History
The race was first run yearly from 1985 to 1988 and, after a break of 7 years, from 1995 onwards. The 2012 race is being run from 22 to 26 August. It attracts approximately half a million spectators on the road, and half the Danish population follow it in the media.
In 2004 it was won by Kurt Asle Arvesen, after his Team CSC team mate Jens Voigt let him win an intermediate sprint, so Arvesen finished 2 seconds ahead in the overall classification. In 2005 Ivan Basso of Team CSC, coming off the 2005 Tour de France as the overall runner-up, totally dominated the race, and won overall as well as 4 out of 6 stages. Since the race was run at the same time as the UCI ProTour race Eneco Tour of Benelux, only three UCI ProTour teams participated.
In 2006, the race was won by Fabian Cancellara of CSC ahead of Stuart O'Grady, also of CSC and in 2007 Kurt Asle Arvesen returned to win for the second time, being the first in history to do so, and giving Team CSC its 4th consecutive win. In 2008 Jakob Fuglsang from Team Designa Køkken became the first Dane to win since 2002 and in 2009 he became the first to win the race two years in a row. He won the race once again in 2010, being succeeded by Australian rider Simon Gerrans in 2011.
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