The Five Rings of Moscow is a

road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and ...

stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ...

held annually in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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. It was first run in 1993 and since 2005 has been part of the

UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...

as a 2.2 category race. The most successful riders are

Sergey Firsanov Sergey Nikolayevich Firsanov (russian: Сергей Николаевич Фирсанов; born 3 July 1982) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team . Career Born in Velikiye Luki, Firsan ...

, Andrei Ptchelkine and

Ivan Terenine Ivan Terenine (Russian: Иван Теренин; born 22 June 1982) is a Russian former cyclist. Major results ;2001 : 1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow ;2002 : 1st Overall Mainfranken-Tour ::1st Stage 1 ;2003 : 1st Overall Tour du Cameroun : 1s ...

, who have two victories each.

Past winners

References

External links

* UCI Europe Tour races Recurring sporting events established in 1993 Cycle races in Russia 1993 establishments in Russia Sports competitions in Moscow {{Russia-sport-stub