Tour de Pologne

The Tour de Pologne (English: Tour of Poland) is a road bicycle racing stage race. It consists of seven or eight stages, and was first held in 1928. Until 1952, the race was not held every year, but since then there has been a Tour annually (every year).  When Eastern Europe was communist-controlled there were no professional cyclists, so until the early 1990s, the race was for amateurs only, and the winners mostly came from Poland.


Although the Tour de Pologne had not reached a high status, and was little known, the International Cycling Union (UCI) decided to make it a part of the UCI ProTour from 2005, which means that the major cycling teams compete in the race.

 Winners 

YearWinnerNationalityStagesDistance1928Feliks Wiecek81491 km1929Jozef Stefanski122250 km1933Jerzy Lipinski91721 km1937Boleslaw Napierala91336 km1939Boleslaw Napierala81291 km1947Stanislaw Grzelak4606 km1948Waclaw Wojcik111963 km1949Francesco Locatelli121994 km1952Waclaw Wojcik111959 km1953Mieczyslaw Wilczewski132311 km1954Marian Wieckowski121925 km1955101563 km195681221 km1957Henryk Kowalski111968 km1958Boguslaw Fornalczyk112038 km1959Wieslaw Podobas111621 km1960Roger Diercken81336 km1961Henryk Kowalski81329 km1962Jan Kudra81278 km1963Stanislaw Gazda81482 km1964Rajmund Zielinski101394 km1965Jozef Beker91318 km1966Jozef Gawliczek101272 km1967Andrzej Blawdzin111682 km1968Jan Kudra121757 km1969Wojciech Matusiak131795 km1970Jan Stachura121611 km1971Stanislaw Szozda121291 km1972José Luis Viejo101194 km1973Lucjan Lis121512 km1974André Delcroix111593 km1975Tadeusz Mytnik101440 km1976Janusz Kowalski101499 km1977Lechoslaw Michalak101460 km1978Jan Brzezny111415 km1979Henryk Charucki91335 km1980Czeslaw Lang101282 km1981Jan Brzezny (2)91 195 km1982Andrzej Mierzejewski8892 km1983Tadeusz Krawczyk91147 km1984Andrzej Mierzejewski91219 km1985Marek Lesniewski101224 km1986Marek Kulas101490 km1987Zbigniew Piatek81162 km1988Andrzej Mierzejewski71016 km1989Marek Wrona81271 km1990Mieczyslaw Karlowicz91207 km1991Dariusz Baranowski81222 km199281149 km1993121794 km1994Maurizio Fondriest71110 km1995Zbigniew Spruch71254 km1996Viatcheslav Djavanian81346 km1997Rolf Järmann81499 km1998Serguei Ivanov81434 km1999Tomasz Brożyna71164 km2000Piotr Przydzial71164 km2001Ondřej Sosenka81249 km2002Laurent Brochard81273 km2003Cezary Zamana81133 km2004Ondřej Sosenka (2)81264 km2005Kim Kirchen81246 km2006Stefan Schumacher 71226 km2007Johan Van Summeren 71224 km2008 Jens Voigt    7 1258.6 km2009  Alessandro Ballan    7 1158 km2010  Daniel Martin   7 1256.5 km
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