Tour de Pologne
| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | September |
| Region | Poland |
| English name | Tour of Poland |
| Local name(s) | Tour de Pologne |
| Discipline | Road race |
| Competition | UCI ProTour |
| Type | Stage-race |
| History | |
| First edition | 1928 |
| Editions | 61 (as of 2007) |
| First winner |  Poland Feliks Wiecek
|
| Most wins | 3 wins: Poland Dariusz Baranowski Poland Marian Wieckowski
|
| Most recent |  Belgium Johan Van Summeren
|
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[change | change source]
| Year | Winner | Nationality | Stages | Distance |
| 1928 | Feliks Wiecek | Poland |
8 | 1491 km |
| 1929 | Jozef Stefanski | 12 | 2250 km | |
| 1933 | Jerzy Lipinski | 9 | 1721 km | |
| 1937 | Boleslaw Napierala | 9 | 1336 km | |
| 1939 | Boleslaw Napierala | 8 | 1291 km | |
| 1947 | Stanislaw Grzelak | 4 | 606 km | |
| 1948 | Waclaw Wojcik | 11 | 1963 km | |
| 1949 | Francesco Locatelli |  Italy |
12 | 1994 km |
| 1952 | Waclaw Wojcik | Poland |
11 | 1959 km |
| 1953 | Mieczyslaw Wilczewski | 13 | 2311 km | |
| 1954 | Marian Wieckowski | 12 | 1925 km | |
| 1955 | 10 | 1563 km | ||
| 1956 | 8 | 1221 km | ||
| 1957 | Henryk Kowalski | 11 | 1968 km | |
| 1958 | Boguslaw Fornalczyk | 11 | 2038 km | |
| 1959 | Wieslaw Podobas | 11 | 1621 km | |
| 1960 | Roger Diercken | Belgium |
8 | 1336 km |
| 1961 | Henryk Kowalski | Poland |
8 | 1329 km |
| 1962 | Jan Kudra | 8 | 1278 km | |
| 1963 | Stanislaw Gazda | 8 | 1482 km | |
| 1964 | Rajmund Zielinski | 10 | 1394 km | |
| 1965 | Jozef Beker | 9 | 1318 km | |
| 1966 | Jozef Gawliczek | 10 | 1272 km | |
| 1967 | Andrzej Blawdzin | 11 | 1682 km | |
| 1968 | Jan Kudra | 12 | 1757 km | |
| 1969 | Wojciech Matusiak | 13 | 1795 km | |
| 1970 | Jan Stachura | 12 | 1611 km | |
| 1971 | Stanislaw Szozda | 12 | 1291 km | |
| 1972 | José Luis Viejo |  |
10 | 1194 km |
| 1973 | Lucjan Lis | Poland |
12 | 1512 km |
| 1974 | André Delcroix | Belgium |
11 | 1593 km |
| 1975 | Tadeusz Mytnik | Poland |
10 | 1440 km |
| 1976 | Janusz Kowalski | 10 | 1499 km | |
| 1977 | Lechoslaw Michalak | 10 | 1460 km | |
| 1978 | Jan Brzezny | 11 | 1415 km | |
| 1979 | Henryk Charucki | 9 | 1335 km | |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Lang | 10 | 1282 km | |
| 1981 | Jan Brzezny (2) | 9 | 1 195 km | |
| 1982 | Andrzej Mierzejewski | 8 | 892 km | |
| 1983 | Tadeusz Krawczyk | 9 | 1147 km | |
| 1984 | Andrzej Mierzejewski | 9 | 1219 km | |
| 1985 | Marek Lesniewski | 10 | 1224 km | |
| 1986 | Marek Kulas | 10 | 1490 km | |
| 1987 | Zbigniew Piatek | 8 | 1162 km | |
| 1988 | Andrzej Mierzejewski | 7 | 1016 km | |
| 1989 | Marek Wrona | 8 | 1271 km | |
| 1990 | Mieczyslaw Karlowicz | 9 | 1207 km | |
| 1991 | Dariusz Baranowski | 8 | 1222 km | |
| 1992 | 8 | 1149 km | ||
| 1993 | 12 | 1794 km | ||
| 1994 | Maurizio Fondriest | Italy |
7 | 1110 km |
| 1995 | Zbigniew Spruch | Poland |
7 | 1254 km |
| 1996 | Viatcheslav Djavanian |  Russia |
8 | 1346 km |
| 1997 | Rolf Järmann |  Switzerland |
8 | 1499 km |
| 1998 | Serguei Ivanov | Russia |
8 | 1434 km |
| 1999 | Tomasz Brożyna | Poland |
7 | 1164 km |
| 2000 | Piotr Przydzial | Poland |
7 | 1164 km |
| 2001 | Ondřej Sosenka |  Czech Republic |
8 | 1249 km |
| 2002 | Laurent Brochard |  France |
8 | 1273 km |
| 2003 | Cezary Zamana | Poland |
8 | 1133 km |
| 2004 | Ondřej Sosenka (2) | Czech Republic |
8 | 1264 km |
| 2005 | Kim Kirchen |  Luxembourg |
8 | 1246 km |
| 2006 | Stefan Schumacher |  Germany |
7 | 1226 km |
| 2007 | Johan Van Summeren | Belgium |
7 | 1224 km |
| 2008 | Jens Voigt | Germany |
7 | 1258.6 km |
| 2009 | Alessandro Ballan | Italy |
7 | 1158 km |
| 2010 | Daniel Martin |  Ireland |
7 | 1256.5 km
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