UCI Asia Tour | |
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Race details | |
Stages | 13 |
Distance | 2,022 km (1,256 mi) |
Results | |
The 2015 Tour of Qinghai Lake is the 14th edition [1] of an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Qinghai Province, China since 2002, named after Qinghai Lake. The race is run at the highest category (apart from those races which make up the UCI World Tour, and is rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race as part of the UCI Asia Tour. [2]
The Tour of Qinghai Lake is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in the Qinghai province of China since 2002, named after Qinghai Lake. The race is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.HC race as part of the UCI Asia Tour.
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously and race to set finish point; and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively.
In sports, a stage, or leg, or heat, is a unit of a race which has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages are held as an individual time trial or a team time trial. Long races such as the Tour de France, Absa Cape Epic or the Giro d'Italia are known for their stages of one day each, whereas the boat sailing VELUX 5 Oceans Race is broken down in usually four stages of several weeks duration each, where the competitors are racing continuously day and night. In bicycling and running events, a race with stages is known as a stage race.
Stage | Date | Route | Distance | Winner | Team |
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Stage 1 | 5 July | Xining – Xining | 121 km (75 mi) | Adria Mobil | |
Stage 2 | 6 July | Duoba – Datong | 188 km (117 mi) | Adria Mobil | |
Stage 3 | 7 July | Xining – Qinghai Lake | 148 km (92 mi) | Kolss BDC Team | |
Stage 4 | 8 July | Qinghai Lake – Gangcha | 185 km (115 mi) | RusVelo | |
Stage 5 | 9 July | Xihaizhen – Gonghe | 133 km (83 mi) | Adria Mobil | |
Stage 6 | 10 July | Gongche – Guide | 138 km (86 mi) | Adria Mobil | |
Stage 7 | 11 July | Guide – Xunhua | 190 km (118 mi) | Lampre-Merida | |
Stage 8 | 12 July | Xunhua – Linxia | 126 km (78 mi) | Amore & Vita - Selle SMP | |
Stage 9 | 13 July | Linxiai – Dingxi | 203 km (126 mi) | Adria Mobil | |
14 July | Rest day | ||||
Stage 10 | 15 July | Tianshui – Tianshui | 100 km (62 mi) | Amore & Vita - Selle SMP | |
Stage 11 | 16 July | Tianshui – Pingliang | 235 km (146 mi) | Amore & Vita - Selle SMP | |
Stage 12 | 17 July | Zhongwei – Zhongwei | 120 km (75 mi) | Adria Mobil | |
Stage 13 | 18 July | Shuitonggou – Yinchuan | 135 km (84 mi) | Amore & Vita - Selle SMP |
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