Tour of Faroe Islands

The Tour of Faroe Islands (Faroese: Kring Føroyar) is a road cycling race held in the Faroe Islands. The race consists of a men's, women's[2] and juniors' competition over a prologue and four or five stages, which are for elite cyclists and shorter distances for non-elite cyclists. From 2011 to 2013, the race was changed to four stages in three days. The first edition of the Kring Føroyar tour was held in 1996 but it was not an official race; the 1997 Tour was the first official edition of the race.[3] The race is normally held in July shortly before Ólavsøka. In 2012 the race was held from 20 July to 22 July.[4] The last day of the race is held in Tórshavn, and the roads are closed for traffic on that day.[5] In 2015 the race will be held from 22–26 July.[6] For sponsor reasons the name of the tour was Statoil Kring Føroyar,[7] and later when the Faroese company changed its name from Statoil to Effo, the tour was called Effo Kring Føroyar. In 2014 the race got a new main sponsor and the name was changed to Volvo Kring Føroyar.[8][9] As of 2015, the length of the race is 430 kilometres (270 mi) for elite cyclists and 230 kilometres (140 mi) for youth and senior cyclists.[6][10]

Kring Føroyar
Race details
DateJuly
RegionFaroe Islands
English nameTour of Faroe Islands
Local name(s)Kring Føroyar
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionElite[1] and amateur
TypeStage race
OrganiserTórshavnar Súkklufelag
History
First edition1997 (1997)
Editions20 (as of 2018)
First winner Bogi Kristiansen (FRO)
Most wins Torkil Veyhe (FRO)(6)
Most recent Helgi Winther Olsen (FRO)

The 2015 Tour of Faroe Islands started on 22 July in Tórshavn[11] and ends also in Tórshavn five days later on 26 July.[12] The route was as follows: Day 1: Tórshavn-Runavík (from Streymoy to Eysturoy), day 2: Klaksvík-Sornfelli (from Borðoy to a mountain on Streymoy), day 3: Sandur-around the island Sandoy-Sandur, day 4: Suðuroy, starting end ending at the Effo-station in Tvøroyri, the final day: starting and ending at Wenzel in Tórshavn.[13] The road racers at the 2015 tour come from the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Denmark.[14] The winner of stage 1, 2 and 3 of the 2015 tour was Torkil Veyhe, the winner of stage 4 was Dávur Magnussen, who also won the mountain jersey for stage 4 which was in Suðuroy.[15] Torkil Veyhe won the 2015 Tour of Faroe Islands, it took him 12 hours 51 minutes to race the 460 km route, Guðmundur Joensen was runner-up and Bjarke Vodder Nielsen took bronze. Dávur Magnussen won the mountain-jersey.[16]

Past winners
Year Winner Second Third
1997 Bogi Kristiansen Rógvi Johansen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
1998[17] Bogi Kristiansen[18] Gunnar Dahl-Olsen Sverri M. Edvinsson
1999 Rógvi Johansen Bogi Kristiansen Keld Petersen
2000[19][20] Rógvi Johansen Jørgen Andersen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
2001[21] Bogi Kristiansen Anders Michaelsen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
2002[22] Karsten Ellerup Anders Rasmussen Leon Vibholm
2003[23] Thomas Japp Hansen[24] Ivan Kristensen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
2004 Niels Jakob Thomsen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen Niels Bay Petersen
2005[25][26] Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson Gunnar Dahl-Olsen Bogi Kristiansen
2006 Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson Gunnar Dahl-Olsen Kári Brynjólfsson
2007[27] Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson Torkil Veyhe Davíð Þór Sigurðsson
2008[28][29][30] Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson[31][32] Torkil Veyhe Guðmundur Joensen
2009[33] Torkil Veyhe[34] Guðmundur Joensen Árni Már Jónsson
2010[35] Torkil Veyhe Kristian Gosvig Guðmundur Joensen
2011 Kristian Gosvig[36] Guðmundur Joensen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
2012 Torkil Veyhe[37][38] Guðmundur Joensen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
2013 Cancelled[39][40]
2014[41][42] Torkil Veyhe[43][44] Helgi Winther Olsen Bjarke Vodder Nielsen
2015 Torkil Veyhe[16] Guðmundur Joensen Bjarke Vodder Nielsen
2016 Cancelled[39][45]
2017 Torkil Veyhe[46] Jan Hjaltalin Olsen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Andrew Macleod

2018 Helgi Winther Olsen Dávur Magnussen Gunnar Dahl-Olsen
2019/2020 Cancelled[47]

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