Tour de Berne

Tour de Berne is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held in Berne, Switzerland with races for men and women.

Women's event

The women's Tour de Berne is an elite professional event and since 2005 has been elevated to the UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup. The race is six laps of a 20.8 km (12.9 mi) city circuit for 124.8 km (77.5 mi) total distance.

Past winners

Year Country Rider Team
2001  Germany Vera Hohlfeld Acca Due O Pasta
2002   Switzerland Priska Doppmann Mazza Cipret-Schweiz Rot Comp
2003  Australia Olivia Gollan Australian National Team
2004  Italy Fabiana Luperini Team Let's Go Finland
2005  Lithuania Edita Pučinskaitė Nobili Rubinetterie - Menikini Cogeas
2006  Kazakhstan Zulfiya Zabirova Team Bigla
2007  Lithuania Edita Pučinskaitė Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung
2008  Sweden Susanne Ljungskog
2009  United States Kristin Armstrong
2010  Great Britain Sharon Laws

Men's event

The men's event began in 1921 and is currently a UCI 1.2 rated event on the UCI Europe Tour.

Year Country Rider Team
1992   Switzerland Erich Mächler Helvetia-Fichtel & Sachs
1993  Germany Erik Zabel Team Telekom
1994  Germany Andreas Kappes Trident-Schick
1995  Italy Luca Scinto MG Maglificio–Technogym
1996   Switzerland Beat Zberg Carrera Jeans–Tassoni
1997  Sweden Michael Andersson TVM–Farm Frites
1998   Switzerland Markus Zberg Post Swiss Team
1999  Italy Andrea Ferrigato Ballan-Alessio
2000   Switzerland Lukas Zumsteg Phonak
2001  Germany Danilo Hondo Team Telekom
2002  Luxembourg Kim Kirchen Fassa Bortolo
2003 No race
2004  Belarus Alexandre Usov Phonak
2005  Germany René Weissinger Volksbank-Leingrüber-Ideal
2006 No race
2007   Switzerland Stefan Trafelet V.C. Mendrisio
2008  Poland Jarosław Marycz Team FidiBC.com
2009   Switzerland Michael Themann Maler Meier-Sporthaus Ponzio
2010  Hong Kong Choi Ki Ho Hong Kong Pro Cycling
2011   Switzerland Pirmin Lang Atlas Personal
2012   Switzerland Silvan Dillier EKZ Racing Team
2013   Switzerland Marcel Wyss IAM Cycling
2014  Austria Matthias Brändle IAM Cycling
2015   Switzerland Tom Bohli BMC Development Team
2016  Italy Enrico Salvador Unieuro–Wilier
2017  Italy Filippo Fortin Tirol Cycling Team
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