(Grote Prijs Arjaan de Schipper)
Race details | |
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Date | Mid-late June |
Region | Netherlands, Belgium |
English name | ZLM Tour |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Stage-race |
Web site | zlmtour |
History | |
First edition | 1987 |
Editions | 33 (as of 2022) |
First winner | Theo Gevers (NED) |
Most wins | Philippe Gilbert (BEL)(3 wins) |
Most recent | Olav Kooij (NED) |
The Ster ZLM Toer is a stage race cycling race, held in the southern Netherlands and Belgium as 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour (ZLM = current title sponsor). The race started in 1987 as an amateur race, and became a race for professional cyclists in 1996. [1]
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