- International Tour de Toona
International Tour de Toona Local name: Tour de 'Toona Region: USA ,Pennsylvania Date: Late July Type: Stage Race History First Edition: 1987 Number of Editions: 22 First Winner: Greg Yoder Most Wins Male: Two times Scott Moninger, Scott Mercier, Greg Yoder Most Wins Female: Three times Lyne Bessette The International Tour de Toona is a stage bicycle race held in Central
Pennsylvania each July. The International Tour de Toona bicycle race started as a one day race and was initially called the Tour de Toona because it was based inAltoona, Pennsylvania . The current event has become the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and has stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset Counties inPennsylvania . The name was changed to The International for the 2002 edition of the race and then to the International Tour de Toona for the 2004 edition.In 2008, tour organizers scaled back the event to a one day criterium race in downtown Altoona. According to organizers, this "strategic downsizing" will allow the Tour to come back stronger for the 2009 event. [http://www.tourdetoona.com/home/main/index.htm]
Winners
*2008 (Only one day of racing - Altoona Intown Criterium);;Male::Luis Amaran (Cuba)
Team Cloavita/Sutter Home ;;Female::Laura Van Gilder (USA)Cheerwine Cycling
*2007 [http://www.tourdetoona.com/results/main/index.htm] ;;Male;;;Overall Winner:::Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net-Maxxis;;;Stage 1 - Team Time Trial:::Health Net-Maxxis ;;;Stage 2:::Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net-Maxxis;;;Stage 3:::Ben Brooks (USA)Navigator Insurance Cycling Team ;;;Stage 4:::Michael Friedman (USA)Team Slipstream ;;;Stage 5:::Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net-Maxxis;;;Stage 6:::Taylor Tolleson (USA)Team Slipstream ;;;Stage 7:::Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net-Maxxis;;Female;;;Overall Winner:::Kristin Armstrong (USA)TEAm Lipton ;;;Stage 1 - Team Time Trial:::Webcor Builders ;;;Stage 2:::Alison Powers (USA) Colavita/ Sutter Home;;;Stage 3:::Kori Seehafer (USA)TEAm Lipton ;;;Stage 4:::Laura Van Gilder (USA) UCI WPT Cheerwine ;;;Stage 5:::Lauren Franges (USA)TEAm Lipton ;;;Stage 6:::Kristin Armstrong (USA)TEAm Lipton ;;;Stage 7:::Laura Van Gilder (USA) UCI WPT Cheerwine
*2006 (July 24-30);;Male ;;;Stage 1:::Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net-Maxxis ;;;Stage 2:::Friedick Mariano (USA) Toyota-United ;;;Stage 3:::Frank Pipp (USA) TargetTraining;;;Stage 4:::Juan José Haedo (ARG) Toyota-United ;;Female;;;Stage 1:::Alison Powers (USA) Advil-Chapstick;;;Stage 2:::Tina Mayolo-Pic (USA) Colavita Cooking Light ;;;Stage 3:::Kristin Armstrong (USA)TEAm Lipton ;;;Stage 4:::Tina Mayolo-Pic (USA) Colavita Cooking Light*2005
**Male -Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net-Maxxis
**Female -Geneviève Jeanson (Can) The Bicycle Store
*2004
**Male -John Lieswyn (USA) Health Net-Maxxis
**Female -Lyne Bessette (Can) Quark Cycling Team
*2003
**Male -Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn Cycling Team
**Female - Lyne Bessette (Can) Saturn Cycling Team
*2002
**Male -Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance
**Female -Heather Albert (USA) Goldy's
*2001
**Male -Harm Jansen (Ned) Saturn Cycling Team
**Female - Geneviève Jeanson (Can) RONA
*2000
**Male - Gord Fraser (Can) Mercury
**Female - Lyne Bessette (Can) Saturn Cycling Team
*1999
**Male - David Clinger (USA) Mercury
**Female - Anke Erlank (RSA) Timex
*1998
**Male - Charles Dionne (Can) Radio-Energie
**Female - Kendra Wenzel (USA) Saeco Timex
*1997
**Male - Norman Alvis (USA) Saturn Cycling Team
**Female - Dede Demet (USA) Saturn Cycling Team
*1996
**Male - Scott Mercier (USA) Saturn Cycling Team
**Female - Linda Jackson (Can) Timex-Cannondale
*1995
**Male - Mike Englemann (USA) Team Shaklee
**Female - Phyllis Hines (USA) Montgomery-Bell
*1994
**Male - Scott Moninger (USA) Coors Light Team
**Female - Brooke Blackwelder (USA) Body Wise Team
*1993
**Male - Scott Mercier (USA) Turin/ACT/Fat City Cycles
**Female - Eve Stephenson (USA) US National Road Race Team
*1992
**Male - Graeme Miller (NZl) BRBC
**Female - Karen Bliss-Livingston (USA) Worlds Team
*1991
**Male - Brian McDonough (USA) Gotham Cyclists
**Female - Linda Brenneman (USA) TGI Friday's
*1990
**Male - Julian Dalby (Ire) Toga Club
**Female - Bunki Bankaitis-Davis (USA) US National Team
*1989
**Male - Greg Yoder (USA) Laurel Mountain Velo Club
**Female - Susan DiBiase (USA) Laurel Mountain Velo Club
*1988
**Male - Gunter Shrogen (USA)
*1987
**Male - Greg Yoder (USA)External links
* [http://www.tourdetoona.com/ International Tour de Toona event website]
* [http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2005/jul05/toona05/default Coverage of 2005 event on Cycling News]
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