Tour of Romania
Race details | |
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Date | Start June |
Region | Romania |
English name | Tour of Romania |
Local name(s) | Turul României, Mica Buclă |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Stage race |
Web site | turulromaniei |
History | |
First edition | 1934 |
Editions | 50 (as of 2013) |
First winner | ![]() |
Most wins | ![]() ![]() (3 wins) |
Most recent | ![]() |
The Tour of Romania (or “Little Loop”) is a cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.2 race on the UCI Europe Tour.
History
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 Bucharest–Sinaia–Targoviste–Butimanu–Bucharest (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. Romania became the sixth country in the world to organize a National Amateur Cycling Tour, after Belgium (1906), Netherlands (1909), Bulgaria (1924), Hungary (1925) and Poland (1928).
The route first edition was 1,026 km (638 mi) long and included six stages.
Statistics
- The longest route was the 3rd edition in 1936 at 2,242 km (1,393 mi).
- The shortest route was 430 kilometres (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 Brasov 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
Year | Country | Rider | Team | |
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1934 | ![]() |
Marin Nikolov | ||
1935 | ![]() |
Daniel Zigmund | ||
1936 | ![]() |
Pierre Gallien | ||
1937 1945 |
No race | |||
1946 | ![]() |
August Prosenik | ||
1947 1949 |
No race | |||
1950 | ![]() |
Constantin Sandu | ||
1951 | ![]() |
Marin Niculescu | ||
1952 | No race | |||
1953 | ![]() |
Nicolae Vasilescu | ||
1954 | ![]() |
Constantin Dumitrescu | ||
1955 | ![]() |
Constantin Dumitrescu | ||
1956 | ![]() |
Constantin Dumitrescu | ||
1957 | No race | |||
1958 | ![]() |
Gabriel Moiceanu | ||
1959 | ![]() |
Ion Cosma | ||
1960 | ![]() |
Walter Ziegler | ||
1961 | ![]() |
Ion Cosma | ||
1962 1965 |
No race | |||
1966 | ![]() |
Georghe Suciu | ||
1967 | ![]() |
Emil Rusu | ||
1968 | ![]() |
Walter Ziegler | ||
1969 | ![]() |
Jurgen Wanzlik | ||
1970 1972 |
No race | |||
1973 | ![]() |
Vasile Teodor | ||
1974 | ![]() |
Mircea Romascanu | ||
1975 1982 |
No race | |||
1983 | ![]() |
Mircea Romascanu | ||
1984 | ![]() |
Constantin Carutasu | ||
1985 | ![]() |
Mircea Romascanu | ||
1986 | ![]() |
Frank Schonherr | ||
1987 | ![]() |
Valentin Constantinescu | ||
1988 | ![]() |
Vasile Mitrache | ||
1989 | ![]() |
Danut Catana | ||
1990 | ![]() |
Vasie Apostol | ||
1991 | ![]() |
Svetoslav Riabuchenko | ||
1992 | ![]() |
Vladimir Perelalsny | ||
1993 | ![]() |
Jurgen Koberschinski | ||
1994 | ![]() |
Anton Stelian | ||
1995 | ![]() |
Igor Mitianin | ||
1996 | No race | |||
1997 | ![]() |
Florin Privache | ||
1998 | ![]() |
Igor Bonciucov | ||
1999 | ![]() |
Sergey Tretyakov | ||
2000 | ![]() |
Vadim Kravchenko | ||
2001 | ![]() |
Leonid Timchenko | ||
2002 | ![]() |
Alexandre Sabalin | ||
2003 | ![]() |
Jelle van Groezen | ||
2004 | ![]() |
Vladimir Koev | ||
2005 | ![]() |
Ivaïlo Gabrovski | Hemus 1896-Aurora 2000 Berchi | |
2006 | ![]() |
Pavel Shumanov | Cycling Club Burgas | |
2007 | ![]() |
Daniel Anghelache | Dinamo București | |
2008 | ![]() |
Rida Cador | P-Nívó-Betonexpressz 2000-Corratec | |
2009 | ![]() |
Alexey Shchebelin | SP Tableware-Gatsoulis Bikes | |
2010 | ![]() |
Vladimir Koev | Hemus 1896-Vivelo | |
2011 | ![]() |
Andrei Nechita | Romania (national team) | |
2012 | ![]() |
Matija Kvasina | Ukraine (national team) | |
2013 | ![]() |
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