Tour of Qatar

Qatari multi-day road cycling race

Tour of Qatar

Race details
Date| January–February
Region| Qatar
Discipline| Road
Type| Stage race
Organiser| Amaury Sport Organisation
Web site| www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTQA.html
History
First edition| 2002 (2002)
Editions| 15 (as of 2016)
First winner|  Thorsten Wilhelms (GER)
Most wins|  Tom Boonen (BEL) (4 wins)
Most recent|  Mark Cavendish (GBR)

The Tour of Qatar was an annual professional cycling stage race held in Qatar. First organized in 2002, the event was part of the UCI Asia Tour until 2016. The 2017 edition was to have seen the event upgraded to the UCI World Tour for the first time,[1][2] but it was cancelled due to lack of sponsorship support.[3]

The event consisted of a men's competition over five stages, and, since 2009, a women's competition over four stages – held a week before the men's race. Because Qatar is entirely flat, the tour was almost always won by a sprinter or classics specialist. Belgian Tom Boonen and Dutchwoman Kirsten Wild hold the record with four overall wins, in the men's and ladies' competition respectively.

## Men's past winners[edit]

### General classification[edit]

Tom Boonen (pictured at the 2012 Tour of Qatar) holds a record 4 overall wins and 22 stage wins. Year  | Country  | Rider  | Team

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2002 |  Germany | Thorsten Wilhelms | Team Coast
2003 |  Italy | Alberto Loddo | Lampre
2004 |  South Africa | Robert Hunter | Rabobank
2005 |  Denmark | Lars Michaelsen | Team CSC
2006 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step–Innergetic
2007 |  Belgium | Wilfried Cretskens | Quick-Step–Innergetic
2008 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step
2009 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step
2010 |  Netherlands | Wouter Mol | Vacansoleil
2011 |  Australia | Mark Renshaw | HTC–Highroad
2012 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2013 |  Great Britain | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2014 |  Netherlands | Niki Terpstra | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015 |  Netherlands | Niki Terpstra | Etixx–Quick-Step
2016 |  Great Britain | Mark Cavendish | Team Dimension Data

### Points classification[edit]

Year  | Country  | Rider  | Team

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2002 |  Germany | Thorsten Wilhelms | Team Coast
2003 |  Italy | Alberto Loddo | Lampre
2004 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step–Davitamon
2005 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step–Innergetic
2006 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step–Innergetic
2007 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step–Innergetic
2008 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step
2009 |  Germany | Heinrich Haussler | Cervélo TestTeam
2010 |  Germany | Heinrich Haussler | Cervélo TestTeam
2011 |  Australia | Heinrich Haussler[N 1] | Garmin–Cervélo
2012 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2013 |  Great Britain | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2014 |  Belgium | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015 |  Norway | Alexander Kristoff | Team Katusha
2016 |  Norway | Alexander Kristoff | Team Katusha

### Stage wins[edit]

Rider  | Country  | Stages

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Tom Boonen |  Belgium | 22
Mark Cavendish |  United Kingdom | 9
Alexander Kristoff |  Norway | 6
Alberto Loddo |  Italy | 3
Francesco Chicchi |  Italy | 2
Arnaud Démare |  France | 2
Heinrich Haussler |  Australia
Germany | 2
Robert Hunter |  South Africa | 2
Niki Terpstra |  Netherlands | 2
Thorsten Wilhelms |  Germany | 2

## Ladies' past winners[edit]

Ladies Tour of Qatar

Race details
Date| February
Region| Qatar
Discipline| Road
Type| Stage race
Organiser| Amaury Sport Organisation
Web site| www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTQA.html
History
First edition| 2009 (2009)
Editions| 8 (as of 2016)
First winner|  Kirsten Wild (NED)
Most wins|  Kirsten Wild (NED) (4 wins)
Most recent|  Trixi Worrack (GER)
Eddy Merckx presenting Ellen van Dijk with the gold leader's jersey after the first stage of the 2015 Ladies Tour of Qatar.

### General classification[edit]

Year  | Country  | Rider  | Team

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2009 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Cervélo TestTeam
2010 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Cervélo TestTeam
2011 |  Netherlands | Ellen van Dijk | HTC–Highroad Women
2012 |  Germany | Judith Arndt | GreenEDGE–AIS
2013 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Argos–Shimano
2014 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Giant–Shimano
2015 |  Great Britain | Lizzie Armitstead | Boels–Dolmans
2016 |  Germany | Trixi Worrack | Canyon–SRAM

### Points classification[edit]

Year  | Country  | Rider  | Team

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2009 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Cervélo TestTeam
2010 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Cervélo TestTeam
2011 |  Netherlands | Ellen van Dijk | HTC–Highroad Women
2012 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Netherlands (national team)
2013 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Argos–Shimano
2014 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Giant–Shimano
2015 |  Great Britain | Lizzie Armitstead | Boels–Dolmans
2016 |  Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Team Hitec Products

## 2017 Cancellation[edit]

The 2017 Tour of Qatar was scheduled to take place between 6 and 10 February 2017. However, in December 2016, the event was cancelled due to lack of sponsorship support.[5][6] It would have been the 16th edition of the race and third event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.[7] It was included in the UCI World Tour calendar for the first time.[1][2]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Haussler announced he would give up his German citizenship and would ride for Australia in the future.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "UCI expands WorldTour to 37 events". Cycling News. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
2. ^ a b "The UCI reveals expanded UCI WorldTour calendar for 2017". UCI. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
3. ^ "UCI statement on Tour of Qatar". www.uci.ch. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016.
4. ^ "TestTeam — News — Heinrich Haussler will race for Australia in the future — Cervélo". Cervelo.com. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
5. ^ "UCI statement on Tour of Qatar". UCI. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
6. ^ "Tour of Qatar and Ladies Tour of Qatar cancelled". Cycling News. 28 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
7. ^ "Tour of Qatar: 2017 edition of race is cancelled over lack of sponsorship". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 December 2016.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tour of Qatar (Men).

* Tour of Qatar palmares at Cycling Archives
* Statistics at the-sports.org
* Tour of Qatar at cqranking.com

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