Five Rings of Moscow

The Five Rings of Moscow is an annual multi-day road cycling race that takes place in Moscow in early May. It is considered the successor of the bicycle race on the Garden Ring , first held in 1920. In 1993, the race became international, currently included in the second category stage race (class 2.2) of the UCI Europe Tour ^[1] .

Five Rings of Moscow
Race info
Discipline	Highway
Founded	1993 year
Racing	23 (2015) (per year)
Location	Moscow
Type of	Many days
Time spending	Early may
Organizer	Fvrs
Record winners
Recordman	Andrey Pchyolkin Ivan Terenin Sergey Firsanov all 2

Cyclists on the Garden Ring (2009)

As the name implies, the routes of all stages of the race are rings. Over the years, these were: a ring around the Kremlin (“Kremlin Ring”), an Olympic track ring in Krylatskoye (“Krylatskoe Ring”), a Garden Ring , a ring on the Sparrow Hills (“Sparrow Ring”), a ring along the Luzhnetskaya Embankment (“The Luzhnets Ring ").

The first stage is the prologue, an individual race with a separate start. The remaining stages are group races with a massive start. The last stage - the Garden Ring, traditionally held on May 9, Victory Day .

By analogy with the “ Tour de France ” and other major races, on the “Five Rings” color jerseys are presented: yellow - leader's jersey, purple - the most stable rider's jersey, etc.

In 2016, the race was not held. In 2017, the race returned without the classical stage of the Garden Ring.