Tour de Yorkshire

Tour de Yorkshire
2016 Tour de Yorkshire
Race details
Date April/May
Region Yorkshire, England
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour
Type Stage race
Organiser Amaury Sport Organisation
History
First edition 2015 (2015)
Editions 2 (as of 2016)
First winner  Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR)
Most wins No repeat winners
Most recent  Thomas Voeckler (FRA)

The Tour de Yorkshire is a three-day road cycling race in Yorkshire, England which started in May 2015. It is promoted by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and is rated as a 2.1 event as part of the UCI Europe Tour.

The idea for the race arose as a legacy event following the significant success of the visit of the 2014 Tour de France to the county. The first two stages of the 2014 Tour, also organised by ASO, from Leeds to Harrogate, and York to Sheffield, were nicknamed Le Tour de Yorkshire.[1]

To date, the race has always taken place over the three days before the May Day bank holiday (which in Britain is on the first Monday in May).

2015 Tour

Taking place from 1–3 May, the route was BridlingtonScarborough, SelbyYork, and WakefieldLeeds.

The overall winner was Lars Petter Nordhaug of Team Sky. Samuel Sánchez (BMC Racing Team) was second and Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar) was third. Nordhaug also won the points classification and Team Sky won the teams classification. The mountains classification was won by Nicolas Edet (Cofidis).

2016 Tour

This took place from 29 April–1 May (British Cycling had rejected an application by the organisers Welcome to Yorkshire and ASO to increase the race to four days for 2016[2]), and the route was BeverleySettle, OtleyDoncaster, and MiddlesbroughScarborough.

There was also a women's race on 30 April.

List of winners

Men's race
Rider Team
2015 Norway Nordhaug, Lars PetterLars Petter Nordhaug (NOR) Team Sky
2016 France Voeckler, ThomasThomas Voeckler (FRA) Direct Énergie
Women's race
Rider Team
2016 Netherlands Wild, KirstenKirsten Wild (NED) Team Hitec Products

See also

References

  1. "Le Tour de Yorkshire". BBC News. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  2. "Tour de Yorkshire: British Cycling rejects plans for fourth day". BBC Sport. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.

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