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
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Asia Tour 2.2
Type	Stage race
Web site	www.tourdekumano.jp
History
First edition	2006
Editions	12 (as of 2017)
First winner	Tomoya Kano (JPN)
Most wins	Fortunato Baliani (ITA) (2 wins)
Most recent	Orluis Aular (VEN)

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,^{[citation needed]} 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[]

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2006	Japan	Tomoya Kano
2007	Japan	Kazuhiro Mori	Aisan Racing Team
2008	Japan	Miyataka Shimizu
2009	Kazakhstan	Valentin Iglinsky	Kazakhstan national team
2010	Kazakhstan	Andrey Mizourov	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2011	Italy	Fortunato Baliani	D'Angelo & Antenucci–Nippo
2012	Italy	Fortunato Baliani	Team Nippo
2013	Colombia	Julián Arredondo	Team Nippo–De Rosa
2014	Spain	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling
2015	Spain	Benjamin Prades	Matrix Powertag
2016	Spain	Óscar Pujol	Team Ukyo
2017	Spain	José Vicente Toribio	Matrix Powertag
2018	Netherlands	Marc de Maar	Team Ukyo
2019	Venezuela	Orluis Aular	Matrix Powertag
2020	No race due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	No race due to COVID-19 pandemic

External links[]

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

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