Tour des Pyrénées

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Tour des Pyrénées
Race details
DateJuly–August
RegionFrance, Spain
English nameTour of the Pyrenees
Local name(s)Tour des Pyrénées (French)
Vuelta a los Pirineos (Spanish)
DisciplineRoad race
CompetitionUCI Europe Tour
TypeStage race
History
First edition1995 (1995)
Editions15
Final edition2010
First winner Hugues Ané (FRA)
Most wins Denis Leproux (FRA)
 Igor Pavlov (RUS) (2 wins)
Final winner Florent Barle (FRA)

The Tour des Pyrénées was a road bicycle race held annually from 1995 to 2010 across the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern France and northeastern Spain. In 2006 it became a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour.[1]

Winners[edit]

Year Country Rider Team
1995  France Hugues Ané
1996  France Denis Leproux
1997  France Denis Leproux
1998  France Christophe Oriol Casino–Ag2r
1999  Russia Igor Pavlov
2000  France Éric Drubay CC Étupes
2001  Russia Igor Pavlov
2002  France Maryan Hary
2003  Spain Fernando Torres Martín
2004  Austria Bernhard Kohl Rabobank GS3
2006  Spain Enrique Salgueiro
2007  Spain Sergio Pardilla Viña Magna–Cropu
2008  Great Britain Daniel Fleeman An Post–M.Donnelly–Grant Thornton–Sean Kelly
2009  Colombia Fabio Duarte Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes
2010  France Florent Barle AVC Aix-en-Provence

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2008 Tour des Pyrénées". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 July 2016.