China tour

The China Tour is a stage cycling race of the UCI category 2.1 , the year in the 1996 People's Republic of China is started.

The first edition of the race ran over four stages. There were seven stages in 2010 and nine in 2011. Until 2010 the competition belonged to the UCI category 2.2, then to category 2.1.

Since 2012, two stage races called the Tour of China have been held in quick succession. Additions I and II were used as a distinction.

“It was indeed the case that in broad daylight we saw the sun as if through the fog. From air pollution. ... "

- Jens Voigt , participant in the Tour of China : dw.de

Results

Tour of China 1996 to 2011

1996 Michael Andersson 2002 Makoto Iijima 2003 Yoshiyuki Abe

2004 Kōji Fukushima 2005 Andrei Misurow 2010 Dirk Müller 2011 Murodjon Xolmurodov

Tour of China I 2012 Martin Pedersen 2013 Kirill Posdnyakov 2014 Kamil Grądek 2015 Daniele Colli  2016 Raffaello Bonusi  2017 Liam Bertazzo  2018 Juan Sebastian Molano  2019 Jeroen Meijers

Tour of China II 2012 Stefan Schumacher 2013 Alois Kaňkovský 2014 Boris Schpilewski 2015 Mattia Gavazzi  2016 Marco Benfatto  2017 Kevin Rivera  2018 Alejandro Marque  2019 Xianjing Lyu

Web links

• Official website
• Tour of China in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Tour of China in the ProCyclingStats.com database