Date Start June Type Stage race Competition UCI Continental Circuits First winner Marin Nikolov (BUL) First edition 1934 | English name Tour of Romania Editions 50 (as of 2013) Discipline Road bicycle racing Region Romania Edition 50 (2013) | |
Local name(s) Turul României, Mica Buclă Most wins Constantin Dumitrescu (ROM)
Mircea Romaşcanu (ROM)
(3 wins) | ||
The Tour of Romania (or “Little Loop”) is a cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.2 race on the UCI Europe Tour.
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History
Inspired by Tour de France, the monthly publication "Car Magazine" held in August 1910 the first edition of "Circuit Wallachia". The competition took 12 riders at the start on the route Bucharest–Sinaia–Targoviste–Butimanu–Bucharest (approximately 300 km or 190 mi). The race lasted for three editions. Since 1934 the newspaper "Daily Sport", in collaboration with Romanian Cycling Federation has organized the Tour of Romania. Romania became the sixth country in the world to organize a National Amateur Cycling Tour, after Belgium (1906), Netherlands (1909), Bulgaria (1924), Hungary (1925) and Poland (1928).
The route first edition was 1,026 km (638 mi) long and included six stages.