Tour of Qinghai Lake

The Tour of Qinghai Lake is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in the Qinghai province of China since 2002 and is named after Qinghai Lake.^[1] The race is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.HC race as part of the UCI Asia Tour.^[2] The race was to become part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020, although the event in 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 and 2022 events were held as a class 2.2 race with all domestic teams due to the international travel restrictions during the pandemic. The race returned to the UCI ProSeries in 2023.^[3]

Tour of Qinghai Lake

Race details
Date	July
Region	Qinghai Province, China
Local name(s)	环青海湖国际公路自行车赛 (in Chinese)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI ProSeries
Type	Stage race
Organiser	Chinese Cycling Association
Web site	www.tdql.cn
History
First edition	2002 (2002)
Editions	22 (as of 2024)
First winner	Tom Danielson (USA)
Most wins	No repeat winners
Most recent	Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda (ECU)

Past winners

General classification

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2002	United States	Tom Danielson	Mercury Cycling Team
2003	Italy	Damiano Cunego	Italy (national team)
2004	South Africa	Ryan Cox	Barloworld
2005	Czech Republic	Martin Mareš	eD'system - ZVVZ
2006	Netherlands	Maarten Tjallingii	Skil–Shimano
2007	Italy	Gabriele Missaglia	Diquigiovanni–Selle Italia
2008	United States	Tyler Hamilton	Rock Racing
2009	Kazakhstan	Andrey Mizurov	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2010	Iran	Hossein Askari	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2011	Slovenia	Gregor Gazvoda	Perutnina Ptuj
2012	Iran	Hossein Alizadeh	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2013	Iran	Samad Pourseyedi	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
2014[a]	Ukraine	Mykhaylo Kononenko	Kolss Cycling Team
2015	Croatia	Radoslav Rogina	Adria Mobil
2016	Ukraine	Sergiy Lagkuti	Kolss BDC Team
2017	Venezuela	Jonathan Monsalve	Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team
2018	Colombia	Hernán Aguirre	Team Manzana Postobón
2019	Colombia	Robinson Chalapud	Medellín
2020	No race
2021	China	Zhang Zhishan	Tianyoude Hotel Cycling Team
2022	China	Liu Jiankun	Pingtan International Tourism Island Cycling Team
2023	Eritrea	Henok Mulubrhan	Green Project–Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè
2024	Ecuador	Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda	Caja Rural–Seguros RGA

Notes

1. The initial winner of the 2014 edition, Kazakhstan's Ilya Davidenok (Continental Team Astana), was disqualified for failing a doping test.^[4]