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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour De Berne 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 fr:Tour de Berne féminin