Tour of Oman
Race details | |
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Date | February |
Region | Oman |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Asia Tour 2.HC |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | Amaury Sport Organisation |
Race director | Eddy Merckx[1] |
History | |
First edition | 2010 |
Editions | 5 (as of 2014) |
First winner | Fabian Cancellara (SUI) |
Most wins | Chris Froome (GBR) (2 wins) |
Most recent | Rafael Valls (ESP) |
The Tour of Oman is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Oman since 2010 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. The race is classified as a 2.HC (as of 2012). The race is organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation, and was held for the first time between 14 and 19 February 2010.[2] The race is a men's competition consisting of six stages. The race contains mainly flat stages, with some hillier parts.
During the race, the leader of the General Classification wears a red jersey, the leader of sprinter's points classification is denoted by a green jersey and best young rider by white. The race does not contain a mountains jersey. The most aggressive rider wears a white jersey with green and red polka-dots.
The inaugural edition of the race in 2010, consisted of 6 stages, beginning with a 16-lap criterium in Muscat Corniche and ending with an 18.6 km time trial, also in Muscat.[3] Fabian Cancellara won this event after coming second in the final time trial to Edvald Boasson Hagen.[4]
Contents
Past winners
General classification
Points classification
Young rider classification
Aggressive rider classification
Team classification
Year | Based | Team |
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2010 | Team HTC–Columbia | |
2011 | Leopard Trek | |
2012 | RadioShack–Nissan | |
2013 | BMC Racing Team | |
2014 | Team Sky | |
2015 | BMC Racing Team |
References
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- Official website
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- Statistics at the-sports.org
- Stages at www.cyclingstage.com
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- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/riders-and-teams-praise-solidarity-at-tour-of-oman
- ↑ Abt, Simon "Tour of Oman Bicycle Race Will Give Riders a Gradual Start to Season" New York Times 2010-01-14
- ↑ Farrand, Stephen "Inaugural Tour of Oman favours time trialists" http://cyclingnews.com 2010-01-28
- ↑ Turner, Jonathan "Boasson Hagen lands finale" Sky Sports 2010-02-19