New Zealand Cycle Classic 2012

New Zealand Cycle Classic 2012
Racing series	UCI Oceania Tour  -  Category 2.2
Host country	New Zealand
Competition period	25-29 January 2012
Stages	5
overall length	535.6 km
Starting field	105 drivers from 6 nations in 21 teams (95 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Jay McCarthy 12:32:53 h 2. Darren Lapthorne + 0:09 min 3. Campbell Flakemore + 1:17 min
Team evaluation	Team Jayco-AIS 37:41:57 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Jay McCarthy
Mountain scoring	Joseph Cooper
Sprint scoring	Patrick Bevin
Young talent evaluation	Jay McCarthy
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The 25th New Zealand Cycle Classic (previous year Tour of Wellington ) took place from January 25th to 29th, 2012 in the Manawatu District , New Zealand . The bike race was held in five stages over a distance of 535.6 kilometers. It belonged to the UCI Oceania Tour 2012 and was classified there in category 2.2 . This made the New Zealand Cycle Classic the largest cycle race in New Zealand in 2012.

The overall winner and at the same time the winner of the U-23 classification of the largest New Zealand cycling race was the Australian Jay McCarthy from Team Jayco-AIS ahead of his compatriots Darren Lapthorne ( Drapac Cycling ) and Campbell Flakemore from Genesys Wealth Advisers , who had won the prologue time trial. McCarthy and Lapthorne had brought a successful escape attempt to the end on the second stage, McCarthy won the section, but Lapthorne secured the yellow jersey, which McCarthy was able to take from him as second on the penultimate stage thanks to the time credit and thus secured the tour victory. In the overall standings there was an Australian triple success, but the New Zealand hosts secured the mountain classification with Joseph Cooper and the sprint classification with Patrick Bevin . The team competition was won by McCarthy's team Jayco-AIS.

Participating teams

Invitations received four UCI Continental teams from the Oceania area - including the New Zealand team Subway Pro Cycling - as well as a New Zealand national team. The Team Type 1-Sanofi team , as a Professional Continental Team, was the top-class participating team. There were also fifteen amateur teams from Australia and New Zealand at the start.

UCI Professional Continental Team Team Type 1-Sanofi
UCI Continental Teams Drapac Cycling Genesys Wealth Advisers	Team Jayco-AIS Subway Pro Cycling
National teams  New Zealand
Others Suzuki Trek Team GPM Wilson Racing Hudson Gavin Martin	Armstrong Motor Group Pelorus Real Estate Team Eleven
Ricoh team Unique reality Expert team	Mico Protrain Cycling Team Team benchmark Team Massey	Wheelworks Racing RBS Morgans-ATS Tait Communications

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	January 25th	Palmerston North Individual Time Trial	7.1		Campbell Flakemore	Campbell Flakemore
2.	January 26th	Palmerston North - Apiti - Palmerston North	143		Jay McCarthy	Darren Lapthorne
3.	January 27th	Palmerston North - Apiti - Palmerston North	163.5		Sam Bewley
4th	January 28th	Palmerston North	111		Thomas Palmer	Jay McCarthy
5.	January 29th	Palmerston North circuit	111		Aaron Gate

See also

• Manawatu-Wanganui

Web links

• The 2012 New Zealand Cycle Classic, Manawatu, 25-29 January 2012 . In: Cycle Tour NZ . Jorge Sandoval MNZM, January 2012, archived from the original onFebruary 24, 212; accessed on May 8, 2018(English, original website no longer available).