Tour du Maroc 2012

Tour du Maroc 2012
Racing series	UCI Africa Tour  -  Category 2.2
Host country	Morocco
Competition period	March 23 - April 1, 2012
Stages	ten stages
overall length	1550 km
Starting field	128 drivers from 16 nations in 23 teams (93 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg 34:27:36 h 2. Adil Jelloul + 0:39 min 3. Ivailo Gabrovski + 0:41 min
Team evaluation	Morocco national team 103: 22: 34
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
Scoring	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
Mountain scoring	Volodymyr Bileka
Young talent evaluation	Soufiane Haddi
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The 25th Tour du Maroc (German: Tour of Morocco ) took place from March 23rd to April 1st, 2012. The cycle race was held in ten stages over a distance of 1,550 kilometers and crossed around 500 municipalities and eight of the sixteen regions of Morocco ( Tanger-Tétouan , Taza-Al Hoceïma-Taounate , Fès-Boulemane , Meknès-Tafilalet , Souss-Massa-Draâ , Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz , Doukala-Abda , Grand Casablanca ). 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 and winner of the points classification was the South African Reinardt Janse van Rensburg ( MTN Qhubeka ). He won with 39 seconds ahead of second placed Adil Jelloul from Morocco , who had finished second in the Tour d'Algérie a few weeks earlier , and the Bulgarian Ivailo Gabrovski from the Konya Torku Şeker Spor-Vivelo team .

Attendees

At the start were national teams from Africa, but also African and European continental teams and amateur teams . Teams from Paraguay or Japan were even invited. Originally the German Continental Team Specialized Concept Store and the German amateur team Team Roadsign were also supposed to take part. However, both were unloaded a few days before the start of the tour because there were too few places in the hotels for all drivers and attendants.

Continental teams MTN Qhubeka Groupement Sportif Pétrolier Algérie Bridgestone anchor Konya Torku Start Cycling Team-Atacama Geofco-Ville d'Alger VC Sovac Algérie

National teams Morocco Eritrea Slovakia Rwanda Tunisia Libya

Club teams Vélo Sport Hyerois CMI / The Trilogy Group Willibrord Wil Voorruit Regional Moulay Rchid Maroc Velo 29 Vankru OTR Others Regional selection Northern Morocco Regional rail selection Morocco

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Overall leader
1.	March 23	Tangier - Tetouan	130		Reinardt Janse van Rensburg	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
2.	March 24th	Ouezzane - Fez	150		Tarik Chaoufi
3.	25th March	Fez - Khénifra	152		Arran Brown
4th	26th of March	Khénifra - Midelt	144		Arran Brown
5.	27th of March	Midelt - Errachidia	126		Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
6th	28th March	Errachidia - Tinerhir	137		Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
7th	March 29	Tinghir - Ouarzazate	170		Tarik Chaoufi
8th.	March 30	Ouarzazate - Marrakech	190		Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
9.	March 31	Marrakech - El Jadida	179		Arran Brown
10.	April 1st	El Jadida - Casablanca	120		Arran Brown

Web links

• Official website of the race

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team Specialized from the Tour of Morocco downloaded from radsport-news.com