Tour de Pologne

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.

The peloton in the 2004 Tour of 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

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 -->