Tour of Romania


The Tour of Romania is a cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour.

History

Inspired by Tour de France, the monthly publication "Car Magazine" held in August 1910 the first edition of "Circuit Wallachia". The competition took 12 riders at the start on the route Bucharest–Sinaia–Targoviste–Butimanu–Bucharest. The race lasted for three editions. Since 1934 the newspaper "Daily Sport", in collaboration with Romanian Cycling Federation has organized the Tour of Romania. Romania became the sixth country in the world to organize a National Amateur Cycling Tour, after Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland.
The route first edition was long and included six stages.

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