Volta ao Distrito de Santarém

Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
Race details
Date	March
Region	Santarém, Portugal
English name	Tour of Santarém District
Local name(s)	Volta ao Distrito de Santarém (in Portuguese)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Stage race
Web site	www.pad.pt/2007/VoltaSantarem/
History
First edition	1997
Editions	12
Final edition	2008
First winner	Saulius Sarkauskas (LTU)
Most wins	Cândido Barbosa (POR) (3 wins)
Final winner	Maurizio Biondo (ITA)

The Volta ao Distrito de Santarém (in Portuguese) (Tour of Santarém District) was a multi-day road cycling race held annually in the District of Santárem, Portugal. From 2006 to 2008, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was created in 1997 and underwent several changes throughout its existence.

Winners[edit]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
Gran Premio Internacional Telecom
1997	Saulius Šarkauskas	Cândido Barbosa	Jeremy Hunt
1998	Cândido Barbosa	Jacek Mickiewicz	Manuel Pedro Liberato
1999	Paolo Lanfranchi	Mikel Pradera	Felice Puttini
Gran Premio Portugal Telecom
2000	José Azevedo	José Alberto Martínez	Aitor Osa
Gran Premio Mosqueteros-Ruta del Marqués
2001	Igor González de Galdeano	Vítor Gamito	Melcior Mauri
2002	Rui Lavarinhas	Joan Horrach	Bruno Castanheira
2003	Cândido Barbosa	Alexei Markov	Claus Michael Møller
Gran Premio Estremadura-RTP
2004	Carlos García Quesada	Cândido Barbosa	José Adrián Bonilla
Gran Premio Internacional del Oeste RTP
2005	Cândido Barbosa	Aitor Pérez Arrieta	Carlos Castaño
Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
2006	Lars Boom	Benjamin Day	Manuel Lloret
2007	Robert Hunter	Martín Garrido	Lars Boom
2008	Maurizio Biondo	László Bodrogi	Andreas Klöden