Tour de Pologne

The Tour de Pologne (English: Tour of Poland) is a road bicycle racing stage race. It consists of seven or eight stages, and was first held in 1928. Until 1952, the race was not held every year, but since then there has been a Tour annually (every year). When Eastern Europe was communist-controlled there were no professional cyclists, so until the early 1990s, the race was for amateurs only, and the winners mostly came from Poland.

The peloton in the 2004 Tour of Poland.

Tour de Pologne

Race details
Date	September
Region	Poland
English name	Tour of Poland
Local name(s)	Tour de Pologne
Discipline	Road race
Competition	UCI ProTour
Type	Stage-race
History
First edition	1928
Editions	61 (as of 2007)
First winner	Poland Feliks Wiecek
Most wins	3 wins:  Poland Dariusz Baranowski  Poland Marian Wieckowski
Most recent	Belgium Johan Van Summeren

Although the Tour de Pologne had not reached a high status, and was little known, the International Cycling Union (UCI) decided to make it a part of the UCI ProTour from 2005, which means that the major cycling teams compete in the race.