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Tour de Berne is an elite professional
road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The ...
event held in
Bern Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ...
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Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
with races for men and women.


Men's event

The men's event began in 1920 and has previously been a UCI 1.2 rated event on the
UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for sports cycling and ove ...
.


Women's event

The women's Tour de Berne is an elite professional event and since 2005 has been elevated to the UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup. The race is six laps of a city circuit for total distance.


Past winners


References


External links

* {{UCI Women's Road World Cup Sport in Bern Cycle races in Switzerland Women's road bicycle races UCI Women's Road World Cup UCI Europe Tour races Recurring sporting events established in 1921 1921 establishments in Switzerland Recurring sporting events established in 2001 2001 establishments in Switzerland