Tour de Timor 2012
The Tour de Timor 2012 was the fourth edition of the annual mountain bike race in East Timor . It took place from September 11th to 16th and ran under the motto "Peace begins with me".
Before the actual race, on September 8, 2012, a ride for peace with 500 East Timorese children took place. The Tour de Timor started on September 10th in Tasitolu (Dili). The first stage led 104 kilometers along the coast from the state capital Dili to the west through the districts of Liquiçá and Bobonaro to the border town of Mota'ain . The next day the tour crossed the Indonesian West Timor to the East Timorese exclave Oe-Cusse Ambeno , where the stage ended after 92 kilometers in the district capital Pante Macassar . On September 12th, a 78-kilometer circuit was driven through the mountains of Oe-Cusse Ambeno, past the places Baqui , Bobometo , Passabe , Nitibe and Lifau . From sea level it went up to 902 m . The next day it went from Pante Macassar back to Mota'ain on a 92-kilometer route through Indonesia. On September 14th, the next stage led 115 kilometers to Gleno through the sub-districts of Maliana , Cailaco and Hatulia . It went up to 1384 m . On the last day, we drove 75 kilometers through the northwest of the Aileu district back to Dili, where the race ended at the presidential palace.
Around 300 drivers took part, 96 of them from East Timor. The winner was the Malaysian Shahrin Amir for the men, Peta Mullens for the women and the Australian Jarrod Hughes “King of the Mountains” . The winners received US $ 10,000 in prize money. The best drivers from East Timor, António Martens for the men and Francelina Cabral for the women , received $ 3,000 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tour de Timor - Race Track 2012 ( Memento from November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Asia One news: E. Timor cycle tour recalls memories of occupation , September 10, 2012 , accessed on September 29, 2012
- ↑ Shahrin Amir the first Malaysian to win Tour de Timor , accessed 29. September 2012
