Profronde van Fryslan

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Profronde van Fryslan
Race details
Date	Late June
Region	Friesland, Netherlands
English name	Tour of Friesland
Local name(s)	Profronde van Fryslan (Dutch)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	One-day race
History
First edition	2004
Editions	5 (as of 2008)
Most recent	Gert Steegmans

Profronde van Fryslan is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Friesland, Netherlands. Since 2007, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Between 2004 and 2006 it was held as Noord-Nederland Tour.

[edit] Winners

	Rider	Team
2004	Multiple winners
2005	Stefan Van Dijk	MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech
2006	Aart Vierhouten	Skil-Shimano
2007	Maarten den Bakker	Skil-Shimano
2008	Gert Steegmans	Quick Step

In 2004, due to the difficulty of the final 15 kilometres (9.3 mi), the organisers decided to award the leading group of 22 riders with an equal classification. The group consisted of: Tom Veelers, Arne Kornegoor, Rudie Kemna, Matthé Pronk, Eelke Van Der Wal, Allan Bo Andresen, Thorwald Venebergh, Roy Sentjens, Bobbie Traksel, Erik Dekker, Paul Van Schalen, Arno Wallaard, Bert Hiemstra, Igor Abakoumov, Gerben Löwik, Rik Reinerink, Stefan Kupfernagel, Marvin Van Der Pluym, Dennis Haueisen, Nico Mattan, Niels Scheuneman and Preben Van Hecke.