Tour du Maroc
Race details
DateEarly March
RegionMorocco
English nameTour of Morocco
DisciplineRoad race
CompetitionUCI Africa Tour
TypeStage race
Web sitewww.marocainecyclisme.com
History
First edition1937 (1937)
Editions43 (as of 2022)
First winner Mariano Cañardo (ESP)
Most wins Mohamed El Gourch (MAR) (3 wins)
Most recent Laurent Évrard (BEL)

Tour du Maroc is the most important road bicycle race in the African state of Morocco.[1] The editions 1957–1993 were reserved to amateurs. Since 2006, it is organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Africa Tour.[2]

Winners

Year Country Rider Team
1937  Spain Mariano Cañardo France Sport–Dunlop
1938  Spain Mariano Cañardo France Sport–Dunlop
1939  France Oreste Bernardoni Terrot–Hutchinson
1940–1948 No race
1949  France André Brulé Chaplait–Hutchinson
1950  Italy Olimpio Bizzi Guerra
1951  France Attilio Redolfi Mercier–Hutchinson
1952  Italy Franco Giacchero Bianchi–Pirelli
1953  Belgium Hilaire Couvreur Terrot–Hutchinson
1954   Switzerland Marcel Huber
1955  Belgium Jan Adriaensens
1956 No race
1957  France Francis Anastasi
1958 No race
1959  Belgium André Bar
1960  Morocco Mohamed El Gourch
1961–1963 No race
1964  Morocco Mohamed El Gourch
1965  Morocco Mohamed El Gourch
1966 No race
1967  Sweden Gösta Pettersson
1968  Sweden Curt Söderlund
1969   Switzerland Walter Bürki
1970 No race
1971  France Claude Magni
1972  Soviet Union Valery Likhachov
1973 No race
1974  Soviet Union Andris Jacobson
1975 No race
1976  Soviet Union Viktor Bantchenkov
1977–1980 No race
1981  Czechoslovakia Ladislav Ferebauer
1982 No race
1983  Germany Andreas Petermann
1984 No race
1985  Soviet Union Marat Ganeyev
1986 No race
1987  Soviet Union Artūras Kasputis
1988–1992 No race
1993  France Régis Simon
1994–2000 No race
2001  New Zealand Nathan Dahlberg Marco Polo Cycling Club
2002–2003 No race
2004  South Africa Jeremy Maartens South Africa (national team)
2005 No race
2006  Slovakia Ján Šipeky Dukla Trenčín
2007  South Africa Nicholas White South Africa (national team)
2008  Russia Alexey Shchebelin Cinelli–OPD
2009  Kazakhstan Alexandr Dymovskikh Brisaspor
2010  Slovenia Dean Podgornik Loborika
2011  Morocco Mouhssine Lahsaini Morocco (national team A)
2012  South Africa Reinardt Janse van Rensburg MTN–Qhubeka
2013  France Mathieu Perget CMI–Greenover
2014  France Julien Loubet GSC Blagnac
2015  Poland Tomasz Marczyński Torku Şekerspor
2016  Germany Stefan Schumacher Christina Jewelry Pro Cycling
2017  Morocco Anass Aït El Abdia Morocco (national team)
2018  France David Rivière Vendée U–Pays de la Loire
2019  Belgium Laurent Évrard Sovac
2020-2022 No race

References

  1. "Tour du Maroc". FirstCycling.com. 2022.
  2. "Tour du Maroc (Mar) - Ex". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
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