Tour de Picardie

Infobox Cycling race
name = Tour de Picardie


date = Mid May
region = Picardy, France
english = Tour of Picardy
localnames = Tour de Picardie fr icon
nickname =
discipline = Road
competition = UCI Europe Tour
type = Stage race
organiser =
director =
first = 1936
number = 61 (as of 2007)
last =
firstwinner = flagicon|FRA Marcel Blanchon
mostwins =
mostrecent = flagicon|ZAF Robert Hunter

The Tour de Picardie is a professional multi-stage cycle road race held annually in Picardy, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

The race was called Tour de l'Oise between 1936 and 1999, to became Tour de Picardie et de l’Oise in 1999 and Tour de Picardie from 2000 to the present day. Between 1946 and 1965 there was another race also called Tour de Picardie(or Grand Prix du Courrier Picard).

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External links

* [http://www.letour.fr/2007/TDO/LIVE/fr/300/index.html Official 2007 site fr icon]
* [http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/etapes/eta_td_picardie.php Tour de Picardie/Tour de l'Oise results memoire-du-cyclisme.netfr icon]
* [http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/disparues/anc_td_picardie.php Tour de Picardie (1953-1964) results by memoire-du-cyclisme.netfr icon]