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Date
  
April

Local name(s)
  
투르 드 코리아 (Korean)

Editions
  
16 (as of 2016)

Region
  
First edition
  
2001

Competition
  
UCI Asia Tour 2.1

English name
  
Tour of Korea

Type
  
Discipline
  
Road bicycle racing

Edition
  
16 (2016)

First winner
  
Chun Dae-Hong (KOR)

Tour de Korea Tour de Korea 2014 enters stage 3 Koreanet The official

Most wins
  
Park Sung-Baek (KOR)(2 wins)

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The Tour de Korea is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in South Korea since 2001 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It as rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race, then promoted to 2.1 category in 2014. The race is organized by the Korea Cycling Federation.

Contents

Tour de Korea Tour de Korea 2015 Stage 2 Results Cyclingnewscom

Tour de korea 2016 stage 1


History

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The tour gained international attention when Lance Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France winner, participated in 2007. Armstrong, having retired from cycling at that time, did not compete. For the sake of publicity, he rode one lap around the course of the first stage on his mountain bicycle.

Tour de Korea 2013 Tour de Korea stage 8 Hongcheon Hanam

Tour de Korea is the only international cycling competition in South Korea. The predecessor to Tour de Korea was stopped in 1997 due to financial strains. Tour de Korea is divided into two divisions: Elite for invitees and competitive cyclists, and a "Special race" for cycling club teams. The prize money for the 2011 tour totaled 200 million Won.

The tour course is 1,500 kilometres (930 mi) long, making it the longest cycling competition in Asia.

Tour de Korea Tour de Korea Stage 4 Team Novo Nordisk Team Novo Nordisk

The tour comprises exclusively point-to-point road race stages. Unlike the major tours in Europe, such as the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, there are no time trials or team time trials. The tour was planned this way reportedly because the promoters wanted to minimize time and effort spent in recording and sorting race results.

References

Tour de Korea Wikipedia


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