The Sachsen Tour was a

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held in the region of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

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. It was first held in 1985 and wasorganised as a 2.1 event on the

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from 2005 until its final edition in 2009. Between 1985 and 1995 it was an amateur race. It was typically held over 5 stages, running through all of Saxony, including flat stages as well as mountain stages in the

Ore Mountains The Ore Mountains (, or ; ) lie along the Czech–German border, separating the historical regions of Bohemia in the Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany. The highest peaks are the Klínovec in the Czech Republic (German: ''Keilberg'') at ab ...

Winners

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