Vuelta a Alemania
In 2002, race sponsor HEW was overtaken by Swedish electricity conglomerate Vattenfall and was renamed "Vattenfall Europe Hamburg". Vattenfall, Swedish for "Waterfall", became the race's new title sponsor in 2006. In 2005, the race was included in the inaugural UCI ProTour, successor of the World Cup. After the disappearance of the Deutschland Tour in 2009, it remained the only German race at cycling's highest international level. Since 2011 it is one of 24 races of the UCI World Tour. In 2012, UCI extended the race's World Tour license until at least 2016.