Tour Méditerranéen

The Mediterranean Tour ( Tour méditerranéen ) is a French stage race.

The discharged since 1974 cycling event traditionally takes place in February and is often used by many famous professional cyclists as an introduction to the season. Main initiator and athletic director of the race is the former Tour de France winner Lucien Aimar. The race consists of five to eight stages, the start and finish are located in the French Mediterranean region, in some years, with side trips to the Italian Riviera. A highlight of the race has almost every year of often discharged as a time trial climb to Mont Faron above Toulon.

The race is part of the UCI Europe Tour in the UCI category 2.1.

German winners were previously Rolf Golz (1992 ), Jörg Jaksche (2004) and Jens Voigt ( 2005).

For 2012, the discharge was initially canceled; as a reason, " message error " given the French Cycling Federation. In January 2012, the UCI confirmed the subsequent inclusion of the tour in the racing calendar.

List of winners

• 2013 Sweden Thomas Lövkvist
• 2011 France David Moncoutié
• Rinaldo Nocentini 2010 Italy
• Luis León Sánchez 2009 Spain
• 2008 Russia Alexander Bocharov
• 2007 Spain José Iván Gutiérrez
• 2006 France Cyril Dessel
• 2005 Germany Jens Voigt
• 2004 Germany Jörg Jaksche
• 2003 Italian Paolo Bettini
• 2002, Italy Michele Bartoli
• 2001 Italy Davide Rebellin

• 2000 France Laurent Jalabert
• 1999, Italy Davide Rebellin
• 1998 Italy Rodolfo Massi
• 1997 France Emmanuel Magnien
• 1996 Belgium Frank Vandenbroucke
• 1995 Italy Gianni Bugno
• 1994 Italy Davide Cassani
• 1993 France Charly Mottet
• 1992 Germany Rolf Golz
• 1991 Australia Phil Anderson
• 1990 France Gerard Rué
• 1989 Switzerland Tony Rominger
• 1988 Belgium January Nevens
• 1987 Netherlands Gerrit Solleveld