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 through 2019 and on the UCI ProSeries since 2022. It was scheduled to become part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020, but both the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Race details | |
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Date | February |
Region | Oman |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI ProSeries |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | Amaury Sport Organisation |
Race director | Eddy Merckx[1] |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 2010 |
Editions | 13 (as of 2024) |
First winner | Fabian Cancellara (SUI) |
Most wins | Chris Froome (GBR) Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) (2 wins each) |
Most recent | Adam Yates (GBR) |
History
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 and 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]
Past winners
General classification
Wins per country
Wins | Country |
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3 | Great Britain |
2 | Kazakhstan |
1 | Belgium Czech Republic Italy Netherlands Slovakia Spain Switzerland United States |
Points classification
Young rider classification
Active rider classification
Team classification
Classifications
As of the 2022 edition, the jerseys worn by the leaders of the individual classifications are:
References
External links
- Official website
- Tour of Oman palmares at Cycling Archives
- Statistics at the-sports.org
- Stages at www.cyclingstage.com
- Tour of Oman at cqranking.com