during the season, cavendish developed a remarkable partnership with his leadout man, mark renshaw. continuing his run of success, cavendish won stage 2, stage 3, stage 10, stage 11, stage 19 and stage 21 of the 2009 tour de france. in winning the third stage he became the first briton to hold the green jersey for two days in a row. cavendish's win on stage 11 enabled him to reclaim the green jersey from rival thor hushovd, and equalled barry hoban's british record of eight tour de france stage wins. however, all the points that cavendish gained in stage 14 were removed after he was judged to have driven hushovd too close to barriers on the course. cavendish said of the protest, which he thought was lodged by hushovd, that, "thor either thinks so highly of himself that he thinks i was looking out for him yesterday or he thinks so highly of my team that the only way he can beat us is to complain like that." however, the disqualification was confirmed before hushovd and his team lodged a protest. cavendish added that the green jersey was no longer within his reach, and that his main objective was now to finish the race and win the final stage in paris, which he did. winning the 19th stage, cavendish set a new record for tour de france stage wins by a british rider; afterwards, he said that he was "embarrassed" for his comments about "deserving" green jersey wearer hushovd. in winning the 21st stage, he lead home a remarkable 1-2 for his team, when his team mate and leadout man, mark renshaw, finished second on the champs-élysées.