Tour de Picardie

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Tour de Picardie
Race details
Date Mid May
Region Picardy, France
English name Tour of Picardy
Local name(s) Tour de Picardie (French)
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour
Type Stage race
History
First edition 1936
Editions 61 (as of 2007)
First winner Flag of France Marcel Blanchon
Most recent Flag of South Africa Robert Hunter

The Tour de Picardie is a professional multi-stage cycle road race held annually in Picardy, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

The race was called Tour de l'Oise between 1936 and 1999, to became Tour de Picardie et de l’Oise in 1999 and Tour de Picardie from 2000 to the present day. Between 1946 and 1965 there was another race also called Tour de Picardie(or Grand Prix du Courrier Picard).

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Rider Team
1936 Flag of France Marcel Blanchon
1937 Flag of France Gaston Grimber
1938 Flag of France Lucien Le Guevel
1939 Flag of France André Desmoulins
1940-
1949
No race
1950 Flag of France Simon Hyz
1951 Flag of France Pierre Lagrange
1952 Flag of France Pierre Komor
1953 Flag of France Alfred Tonello
1954 Flag of France Jean Bellay
1955 Flag of Luxembourg Lull Gillen
1956 Flag of France Louis Caput
1957 Flag of France Jean Stablinski
1958 Flag of France Joseph Thomin
1959 Flag of France Joseph Wasko
1960 Flag of the Netherlands Jo De Haan
1961 Flag of Spain Jaime Alomar
1962 Flag of Belgium André Bar
1963 Flag of Germany Klaus Bugdahl
1964 Flag of Germany Wilfried Boelke
1965 Flag of Ireland Seamus Elliott
1966 Flag of France Hubert Niel
1967 Flag of Germany Peter Glemser
1968 Flag of Belgium Walter Boucquet
1969 Flag of France José Samyn
1970 Flag of Belgium Frans Verbeeck
1971 Flag of Belgium André Dierickx
1972 Flag of France Cyrille Guimard
1973 Flag of France Alain Santy
1974 Flag of France Robert Mintkiewicz
1975 Flag of Germany Dietrich Thurau
Rider Team
1976 Flag of Belgium Emiel Gijsemans
1977 Flag of Belgium Willy Teirlinck
1978 Flag of Belgium Willy Teirlinck
1979 Flag of France Bernard Hinault
1980 Flag of France Patrick Bonnet
1981 Flag of Belgium Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke
1982 Flag of France Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle
1983 Flag of France Pascal Jules
1984 Flag of Australia Alan Peiper
1985 Flag of Belgium Jozef Lieckens
1986 Flag of France Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle
1987 Flag of the Netherlands Jelle Nijdam
1988 Flag of Canada Steve Bauer
1989 Flag of Germany Andreas Kappes
1990 Flag of Belgium Hendrik Redant
1991 Flag of Belgium Wilfried Nelissen
1992 Flag of France Thierry Marie
1993 Flag of France Frédéric Moncassin
1994 Flag of Spain Miguel Induráin
1995 Flag of the Netherlands Jelle Nijdam
1996 Flag of France Philippe Gaumont
1997 No race
1998 Flag of Kazakhstan Alexandre Vinokourov
1999 Flag of Estonia Jaan Kirsipuu
2000 Flag of Denmark Michael Sandstod
2001 Flag of France Olivier Asmaker
2002 Flag of Denmark Michael Sandstod
2003 Flag of the United Kingdom David Millar
2004 Flag of Belgium Tom Boonen
2005 Flag of Estonia Janek Tombak
2006 Flag of France Jimmy Casper
2007 Flag of South Africa Robert Hunter
2008 Flag of France Sébastien Chavanel

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