Tour of Romania

Tour of Romania

Race details
Date	Start June
Region	Romania
English name	Tour of Romania
Local name(s)	Turul Romaniei, Mica Bucla
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Stage race
History
First edition	1934 (1934)
Editions	48 (as of 2011)
First winner	Marin Nicoloff (BUL)
Most wins	Constantin Dumitrescu (ROM)  Mircea Romascanu (ROM) (3 wins)
Most recent	Andrei Nechita (ROM)

The Tour of Romania (or “Little Loop”) is the most important cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.2 race on the UCI Europe Tour

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/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.

Statistics

• The longest route was the 3rd edition in 1936 at 2,242 km (1,393 mi).
• The shortest route was 430 kilometres (270 mi), in the 29th edition of 1991.
• At the 19th edition of 1973, Cluj, a stage was held nocturnal on the 27.3 km (17.0 mi) distance.
• Rider Traian Chicomban of Brasov participated in the January edition (1934) until the 9th edition (1954), as the Tour's longest-running participation of Romania.
• 45th edition (2008) was the first edition which was featured in the calendar Union Cycliste Internationale.

Winners

		Rider	Team
1934	BUL !	Nikolov, MarinMarin Nikolov (BUL)
1935	POL !	Zigmund, DanielDaniel Zigmund (POL)
1936	FRA !	Gallien, PierrePierre Gallien (FRA)
1937 1945	~ !No race
1946	YUG !	Prosenik, AugustAugust Prosenik (YUG)
1947 1949	~ !No race
1950	ROM !	Sandu, ConstantinConstantin Sandu (ROM)
1951	ROM !	Niculescu, MarinMarin Niculescu (ROM)
1952	~ !No race
1953	ROM !	Vasilescu, NicolaeNicolae Vasilescu (ROM)
1954	ROM !	Dumitrescu, ConstantinConstantin Dumitrescu (ROM)
1955	ROM !	Dumitrescu, ConstantinConstantin Dumitrescu (ROM)
1956	ROM !	Dumitrescu, ConstantinConstantin Dumitrescu (ROM)
1957	~ !No race
1958	ROM !	Moiceanu, GabrielGabriel Moiceanu (ROM)
1959	ROM !	Cosma, IonIon Cosma (ROM)
1960	ROM !	Ziegler, WalterWalter Ziegler (ROM)
1961	ROM !	Cosma, IonIon Cosma (ROM)
1962 1965	~ !No race
1966	ROM !	Suciu, GeorgheGeorghe Suciu (ROM)
1967	ROM !	Rusu, EmilEmil Rusu (ROM)
1968	ROM !	Ziegler, WalterWalter Ziegler (ROM)
1969	GER !	Wanzlik, JurgenJurgen Wanzlik (GER)
1970 1972	~ !No race
1973	ROM !	Teodor, VasileVasile Teodor (ROM)
1974	ROM !	Romascanu, MirceaMircea Romascanu (ROM)
1975 1982	~ !No race
1983	ROM !	Romascanu, MirceaMircea Romascanu (ROM)
1984	ROM !	Carutasu, ConstantinConstantin Carutasu (ROM)
1985	ROM !	Romascanu, MirceaMircea Romascanu (ROM)
1986	GER !	Schonherr, FrankFrank Schonherr (GER)
1987	ROM !	Constantinescu, ValentinValentin Constantinescu (ROM)
1988	ROM !	Mitrache, VasileVasile Mitrache (ROM)
1989	ROM !	Catana, DanutDanut Catana (ROM)
1990	ROM !	Apostol, VasieVasie Apostol (ROM)
1991	ROM !	Riabuchenko, SvetoslavSvetoslav Riabuchenko (ROM)
1992	ROM !	Perelalsny, VladimirVladimir Perelalsny (ROM)
1993	GER !	Koberschinski, JurgenJurgen Koberschinski (GER)
1994	ROM !	Stelian, AntonAnton Stelian (ROM)
1995	UKR !	Mitianin, IgorIgor Mitianin (UKR)
1996	~ !No race
1997	ROM !	Privache, FlorinFlorin Privache (ROM)
1998	MDA !	Bonciucov, IgorIgor Bonciucov (MDA)
1999	KAZ !	Tretyakov, SergeySergey Tretyakov (KAZ)
2000	KAZ !	Kravchenko, VadimVadim Kravchenko (KAZ)
2001	UKR !	Timchenko, LeonidLeonid Timchenko (UKR)
2002	RUS !	Sabalin, AlexandreAlexandre Sabalin (RUS)
2003	NED !	van Groezen, JelleJelle van Groezen (NED)
2004	BUL !	Koev, VladimirVladimir Koev (BUL)
2005	BUL !	Gabrovski, IvaïloIvaïlo Gabrovski (BUL)	Hemus 1896-Aurora 2000 Berchi
2006	BUL !	Shumanov, PavelPavel Shumanov (BUL)	Cycling Club Burgas
2007	ROM !	Anghelache, DanielDaniel Anghelache (ROM)	Dinamo București
2008	HUN !	Cador, RidaRida Cador (HUN)	P-Nívó-Betonexpressz 2000-Corratec
2009	RUS !	Shchebelin, AlexeyAlexey Shchebelin (RUS)	SP Tableware-Gatsoulis Bikes
2010	BUL !	Koev, VladimirVladimir Koev (BUL)	Hemus 1896-Vivelo
2011	ROM !	Nechita, AndreiAndrei Nechita (ROM)	Romania (national team)