The Tour of Poland was first run in 1928, the result of a collaboration of a Krakow sports newspaper and the Warsaw Cycling Club. There were only five pre-war editions (the 1939 race ended July 30, a month before the German invasion).

The Tour of Poland wasn't run consistently until 1952. Since then the race has been run every year.

The post-war editions were for amateurs until 1993. 1974, '93 and '95 were "open" races. In 1996 it was classed as a professional race with a 2.5 ranking. In 1998 it was promoted to 2.4 and to 2.3 in 2000. In 2002 it was made a 2.2 competition. In 2005 it was assigned Pro-Tour (now World Tour) status.

The early versions were almost entirely Polish races, the first foreign winners being Italian Francesco Locatelli in 1949 and Belgian Roger Diercken in 1960.

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Distance	Average Speed km/hr
1928	Feliks Wiecek 58hr 0min 19sec	Wiktor Olecki @ 1hr 10min 16sec	Stanislaw Klosowicz @ 1hr 16min 55sec	1,491 km	25.70
1929	Josef Stefanski 83hr 50min 38sec	Eugeniusz Michalak @ 40min 45sec	Waclaw Kolodziejczyk @ 1hr 5min 13sec	2,250 km	28.84
1933	Jerzy Lipinski 64hr 58min 6sec	Wiktor Olecki @ 15min 39sec	Stanislaw Wasilewski @ 15min 53sec	1,721 km	26.49
1937	Boleslaw Napierala 43hr 5min 56sec	Stanislaw Wasilewski @ 2min 41sec	Josef Kapiak @ 14min 16sec	1,336 km	31.0
1939	Boleslaw Napierala 41hr 33min 53sec	Marian Rzeznicki @ 17min 22sec	Moeczslaw Jaskolski @ 37min 3sec	1,291 km	31.06
1947	Stanislaw Grzelak 17hr 13min 11sec	Zdzislaw Stolarczyk @ 3sec	Boleslaw Napierala @ 10sec	606 km	35.20
1948	Waclaw Wojcik 58hr 36min 24sec	Lucjan Pietraszewski @ 23min 54sec	Waclaw Wrzesinski @ 36min 30sec	1,963 km	33.49
1949	Francesco Locatelli 60hr 28min 14sec	Marin Niculescu @ 23sec	Kaj-Allan Olsen @ 1min 2sec	1,994 km	32.15
1952	Waclaw Wojcik 54hr 55min 58sec	Jozef Kapiak @ 15min 43sec	Mieczylav Ulik @ 23min 41sec	1,959 km	35.66
1953	Mieczyslaw Wilczewski 66hr 4min 50sec	Waclaw Wojcik @ 9min 36sec	Grzegorz Chwiendacz @ 12min 42sec	2,311 km	34.97
1954	Marian Wieckowski 53hr 29min 47sec	Stanislaw Bugalski @ 19sec	Adam Wieniewski @ 9min 30sec	1,925 km	35.98
1955	Marian Wieckowski 41hr 6min 53sec	Wieslaw Podobas @ 6min 53sec	Adam Wisniewski @ 8min 24sec	1563 km	38.11
1956	Marian Wieckowski 33hr 8min 26sec	Stanislaw Bugalski @ 1min 29sec	Wieslaw Podobas @ 14min 32sec	1220.5 km	36.83
1957	Henryk Kowalski 53hr 11min 50sec	Waclaw Wrzesinski @ 2min 16sec	Ivan Levacic @ 2min 36sec	1,968 km	36.99
1958	Boguslaw Fornalczyk 51hr 10min 55sec	Constant Goossens @ 2min 27sec	Stanislaw Gazda @ 4min 14sec	2,038 km	39.82
1959	Wieslaw Podobas 40hr 53min 38sec	Stanislaw Gazda @ 13min 8sec	Dick Enthoven @ 20min 44sec	1,621 km	39.64
1960	Roger Diercken 33hr 2min 9sec	Jan Kudra @ 6min 10sec	Anatolij Olizarenko @ 6min 37sec	1,336 km	40.44
1961	Henryk Kowalski 33hr 59min 44sec	Boguslaw Fornalczyk @ 2min 28sec	Eberhard Butzke @ 2min 50sec	1,329 km	39.09
1962	Jan Kudra 31hr 39min 37sec	Roger Swerts @ 3min 17sec	Sylwester Goral @ 8min 57sec	1,278 km	40.37
1963	Stanislaw Gazda 37hr 26min 9sec	Stanislaw Pawlowski @ 3min 49sec	Josef Beker @ 6min 22sec	1,482 km	39.59
1964	Rajmund Zielinski 35hr 8min 37sec	Wladislaw Kozlowski @ 3min 30sec	Jan Magiera @ 5min 34sec	1,394 km	39.67
1965	Jozef Beker 32hr 32min 43sec	Jerzy Mikolajczyk @ 42sec	Wladyslaw Kozlowski @ 3min 16sec	1,318 km	40.50
1966	Jozef Gawliczek 28hr 54min 7sec	Jan Magiera @ 5min 45sec	Tadeusz Zadrozny @ 5min 49sec	1,272 km	44.01
1967	Andrzej Blawdzin 42hr 18min 25sec	Aleksiej Kulibin @ 9min 12sec	Jozef Mikolajczyk @ 11min 17sec	1,682 km	39.76
1968	Jan Kudra 43hr 23min 39sec	Marian Forma @ 27sec	Stanislaw Demel @ 1min 53sec	1,757 km	40.49
1969	Wojciech Matusiak 44hr 0min 58sec	Zygmunt Hanusik @ 5min 25sec	Ryszard Szurkowski @ 5min 27sec	1,795 km	40.78
1970	Jan Stachura 38hr 53min 53sec	Czeslaw Polewiak @ 3min 50sec	Tadeusz Szpak @ 7min 7sec	1,611 km	41.42
1971	Stanislaw Szozda 30hr 3min 0sec	Jan Smyrak @ 1min 28sec	Ladislaw Zakretta @ 2min 16sec	1,290.5 km	42.96
1972	José Luis Viejo 28hr 30min 34sec	Tadeusz Mytnik @ 27sec	Stanislaw Gazda @ 35sec	1194 km	41.88
1973	Lucjan Lis 34hr 36min 8sec	Ryszard Szurkowski @ 1min 19sec	Tadeusz Mytnik @ 3min 21sec	1512.1 km	43.70
1974	André Delcroix 38hr 43min 54sec	Ludo Peeters @ 56sec	Wojciech Matusiak @ 5min 4sec	1592.5 km	41.10
1975	Tadeusz Mytnik 34hr 35min 54sec	Hans-Joachim Hartnick @ 2min 15sec	Marian Majkowski @ 2min 33sec	1,496 km	41.62
1976	Janusz Kowalski 35hr 16min 27sec	Jan Brzezny @ 8sec	Hans-Joachim Vogel @ 6min 29sec	1,541 km	42.96
1977	Lechoslav Michalak 35hr 9min 40sec	Tadeusz Skrzypek @ 1min 26sec	Michael Schiffner @ 3min 1sec	1,460 km	41.52
1978	Jan Brzezny 33hr 57min 25sec	Tadeusz Wojtas @ 1min 37sec	Jan Jankiewicz @ 2min 21sec	1,415 km	41.67
1979	Henryk Charucki 33hr 35min 2sec	Janusz Kowalski @ 1min 58sec	Jan Krawczyk @ 2min 46sec	1,335 km	39.78
1980	Czeslaw Lang 30hr 23min 7sec	Tadeusz Wojtas @ 1min 34sec	Jan Jankiewicz @ 1min 35sec	1,291.9 km	42.19
1981	Jan Brzezny 28hr 52min 57sec	Roman Cieslak @ 2min 28sec	Slawomir Podwojniak @ 4min 13sec	1,194.9 km	41.37
1982	Andrzej Mierzejewski 20hr 54min 50sec	Jan Schur @ 15sec	Stanislaw Masiar @ 35sec	891.9 km	42.65
1983	Tadeusz Krawczyk 28hr 13min 9sec	Andrzej Serediuk @ 1min 45sec	Andrzej Mierzejewski @ 2min 3sec	1,147.3 km	40.68
1984	Andrzej Mierzejewski 29hr 5min 17sec	Tadeusz Krawczyk @ 18sec	Tadeusz Piotrowicz @ 1min 26sec	1,222.3 km	42.18
1985	Marek Lesniewski 28hr 59min 32sec	Zdzislaw Wrona @ 1min 23sec	Dariusz Zakrzewski @ 1min 57sec	1,243.5 km	42.89
1986	Marek Kulas 37hr 13min 10sec	Zbiegnew Ludwiniak @ 22sec	Miroslaw Uryga @ 2min 11sec	1,469.8 km	39.49
1987	Zbigniew Piatek 26hr 39min 21sec	Marek Lesniewski @ 7sec	Czeslaw Lukaszewicz @ 15sec	1,162 km	43.59
1988	Andrzej Mierzejewski 22hr 43min 46sec	Arvid Tammesalu @ 41sec	Mieczyslaw Karlowicz @ 1min 23sec	996 km	42.5
1989	Marek Wrona 29hr 49min 24sec	Slawomir Krawczyk @ 13sec	Robert Krzyzostiniak @ 34sec	1,273 km	41.98
1990	Mieczyslaw Karlowicz 29hr 38min 47sec	Grigorij Isczenko @ 24sec	Tomasz Brozyna @ 44sec	1,207 km	40.71
1991	Dariusz Baranowski 28hr 31min 33sec	Mariusz Bilewski @ 52sec	Marek Kaminski @ 58sec	1,067 km	42.91
1992	Dariusz Baranowski 29hr 11min 5sec	Raimondas Rumsas @ 9sec	Igor Pastaukhowicz @ 1min 40sec	1,161 km	39.23
1993	Dariusz Baranowski 41hr 59min 56sec	Marek Lesniewski @ 56sec	Jonas Romanovas @ 1min 17sec	1,792.2 km	42.67
1994	Maurizio Fondriest 27hr 4min 17sec	Marco Lietti @ 3min 31sec	Tomasz Brozyna @ 3min 36sec	1,110 km	41.10
1995	Zbigniew Spruch 29hr 45min 48sec	Fabrizio Guidi @ 55sec	Dariusz Baranowski @ 2min 2sec	1,235.8 km	41.52
1996	Viatcheslav Djavanian 28hr 3min 46sec	Maurizio Fondriest @ 2min 44sec	Andrea Noè @ 5min 18sec	1,185 km	42.26
1997	Rolf Jaermann 33hr 27min 53sec	Zenon Jaskula @ 25sec	Saso Sviben @ 1min 2sec	1,435.5 km	42.895
1998	Serguei Ivanov 34hr 21min 25sec	Jacky Durand @ 2min 26sec	Fabio Malberti @ 3min 10sec	1,443 km	42.00
1999	Tomasz Brozyna 27hr 52min 53sec	Cezary Zamana @ 29sec	Jens Voigt @ 30sec	1,164 km	41.75
2000	Piotr Przydzial 27hr 44min 37sec	Piotr Wadecki @ 7sec	Serguei Ivanov @ 1min 26sec	1,171 km	42.21
2001	Ondrej Sosenka 29hr 56min 58sec	Jens Voigt @ 28sec	Piotr Przydzial @ 1min 59sec	1,273.5	42.52
2002	Laurent Brochard 29hr 38min 21sec	Tomasz Brozyna @ 19sec	Marek Rutkiewicz @ 25sec	1,273.5	42.97
2003	Cezary Zamana 29hr 46min 11sec	Andrea Noè @ 1min 12sec	Dave Bruylandts @ 1min 46sec	1,233 km	41.42
2004	Ondrej Sosenka 29hr 21min 38sec	Hugo Sabido @ 23sec	Franco Pellizotti @ 40sec	1,264.5 km	43.07
2005	Kim Kirchen 32hr 11min 58sec	Pieter Weening @ 5sec	Thomas Dekker @ 11sec	1,220.8 km	39.91
2006	Stefan Schumacher 31hr 9min 41sec	Cadel Evans @ 18sec	Alessandro Ballan @ 31sec	1,221.5 km	39.20
2007	Johan van Summeren 30hr 52min 11sec	Robert Gesink @ 27sec	Kim Kirchen @ 38sec	1,225.5 km	39.67
2008	Jens Voigt 21hr 13min 18sec	Lars Ytting Bak @ 1min 22sec	Franco Pellizotti @ 1min 24sec	861.4 km	40.59
2009	Alessandro Ballan 28hr 46min 13sec	Daniel Moreno @ 10sec	Edvald Boasson Hagen @ 11sec	1,250.1 km	43.451
2010	Daniel Martin 30hr 38min 48sec	Grega Bole @ 8sec	Bauke Mollema @ 10sec	1,256.5 km	41.00
2011	Peter Sagan 26hr 40min 0sec	Daniel Martin @ 6sec	Marco Marcato @ 7sec	1,113.3 km	41.749
2012	Moreno Moser 30hr 15min 49sec	Michal Kwiatkowski @ 5sec	Sergio Henao @ 16sec	1,231.6 km	40.696
2013	Pieter Weening 31hr 58min 7sec	Jon Izaguirre @ 13sec	Christophe Riblon @ 16sec	1,238 km	38.725
2014	Rafał Majka 30hr 16min 18sec	Jon Izaguirre @ 8sec	Benat Intxausti @ 22sec	1,251 km	41.326
2015	Jon Izaguirre 26hr 4min 38sec	Bart de Clercq @ 2sec	Ben Hermans @ 3sec	1,076 km	39.738
2016	Tim Wellens 23hr 47min 23sec	Fabio Felline @ 4min 22sec	Alberto Bettiol @ 4min 54sec	996 km	41.867
2017	Dylan Teuns 27hr 7min 47sec	Rafal Majka @ 2sec	Wout Poels @ 3sec	1,122 km	41.357 km/hr
2018	Michal Kwiatkowski 24hr 23min 54sec	Simon Yates @ 15sec	Thibaut Pinot @ 20sec	1,013.3 km	41.532 km/hr