# Tour de Korea > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tour_de_Korea > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tour_de_Korea.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Korea > Source revision: 1286624816 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Korean multi-day road cycling race Tour de Korea Race details Date April (until 2012) June (since 2013) Region South Korea English name Tour of Korea Local name 투르 드 코리아 (in Korean) Discipline Road Competition UCI Asia Tour 2.1 Type Stage race Organiser Korea Cycling Federation Web site www.tourdekorea.or.kr History First edition 2000 (2000) Editions 20 (as of 2019) First winner Mikhail Teteriuk (KAZ) Most wins Park Sung-baek (KOR) (2 wins) Most recent Filippo Zaccanti (ITA) The **Tour de Korea** is an annual professional [road bicycle racing](/source/Road_bicycle_racing) [stage race](/source/Race_stage) held in [South Korea](/source/South_Korea) since 2000 as part of the [UCI Asia Tour](/source/UCI_Asia_Tour). It was rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race between 2005 and 2013, then promoted to 2.1 category in 2014. The race is organised by the [Korea Cycling Federation](/source/Korea_Cycling_Federation). ## History The tour gained international attention when [Lance Armstrong](/source/Lance_Armstrong), a seven-time [Tour de France](/source/Tour_de_France) winner, participated in 2007. Armstrong, having retired from cycling at that time, did not compete, but for the sake of publicity, he rode one lap around the course of the first stage on his mountain bicycle. Tour de Korea is the only international cycling competition in South Korea. The predecessor to Tour de Korea was stopped in 1997 due to financial strains. Tour de Korea is divided into two divisions: Elite for invitees and competitive cyclists, and a "Special race" for cycling club teams. The prize money for the 2011 tour totaled 200 million [Won](/source/South_Korean_won). The tour course is 1,500 kilometres (930 mi) long, making it the longest cycling competition in Asia. The tour comprises exclusively point-to-point road race stages. Unlike the major tours in Europe, such as the [Tour de France](/source/Tour_de_France) and [Giro d'Italia](/source/Giro_d'Italia), there are no [individual time trials](/source/Individual_time_trial) or [team time trials](/source/Team_time_trial). The tour was planned this way reportedly because the promoters wanted to minimise time and effort spent in recording and sorting race results. ## Past winners Year Country Rider Team 2000 Kazakhstan Mikhail Teteriuk 2001 South Korea Jeon Dae-heung 2002 China Tang Xuezhong Giant Asia Racing Team 2003 New Zealand Glen Chadwick Giant Asia Racing Team 2004 Canada Cory Lange Marco Polo 2005 Ireland David McCann Giant Asia Racing Team 2006 Germany Tobias Erler Giant Asia Racing Team 2007 South Korea Park Sung-baek Seoul Cycling Team 2008 Uzbekistan Sergey Lagutin Uzbekistan (national team) 2009 Switzerland Roger Beuchat Team Neotel 2010 United States Mike Friedman Jelly Belly–Kenda 2011 Hong Kong Choi Ki Ho Hong Kong (national team) 2012 South Korea Park Sung-baek KSPO 2013 Great Britain Michael Cuming Rapha Condor–JLT 2014 Great Britain Hugh Carthy Rapha Condor–JLT 2015 Australia Caleb Ewan Orica–GreenEDGE 2016 Slovenia Grega Bole Nippo–Vini Fantini 2017 South Korea Min Kyeong-ho Seoul Cycling Team 2018 Romania Serghei Țvetcov UnitedHealthcare 2019[1] Italy Filippo Zaccanti Nippo–Vini Fantini–Faizanè 2020 No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea[2] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Nippo Vini Fantani Faizanè: Filippo Zaccanti wins the Tour de Korea. #OrangeBlue also awarded as the best team"](https://www.nippovinifantini.com/newsite/nippo-vini-fantini-faizane-filippo-zaccanti-vince-il-tour-de-korea-orangeblue-premiati-anche-come-miglior-team/?lg=en). *[Nippo–Vini Fantini–Faizanè](/source/Nippo%E2%80%93Vini_Fantini%E2%80%93Faizan%C3%A8)*. STC PRO Srl. 16 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Situation dans le contexte actuel de la pandémie du coronavirus (Covid-19) / Situation in the current context of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200716221409/https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/roa-calendar2020-updated03072020.pdf) (PDF). *UCI.org*. [Union Cycliste Internationale](/source/Union_Cycliste_Internationale). 13 July 2020. p. 12. Archived from [the original](https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/roa-calendar2020-updated03072020.pdf) ([PDF](/source/PDF)) on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2022. ## External links - [Official website](http://www.tourdekorea.or.kr/) - [Tour de Korea palmares](https://web.archive.org/web/2021/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=2722) at *Cycling Archives* (archived, or [current page in French](https://siteducyclisme.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=2722)) - [Statistics](http://www.the-sports.org/tour-de-korea-events-statistics-all-time-s2-c2-b0-g197-t5186-u0.html) at *the-sports.org* - [Tour de Korea](http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race_history.asp?tourid=2171) at *cqranking.com* --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tour de Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Korea) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Korea?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.