Tour of Black Sea

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Tour of Black Sea
Race details
DateSeptember
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour
Type Stage race
History
First edition2015 (2015)
Editions3
Final edition2019
First winnerFlag of Poland.svg  Tomasz Marczyński  (POL)
Most winsNo repeat winners
Final winnerFlag of Turkey.svg  Onur Balkan  (TUR)

The Tour of Black Sea was a multi-day cycling race held in 2015, 2018 and 2019 in Turkey. It was part of the UCI Europe Tour as a category 2.2 race. [1]

Winners

YearWinnerSecondThird
2015 Flag of Poland.svg Tomasz Marczyński Flag of Turkey.svg Onur Balkan Flag of Turkey.svg Muhammet Atalay
2016–17: No race
2018 Flag of Lithuania.svg Ramūnas Navardauskas Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Mauro Schmid Flag of Turkey.svg Mustafa Sayar
2019 Flag of Turkey.svg Onur Balkan Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Samir Jabrayilov Flag of Ukraine.svg Vitaliy Buts

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References

  1. "Tour of Black Sea". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 22 September 2019.