Tour de Toona - NE

Altoona, USA, August 1-6, 2000

Stage List

Stage 1 - August 1: Altoona ITT, 2.5 mi/4 km
Stage 2 - August 2: Johnstown Circuit Road Race, 73 mi/118 km
Stage 3 - August 3: Holidaysburg Circuit Road Race, 60.3 mi/97k km
Stage 4 - August 4: Martinsburg Circuit Road Race, 80.4 mi/128 km
Stage 5 - August 5: Jaffa Mosque Road Race, 95 mi/152 km
Stage 6 - August 6: Downtown Altoona Criterium

Preview

By John Alsedek, cyclingnews.com correspondent

Situated right in the center of Pennsylvania, the city of Altoona- a working-class community with its roots in the railroad industry - would seem a rather incongruous place for a national-calibre cycling event. Yet, over the past decade, the six-day Tour de 'Toona has evolved into not just one of America's top stage races (in fact, it may become a UCI-sanctioned event in 2001), but also one with a most singular distinction: the men and women compete for the same amount of prize money (about $40,000 each), and do so on the same courses; in comparison to many events, where the women's races are far shorter, the distances raced by the women are the same as the men. However, in the 2000 edition of the Tour de 'Toona, the similarities ended there, as the two races unfolded in distinctly different ways.

Past Winners

1992 Graeme Miller (NZl)
1994 Scott Moninger (USA)
1995 Mike Englemann (USA)
1996 Scott Mercier (USA)
1997 Norman Alvis (USA)
1998 Charles Dionne (Can) (Elite)
1999 David Clinger (USA)

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin