Tour du Faso 2011

Tour du Faso 2011
Host country	Burkina Faso
Competition period	October 21-30, 2011
Stages	10
overall length	1279.7 km
Starting field	90 drivers in 16 teams (59 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Hamidou Zidweiba 31:29:43 h 2. Martinien Tega + 0:25 min 3. Rasmane Ouédraogo + 0:45 min
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Hamidou Zidweiba
Young talent evaluation	Hamidou Zidweiba
Integration rating	Martinien Tega
Best African	Hamidou Zidweiba
Best Burkinabe	Hamidou Zidweiba
Most combative driver	Abdou Aziz Nikiéma
Sprint scoring	Abdelbasset Hannachi
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The 25th Tour du Faso took place from October 21 to 30, 2011 in Burkina Faso . The most important cycle race in Africa was held in ten stages over a distance of 1,280 kilometers. It was part of the UCI Africa Tour 2012 and was classified in category 2.2 .

Overall winner of the stage race was the Burkinabe Hamidou Zidweiba , who was able to relegate the Cameroonian Martinien Tega to second place with a 25-second lead. The podium was completed by Zidweiba's compatriot Rasmane Ouédraogo .

Participating teams

A total of 16 teams from Africa and Europe were at the start. For the first time since 1996 a German delegation took part in the race with the "RV Trier - Germany". The team that had been set up by the "Department of Tomorrow" was accompanied by a film team. The 90-minute film Tour du Faso , which was made about the Tour du Faso 2011, was released in German cinemas in 2014.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	October 21	Laye - Ouahigouya	145.6	Salfo Bikienga	Salfo Bikienga
2.	October 22nd	Yako - Ziniaire	141.5	Azzedine Lagab
3.	23rd October	Linonghin - Tenkodogo	143.3	Abdelmalek Madani	Hamidou Zidweiba
4th	October 24th	Tenkodogo - Zorgho	74.5	Julien Tomasi
5.	October 25	Kokologho - Boromo	128.5	Azzedine Lagab
6th	October 26th	Boromo - Bobo Dioulasso	170.8	Heinrich Berger
7th	October 27	Bobo-Dioulasso - Banfora	83.5	Youcef Reguigui
8th.	28th of October	Bobo-Dioulasso - Pâ	124.8	Rasmane Ouédraogo
9.	October 29th	Boromo - Koudougou	153	Bouke Kuiper
10.	30th of October	Saponé - Ouagadougou	153	Malween Bodin

See also

• Burkina Faso

Web links

• Official website of the Tour du Faso
• Website of the German team at the Tour du Faso 2011
• Results on the UCI Africa Tour website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The stages of the tour on the website of the department of tomorrow