Race details | |
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Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | Turkish Cycling Federation |
History | |
First edition | 1990 |
Editions | 17 (as of 2021) |
Final edition | 2021 |
First winner | Aziz Ay (TUR) |
Most wins | Mert Mutlu (TUR) (2 wins) |
Final winner | Anatoliy Budyak (UKR) |
The Tour of Mevlana was a cycling race held in Turkey. The event was first held in 1990, and was on the UCI Europe Tour in 2007 and again, starting in 2015 as a category 2.2. [1]
Year | Winner | Second | Third |
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1990 | Aziz Ay | Ömer Ali Erikçi | Ayhan Aytekin |
1991 | Ayhan Aytekin | Ömer Ali Erikçi | Cenk Tufan |
1992 | Yılmaz Erpamukcu | Erdinç Doğan | Hüseyin Tiğli |
1993 | Krasimir Krilov | Alexander Pavlov | Hüseyin Tiğli |
1994 | Plamen Stoyanov | Gabriel Toyev | Alexander Arakelian |
1995 | Ömer Ali Erikçi | Vladimir Sdaçenko | Tamer Vural |
1996 | Bakev Roman | Ghader Mizbani | Ahad Kazemi |
1997 | Cenk Tufan | Ayhan Aytekin | Nevzat Kiral |
1998 | Sergey Sergeev | Ivailo Gabrovski | V. Marakyon |
1999 | Mert Mutlu | Krow Tehenko | Vassili Zaika |
2000 | Mert Mutlu | Kemal Küçükbay | Gabriel Sorin Pop |
2001-2006 | No race | ||
2007 | Kemal Küçükbay | Svetoslav Tchanliev | Giorgi Nadiradze |
2008-2014 | No race | ||
2015 | Ahmet Örken | Bekir Baki Akirsan | Gokhan Hasta |
2016-2017 | No race | ||
2018 | Onur Balkan | Ivan Balykin | Théry Schir |
2019 | Batuhan Özgür | Ahmet Örken | Onur Balkan |
2020 | Artur Ershov | Maxim Piskunov | Vincent Louiche |
2021 | Anatoliy Budyak | Ulises Alfredo Castillo | Carlos Quintero |
Year | Winner | Second | Third |
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2010 | Mevlüt Erkan | Fatih Keleş | Aleksandar Aleksiev |
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