The Rad am Ring is a
cycle racing
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festival held annually at the
Nürburgring
The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Formula One, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around t ...
in
Germany
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since 2003. It features road cycling and mountain bike races, including 24-hour races for each, and a cycling exposition.
Since 2016 it features a professional road race, also known in 2016 as the Rudi Altig Race, named after German cyclist
Rudi Altig
Rudi Altig (; 18 March 1937 – 11 June 2016) was a German professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator.
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who won his
Road Race World Championship at the Nürburgring and died shortly before the race. The first two editions were a 1.1 event on 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 ...
; since 2018 it is part of the German Bundesliga.
Winners
References
External links
Official website
UCI Europe Tour races
Cycle races in Germany
Sport in Rhineland-Palatinate
2016 establishments in Germany
Recurring sporting events established in 2016
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