Tour de l'Ain
The Tour de l'Ain is a French cycling race .
The stage race is held annually in August in the French department of Ain . Maurice Josserand, Dante Lavacca and Armand Peracca created the Tour de l'Ain as the successor to the Prix de l'Amitié . Initially it had UCI status 2.5 until it was upgraded to 2.3 in 2002. The tour has been part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005 and is classified in category 2.1.
For the more difficult stages, the Tour de l'Ain goes into the Jura Mountains . The Grand Colombier has been a mountain since 1999 and is a regular part of the tour.
Winners list
Tour de l'Ain
- 2020 Primož Roglič
- 2019 Thibaut Pinot
- 2018 Arthur Vichot
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2017 Thibaut Pinot
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2016 Sam Oomen
- 2015 Alexandre Geniez
- 2014 Bert-Jan Lindeman
- 2013 Romain Bardet
- 2012 Andrew Talansky
- 2011 David Moncoutié
- 2010 Haimar Zubeldia
- 2009 Pure Taaramäe
- 2008 Linus Gerdemann
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2007 John Gadret
- 2006 Cyril Dessel
- 2005 Carl Naibo
- 2004 Jérôme Pineau
- 2003 Axel Merckx
- 2002 Christophe Oriol
- 2001 Iwajlo Gabrowski
- 2000 Sergei Yakovlev
- 1999 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski
- 1998 Cristian Gasperoni
- 1997 Bobby Julich
- 1996 David Delrieu
- 1995 Emmanuel Hubert
- 1994 Lylian Lebreton
- 1993 Emmanuel Magnien
- 1992 Denis Leproux
- 1991 Eric Drubay
- 1990 Denis Moretti
- 1989 Serge Pires-Léal
Prix de l'Amitié
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Web links
Commons : Tour de l'Ain - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website (French)