Race details | |
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Date | February |
Region | Victoria, Australia |
Local name(s) | Jayco Herald Sun Tour |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Oceania Tour (2.1) |
Type | Stage race |
Race director | Scott McGrory |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 1952 |
Editions | 67 (as of 2020) |
First winner | Keith Rowley (AUS) |
Most wins | Barry Waddell (AUS) (5 wins) |
Most recent | Jai Hindley (AUS) |
The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually over five days in February, though as of 2024 the most recent edition was in 2020. It is named after the Herald Sun, Melbourne's only daily tabloid newspaper. It was originally known as the Sun Tour after The Sun News-Pictorial, and changed its name when The Sun News-Pictorial merged with The Herald in 1990.