champion Paula Radcliffe filled the void, aiming for a record fourth title. However, she too withdrew from the event due to tonsillitis, dealing a blow to the host nation's chances.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race
Tadese was the outright favourite of the men's race, with his greatest challenge coming from Kenyans Sammy Kitwara, Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich and Bernard Kiprop Kipyego, Ethiopians Tilahun Regassa and Dereje Tesfaye. Dathan Ritzenhein, Fabiano Joseph Naasi and Marilson dos Santos were other outside chances. The Kenyan and Eritrean men's teams were favoured for the gold and silver team medals, while the team's from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda were suggested as possible bronze medallists. Unusually, Qatar (whose team placed third in 2008) did not send any runners to the competition.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race
In the women's race, Kenyan Mary Jepkosgei Keitany was the favourite in the absence of Kiplagat and Radcliffe. Keitany went into the championships as the world's leading half marathon runner, having run 1:07:00 seconds earlier in the season, and the race was seen as a chance for her to make her mark over the distance. The next fastest runner that season was her compatriot Philes Ongori, although her time of 1:07:50 was some way off Keitany's. Two more possible medallists, Filomena Cheyech and Caroline Cheptanui Kilel rounded out a strong Kenyan squad.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race
The Ethiopian team was missing two of their best runners (Dire Tune and Aselefech Mergia), but Abebu Gelan and Aberu Kebede were still in medal contention. The Japanese athletes, Yukiko Akaba and Yurika Nakamura, looked to maintain Japan's past podium form in the team competition. New Zealand's Kim Smith was regarded as an unknown quantity, as she was moving to the road competitions after much success on the track.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race
At the pre-race press conference the IAAF General Secretary, Pierre Weiss, lamented the relative lack of interest in the competition, vocalising the IAAF's dissatisfaction with the number of competing athletes and federations. He acknowledged that the competition's prize money was not at parity with other top level marathons. Wilson Kipketer, the 800 metres world record holder, pointed out that the standard of Europe's long-distance runners had been largely surpassed by other region's athletes, most notably by Africa. Kipketer argued that Europeans were not making the most of their sporting facilities and were "not training properly or timing and planning their seasons properly". Ed Warner, chairman of UK Athletics, agreed that a rethink was needed in terms of training and mindset.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Medallists
Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given bothfor the men's race and for the women's race.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Race results
Complete results were published for the men's race, for the women's race, for men's team, and for women's team.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Race results, Women's
†: Inga Abitova from  Russia was initially 9th(1:09:53), but her competition results were annulled, beginning October 10,2009, because of breaking anti-doping regulations.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Team results, Women's
†: The team from Russia was initially ranked 3rd (3:31:23), but fell behind Japan after the disqualification of Inga Abitova.


2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Participation
The participation of 157 athletes (98 men/59 women) from 39 countries is reported.


2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships
The 2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships were a series of two events that served as qualification for the 2009 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The first stage of the championship saw the affiliate nations competing for a place in the finals. This competition was held from 27 February to 5 March in Maputo, Mozambique. Initially it was intended for two teams to go through but due to concern over Kenya's ability, they were included in the qualifying finals limiting the free spaces to one. As a result, only the champions, Sierra Leone, made it through into the eight team finals.


2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships
The finals were held from 27 April to 4 May in Lusaka, Zambia. The top two teams qualified for the international qualifier and these were Uganda and surprisingly, the affiliate team of Sierra Leone.


2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Affiliates, Teams
Six African affiliate nations participated in this competition and these were:


2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Affiliates, Matches
The teams played each other in a round robin format with the final placings being decided by wins and then run rate.


2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Finals, Teams
Eight teams competed in the second part of the competition, these being the seven associate nations plus the winners of the affiliate tournament.


2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Finals, Matches
The teams played one another in a round robin format with the final placings being decided by wins and then net run rate.


2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship
The 2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship was an event organised by the Americas Cricket Association for the top Under-19 teams from its member nations. The tournament also served as qualification for the 2009 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier to which the top two teams would progress. It was held from 6–12 July in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Six teams participated with Canada emerging as champions and second placed USA joining them in qualification.


2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship, Teams
All the associate members of the ACA took part alongside affiliate side Bahamas.


2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship, Matches
The teams played one another in a round-robin format with the final placings being decided by wins, followed by net run rate.


2009 ICC Awards
The 2009 ICC Awards were held on 1 October 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa before the semi-finals of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Nominations were announced in Mumbai in early September while short lists were announced on 15 September. These awards were given on the performance of the players between 13 August 2008 and 24 August 2009 and were presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). Performances from both players and officials were taken into account during this period of time for the game.


2009 ICC Awards
The ICC had been hosting ICC Awards since 2004, which were now into their sixth year. Previous events were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006) and Dubai (2008), with Johannesburg also hosting in 2007. The ICC awards the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy to the Cricketer of the Year, which is considered to be the most prestigious award in world cricket.


2009 ICC Awards, Sponsors
As the logo of these awards suggests, LG, one of the world's leading electronic brands, sponsored these awards along with other ICC sponsors.


2009 ICC Awards, Selection Committee
Chaired by ICC Cricket Hall of Famer Clive Lloyd, the ICC Selection Committee was charged with two main tasks. Using their experience, knowledge and appreciation of the game, they selected the ICC World XI Teams and provided a long list of nominations to the 25 members of the voting academy to cast their votes in the individual player award categories.


2009 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC Test Team of the Year
MS Dhoni was selected as both captain and wicket-keeper of the Test Team of the Year. Other players are:


2009 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC ODI Team of the Year
MS Dhoni was also selected as both captain and wicket-keeper of the ODI Team of the Year. Other players are:


2009 ICC Awards, Short lists
The short lists for the 2009 ICC Awards were announced by the ICC on 15 September 2009 directly from Dubai. They are the following:


2009 ICC Awards, Nominations
The following are the nominations for the 2009 ICC Awards in different categories. They were announced by Virender Sehwag and Ravi Shastri in the presence of ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy
The 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was a One Day International cricket tournament held in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October, at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Gauteng province. Originally, the tournament was scheduled to be hosted by Pakistan in 2008, but due to security concerns it shifted to South Africa. It was the sixth ICC Champions Trophy, and was previously known as the ICC Knock-out. Two teams from two groups of four qualified for the semi-finals, and the final was staged in Centurion on 5 October. Australia successfully defended the title by beating New Zealand by six wickets in the final.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy, History
The Champions Trophy was the brainchild of Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was ICC president in the late 1990s. It had a dual aim of spreading the game to emerging nations and raising money for the ICC in between World Cups, thus enabling it to pump more cash into those fledgling cricket countries. The first tournament, labelled as a mini World Cup, was staged in Dhaka in October 1998 and raised more than £10 million. The second, in Nairobi, was a commercial success although the crowds stayed away.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy, History
By the time the 2002 event was held – and there was disquiet as it was so close to the World Cup five months later – the idea of playing in developing nations had been ditched and as revenue-generation was the main raison d'etre, it needed to be in one of the main countries as this allowed the format to be expanded. In 2004 the jamboree moved to England and it became clear the format of group games led to too many meaningless games. By the time the 2006 tournament in India came into view, the event was under fire from some quarters, and at one time there were even hints that India might decline to take part in 2008.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Schedule and location
The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Pakistan between 11 and 28 September 2008 in Lahore and Karachi. The ICC postponed the tournament due to security fears expressed by several participating countries; On 24 July 2008, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament would take place in Pakistan after all despite players from Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand raising concerns over touring the country. On 22 August 2008, South Africa announced that it would not take part in the Champions Trophy due to security concerns. Two days later, on 24 August 2008, after speculation that the tournament would be held elsewhere (England, Sri Lanka, or South Africa), the ICC announced that the tournament would be postponed until October 2009.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Schedule and location
At its meeting in February 2009, the ICC board decided to move the tournament out of Pakistan on security concerns. At the time, Sri Lanka was the favoured alternate host. In March 2009, the ICC Chief Executives' Committee recommended to the ICC board that the tournament be held in South Africa as there were concerns that the weather in Sri Lanka during September and October could result in too many games being washed out. The ICC board ratified the recommendation, and the event took place in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October 2009. Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Johannesburg area, were announced as venues for the tournament.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Rules and regulations
The 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was contested by the top eight teams (previously 10) that had been seeded and divided into two groups. No associates nations participated in this tournament. Each team played every other team in its group once. Points were allocated for each match in accordance with the system described below which applied throughout the competition.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Rules and regulations
Following the group stage, the top two teams from each group progressed to the semi-finals, where the winner of Group A played the runner up of Group B (in the 1st semi-final) and the winner of Group B played the runner up of Group A (in the 2nd semi-final). The winners of the semi-finals contested the final.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final
The final of the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament was played on 5 October 2009 between New Zealand and Australia at the SuperSport Park, Centurion. Australia qualified into the final by defeating England in the first semi final while New Zealand defeated Pakistan in the second semi final. Australia won the final by 6 wickets, their second consecutive Champions Trophy final.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Road to the Final, First Semi-Final
The first semi final was played between Australia and England on 2 October 2009 at the SuperSport Park, Centurion. England batted first and set target of 258 which Australia achieved in 41.2 overs. Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting scored 136 and 111 runs—both not out—sharing 252 runs from 242 balls, Australia highest partnership in One Day Internationals (ODIs). Watson was given man of the match award.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Road to the Final, Second Semi-Final
New Zealand played Pakistan in the second semi-final at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, and defeated them by 5 wickets. Achieving the target of 234 runs, New Zealand highest scorer was Grant Elliott, with 75 not out. Daniel Vettori earned the man of the match award for his all-round performance; he took 3 wickets for 43 runs in 10 overs and scored 41 runs.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Result
The final of the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was played between Australia and New Zealand at the SuperSport Park on 5 October 2009. Batting first after winning the toss, New Zealand posted a total of 200 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. Australia, in the reply, were initially restrict to 41 runs for 3 wickets in 18 overs, and the Kyle Mills and Shane Bond appeared with bowling figures like: 6–2–8–1 and 5–2–9–1 respectively.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Result
Shane Watson and Cameron White were playing in a "Test match-mode", but got momentum later with White scoring 61 runs off 102 balls and Watson 105 not out from 129 balls. With back-to-back sixes, Watson completed his century and achieved the target. Australia reach the target in 45.4 overs losing 4 wickets. This was the second consecutive occasion for Watson earning man of the match award in the final of ICC Champions Trophy. It was Australia's fifth consecutive win after becoming finalists in multi-team tournaments since 1999.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads
This is a list of the squads picked for the men's 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. This was the sixth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy tournament and took place in South Africa between 24 September and 5 October.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, Australia
Australia named their 15-man squad on 22 August 2009. Brad Haddin withdrew from the squad on 3 September 2009 following finger surgery; he was replaced by Tim Paine. Coach: Tim Nielsen


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, England
England named their 15-man squad on 17 August 2009. Andrew Flintoff was named in the original squad but withdrew on 23 August in order to undergo exploratory surgery on his knee.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, India
India named their 15-man squad on 16 August 2009. Yuvraj Singh was replaced by Virat Kohli after he fractured his little finger.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, New Zealand
New Zealand named their 15-man squad on 23 August 2009. Jesse Ryder cramped in a match. Daryl Tuffey and Jacob Oram were also injured. Thus New Zealand team lost three of their mainstream players. Scott Styris was also called from New Zealand for replacements in the final or semi-final of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, Pakistan
Pakistan named their 15-man squad on 21 August 2009. Mohammad Asif got selected after his ban after a year and a half. Also the three players from ICL Imran Nazir, Mohammad Yousuf and Naved-ul-Hasan made their way into the squad after issuing the photocopies of NOC to the PCB. Shahid Afridi acted as captain in their first match.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, South Africa
South Africa named their 15-man squad on 20 August 2009.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka named their 15-man squad on 25 August 2009.


2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, West Indies
West Indies named their 15-man squad on 17 August 2009. Despite some negotiations with the West Indian players the Board named their A-team players for the tournament.


2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day)
The 2009 East Asia-Pacific Trophy was an international cricket tournament played in ODI format at Apia, Samoa between 19–25 September 2009. Eight men's national teams participated in the tournament which was split into two divisions; the three nations from the World Cricket League played in division one, and the remaining five nations played in division two.


2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day)
In the division one competition, after a round robin group stage of four matches, Papua New Guinea easily beat the Fiji in the final.


2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day)
In the division two competition, after a round robin group stage of four matches, Vanuatu easily beat the Samoa in the final. As a result of winning the tournament, Vanuatu earned promotion to both Division Eight of the World Cricket League and Division One of the EAP Trophy.


2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day), Play-offs
There were four play-off matches to decide the final standings.


2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20
The 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20 competition took on a different format from that of the men's, having eight teams split into two pools followed directly by the semi-finals and final. All pool stage matches were played at the County Ground in Taunton. The women's competition was also shorter, running for 10 days as opposed to 16 for the men's tournament, however the women's semi-finals and final were held on the same days and at the same venues as those of their male counterparts.


2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20
England and New Zealand contested the final at Lord's, with the host nation bowling out New Zealand for 85 thanks to Player of the Match Katherine Brunt's opening spell of 3 for 6. Player of the Series Claire Taylor saw England home to a comfortable six wicket victory.


2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Statistics, ICC Team of the Tournament
After the tournament's conclusion an ICC panel of experts picked the best composite XI from the players in the Women's World Twenty20.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three
The 2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three was a cricket tournament in Malawi, taking place between 3 and 7 October 2009. It gave six African Associate and Affiliate members of the International Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and formed part of the global World Cricket League structure.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three
The top two teams, Malawi and Sierra Leone was promoted to Division 2.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Teams
There were 5 teams that played in the tournament, Morocco withdrew due to visa problems. These teams were non-test member nations of the African Cricket Association. The teams that played were:


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads
Moses BadjanMoses BahoumPeter CampbellAniru ContehBakary DarboeMbye DumbuyaGeorge GreywoodeAbdoulie JohnsonPrince JohnsonGabriel NjieMelville Williams


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads
Lehlomela KhubetsoanaLeokaoke LebonaRalintsi LemphaneThapelo LintsiThabang MaferekaAtanase MohapiBongane MosiuoaMalebanye NkokoMosokotso SelloMasiu TolofiTsabanyeNkhashe Tsooanyane


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads
Akbar BhanaKaramutallah ChaudryNaeem ChaudryIshtaq KhanDanish JakhuraSheilandra JeenaFaraz JunejoArjun KamleshImran KhanMuzakkir KhanMushaid QureshiZafarullah SukheraTariq Mohamed


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads
Emmanuel ByiringiroEric DusabemunguEric DusingizimanaShijith KaladaAndre KayiteraPraveen MenonDennis MukamaEvode MutuyimanaSubhasis SamalBob SonghaJoseph TuyishimireSrinath VardhinenCoach: William Kamanyi


2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads
Julius BrewahOlu CokerIbrahim KabiaMustapha KallonAbubakarr KamaraAlie John KamaraEmmanuel KamaraEdward KamaraIbrahim KamaraLansana LaminMohamed MansarayEdward MarahLuseni SenesieBamie Williams


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven
The 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven was a cricket tournament held in May 2009 in Guernsey. The tournament was the first stage of qualification structure for the 2015 World Cup as well as part of the wider ICC World Cricket League. The two leading teams of the tournament were promoted to Division Six later the same year.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Six
The 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Six was a cricket tournament held from 29 August to 5 September 2009 in Singapore. The tournament was the second stage of the qualification structure for the 2015 World Cup as well as part of the wider ICC World Cricket League. The two leading teams of the tournament were promoted to Division Five in 2010.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three
The 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three was a cricket tournament that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from  24 to 31 January 2009. It formed part of the ICC World Cricket League and qualifying for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three
The tournament was won by Afghanistan, with Uganda coming in second. Those teams qualified for the 2011 World Cup qualification tournament. Both won four matches and lost one, as did Papua New Guinea; the rankings tie was broken by net run rate.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three
Papua New Guinea were the first to reach four wins, as Afghanistan and Uganda both had their fifth matches abandoned due to rain and had to replay them the next day. The rain also resulted in the cancellation of the finals round ranking matches (which would not affect promotion or relegation in any case), and the group round result table was the final standings.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Teams
The teams for the tournament have been decided according to the results of Division Two and Division Three in 2007, and Division Four in 2008, and are as follows:


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Teams
The top two teams from this tournament qualified to play in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier in South Africa.


2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Final and Playoffs
The playoff matches were cancelled after the abandonment of fifth-round group matches led to replays on the day the playoff matches were scheduled.


2009 ICC World Twenty20
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 was an international Twenty20 cricket tournament which took place in England in June 2009. It was the second ICC World Twenty20 tournament, following the inaugural event in South Africa in September 2007. As before, the tournament featured 12 male teams – nine of the ten Test-playing nations and three associate nations, which earned their places through a qualification tournament. Matches were played at three English grounds – Lord's and The Oval in London, and Trent Bridge in Nottingham.


2009 ICC World Twenty20
The tournament was organised in parallel with the women's tournament, with the men's semi-finals and final being preceded by the semi-finals and final from the women's event. The final took place at Lord's on Sunday 21 June with Pakistan beating Sri Lanka by eight wickets and England beating New Zealand by six wickets in the women's final.


2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background
In June 2006, The Daily Telegraph reported that the Marylebone Cricket Club and Surrey CCC had put in a joint bid to host the tournament at Lord's and The Oval.


2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background
In December 2007, the ICC provisionally approved a Women's World Twenty20 to run alongside the men's event which, subject to the approval of the ICC's finance and commercial affairs committee, would come into effect for the 2009 tournament in England.


2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background
In early January 2008, speculation arose that the tournament could be held elsewhere as the British government have banned Zimbabwe from touring England in 2009. However, it was later confirmed that the tournament would definitely take place in the country.


2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background
In April 2008, the third venue was confirmed as Nottingham's Trent Bridge; the 17,500 seater stadium was chosen to hold one of the semi-finals, among other earlier matches. Lord's and The Oval are the two other confirmed venues, with the opening match and final being played at Lord's. Old Trafford Cricket Ground had bid for the third venue, but Trent Bridge was chosen for its closer proximity to the two London grounds.