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Sparkassen Giro Bochum
Race details
Date	Early August
Region	Bochum, Germany
English name	Tour of Bochum
Local name(s)	Sparkassen Giro Bochum (in German)
Discipline	Road
Competition	♂ UCI Europe Tour; ♀ National event
Type	Single-day
Web site	www.sparkassen-giro.de
History
First edition	1998
Editions	♂ 14 (as of 2011); ♀ 15 (as of 2015)
First winner	♂ Jan Ullrich (GER); ♀ Sharon van Essen (NED)
Most recent	♂ Pieter Vanspeybrouck (BEL) ; ♀ Barbara Guarischi (ITA)

The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as 1.1 race.

Men's winners

Year	Country	Rider	Team
1998	Germany	Jan Ullrich	Team Telekom
1999	Germany	Erik Zabel	Team Telekom
2000	Netherlands	Jans Koerts	Farm Frites
2001	Italy	Gianluca Bortolami	Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola
2002	Belgium	Frédéric Amorison	Lotto–Adecco
2003	Germany	Rolf Aldag	Team Telekom
2004	Germany	David Kopp	Team Lamonta
2005	Czech Republic	Lubor Tesař	Akud-Arnolds Sicherheit
2006	Germany	Jens Voigt	Team CSC
2007	Belgium	Andy Cappelle	Landbouwkrediet–Tönissteiner
2008	Germany	Eric Baumann	Team Sparkasse
2009	Great Britain	Mark Cavendish	Team Columbia–HTC
2010	Netherlands	Niki Terpstra	Team Milram
2011	Belgium	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator
2012	Germany	Marcel Sieberg	Lotto–Belisol
2013		-	-
2014	Germany	Marcel Sieberg	Lotto–Belisol
2015	Germany	Marcel Sieberg	Lotto–Soudal
2016	Germany	Marcel Sieberg	Lotto–Soudal
2017	Germany	Marcus Burghardt	Bora–Hansgrohe

Women's winners

From 2004 through to 2011 the event ran as a UCI 1.1 (old UCI rating of 1.9.2 in 2004), becoming a national event in 2012. In 2013 the event returned as a 1.1 rated event, being upgraded to UCI Women's World Cup (CDM) rating for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. For 2016 and 2017, the event again ran as a national event.

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2001	Netherlands	Sharon van Essen
2002	Netherlands	Bertine Spijkerman
2003	Russia	Svetlana Bubnenkova
2004	United States	Deirdre Demet-Barry
2005	Germany	Angela Hennig
2006	Australia	Oenone Wood	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung
2007	Germany	Hanka Kupfernagel	RC Charlottenburg Berlin
2008	Netherlands	Suzanne de Goede
2009	Australia	Rochelle Gilmore
2010	Netherlands	Ellen van Dijk	Team HTC–Columbia Women
2011	Netherlands	Adrie Visser
2012	Germany	Mieke Kröger
2013	Luxembourg	Christine Majerus
2014	Netherlands	Marianne Vos	Rabo–Liv
2015	Italy	Barbara Guarischi	Velocio–SRAM
2016	Netherlands	Kirsten Peetoom
2017	Netherlands	Belle de Gast	-