Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour

Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour
Race details
Date May
Region West Poland
English name Baltic–Karkonosze Tour
Local name(s) Wyścig Bałtyk–Karkonosze
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour (20052009, 2015–)
Type Stage race
Organiser Towarzystwo Kolarskie „Karkonosze Tour”
History
First edition 1993 (1993)
Editions 26 (as of 2018)
First winner  Radosław Romanik (POL)
Most wins  Radosław Romanik (POL) (6 wins)
Most recent  Philipp Walsleben (GER)

The Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour is a cycling race in West Poland that runs between the Baltic Sea and the Karkonosze. The first edition was held in 1993 as an amateur race as the Karkonosze Tour with stages in the Wałbrzych Voivodeship and Jelenia Góra Voivodeship. In 1996, the race became professional. In 1997, it adopted the current North–South route. The race was part of the UCI Europe Tour from 2005 to 2009, went down to National Event status from 2010 to 2014, before returning to the UCI Europe Tour in 2015.

Past winners

Rider Team
1993 Poland Radosław Romanik (POL)
1994 Poland Radosław Romanik (POL)
1995 Poland Radosław Romanik (POL)
1996 Poland Radosław Romanik (POL)
1997 Poland Andrzej Sypytkowski (POL)
1998 Poland Piotr Chmielewski (POL)
1999 Lithuania Raimondas Rumšas (LTU) Mróz
2000 Poland Robert Radosz (POL) Atlas-Ambra-Lukullus
2001 Poland Piotr Przydział (POL) Ceresit–CCC–Mat
2002 Ukraine Oleksandr Klymenko (UKR) Mróz-Supradyn Witaminy
2003 Ukraine Oleksandr Klymenko (UKR) Action-nVidia-Mróz
2004 Poland Sławomir Kohut (POL) Hoop–CCC–Polsat
2005 Poland Radosław Romanik (POL) DHL–Author
2006 Poland Bartłomiej Matysiak (POL) Legia-Bazyliszek
2007 Slovakia Roman Bronis (SVK) DHL–Author
2008 Poland Radosław Romanik (POL) DHL–Author
2009 Russia Sergey Kolesnikov (RUS) Moscow Velosport
2010 Ukraine Vladimir Duma (UKR) Romet Weltour Dębica
2011 Poland Robert Radosz (POL) BDC Team
2012 Bulgaria Nikołaj Michajłow (BUL) CCC–Polkowice
2013 Poland Mateusz Taciak (POL) CCC–Polsat–Polkowice
2014 Germany Christopher Hatz (GER) MLP Team Bergstraße
2015 Poland Leszek Pluciński (POL) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice
2016 Poland Mateusz Taciak (POL) CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice
2017 Poland Marek Rutkiewicz (POL) Wibatech 7R Fuji
2018 Germany Philipp Walsleben (GER) Corendon–Circus


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