Tro-Bro Léon

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Tro-Bro Léon
Race details

Date	Late-April
Region	Bretagne, France
English name	Tour of Pays de Léon
Local name(s)	Tour du Pays Léonard (French) Tro-Bro Léon (Breton)
Nickname(s)	Le Petit Paris-Roubaix
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
Race director	Jean-Paul Mellouet
History
First edition	1984
Editions	25 (as of 2008)
First winner	Bruno Chemin
Most wins	Philippe Dalibard (3 wins)
Most recent	Frédéric Guesdon

Tro-Bro Léon (English: Tour of Léon) is a professional cycle road race held in Finistère, Bretagne. The event was first run in 1984 as an amateur race, becoming a professional race since 2000. Since 2005 the race is part of the UCI Europe Tour.

It is often called Le Petit Paris-Roubaix due to its similarities with Paris-Roubaix, because Tro-Bro Leon includes 24 sections of dirt, cobblestones and gravel roads (making up to 29.7 km/18.5 mi) on the rolling and windy roads of Bretagne [1].

		Rider		Team
1984		Bruno Chemin
1985		Bruno Chemin
1986		Philippe Dalibard
1987		Dominique Le Bon
1988		Philippe Dalibard
1989		Philippe Dalibard
1990		Marc Hibou
1991		William Milloux
1992		Jaan Kirsipuu
1993		Jean-Philippe Rouxel
1994		Stéphane Pétilleau
1995		Camille Coualan
1996		Thierry Bricaud

	Rider	Team
1997	Frédéric Delalande
1998	Frédéric Delalande
1999	Jean-Michel Thilloy
2000	Jo Planckaert	Cofidis
2001	Jacky Durand	La Française des Jeux
2002	Baden Cooke	La Française des Jeux
2003	Samuel Dumoulin	Jean Delatour
2004	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R Prévoyance
2005	Tristan Valentin	Auber 93
2006	Mark Renshaw	Crédit Agricole
2007	Saïd Haddou	Bouygues Télécom
2008	Frédéric Guesdon	La Française des Jeux