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Tour de Korea

Korean multi-day road cycling race

Summary

Korean multi-day road cycling race

Field	Value
name	Tour de Korea
date	April (until 2012)
June (since 2013)
region	South Korea
english	Tour of Korea
localnames	투르 드 코리아
discipline	Road
competition	UCI Asia Tour 2.1
type	Stage race
organiser	Korea Cycling Federation
first
number	20 (as of 2019)
firstwinner	Mikhail Teteriuk
mostwins	Park Sung-baek (2 wins)
mostrecent	Filippo Zaccanti

June (since 2013) The Tour de Korea is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in South Korea since 2000 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race between 2005 and 2013, then promoted to 2.1 category in 2014. The race is organised by the Korea Cycling Federation.

History

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, but for the sake of publicity, he rode one lap around the course of the first stage on his mountain bicycle.

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 1500 km long, making it the longest cycling competition in Asia.

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 individual time trials or team time trials. The tour was planned this way reportedly because the promoters wanted to minimise time and effort spent in recording and sorting race results.

Past winners

References

(16 June 2019). "Nippo Vini Fantani Faizanè: Filippo Zaccanti wins the Tour de Korea. #OrangeBlue also awarded as the best team.". STC PRO Srl.
(13 July 2020). "Situation dans le contexte actuel de la pandémie du coronavirus (Covid-19) / Situation in the current context of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic". [[Union Cycliste Internationale]].

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