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.
| Race details | |
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| 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
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| Most wins | 3 wins: File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Dariusz Baranowski File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Marian Wieckowski |
| Most recent |  Belgium Johan Van Summeren
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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
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Tour De Pologne Media
- Wyścig kolarski Dookoła Polski – zakończenie etapu Warszawa – Łódź (1929).jpg
Józef Stefański wins the first stage of the 1929 edition of the race.
- Tour de Pologne 2004 - 000 0701.JPG
The peloton in the 2004 Tour de Pologne.
- Sosenka in TDP2004.jpg
Ondřej Sosenka was the winner of the race in 2004.
- TdP2019 stage 2 peleton finish in Katowice.jpg
2019 Tour de Pologne stage 2 peloton finish in Katowice.
- 02021 0945 Tour de Pologne 2021, Stage 3.jpg
Start of the third stage of 2021 Tour de Pologne
- Dariusz Baranowski 2013 cropped.jpg
Dariusz Baranowski the winner of the 1991, 1992, 1993 TdP.
Other websites
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- Official website Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
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