Tour de junior

The Tour de Junior, is an annual bicycle race in Achterveld, Netherlands.

The oldest youth tour of Holland, it is ridden by the rules of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie.

The Tour de Junior was ridden for the first time in 1958, making it the oldest youthtour of Holland.

Nowadays the Youthtour Assen is a bigger event than the Tour de Junior, with more participants.

[2] The Tour de Junior has had a lot of participants that became professional cyclists, including but not limited to Hennie Kuiper, Michael Boogerd, Hennie Stamsnijder, Erik Dekker and Nicole Cooke In 2011 Michael Boogerd went to the 54th Tour de Junior and gave the first starting shot.

[3] The tour is organised by a union connected with the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie.