Circuit d'Alger 2012

Circuit d'Alger 2012
Host country	Algeria
Competition period	March 16, 2012
overall length	105 km
Starting field	97 drivers from 13 nations in 20 teams (41 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Ioannis Tamouridis 2:45:38 h 2. Aron Debretsion Baranceal same time 3. Ismail Ayoune + 0:14 min
Team evaluation	SP Tableware 8:21:30 h
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The 2nd Circuit d'Alger (officially: Circuit International d'Alger ) took place on March 16, 2012 in the Algerian capital, Algiers . The one-day race was part of the UCI Africa Tour 2012 in category 1.2 and formed the conclusion of the Tour d'Algérie that had ended two days earlier , but in which it was not part of the overall standings. The first eight riders received points for the ranking of the Africa Tour.

The race started at the Palace of Culture in Algiers , where the finish line was. The drivers had to complete a total of ten laps of 10.5 kilometers each on the course, which also had a few small climbs.

The Circuit d'Alger was finally won by the Greek Ioannis Tamouridis , who defeated the Eritrean Aron Debretsion Baranceal in a sprint. The other drivers were already a bit behind the top two. Moroccan Ismail Ayoune finished third, 14 seconds behind.

Attendees

At the start were the same teams and drivers as before in the Tour d'Algérie , including national teams from Morocco , Turkey , Tunisia , Libya and Eritrea as well as the Algerian Continental Teams Groupement Sportif Pétrolier Algérie , Geofco-Ville d'Alger , Olympique Team Algérie and Vélo Club Sovac Algérie . From Europe, the Latvian team Rietumu-Delfin , the Danish team Concordia Forsikring-Himmerland and SP Tableware from Greece took part in the race. The Profiline team came from Germany , which featured seven Germans in the starting field at the start of the Algeria tour, two of whom eventually finished the Circuit d'Alger.

Continental teams Groupement Sportif Pétrolier Algérie Geofco-Ville d'Alger Rietumu dolphin

Olympique team Team Concordia Forsikring-Himmerland VC Sovac Algérie SP tableware

Club teams Didelot sport Parisi's Athlétic Club Team Profiline Uzbekistan Suren team

Refero Cycling Team Team Wilton Rhône-Alpes team Team Greens

National teams Morocco Eritrea Turkey Tunisia Libya

Result

	driver	nation	team	time	Points Africa Tour
1.	Ioannis Tamouridis (¢ 38.036 km / h)		SP tableware	2:45:38 h	40
2.	Aron Debretsion Baranceal		National team of Eritrea	same time	30th
3.	Ismail Ayoune		Morocco national team	+ 0:14 min	16
4th	Andris Smirnovs		Rietumu dolphin	+ 0:41 min	12
5.	Adil Jelloul		Morocco national team	+ 1:41 min	10
6th	Artem Topchanyuk		SP tableware	+ 1:45 min	8th
7th	Armands Bēcis		Rietumu dolphin	+ 2:48 min	6th
8th.	Mouhssine Lahsaïn		Morocco national team	+ 2:49 min	3

Web links

• Official road book of the Tour d'Algérie and the Circuit d'Alger 2012 to download (PDF; 2.3 MB)
• Results of the race on the official website of the UCI Africa Tour
• Results list of the organizer for download (PDF; 628 kB)