Tour de Kumano

Tour de Kumano

Race details
Date	May
Region	Shingū, Kumano, and Taiji, Japan
Local name(s)	ツール・ド・熊野 (Japanese)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Asia Tour 2.2
Type	Stage race
History
First edition	2006 (2006)
Editions	11 (as of 2016)
First winner	Tomoya Kano (JPN)
Most wins	Fortunato Baliani (ITA) (2 wins)
Most recent	Óscar Pujol (ESP)

The Tour de Kumano (ツール・ド・熊野, Tsūru do Kumano) is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Mie Prefecture, Japan, named after Kumano. It was first created in 2006 as the amateur level, later moved up to the professional level in 2008 when included into the UCI Asia Tour and classified as a 2.2 category race.

Past winners

General classification

		Rider	Team
2006	JPN !	Kano, TomoyaTomoya Kano (JPN)
2007	JPN !	Mori, KazuhiroKazuhiro Mori (JPN)	Aisan Racing Team
2008	JPN !	Shimizu, MiyatakaMiyataka Shimizu (JPN)	Meitan Hompo-GDR
2009	KAZ !	Iglinsky, ValentinValentin Iglinsky (KAZ)	Kazakhstan national team
2010	KAZ !	Mizourov, AndreyAndrey Mizourov (KAZ)	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2011	ITA !	Baliani, FortunatoFortunato Baliani (ITA)	D'Angelo & Antenucci–Nippo
2012	ITA !	Baliani, FortunatoFortunato Baliani (ITA)	Team Nippo
2013	COL !	Arredondo, JuliánJulián Arredondo (COL)	Team Nippo–De Rosa
2014	ESP !	Mancebo, FranciscoFrancisco Mancebo (ESP)	Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling
2015	ESP !	Prades, BenjaminBenjamin Prades (ESP)	Matrix Powertag
2016	ESP !	Pujol, ÓscarÓscar Pujol (ESP)	Team UKYO

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tour de Kumano.

• Official website (Japanese)
• Tour de Kumano Palmares at Cycling Archives
• Statistics at the-sports.org
• Tour de Kumano at cqranking.com