Tour de Berne is an elite professional
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 ...
event held in
Berne, Switzerland
Bern () or Berne; in other Swiss languages, gsw, Bärn ; frp, Bèrna ; it, Berna ; rm, Berna is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city" (in german: Bundesstadt, link=no, french: ville fédérale ...
with races for men and women.
Men's event
The men's event began in 1920 and has previously been a UCI 1.2 rated 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 ...
.
Women's event
The women's Tour de Berne is an elite professional event and since 2005 has been elevated to the
UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup
The UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup was a season-long road bicycle competition for women organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale between 1998–2015. This competition consisted of a series (which has varied from 6 to 12 events) of rac ...
. The race is six laps of a city circuit for total distance.
Past winners
References
External links
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Sport in Bern
Cycle races in Switzerland
Women's road bicycle races
UCI Women's Road World Cup
UCI Europe Tour races
Recurring sporting events established in 1921
1921 establishments in Switzerland
Recurring sporting events established in 2001
2001 establishments in Switzerland
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