Tour of Beijing

Last updated
Tour of Beijing
Tour of Beijing-logo 2022.png
Race details
DateOctober
Region Beijing, China
Local name(s)环北京职业公路自行车赛
Nickname(s)环北京、环京赛
Discipline Road
Competition UCI World Tour
Type Stage race
Web site www.discoverchina.com/beijing-tours OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
History
First edition 2011 (2011)
Editions4
Final edition 2014 (2014)
First winnerFlag of Germany.svg  Tony Martin  (GER)
Most winsFlag of Germany.svg  Tony Martin  (GER)(2 wins)
Final winnerFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Philippe Gilbert  (BEL)

The Tour of Beijing was an annual professional stage bicycle road race held in Beijing, China. [1]

Contents

History

Its first edition took place in October 2011, as the penultimate event in the 2011 UCI World Tour. The tour was a partnership between the UCI and the Beijing City Government and covered a period of four years from 2011 to 2014. The event was a legacy of the 2008 Olympic Games and promoted Beijing as a global event city, whilst also promoting the environmental and healthy living outcomes cycling represent. [2]

In September 2014 the UCI announced that the 2014 edition of the race would be the last. [3]

Winners

YearCountryRiderTeam
2011 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Tony Martin HTC–Highroad
2012 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Tony Martin Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2013 Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Beñat Intxausti Movistar Team
2014 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Philippe Gilbert BMC Racing Team

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Union Cycliste Internationale</span> International governing body of cycling

The Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tour Down Under</span> Australian multi-day road cycling race

The Tour Down Under is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia. It is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and UCI Women’s WorldTour.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paris–Nice</span> French multi-day road cycling race

Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlooking the city. The event is nicknamed The Race to the Sun, as it runs in the first half of March, typically starting in cold and wintry conditions in the French capital before reaching the spring sunshine on the Côte d'Azur. The hilly course in the last days of the race favours stage racers who often battle for victory. Its most recent winner is Slovenian Tadej Pogačar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tour of Britain</span> Cycling race

The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Herald Sun Tour</span> Australian multi-day road cycling race

The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually over five days in February. It is named after the Herald Sun, Melbourne's only daily tabloid newspaper. It was originally known as the Sun Tour after The Sun News-Pictorial, and changed its name when The Sun News-Pictorial merged with The Herald in 1990.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tour de Pologne</span> Cycling road race held in Poland

The Tour de Pologne, officially abbreviated TdP, is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages and is usually around 1,200 km in length. The race was first held in 1928 and is considered the oldest and most important bicycle race in Poland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hamburg Cyclassics</span> German one-day road cycling race

The Hamburg Cyclassics is an annual one-day professional and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg, Germany. Although the route varies, its distance is always around 250 km. The course's most significant difficulty is Waseberg hill in Blankenese, which is addressed three times in the race finale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tour of Utah</span>

The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, was an annual multi-day road cycling race; traversing the states of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Since the 2011 edition, the tour holds UCI classification. Between five and six UCI WorldTeams compete annually.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dwars door Vlaanderen</span> Belgian one-day road cycling race

Dwars door Vlaanderen(English: Across Flanders) is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI World Tour.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tony Martin (cyclist)</span> German professional road bicycle racer

Tony Hans-Joachim Martin is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Martin was known as a time trial specialist, and is a four-time world champion in the discipline – having won the title in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016 – which is joint-most with Fabian Cancellara. He also won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing runner-up to Bradley Wiggins in the event. Martin was also part of four world championship-winning team time trial squads, with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step/Etixx–Quick-Step, in 2012, 2013 and 2016, and with Germany in the mixed relay time-trial in 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rui Costa (cyclist)</span> Portuguese cyclist (born 1986)

Rui Alberto Faria da Costa, ComIH is a Portuguese professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost. He is best known for winning the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in Tuscany, Italy, three stages of the Tour de France in 2011 and 2013, one stage in the Vuelta a España in 2023, and the 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of the Tour de Suisse, becoming the first cyclist to win the event for three consecutive years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eschborn–Frankfurt</span> German one-day road cycling race

Eschborn–Frankfurt, previously Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt, is an annual semi classic cycling race in Germany, starting in Eschborn and finishing in Frankfurt. The event, sometimes referred to as the Frankfurt Grand Prix, is held annually on 1 May, national Labour Day in Germany.

The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15 October.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Melissa Hoskins</span> Australian cyclist (1991–2023)

Melissa Hoskins was an Australian track and road racing cyclist. She topped the general classification in the 2012 Tour of Chongming Island. She was a member of the Australian track cycling team pursuit team that finished in fourth place at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Hoskins announced her retirement from professional cycling on 2 May 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Edmondson</span> Australian cyclist

Alexander Edmondson is an Australian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL. Edmondson was a member of the Australian Olympic Track Cycling team at the 2012 London Olympics, alongside his sister, Annette Edmondson. In 2014 he was world champion in the individual pursuit. He won the silver medal in the team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The London–Surrey Classic was an annual 193 km (119.9 mi) men's professional one-day road cycling race, starting and finishing in London and routed via the picturesque Surrey Hills. The first race of its kind was the London–Surrey Cycle Classic, on 14 August 2011, a 1.2 classification 140 km preparatory event for the 2012 Summer Olympics, which was won by sprinter Mark Cavendish. The men's and women's Olympic road races were held on a longer variation of the same course the following year. On 4 August 2013, the race found a permanent home as part of the Prudential RideLondon weekend, a two-day cycling festival held in London, a legacy event of the Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cath Cheatley</span> New Zealand cyclist

Catherine Cheatley is a retired New Zealand professional road and track cyclist. She won two New Zealand championship titles in both road race and individual track pursuit, and later represented her nation New Zealand at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Before her official retirement in June 2012 because of sustained bike crash-related injuries, Cheatley moved to the United States to race for the Cheerwine and Colavita–Sutter Home pro cycling teams in the women's elite professional events on the UCI Women's World Cup, and UCI World Championships, where she earned the bronze medal for the women's points race in 2007.

The 2014 Tour of Beijing was the fourth and final running of the Tour of Beijing stage race. It started on 10 October in Hebei's Chongli County and ended on 14 October at the Bird's Nest Piazza after five stages. It was the 29th and final race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abu Dhabi Tour</span>

The Abu Dhabi Tour was a men's cycling stage race that took place in the United Arab Emirates, held annually between 2015 and 2018. In 2019, the Abu Dhabi Tour merged with the Dubai Tour to become the UAE Tour.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tour of Guangxi</span>

The Tour of Guangxi is an annual professional cycling race held in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

References

  1. "Tour of Beijing". FirstCycling.com. 2023.
  2. Hood, Andrew (23 September 2014). "UCI ends Beijing tour, sets groundwork for major changes". VeloNews . Retrieved 24 September 2014.