Tour de l'Avenir

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Tour de l'Avenir (English: Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as an amateur race. From 1986 to 1990, the race was organized under the name of Tour de la Communauté Européenne (English: Tour of European Community). It is currently reserved for riders up to 25 years old and it is considered very prestigious for that age group. This is partly because of the impressive names of previous winners, including later Tour de France winners Felice Gimondi, Joop Zoetemelk, Greg Lemond, Miguel Indurain and Laurent Fignon, who have won 12 editions of the Tour de France between them. The UCI classification is 1, the highest in the continental calendar.

[edit] Previous winners

Year Team 1961 Guido De Rosso 1962 Antonio Gomez Del Moral 1963 André Zimmermann 1964 Felice Gimondi 1965 Mariano Diaz 1966 Mino Denti 1967 Christian Robini 1968 Jean-Pierre Boulard 1969 Joop Zoetemelk 1970 M. Duchemin 1971 Régis Ovion 1972 Fedor Den Hertog 1973 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1974 Enrique Martínez Heredia 1975 no contest 1976 Sven-Ake Nilsson 1977 Eddy Schepers 1978 Serguei Soukhoroutchenkov 1979 Serguei Soukhoroutchenkov 1980 Alfonso Florez 1981 Pascal Simon 1982 Greg Lemond 1983 Olaf Ludwig

Year Team 1984 Charly Mottet 1985 Martin Ramirez 1986 Miguel Indurain 1987 Marc Madiot 1988 Laurent Fignon 1989 Pascal Lino 1990 Johan Bruyneel 1991 no contest 1992 Hervé Garel 1993 Thomas Davy 1994 Angel-Luis Casero 1995 Emmanuel Magnien 1996 David Etxebarria 1997 Laurent Roux 1998 Christophe Rinero 1999 Unai Osa 2000 Iker Flores 2001 Denis Menchov 2002 Evgeni Petrov 2003 Egoi Martínez 2004 Sylvain Calzati 2005 Lars Bak 2006 Moisés Dueñas

[edit] External links

• Official 2005 site