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The Manx Trophy or Isle of Man International Road Race was a bicycle road race run annually on the Isle of Man. In the 1960s the race attracted the world's top professional cyclists including Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. The race was a feature of the Isle of Man cycling festival, an annual event which ran from 1936 to 2003 and was started by journalist and cycling enthusiast Curwen Clague. The first festival included a massed-start road race (a rarity in mainland Britain at the time but allowed in the Isle of Man, a self-governing crown dependency) which featured the top riders of the day. Despite closed roads the race saw many crashes and only a few riders finished. The first winner was Charles Holland of Birmingham, later one of the first two Englishmen to ride the Tour de France. The first event involved riders racing a single lap of the famous TT circuit of 37.75 miles. The course runs from Douglas to Ramsey then climbs for five miles to a high point on the mountain of Snaefell at 1,384 feet before descending to Douglas. The distance was later increased to two and then three laps (113 miles). ==Winners (not a complete list)== *1936 Charles Holland *1937 Jack Fancourt *1938 Pierre Chazaud *1939 Bill Messer *1940-1945 - no event - *1946 Jean Baldessari *1947 Jean Baldessari *1948 Alan W Barnes *1956 Ercole Baldini *1957-1958 *1959 Seamus Elliott *1960 André Darrigade *1961 Jo de Roo *1962 Rudi Altig *1963 Tom Simpson *1964 Seamus Elliott *1965 Jacques Anquetil *1966 Wim Schepers *1967 Tom Simpson *1968 Arthur Metcalfe *1969 Jan Harings *1970 Barry Hoban *1975 (Bill Nickson) (GBR) *1971 (Bernard Bourreau) (FRA) *1972-1977 *1978 Steve Lawrence *1979 Steve Joughin (Manx Road Club) *1980 John Herety *1982 Joe Waugh *1983 Hans Reis *1984 Mark Walsham *1985 Paul Curran *1986 Brian Fowler *1987 Darryl Webster *1988 Paul Curran *1989 Wayne Randle *1990 Tim Hall (Liverpool Mercury CC) *1991 Christophe Mengin *1992 David Hourigan *1993 Brian Smith *1994 Simeon Hempsall *1995 Robert Millar (run as the British professional road race championship) *1996 David McCann *1997 Christophe Morel *1998 John Tanner *1999 David Millar *2000 Julian Winn *2001 Matthew Stephens *2002 David McCann *2003 Mark Lovatt 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manx Trophy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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