Paris–Tours
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Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, at Le Gault-du-Perche. Historically, it is known as a "Sprinters' Classic" because it frequently ends in a bunch sprint at the finish, in Tours. Since 2018, the course has featured gravel sectors in vineyards near Tours.
Key facts
- Cycling race.name
- Paris–Tours
- Cycling race.image
- 200px
- Cycling race.date
- Mid-October
- Cycling race.region
- Chevreuse to Loire, France
- Cycling race.competition
- UCI ProSeries
- Cycling race.type
- One-day
- Cycling race.organiser
- Amaury Sport Organisation
- Cycling race.number
- 119 (as of 2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- The route
- Classic races and riders
- The Autumn Double
- Results
- List of winners
- Multiple winners
- Wins per country
- Tours–Paris
- Notes
- References
- External links
Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, at Le Gault-du-Perche. Historically, it is known as a "Sprinters' Classic" because it frequently ends in a bunch sprint at the finish, in Tours. Since 2018, the course has featured gravel sectors in vineyards near Tours.
For several decades the race arrived on the 2.7 km long Avenue de Grammont, one of cycling's best-known finishing straits, particularly renowned among sprinters. Since 2011 the finish was moved to a different location because a new tram line was built on the Avenue de Grammont.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paris–Tours” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.