Tour de Korea
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template other 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 Script error: No such module "convert". 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
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| 2002 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data RTS | |
| 2003 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data RTS | |
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data MPC | |
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data RTS | |
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data RTS | |
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Seoul Cycling Team | |
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Uzbekistan (national team) | |
| 2009 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Team Neotel | |
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data JBC | |
| 2011 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hong Kong (national team) | |
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data KSP | |
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data RCJ | |
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data RCJ | |
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data ORS | |
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data VFN | |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data Seoul | |
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data UHC | |
| 2019[1] | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Template:Cycling data NIP | |
| 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
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References
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External links
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- Statistics at the-sports.org
- Tour de Korea at cqranking.com