Tour of Romania

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The Tour of Romania (or "Little Loop") is a cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour. The tour is organized by the Romanian Cycling Federation.

Tour of Romania
Race details
DateSeptember
RegionRomania
English nameTour of Romania
Local name(s)Turul României
Nickname(s)Mica Buclă ("Little Loop")
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Europe Tour
TypeStage race
OrganiserRomanian Cycling Federation
Web siteturulromaniei.com
History
First edition1934; 90 years ago (1934)
Editions56 (as of 2024)
First winner Marin Nikolov (BUL)
Most wins Constantin Dumitrescu (ROU)
 Mircea Romașcanu (ROU)
(3 wins)
Most recent Ilkhan Dostiyev (KAZ) (2024)

History

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Inspired by Tour de France, the monthly publication "Car Magazine" held in August 1910 the first edition of "Circuit Wallachia". The competition took 12 riders at the start on the route BucharestSinaiaTârgovișteButimanuBucharest (approximately 300 km or 190 mi). The race lasted for three editions. Since 1934 the newspaper "Daily Sport", in collaboration with Romanian Cycling Federation has organized the Tour of Romania.

The route of first edition was 1,026 km (638 mi) long and included six stages.

Statistics

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  • The longest route was the 3rd edition in 1936 at 2,242 km (1,393 mi).
  • The shortest route was 430 km (270 mi), in the 29th edition of 1991.
  • At the 19th edition of 1973, Cluj, a stage was held nocturnal on the 27.3 km (17.0 mi) distance.
  • Rider Traian Chicomban of Brașov participated in the January edition (1934) until the 9th edition (1954), as the Tour's longest-running participation of Romania.
  • 45th edition (2008) was the first edition which was featured in the calendar Union Cycliste Internationale.

Winners

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Year Country Rider Team
1934   Bulgaria Marin Nikolov Bulgaria (national team)
1935   Poland Daniel Zigmund Poland (national team)
1936   France Pierre Gallien France (national team)
1937
1945
No race
1946   Yugoslavia August Prosenik Yugoslavia (national team)
1947
1949
No race
1950   Romania Constantin Sandu C.C.A.
1951   Romania Marin Niculescu Flamura Roșie București
1952 No race
1953   Romania Nicolae Vasilescu CS Dinamo București
1954   Romania Constantin Dumitrescu CS Progresul București
1955   Romania Constantin Dumitrescu C.C.A.
1956   Romania Constantin Dumitrescu C.C.A.
1957 No race
1958   Romania Gabriel Moiceanu CS Dinamo București
1959   Romania Ion Cosma CS Dinamo București
1960   Romania Walter Ziegler Romania (youth team)
1961   Romania Ion Cosma Romania (national team)
1962
1965
No race
1966   Romania Georghe Suciu Romania (national team)
1967   Romania Emil Rusu Romania (national team)
1968   Romania Walter Ziegler CS Dinamo București
1969   East Germany Jurgen Wanzlik East Germany (national team)
1970
1972
No race
1973   Romania Vasile Teodor Romania (national team)
1974   Romania Mircea Romașcanu Romania (youth team)
1975
1982
No race
1983   Romania Mircea Romașcanu CS Dinamo București
1984   Romania Constantin Căruțașu Romania (national team)
1985   Romania Mircea Romașcanu Romania (national team)
1986   East Germany Frank Schonherr Vorw
1987   Romania Valentin Constantinescu Romania (national team)
1988   Romania Vasile Mitrache Romania (national team)
1989   Romania Dănuț Cătană Romania (national team)
1990   Romania Vasie Apostol CS Dinamo București
1991   Moldova Svetoslav Riabuchenko Viitorul Chișinău
1992   Ukraine Vladimir Perelalsny Bulgaria (national team)
1993   Germany Jurgen Koberschinski Germany (national team)
1994   Romania Anton Stelian Romania (national team)
1995   Ukraine Igor Mitianin Ukraine (national team)
1996 No race
1997   Romania Florin Privache Romania (national team)
1998   Moldova Igor Bonciucov Moldova (national team)
1999   Kazakhstan Sergey Tretyakov Brisaspor
2000   Kazakhstan Vadim Kravchenko Brisaspor
2001   Ukraine Leonid Timchenko Ukraine (national team)
2002   Moldova Alexandru Sabalin Moldova (national team)
2003   Netherlands Jelle Groezen Netherlands (national team)
2004   Bulgaria Vladimir Koev Bulgaria (national team)
2005   Bulgaria Ivaïlo Gabrovski Hemus 1896-Aurora 2000 Berchi
2006   Bulgaria Pavel Shumanov Cycling Club Bourgas
2007   Romania Daniel Anghelache CS Dinamo București
2008   Hungary Rida Cador P-Nívó-Betonexpressz 2000-Corratec
2009   Russia Alexey Shchebelin SP Tableware-Gatsoulis Bikes
2010   Bulgaria Vladimir Koev Hemus 1896-Vivelo
2011   Romania Andrei Nechita Romania (national team)
2012   Croatia Matija Kvasina Ukraine (national team)
2013   Ukraine Vitaliy Buts Kolss Cycling Team
2014
2017
No race
2018   Romania Serghei Țvetcov UnitedHealthcare
2019   Netherlands Alex Molenaar Parkhotel Valkenburg
2020   Romania Eduard Grosu Romania (national team)
2021   Poland Jakub Kaczmarek HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski
2022   Great Britain Mark Stewart Bolton Equities Black Spoke Pro Cycling
2023 No race[1]
2024   Kazakhstan Ilkhan Dostiyev Astana Qazaqstan Development Team


By nationality
Nationality No. of wins
  Romania 28
  Bulgaria 5
  Ukraine 4
  Moldova 3
  Kazakhstan 3
  Netherlands 2
  East Germany 2
  Poland 2
  France 1
  Croatia 1
  Russia 1
  Germany 1
  Yugoslavia 1
  United Kingdom 1
  Hungary 1

Classifications

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The jerseys worn by the leaders of the individual classifications are:

  •   Yellow Jersey – Worn by the leader of the general classification.
  •   Red Jersey – Worn by the leader of the points classification.
  •   Green Jersey – Worn by the leader of the climber classification.
  •   White Jersey – Worn by the best rider under 23 years of age on the overall classification.
  •   Blue Jersey – Worn by the best Romanian rider of the overall classification.

References

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  1. ^ "Federația Română de Ciclism anunță reprogramarea Turului României pentru 2024". federatiadeciclism.ro. 28 September 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
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