Tour de Kumano

The Tour de Kumano (ツール・ド・熊野, Tsūru do Kumano) is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Mie Prefecture, Japan, named after Kumano. It was first run in 2006 at the amateur level,^{[citation needed]} and moved to the professional level in 2008, when included into the UCI Asia Tour and classified as a 2.2 category race.

Tour de Kumano

Race details
Date	May
Region	Shingū, Kumano, and Taiji, Japan
Local name(s)	ツール・ド・熊野
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Asia Tour 2.2
Type	Stage race
Web site	www.tourdekumano.jp
History
First edition	2006 (2006)
Editions	18 (as of 2025)
First winner	Tomoya Kano (JPN)
Most wins	Fortunato Baliani (ITA)  Atsushi Oka (JPN) (2 wins)
Most recent	Mark Stewart (GBR)

Past winners

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2006	Japan	Tomoya Kano
2007	Japan	Kazuhiro Mori	Aisan Racing Team
2008	Japan	Miyataka Shimizu	Meitan Hompo-GDR
2009	Kazakhstan	Valentin Iglinsky	Kazakhstan national team
2010	Kazakhstan	Andrey Mizurov	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2011	Italy	Fortunato Baliani	D'Angelo & Antenucci–Nippo
2012	Italy	Fortunato Baliani	Team Nippo
2013	Colombia	Julián Arredondo	Team Nippo–De Rosa
2014	Spain	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling
2015	Spain	Benjamín Prades	Matrix Powertag
2016	Spain	Óscar Pujol	Team Ukyo
2017	Spain	José Vicente Toribio	Matrix Powertag
2018	Netherlands	Marc de Maar	Team Ukyo
2019	Venezuela	Orluis Aular	Matrix Powertag
2020– 2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan[1]
2022	Australia	Nathan Earle	Team Ukyo
2023	Japan	Atsushi Oka	JCL Team Ukyo
2024	Japan	Atsushi Oka	JCL Team Ukyo
2025	Great Britain	Mark Stewart	Team Solution Tech–Vini Fantini