Tour de Pologne

Tour de Pologne
Race details
DateAugust
RegionPoland
English nameTour of Poland
Local name(s)Wyścig Dookoła Polski
(in Polish)
DisciplineRoad race
CompetitionUCI World Tour
TypeRace stage
OrganiserLang Team Sp. z o.o.
Race directorCzesław Lang
Web sitetourdepologne.pl Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1928; 96 years ago (1928)
Editions80 (as of 2023)
First winner Feliks Więcek (POL)
Most wins Dariusz Baranowski (POL)
 Andrzej Mierzejewski (POL)
 Marian Więckowski (POL)
(3 wins each)
Most recent Jonas Vingegaard (DEN)
Józef Stefański wins the first stage of the 1929 edition of the race.
The peloton in the 2004 Tour de Pologne.
Ondřej Sosenka was the winner of the race in 2004.
2006 Tour de Pologne in Toruń
2019 Tour de Pologne stage 2 peloton finish in Katowice.
Start of the third stage of 2021 Tour de Pologne
Dariusz Baranowski, the winner of the 1991, 1992, 1993 TdP.

The Tour de Pologne (Polish: Wyścig Dookoła Polski; English: Tour of Poland), officially abbreviated TdP, is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages and is usually around 1,200 km in length. The race was first held in 1928 and is considered the oldest and most important bicycle race in Poland.

Until 1952 the race was held sporadically, but since then it has been an annual race. Until early 1993 the race was open to amateur cyclists only and most of its winners came from Poland. Since 2009, the race has been taking place between July and August.[1]

The international cycling association, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), made TdP part of the UCI ProTour in 2005, and part of the UCI World Tour, cycling's highest level of professional men's races, in 2009. In 2016, the three-stage women's competition Tour de Pologne kobiet was organised one day after the last men's stage.[2] Three riders, Dariusz Baranowski, Andrzej Mierzejewski and Marian Więckowski, share the record of most wins, with three each.[3]

  1. ^ "Tour de Pologne – ponad 90 lat na rowerze!" (in Polish). Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Tour de Pologne Women 2016" (in Polish). Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Winners". Retrieved 30 July 2022.