Tour of Oman

Race details
Date	February
Region	Oman
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI ProSeries
Type	Stage race
Organiser	Amaury Sport Organisation
Race director	Eddy Merckx[1]
Web site	www.tour-of-oman.com
History
First edition	2010 (2010)
Editions	12 (as of 2023)
First winner	Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
Most wins	Chris Froome (GBR)  Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) (2 wins each)
Most recent	Matteo Jorgenson (USA)

Tour of Oman banner on a lighting pole in Nakhl, Oman on February 21, 2014

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.

History

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]

Past winners

General classification

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2010	Switzerland	Fabian Cancellara	Team Saxo Bank
2011	Netherlands	Robert Gesink	Rabobank
2012	Slovakia	Peter Velits	Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2013	Great Britain	Chris Froome	Team Sky
2014	Great Britain	Chris Froome	Team Sky
2015	Spain	Rafael Valls	Lampre–Merida
2016	Italy	Vincenzo Nibali	Astana
2017	Belgium	Ben Hermans	BMC Racing Team
2018	Kazakhstan	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana
2019	Kazakhstan	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana
2020	No race due to a national mourning period following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said[5]
2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Czech Republic	Jan Hirt	Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux
2023	United States	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar Team

Wins per country

Wins	Country
2	Great Britain  Kazakhstan
1	Belgium  Czech Republic  Italy  Netherlands}  Slovakia}  Spain   Switzerland}  United States

Points classification

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2010	Norway	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team Sky
2011	Norway	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team Sky
2012	Slovakia	Peter Sagan	Liquigas–Cannondale
2013	Great Britain	Chris Froome	Team Sky
2014	Germany	André Greipel	Lotto–Belisol
2015	Italy	Andrea Guardini	Astana
2016	Norway	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team Dimension Data
2017	Norway	Alexander Kristoff	Team Katusha–Alpecin
2018	Australia	Nathan Haas	Team Katusha–Alpecin
2019	Kazakhstan	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana
2020	No race due to a national mourning period following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said
2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Colombia	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates
2023	United States	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar Team

Young rider classification

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2010	Norway	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team Sky
2011	Netherlands	Robert Gesink	Rabobank
2012	France	Tony Gallopin	RadioShack–Nissan
2013	France	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ
2014	France	Romain Bardet	Ag2r–La Mondiale
2015	South Africa	Louis Meintjes	MTN–Qhubeka
2016	Australia	Brendan Canty	Drapac Professional Cycling
2017	Eritrea	Merhawi Kudus	Team Dimension Data
2018	Colombia	Miguel Ángel López	Astana
2019	France	Élie Gesbert	Arkéa–Samsic
2020	No race due to a national mourning period following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said
2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Denmark	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
2023	United States	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar Team

Aggressive rider classification

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2010	Latvia	Gatis Smukulis	Ag2r–La Mondiale
2011	Slovenia	Marko Kump	Geox–TMC
2012	Belgium	Klaas Lodewyck	BMC Racing Team
2013	Netherlands	Bobbie Traksel	Champion System
2014	Belgium	Preben Van Hecke	Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2015	Belgium	Jef Van Meirhaeghe	Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2016	South Africa	Jacques Janse van Rensburg	Team Dimension Data
2017	Belgium	Aimé De Gendt	Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2018	France	Loïc Chetout	Cofidis
2019	Belgium	Preben Van Hecke	Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2020	No race due to a national mourning period following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said
2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Spain	Peio Goikoetxea	Euskaltel–Euskadi
2023	Norway	Fredrik Dversnes	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

Team classification

Year	Based	Team
2010		Team HTC–Columbia
2011		Leopard Trek
2012		RadioShack–Nissan
2013		BMC Racing Team
2014		Team Sky
2015		BMC Racing Team
2016		Team Dimension Data
2017		Team Dimension Data
2018		Astana
2019		Astana
2020–2021	No race
2022		Arkéa–Samsic
2023		Bora–Hansgrohe

Classifications

As of the 2022 edition, the jerseys worn by the leaders of the individual classifications are:

• Red Jersey – Worn by the leader of the general classification.
• Green Jersey – Worn by the leader of the points classification.
• Gold Jersey – Worn by the most active rider.
• White Jersey – Worn by the best rider under 23 years of age on the overall classification.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tour of Oman.

• 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