Tour du Finistère (1.1), France
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The race:
The Tour du Finistère is a single-day road race held annually in April around the city of Quimper in Brittany, France. Quimper is the capital of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwest France.
Originally a race just for amateurs, it was opened to professionals in 2000 with a 1.5 rank and in 2005 the UCI classed it as a 1.1 professional cycling competition.
It was first organized in 1986 and is currently (2014) part of both the UCI Europe Tour and the Coupe de France race series.
Since it has been a professional race, only Julien Simon has been able to win it twice.
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Complete professional podium history:
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
| 2000 | Sébastien Hinault 4hr 48min 38sec |
Jean-Cyril Robin @ s.t. |
Anthony Langella @ 2sec |
194 km | 40.328 |
| 2001 | Franck Renier 4hr 58min 48sec |
Jean-Cyril Robin @ 20sec |
Xavier Jan @ s.t. |
198.8 km | 39.920 |
| 2002 | David Bernabeu 4hr 34min 43sec |
Johan Coenen @ 1min 14sec |
Eddy Lembo @ s.t. |
188.4 km | 41.48 |
| 2003 | Nicolas Fritsch 3hr 39min 12sec |
Yoann Le Boulanger @ 1min 9sec |
Julien Laidoun @ s.t. |
154.7 km | 42.345 |
| 2004 | Daniele Balestri 4hr 14min 48sec |
Mickaël Buffaz @ 23sec |
Bert Scheirlinckx @ s.t. |
166.9 km | 39.301 |
| 2005 | Simon Gerrans 4hr 18min 27sec |
David Moncoutié @ s.t. |
Yury Trofimov @ s.t. |
175.3 km | 40.696 |
| 2006 | Sergey Kolesnikov 4hr 34min 34sec |
Pierrick Fedrigo @ 46sec |
Mikel Gastañaga @ 47sec |
188 km | 41.083 |
| 2007 | Niels Brouzes 4hr 20min 19sec |
Yann Huguet @ s.t. |
Andrey Klyuev @ s.t. |
188 km | 43.331 |
| 2008 | David Le Lay 4hr 30min 2sec |
Aleksejs Saramotins @ 7sec |
Rémi Pauriol @ s.t. |
189.5 km | 42.106 |
| 2009 | Dimitri Champion 4hr 28min 7sec |
Pierrick Fedrigo @ 6sec |
Anthony Geslin @ 14sec |
199.3 km | 44.600 |
| 2010 | Florian Vachon 4hr 46min 24sec |
Leonardo Duque @ s.t. |
Cédric Pineau @ s.t. |
189.5 km | 41.753 |
| 2011 | Romain Feillu 4hr 13min 52sec |
Armindo Fonseca @ 1sec |
Sandy Casar @ sec |
186.1 km | 43.984 |
| 2012 | Julien Simon 4hr 14min 35sec |
Samuel Dumoulin @ s.t. |
Jonathan McEvoy @ s.t. |
185.4 km | 43.695 |
| 2013 | Cyril Gautier 4hr 42min 20sec |
Frederik Veuchelen @ s.t. |
Anthony Geslin @ 3sec |
187.4 km | 39.825 |
| 2014 | Antoine Demoitie 4hr 48min 22sec |
Julien Simon @ s.t. |
Armindo Fonseca @ s.t. |
193.2 km | 40.199 |
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| 2015 | Tim de Troyer 4hr 48min 42sec |
Jérôme Baugnies @ 9sec |
Julien Simon @ s.t. |
189.2 km | 39.321 |
| 2016 | Baptiste Planckaert 4hr 34min 55sec |
Samuel Dumoulin @ s.t. |
Alexandre Geniez @ s.t. |
192.9 km | 41.100 km/hr |
| 2017 | Julien Loubet 4hr 48min 38sec |
Julien Simon @ 2sec |
Pierre-Roger Latour @ s.t. |
194.8 km | 40.494 km/hr |
| 2018 | Jonathan Hivert 4hr 43min 4sec |
Romain Bardet @ s.t. |
Guillaume Martin @ s.t. |
190.5 km | 40.379 km/hr |
| 2019 | Julien Simon 4hr 42min 2sec |
Andrea Vendrame @ s.t. |
Baptiste Planckaert @ s.t. |
187.5 km | 39.889 km/hr |
| 2020 | Race cancelled because of Coronavirus pandemic | ||||
| 2021 | Benoît Cosnefroy 4hr 58min 43sec |
Sean De Bie @ s.t. |
Rasmus Tiller @ s.t. |
196.3 km | 39.429 km/hr |
| 2022 | Julien Simon 4hr 39min 42sec |
Clément Venturini @ 2sec |
Sandy Dujardin @ 3sec |
193.3 km | 41.466 km/hr |
| 2023 | Paul Penhoët 4hr 46min 22sec |
Sandy Dujardin @ s.t. |
Axel Zingle @ s.t. |
193.3 km | 41.501 km/hr |
| 2024 | Benoît Cosnefroy 4hr 55min 42sec |
Corbin Strong @ s.t. |
Rudy Molard @ s.t. |
199.9 km | 40.561 km/hr |
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