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Tour de Leelanau was a USA Cycling road bicycle racing event held annually from 2005 to 2008 in Leelanau County, Michigan (near Traverse City).
Starting in 2007, the men's event is sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and serves as the last stop on the 2006–07 UCI America Tour and the 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour.
The Tour de Leelanau is a point-to-point open road race that runs through much of the Leelanau Peninsula including the villages of Leland, Maple City, Empire, Glen Arbor, Cedar, Lake Leelanau, Suttons Bay, and Northport before the finish at Leelanau Sands Casino in Peshawbestown, Michigan. In 2008 the men's course was 109.5 miles; the women's course 69.5 miles.
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Leelanau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,301. Since 2008, the county seat has been located within Suttons Bay Township, one mile east of the unincorporated village of Lake Leelanau. Before 2008, Leelanau County's seat was Leland. Leelanau County is included in the Traverse City Micropolitan Statistical Area of Northern Michigan. The largest settlement in Leelanau County by population is Greilickville, itself a suburb of Traverse City.
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Gregory Henderson is a New Zealand former professional track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017. His career includes winning the 15-kilometre (9.3-mile) scratch race at the 2004 world championships and, in road cycling, winning the points competition at the Tour de Georgia in 2005 and 2008.
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Leigh Shawna Hobson is a Canadian retired professional road cyclist. She represented her nation Canada, as a 37-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also placed third in the women's elite category at the Canadian Championships. Hobson also mounted first-place finishes at the Tri-Peak Challenge in 2006, and at the fourth stage of Tour of the Gila in Silver City, New Mexico in 2008.
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