List of road bicycle racing events
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This is a list of important road bicycle racing events. Note that this list only includes road races, and no track, mountain or cyclo-cross races.
Championships
- Continental Championships (from 2005 on)
- National Championships
- National Championships ITT
- Olympic Road Race
- Olympic ITT
- World Championship
- World Championship ITT
One Day Races
- Amstel Gold Race, -- NED
- Brabantse Pijl, -- BEL
- Clasica San Sebastian, -- SPA
- Coppa Placci, -- ITA
- E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, -- BEL
- La Flèche Wallonne, -- BEL
- Gent-Wevelgem, -- BEL
- Giro del Piemonte, -- ITA
- Giro del Veneto, -- ITA
- Giro dell'Emilia, -- ITA
- Giro di Lazio, -- ITA
- Giro di Lombardia, -- ITA
- GP Aargau - Gippingen, -- SUI
- GP Fourmies, -- FRA
- GP Plouay - Ouest France, -- FRA
- HEW Cyclassics Hamburg, -- GER
- Japan Cup - Utsunomiya, -- JPN
- Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, -- BEL
- Liège-Bastogne-Liège, -- BEL
- Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic, -- AUS
- Milan-San Remo, -- ITA
- Milano-Torino, -- ITA
- Omloop "Het Volk", -- BEL
- Paris-Brussels, -- FRA, -- BEL
- Paris-Tours, -- FRA
- Paris-Roubaix, -- FRA
- Team Time Trial Eindhoven, -- NED
- T-Mobile International, -- USA
- Ronde van Vlaanderen, -- BEL
- Rund um den Henninger Turm, -- GER
- Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen, -- BEL
- Tre Valli Varesine, -- ITA
- USPRO Championships, -- USA
- Veenendaal-Veenendaal, -- NED
- Zuri Metzgete, -- SUI
Disappeared
(year is last edition)
- Bordeaux-Paris, -- FRA (1988)
- Classique des Alpes, -- FRA (2004)
- GP des Amériques, -- CAN, (1992)
- Grand Prix des Nations, -- FRA (2004)
- GP Lugano, -- SUI, (1979)
- GP Wolber, -- FRA, (1931)
- Paris-Brest-Paris, -- FRA, (1951) (continues as an amateur ultra-marathon endurance event)
- Paris-Clermont-Ferrand, -- FRA, (1953)
- Paris-Rouen (first cycling race), -- FRA, (1869)
- Trofeo Baracchi, -- ITA, (1991)
- Wincanton Classic, -- GBR, (1997)
Stage Races
- Bayern Rundfahrt, -- GER
- Benelux Tour, -- NED, -- BEL, -- LUX
- Critérium International, -- FRA
- Danmark Rundt, -- DNK
- Critérium de Dauphiné Libéré, -- FRA
- Deutschland Rundfahrt, -- GER
- Driedaagse van De Panne - Koksijde, -- BEL
- Euskal Bizikleta - Bicicleta Vasca, -- SPA
- Giro d'Italia, -- ITA
- Herald Sun Tour, -- AUS
- Internationale Friedensfahrt "Course de la Paix" (Peace Race), -- POL, -- CZE, -- GER
- Österreich-Rundfahrt, -- AUT
- Paris-Nice, -- FRA
- Quatre Jours de Dunkerque, -- FRA
- Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme (Catalan Cycling Week), -- SPA
- Tirreno-Adriatico, -- ITA
- Tour de France, -- FRA
- Tour de Langkawi, -- MAS
- Tour de la Région Wallonne, -- BEL
- Tour de l'Avenir, -- FRA
- Tour de Luxembourg, -- LUX
- Tour de Pologne, -- POL
- Tour de Romandie, -- SUI
- Tour de Suisse, -- SUI
- Tour Down Under, -- AUS
- Tour of Britain, -- GBR
- Tour of Qinghai lake, -- PRC
- Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, -- SPA
- Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos, -- SPA
- Vuelta a España, -- SPA
- Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko txirrindulari itzulia (Tour of Basque Country), -- SPA
Disappeared
(year is last edition)
- Coors Classic, -- USA, (1988)
- GP du Midi Libre, later Tour du Languedoc-Rousillon, -- FRA (2004)
- Petit Tour de France/Ronde de France ('little Tour de France' during and shortly after WW2), -- FRA, (1946)
- Rome-Naples-Rome, -- ITA, (1961)
- Ronde van Nederland, -- NED (2004)
- Tour de l'Aude, -- FRA, (1986)
- Tour de Snowy, -- AUS (2002)
- Tour de Trump, -- USA, (1990)
- Tour DuPont, -- USA, (1996)
Multiple day, single stage races
- Race Across America, -- USA 9 day single stage 3000 miles (4830 km)