Race details | |
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Date | September |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Stage race |
History | |
First edition | 2015 |
Editions | 3 |
Final edition | 2019 |
First winner | Tomasz Marczyński (POL) |
Most wins | No repeat winners |
Final winner | 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]
Year | Winner | Second | Third |
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2015 | Tomasz Marczyński | Onur Balkan | Muhammet Atalay |
2016–17: No race | |||
2018 | Ramūnas Navardauskas | Mauro Schmid | Mustafa Sayar |
2019 | Onur Balkan | Samir Jabrayilov | Vitaliy Buts |
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