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The race:
The Tour of Hainan is a men's professional stage race that is held in Hainan Province, China. Hainan is the southernmost province of China, the main part of which is Hainan island in the South China Sea.
The Tour of Hainan currently (2015) has nine stages and is part of the UCI Asia Tour.
The UCI gave it a 2.1 ranking in 2007 and elevated it to HC in 2009.
The 2026 distance and average speed reflects the shortened third stage, information missing from many sites.
Complete podium history:
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
| 2006 | Sergey Kolesnikov 19hr 52min 53sec |
Satoshi Hirose @ 16sec |
Yoshiyuki Abe @ s.t. |
862 km | 43.356 |
| 2007 | Robert Radosz 26hr 40min 48sec |
Roman Klimov @ 28sec |
Pascal Hungerbühler @ 33sec |
1087.5 km | 40.760 |
| 2008 | Boris Shpilevsky 29hr 57min 4sec |
David McCann @ 1min 14sec |
Blazej Janiaczyk @ 1min 26sec |
1260 km | 42.068 |
| 2009 | Francisco Ventoso 32hr 53min 22sec |
Grega Bole @ 17sec |
Vitaliy Buts @ 27sec |
1425.6 km | 43.345 |
| 2010 | Valentin Iglinskiy 26hr 49min 23sec |
Johnnie Walker @ 17sec |
Alexei Markov @ 18sec |
1203.5 km | 44.868 |
| 2011 | Valentin Iglinskiy 34hr 2min 42sec |
Reinhardt Janse Van Rensburg @ 13sec |
Alexander Schmidt @ 20sec |
1452.3 km | 42.658 |
| 2012 | Dmitry Gruzdev 34hr 12min 33sec |
Valentin Iglinskiy @ 17sec |
Tobias Ludvigsson @ 26sec |
1456.4 km | 42.573 |
| 2013 | Moreno Hofland 33hr 44min 0sec |
Frédéric Amorison @ 1min 7sec |
Tom Leezer @ 1min 14sec |
1432.8 km | 42.47 |
| 2014 | Julien Antomarchi 35hr 2min 0sec |
Niccolo Bonifazio @ 22sec |
Andrei Zeits @ 25sec |
1458.3 km | 41.626 |
| 2015 | Sacha Modolo 35hr 26min 51sec |
Andrei Zeits @ 9sec |
Julien El Fares @ 12sec |
1476.5 km | 41.66 |
| 2016 | Alexey Lutsenko 35hr 16min 41sec |
Przemyslaw Niemiec @ 17sec |
Matej Mohoric @ 44sec |
1,454.8 km | 41.238 |
| 2017 | Jacopo Mosca 36hr 41min 27sec |
Benjamin Prades @ 3sec |
Emils Liepins @ 5sec |
1,571.2 km | 42.82 km/hr |
| 2018 | Fausto Masnada 35hr 27min 21sec |
Gino Mader @ 2sec |
Julien El Fares @ 10sec |
1,481.4 km | 41.782 km/hr |
| 2019- 2022 |
Race not held | ||||
| 2023 | Oscar Sevilla 18hr 2min 59sec |
Sebastian Berwick @ 1sec |
James Piccoli @ 8sec |
781.1 km | |
| 2024 | Aaron Gate 18hr 33min 57sec |
Henok Melubrhan @ 30sec |
Fililppo Magli @ 33sec |
810.5 km | |
| 2025 | Kyrylo Tsarenko 19hr 28min 45sec |
Cristian Railleanu @ 4sec |
Aaron Gate @ 40sec |
854.64 km | |
| 2026 | Thomas Silva 20hr 0min 18sec |
Xabier Berasategi @ 10sec |
Thomas Pasenti @ s.t. |
872.0 km | 43.589 km/hr |
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