Date | Early August |
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Region | Bochum, Germany |
English name | Tour of Bochum |
Local name(s) | Sparkassen Giro Bochum (German) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | ♂ UCI Europe Tour ♀ UCI Women's Road World Cup |
Type | Single-day |
First edition | 1998 |
Editions | ♂ 14 (as of 2011) ♀ 15 (as of 2015) |
First winner | ♂ Jan Ullrich (GER) ♀ Sharon van Essen (NED) |
Most recent | ♂ Pieter Vanspeybrouck (BEL) ♀ Barbara Guarischi (ITA) |
The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as 1.1 race and since 2014 the women's race is part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup.