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| Dates | 14–19 February | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 875 km (543.7 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 21h 32' 02" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2012 Tour of Oman was the third edition of the Tour of Oman cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour, and was held from 14 to 19 February 2012, in Oman.
Contents
- Teams
- Stages
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
- Stage 5
- Stage 6
- Classification leadership
- References
- External links
The race was won by Slovakia's Peter Velits, [1] of the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step team, taking the race lead on the penultimate day and holding it to the finish. Velits' winning margin over runner-up Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas–Cannondale) – winner of the race's queen stage to Jabal al Akhdar – was just one second, [2] after Nibali tried to gain bonus seconds at one of the final day's intermediate sprints but could not gain time. [1] The final place on the podium went to RadioShack–Nissan's Tony Gallopin, sixteen seconds behind Nibali and 17 seconds down on Velits. [3] In the race's other classifications, Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale won the points classification on the final stage, [3] Gallopin won the white jersey for the youth classification with his third place overall in the general classification, [3] BMC Racing Team's Klaas Lodewyck won the combative classification for the race's intermediate sprints, [3] and RadioShack–Nissan finished at the head of the teams classification. [3]
