Tour de Hokkaido

Tour de Hokkaido
Race details
Date	September
Region	Hokkaido, Japan
English name	Tour of Hokkaido
Local name(s)	ツール・ド・北海道 (in Japanese)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Asia Tour 2.2
Type	Stage race
Organiser	Tour de Hokkaido Association
Web site	www.tour-de-hokkaido.or.jp
History
First edition	1987
Editions	33 (as of 2022)
First winner	Matsuyoshi Takahashi (JPN)
Most wins	Daisuke Imanaka (JPN) (3 wins)
Most recent	Yusuke Kadota (JPN)

The Tour de Hokkaido is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hokkaido, Japan since 1987 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race.

The event for 2018 was canceled due to the earthquake which occurred the day before the race. In 2020 and 2021, the race was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2023, a traffic accident that caused the death of a participant forced the interruption of the 1st stage in midway and the cancellation of the following stages of the event.^[1]^[2]

Past winners

General classification

Year	Country	Rider	Team
1987	Japan	Matsuyoshi Takahashi
1988	Japan	Kazuya Hashizume
1989	Japan	Kazuo Ohishi
1990	Japan	Daisuke Imanaka
1991	Japan	Daisuke Imanaka
1992	Ireland	Stephen Spratt
1993	Japan	Daisuke Imanaka
1994	Japan	Naoshi Ono
1995	Italy	Andrea Giudotti
1996	Canada	Eric Wohlberg
1997	Italy	Michele Colleoni
1998	Japan	Hideto Yukinari
1999	Japan	Ken Hashikawa
2000	Canada	Eric Wohlberg	Shaklee
2001	Ireland	David McCann	Ceresit–CCC–Mat
2002	Italy	Simone Mori	Jura Suisse
2003	Japan	Satoshi Hirose	Nippon Hodo
2004	Hong Kong	Wong Kam-po	Sumita Ravanello Pi
2005	Italy	Eddy Ratti	Team Nippo
2006	Japan	Taiji Nishitani	Aisan Racing Team
2007	Germany	Henri Werner	Team Sachsen
2008	Japan	Takashi Miyazawa	Meitan Hompo-GDR
2009	Japan	Takashi Miyazawa	EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design
2010	Japan	Miyataka Shimizu	Bridgestone–Anchor
2011	Colombia	Miguel Ángel Rubiano	D'Angelo & Antenucci–Nippo
2012	Argentina	Maximiliano Richeze	Team Nippo
2013	France	Thomas Lebas	Bridgestone–Anchor
2014	Australia	Joshua Prete	Team Budget Forklifts
2015	Italy	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Nippo–Vini Fantini
2016	Japan	Nariyuki Masuda	Utsunomiya Blitzen
2017	Spain	Marcos García	Kinan Cycling Team
2018	No race due to 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake
2019	Italy	Filippo Zaccanti	Nippo–Vini Fantini–Faizanè
2020	No race due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	No race due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Japan	Yusuke Kadota	EF Education–Nippo Development Team
2023	No race due to fatal accident in Stage 1