| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | Early June |
| Region | Slovakia |
| English name | Tour of Slovakia |
| Discipline | Road |
| Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
| Type | Stage race |
| History | |
| First edition | 1954 |
| Editions | 55 (as of 2011) |
| First winner | Karl Nesl (TCH) |
| Most wins | Jiří Škoda (TCH) Milos Hrazdira (TCH) (3 wins) |
| Most recent | Nikita Novikov (RUS) |
Okolo Slovenska (English: Tour of Slovakia; French: Tour de Slovaquie) is an annual cycling stage race in Slovakia. Founded in 1954, since 2005, it has been rated as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is a stage race that usually includes five or more stages.
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Okolo Slovenska started on June 19, 1954 on Stalin square in Bratislava and included 7 stages. The first race was won by Czech cyclist Karel Nesel, the Slovak cyclist Vlastimil Ružička won three of the seven stages of the race.
The 2011 race started on June 4, 2011 in Nováky and finished on June 11, 2011 in Gabčíkovo.
| Rider | Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Karel Nesel (TCH) | |||
| 1955 | Jan Veselý (TCH) | |||
| 1956 | Aurelio Cestari (ITA) | |||
| 1957 | Pierre Le Don (FRA) | |||
| 1958 | Walter Renner (TCH) | |||
| 1959 | Lothar Höhne (DDR) | |||
| 1960 | Antal Megyergi (HUN) | |||
| 1961 1963 |
No race | |||
| 1964 | Matej Laczo (TCH) | |||
| 1965 | Jiří Háva (TCH) | |||
| 1966 | Pavel Konečný (TCH) | |||
| 1967 | Miloš Hrazdíra (TCH) | |||
| 1968 | Miloš Hrazdíra (TCH) | |||
| 1969 | Břetislav Souček (TCH) | |||
| 1970 | Vlastimil Moravec (TCH) | |||
| 1971 | Jiří Háva (TCH) | |||
| 1972 | Antonin Bartoníček (TCH) | |||
| 1973 | Miloš Hrazdíra (TCH) | |||
| 1974 | Pavol Čambal (TCH) | |||
| 1975 | Josef Dvořák (TCH) | |||
| 1976 | Jiří Škoda (TCH) | |||
| 1977 | Miroslav Sýkora (TCH) | |||
| 1978 | Theodorus de Roy (NED) | |||
| 1979 | Jaroslav Poslušný (TCH) | |||
| 1980 | Jiří Škoda (TCH) | |||
| 1981 | Andrei Vedernikov (URS) | |||
| 1982 | Vladimir Volochin (URS) | |||
| 1983 | Bernd Drogan (DDR) | |||
| 1984 | Miroslav Sýkora (TCH) | |||
| 1985 | Jiří Škoda (TCH) | |||
| 1986 | Václav Toman (TCH) | |||
| 1987 | Ivan Ivanov (URS) | |||
| 1988 | Tomáš Sedláček (TCH) | |||
| 1989 | Pavel Tonkov (URS) | |||
| 1990 | Miroslav Lipták (TCH) | |||
| 1991 | Heinrich Trumheller (GER) | |||
| 1992 | Lubor Tesař (TCH) | |||
| 1993 | Serhiy Honchar (UKR) | |||
| 1994 | Vladimir Svehlik (CZE) | |||
| 1995 | František Trkal (CZE) | |||
| 1996 | Jan Valach (SVK) | |||
| 1997 | Jaromír Purmenský (CZE) | |||
| 1998 | Andrei Hauptman (SLO) | |||
| 1999 | Ondřej Sosenka (CZE) | |||
| 2000 | René Andrle (CZE) | Wüstenrot-ZVVZ | ||
| 2001 | František Trkal (CZE) | |||
| 2002 | Gustav Larsson (SWE) | Team Crescent CK | ||
| 2003 | Ondřej Sosenka (CZE) | CCC Polsat | ||
| 2004 | Piotr Chmielewski (POL) | Action ATI | ||
| 2005 | Martin Prázdnovský (SVK) | CK ZP Sport A.S. Podbrezova | ||
| 2006 | Radoslwa Romanik (POL) | DHL-Author | ||
| 2007 | Joost van Leijen (NED) | Van Vliet-EBH Advocaten | ||
| 2008 | Kristoffer Gudmund Nielsen (DEN) | Team GLS-Pakke Shop | ||
| 2009 | Leigh Howard (AUS) | Australia (national team) | ||
| 2010 | Robert Vrečer (SLO) | Perutnina Ptuj | ||
| 2011 | Nikita Novikov (RUS) | Itera-Katusha | ||
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