Tour of Romania

The Tour of Romania (or "Little Loop") is a cycling competition held in Romania. It is organised as 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour. The tour is organized by the Romanian Cycling Federation.

History
Inspired by Tour de France, the monthly publication "Car Magazine" held in August 1910 the first edition of "Circuit Wallachia". The competition took 12 riders at the start on the route Bucharest–Sinaia–Târgoviște–Butimanu–Bucharest (approximately 300 km). The race lasted for three editions. Since 1934 the newspaper "Daily Sport", in collaboration with Romanian Cycling Federation has organized the Tour of Romania. Romania became the sixth country in the world to organize a National Amateur Cycling Tour, after Belgium (1906), Netherlands (1909), Bulgaria (1924), Hungary (1925) and Poland (1928).

The route of first edition was 1026 km long and included six stages.

Statistics

 * The longest route was the 3rd edition in 1936 at 2242 km.
 * The shortest route was 430 km, in the 29th edition of 1991.
 * At the 19th edition of 1973, Cluj, a stage was held nocturnal on the 27.3 km distance.
 * Rider Traian Chicomban of Brașov participated in the January edition (1934) until the 9th edition (1954), as the Tour's longest-running participation of Romania.
 * 45th edition (2008) was the first edition which was featured in the calendar Union Cycliste Internationale.

Classifications
The jerseys worn by the leaders of the individual classifications are:
 * Jersey yellow.svg Yellow Jersey – Worn by the leader of the general classification.
 * Jersey granate.svg Red Jersey – Worn by the leader of the points classification.
 * Jersey green.svg Green Jersey – Worn by the leader of the climber classification.
 * Jersey white.svg White Jersey – Worn by the best rider under 23 years of age on the overall classification.
 * Jersey blue Epic Series.svg Blue Jersey – Worn by the best Romanian rider of the overall classification.