The Bayern Rundfahrt (in English "Tour of Bavaria") is a late-spring stage race held in southern Germany. Between 1980 and 1988 is was an amateur competition. From 1989 to 1995 it was an open race. In 1998 it was made a professional race with a 2.5 ranking. It has steadily grown in prestige ever since and the Tour of Bavaria was made an "HC" race in 2005.
Year
|
1st Place
|
2nd Place
|
3rd Place
|
Distance
|
Average Speed
km/hr
|
| 1989 |
Kai Hundertmark |
Koen Van Rooy |
Hans Knauer |
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| 1990 |
Jorg Paffrath |
Lubos Lom |
Eddy Seigneur |
|
|
| 1991 |
Brian Walton |
Lutz Lehman |
Thomas Fleischer |
|
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| 1992 |
Jacques Jolidon |
Willy Willems |
Dirk Schiffner |
|
|
| 1993 |
Alexander Kastenhuber |
Jens Zemke |
Daniel Lanz |
|
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| 1994 |
Pavel Padrnos |
Jimmi Madsen |
Thomas Liese |
|
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| 1995 |
Timo Scholz |
Volker Ordowski |
Arnaud August |
|
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| 1996 |
Uwe Peschel |
Michael Rich
@ 18sec |
Andreas Walzer
@ 36sec |
678.3m km |
|
| 1997 |
Christian Henn
23hr 15min 11sec |
Bert Dietz
@ 2sec |
Arnaud Pretot
@ 19sec |
925.2 km |
39.788 |
| 1998 |
Steffen Kjaergaard
22hr 33min 4sec |
Axel Merckx
@ 19sec |
Daniel Atienza
@ 46sec |
904.4 km |
40.104 |
| 1999 |
Rolf Aldag
20hr 23min 37sec |
Sven Gaute Hölestöl
@ 20sec |
Torsten Schmidt
@ 37sec |
873.5 km |
42.832 |
| 2000 |
Jens Voigt
21hr 59min |
Michael Rich
@ 4sec |
Tobias Steinhauser
@ 6sec |
890 km |
40.478 |
| 2001 |
Jens Voigt
20hr 34min 14sec |
Rolf Aldag
@ 7sec |
Artur Babaitsev
@ 10sec |
865.5 km |
42.075 |
| 2002 |
Michael Rich
21hr 31min 48sec |
Jens Voigt
@ 25sec |
Yuriy Krivtsov
@ 29sec |
900.1 km |
41.807 |
| 2003 |
Michael Rich
21hr 8min 8sec |
Patrick Sinkewitz
@ 30sec |
Thomas Liese
@ 34sec |
885.6 km |
41.901 |
| 2004 |
Jens Voigt
22hr 23min 54sec |
Andreas Klöden
@ 30sec |
Tomasz Brozyna
@ 44sec |
894.5 km |
39.936 |
| 2005 |
Michael Rich
18hr 56min 10sec |
Alexandre Vinokourov
@ 20sec |
Linus Gerdemann
@ 59sec |
783.5 km |
41.376 |
| 2006 |
José Alberto Martinez
18hr 52min 29sec |
Beat Zberg
@ 9sec |
Luke Roberts
@ 19sec |
777.2 km |
41.176 |
| 2007 |
Stefan Schumacher
17hr 39min 18sec |
Bert Grabsch
@ 9sec |
Jens Voigt
@ 15sec |
764.7 km |
43.313 |
| 2008 |
Christian Knees
18hr 18min 28sec |
Andreas Dietziker
@ 3sec |
Niki Terpstra
@ 6sec |
771.9 km |
42.162 |
| 2009 |
Linus Gerdemann
17hr 29min 5sec |
Maxime Monfort
@ 10sec |
David Lelay
@ 26sec |
740.5 km |
42.351 |
