Tour of Mevlana

Last updated
International Tour of Torku Mevlana
Race details
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour
Type Stage race
Organiser Turkish Cycling Federation
History
First edition1990 (1990)
Editions17 (as of 2021)
Final edition2021
First winnerFlag of Turkey.svg  Aziz Ay  (TUR)
Most winsFlag of Turkey.svg  Mert Mutlu  (TUR) (2 wins)
Final winnerFlag of Ukraine.svg  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]

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Winners

YearWinnerSecondThird
1990 Flag of Turkey.svg Aziz Ay Flag of Turkey.svg Ömer Ali Erikçi Flag of Turkey.svg Ayhan Aytekin
1991 Flag of Turkey.svg Ayhan Aytekin Flag of Turkey.svg Ömer Ali Erikçi Flag of Turkey.svg Cenk Tufan
1992 Flag of Turkey.svg Yılmaz Erpamukcu Flag of Turkey.svg Erdinç Doğan Flag of Turkey.svg Hüseyin Tiğli
1993 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Krasimir Krilov Flag of Bulgaria.svg Alexander Pavlov Flag of Turkey.svg Hüseyin Tiğli
1994 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Plamen Stoyanov Flag of Bulgaria.svg Gabriel Toyev Flag of Ukraine.svg Alexander Arakelian
1995 Flag of Turkey.svg Ömer Ali Erikçi Flag of Bulgaria.svg Vladimir Sdaçenko Flag of Turkey.svg Tamer Vural
1996 Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Bakev Roman Flag of Iran.svg Ghader Mizbani Flag of Iran.svg Ahad Kazemi
1997 Flag of Turkey.svg Cenk Tufan Flag of Turkey.svg Ayhan Aytekin Flag of Turkey.svg Nevzat Kiral
1998 Flag of Ukraine.svg Sergey Sergeev Flag of Bulgaria.svg Ivailo Gabrovski Flag of Ukraine.svg V. Marakyon
1999 Flag of Turkey.svg Mert Mutlu Flag of Turkey.svg Krow Tehenko Flag of Ukraine.svg Vassili Zaika
2000 Flag of Turkey.svg Mert Mutlu Flag of Turkey.svg Kemal Küçükbay Flag of Romania.svg Gabriel Sorin Pop
2001-2006No race
2007 Flag of Turkey.svg Kemal Küçükbay Flag of Bulgaria.svg Svetoslav Tchanliev Flag of Georgia.svg Giorgi Nadiradze
2008-2014No race
2015 Flag of Turkey.svg Ahmet Örken Flag of Turkey.svg Bekir Baki Akirsan Flag of Turkey.svg Gokhan Hasta
2016-2017No race
2018 Flag of Turkey.svg Onur Balkan Flag of Russia.svg Ivan Balykin Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Théry Schir
2019 Flag of Turkey.svg Batuhan Özgür Flag of Turkey.svg Ahmet Örken Flag of Turkey.svg Onur Balkan
2020 Flag of Russia.svg Artur Ershov Flag of Russia.svg Maxim Piskunov Flag of France.svg Vincent Louiche
2021 Flag of Ukraine.svg Anatoliy Budyak Flag of Mexico.svg Ulises Alfredo Castillo Flag of Colombia.svg Carlos Quintero

Juniors

YearWinnerSecondThird
2010 Flag of Turkey.svg Mevlüt Erkan Flag of Turkey.svg Fatih Keleş Flag of Bulgaria.svg Aleksandar Aleksiev

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References

  1. "Tour of Mevlana". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 21 June 2018.