Tour de Pakistan

Tour de Pakistan
Race details
Date November
Region Pakistan
Discipline Road
Type Stage race
Organiser Pakistan Cycling Federation
Race director Idris Haider Khawaja
History
First edition 1983 (1983)
Editions 16 (as of 2011)
Most recent  Sabir Ali (PAK)

The Tour de Pakistan is a bicycle race held in Pakistan roughly every two years over more than 1,648 kilometres (1,024 mi). It is modelled after the Tour de France. The race begins in Karachi and ends in Peshawar.[1] It is the longest cycling race in Asia. The event used to be is 22 stages long and 2200 kilometre in length,[2] but in 2007 it was reduced to 1648 kilometre and 11 stages.

History

The Pakistan Cycling Federation wanted to promote road cycle racing, as most of its focus had been on track cycling. Thus the formation of the Tour de Pakistan, based on the Tour de France, it would give the opportunity to test Pakistani cyclists. The gruelling event became one of the longest and toughest in Asia which has seen international teams compete alongside a Pakistani teams. The current prize money is $10,000 which is shared out between the top six.The race is almost always scheduled during the spring season, which lasts from late February to early May in the country. That was one of the best and memorable trip of my life with Mr.Nice(kamris) dm,khocha,raju,bhatti and uzair on daala g.First we head to lahore because "jinne lahore ni takya o jamya e ni" than to the second most beautiful city of the country?sub-continent?asia? NO. i am talking about the second most beautiful city of the world "Islamabad",the green and the beautiful and than we went to murree to enjoy both the climate as well as nature and than suddenly out of no where we planned to go muzzafarabd and enjoyed a lot.One thing i want to mention here,all the boys were very good but there driver was best and that was me [3]

2007

In 2007, the 13th Tour de Pakistan was won by New Zealand cyclist Robin Reid for Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team, with fellow Kiwi Justin Kerr for New Zealand National Team was overall second and Canadian Mathew Usborne riding for Team Integrale in third. WAPDA won the team event of the race ahead of Army and SSCG team.

2008

In 2007, the 14th Tour de Pakistan was won by Naimat Ali from Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC). Runner-up was Haroon-ur-Rashid for WAPDA while Sri Lanka’s Meemanaga Perera for Team Sri Lanka third position in the competition.

2010

The 15th Tour de Pakistan started on March 1, 2010 participated by cyclists from different teams of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Zahid Gulfam of WAPDA won the race by covering distance of 1,655 km in 46 hours 13 minutes and 9 seconds and received US$ 2,500.[4] Nisar Ahmed got second position and got US$ 1,500 while third position holder Hashmatullah of Afghanistan received US$ 1,000.[5] Fourth to sixth finishers received US$ 750 each.

Winners

Name Nationality Team Year
Haroon Rashid  Pakistan WAPDA Cycling 2001
Zahid Gulfam  Pakistan WAPDA Cycling 2003
Thomas Lodburaey  Germany German Team 2005
Robin Reid  New Zealand Discovery Channel 2007
Naimat Ali  Pakistan SSCG Cycling 2008
Zahid Gulfam  Pakistan WAPDA Cycling 2010
Sabir Ali  Pakistan WAPDA Cycling 2011

References

  1. ↑ Accessed March 11, 2006 Archived February 24, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Accessed March 11, 2006 Archived May 19, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ http://beta.dawn.com/news/783629/tour-de-pakistan
  4. ↑ "http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sport/07-zahid-gulfam-wins-tour-de-pakistan-cycling-race-ha-08". Dawn. 13 Mar 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2010. External link in |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Zahid wins Tour de Pakistan cycle race". Daily Times. March 14, 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2010.

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