Tour of Romania

The Tour of Romania (or “Little Loop”) is a cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour.

Tour of Romania

2020 Tour of Romania
Race details
Date	September
Region	Romania
English name	Tour of Romania
Local name(s)	Turul României
Nickname(s)	Mica Buclă (“Little Loop”)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Stage race
Web site	turulromaniei.com
History
First edition	1934 (1934)
Editions	53 (as of 2020)
First winner	Marin Nikolov (BUL)
Most wins	Constantin Dumitrescu (ROU)  Mircea Romaşcanu (ROU) (3 wins)
Most recent	Alex Molenaar (NED) (2019)

History

Inspired by Tour de France, the monthly publication "Car Magazine" held in August 1910 the first edition of "Circuit Wallachia". The competition took 12 riders at the start on the route Bucharest–Sinaia–Targoviste–Butimanu–Bucharest (approximately 300 km or 190 mi). The race lasted for three editions. Since 1934 the newspaper "Daily Sport", in collaboration with Romanian Cycling Federation has organized the Tour of Romania. Romania became the sixth country in the world to organize a National Amateur Cycling Tour, after Belgium (1906), Netherlands (1909), Bulgaria (1924), Hungary (1925) and Poland (1928).

The route first edition was 1,026 km (638 mi) long and included six stages.

Statistics

• The longest route was the 3rd edition in 1936 at 2,242 km (1,393 mi).
• The shortest route was 430 km (270 mi), in the 29th edition of 1991.
• At the 19th edition of 1973, Cluj, a stage was held nocturnal on the 27.3 km (17.0 mi) distance.
• Rider Traian Chicomban of Brasov participated in the January edition (1934) until the 9th edition (1954), as the Tour's longest-running participation of Romania.
• 45th edition (2008) was the first edition which was featured in the calendar Union Cycliste Internationale.

Winners

Year	Country	Rider	Team
1934	Bulgaria	Marin Nikolov
1935	Poland	Daniel Zigmund
1936	France	Pierre Gallien
1937 1945	No race
1946	Yugoslavia	August Prosenik
1947 1949	No race
1950	Romania	Constantin Sandu
1951	Romania	Marin Niculescu
1952	No race
1953	Romania	Nicolae Vasilescu
1954	Romania	Constantin Dumitrescu
1955	Romania	Constantin Dumitrescu
1956	Romania	Constantin Dumitrescu
1957	No race
1958	Romania	Gabriel Moiceanu
1959	Romania	Ion Cosma
1960	Romania	Walter Ziegler
1961	Romania	Ion Cosma
1962 1965	No race
1966	Romania	Georghe Suciu
1967	Romania	Emil Rusu
1968	Romania	Walter Ziegler
1969	Germany	Jurgen Wanzlik
1970 1972	No race
1973	Romania	Vasile Teodor
1974	Romania	Mircea Romascanu
1975 1982	No race
1983	Romania	Mircea Romascanu
1984	Romania	Constantin Carutasu
1985	Romania	Mircea Romascanu
1986	Germany	Frank Schonherr
1987	Romania	Valentin Constantinescu
1988	Romania	Vasile Mitrache
1989	Romania	Danut Catana
1990	Romania	Vasie Apostol
1991	Romania	Svetoslav Riabuchenko
1992	Romania	Vladimir Perelalsny
1993	Germany	Jurgen Koberschinski
1994	Romania	Anton Stelian
1995	Ukraine	Igor Mitianin
1996	No race
1997	Romania	Florin Privache
1998	Moldova	Igor Bonciucov
1999	Kazakhstan	Sergey Tretyakov
2000	Kazakhstan	Vadim Kravchenko
2001	Ukraine	Leonid Timchenko
2002	Russia	Alexandre Sabalin
2003	Netherlands	Jelle van Groezen
2004	Bulgaria	Vladimir Koev
2005	Bulgaria	Ivaïlo Gabrovski	Hemus 1896-Aurora 2000 Berchi
2006	Bulgaria	Pavel Shumanov	Cycling Club Burgas
2007	Romania	Daniel Anghelache	Dinamo București
2008	Hungary	Rida Cador	P-Nívó-Betonexpressz 2000-Corratec
2009	Russia	Alexey Shchebelin	SP Tableware-Gatsoulis Bikes
2010	Bulgaria	Vladimir Koev	Hemus 1896-Vivelo
2011	Romania	Andrei Nechita	Romania (national team)
2012	Croatia	Matija Kvasina	Ukraine (national team)
2013	Ukraine	Vitaliy Buts	Kolss Cycling Team
2014 2017	No race
2018	Romania	Serghei Țvetcov	UnitedHealthcare
2019	Netherlands	Alex Molenaar	à Bloc
2020