Tour of Japan
Race details | |
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Date | May |
Region | Japan |
English name | Tour of Japan |
Local name(s) | ツアー・オブ・ジャパン (in Japanese) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Asia Tour 2.2 |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | Cycle Month Promotion Council |
Race director | Osamu Kurimura |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 1996 |
Editions | 24 (as of 2022) |
First winner | Jean-Philippe Duracka (FRA) |
Most wins | Fortunato Baliani (ITA) Samad Pourseyedi (IRI) Óscar Pujol (ESP) (2 wins) |
Most recent | Nathan Earle (AUS) |
The Tour of Japan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Japan since 1996 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.1 category race.
History
Tour of Japan was formed as the successor of the Kokusai Cycle Road Race which began in 1982.[1] In 1996, Tour of Japan began as a UCI category 2-5 stage race,[2] and became category 2–4 in 1997. It was downgraded to category 2–5 in 2002.[3]
As the UCI race system was reformed in 2005, it was included in the UCI Asia Tour as a category 2.2 event. It became a category 2.1 event in 2013.
The race has only been cancelled three times in its history. The 2003 edition was canceled for concern over the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, and the 2011 edition was canceled because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021 edition was held as a class 2.2 event and a three-day stage race with all domestic teams, exempted by the UCI from the mandatory invitation of foreign teams under Japan's international travel restrictions. The 2022 edition was held as a four-stages, class 2.2 event.
Past winners
General classification
Year | Country | Rider | Team | |
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1996 | France | Jean-Philippe Duracka | France (national team) | |
1997 | United States | Bart Bowen | Saturn | |
1998 | United States | Frank McCormack | Saturn | |
1999 | Poland | Andrzej Sypytkowski | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2000 | Switzerland | Mauro Gianetti | Vini Caldirola-Sidermec | |
2001 | Poland | Paweł Niedźwiecki | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2002 | Ukraine | Oleksandr Klymenko | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2003 | No race due to the SARS outbreak | |||
2004 | Japan | Shinichi Fukushima | Bridgestone Anchor | |
2005 | Colombia | Félix Cárdenas | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2006 | Ukraine | Vladimir Duma | C.B. Immobiliare-Universal Caffè | |
2007 | Italy | Francesco Masciarelli | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2008 | Australia | Cameron Meyer | SouthAustralia.com-AIS | |
2009 | Spain | Sergio Pardilla | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2010 | Italy | Cristiano Salerno | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2011 | No race due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami | |||
2012 | Italy | Fortunato Baliani | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2013 | Italy | Fortunato Baliani | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2014 | Iran | Samad Pourseyedi | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2015 | Iran | Samad Pourseyedi | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2016 | Spain | Óscar Pujol | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2017 | Spain | Óscar Pujol | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2018 | Spain | Marcos García | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2019 | Australia | Chris Harper | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2020 | No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
2021 | Japan | Nariyuki Masuda | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2022 | Australia | Nathan Earle | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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Notes
- ^ Murayama, Goro (March 2013). 日本における自転車ロードレース『ツアー・オブ・ジャパン』の歴史 [The history of the bicycle road race in Japan, about “Tour of Japan”] (PDF). 自転車文化センター研究報告書 (in Japanese) (5). Bicycle Culture Center.
- ^ "2001 6th Tour of Japan". Tour of Japan Organizing Committee. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ^ NEXT TOJ 〜TOJの歴史を振り返る〜 Vol.68. 2017-04-09. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
External links
- Official website
- Tour of Japan palmares at Cycling Archives
- Statistics at the-sports.org
- Tour of Japan at cqranking.com