Tour d'Algérie 2012

Tour d'Algérie 2012
Racing series	UCI Africa Tour  -  Category 2.2
Host country	Algeria
Competition period	March 10-14, 2012
Stages	five stages
overall length	655 km
Starting field	111 drivers from 13 nations in 20 teams (78 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Natnael Berhane 18:26:32 h 2. Adil Jelloul + 0:24 min 3. Joaquín Sobrino + 0:30 min
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Natnael Berhane
Scoring	Joaquín Sobrino
Mountain scoring	Issak Tesfom Okubamariam
Young talent evaluation	Natnael Berhane
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The 19th Tour d'Algérie (German: Algeria Tour ) took place from March 10th to 14th, 2012. Two days later, the Circuit d'Alger was the end of the tour, but it was no longer part of the overall ranking. The bike race was held in five stages over a distance of 655 kilometers. It was part of the UCI Africa Tour 2012 and was classified in category 2.2 . The first eight drivers in the overall ranking and the first three of each stage as well as those wearing the yellow jersey of the overall leader received points for the Africa ranking list after each stage.

The overall winner of the stage race was Eritrean Natnael Berhane (national team Eritrea), who also took the lead in the individual ranking of the UCI Africa Tour. He won with a margin of 24 seconds on the runner-up Adil Jelloul from Morocco and the Spaniard Joaquín Sobrino from the SP Tableware team , who won the points classification.

Attendees

At the start were 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 and included seven Germans in the starting field.

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

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	March 10th	Alger - Ain Defla	156		Lars Andersson	Lars Andersson
2.	March 11	Chlef - Mostaganem	147		Joaquín Sobrino
3.	March 12th	Oran - Sidi Bel Abass	167		Natnael Berhane	Joaquín Sobrino
4th	March 13th	Oran - Santa Cruz	138		Issak Tesfom Okubamariam	Natnael Berhane
5.	the 14th of March	Oran - Oran	140		Azzedine Lagab

See also

• Circuit d'Alger 2012
• Algeria

Web links

• Results on the UCI Africa Tour website
• Results on live-radsport.ch
• Official website of the race
• Official road book of the race to download (PDF; 2.3 MB)