Tour of Almaty

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Tour of Almaty
First run 2013
Period October
country KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan
Type One-day race (2013-2016)
Stage race (2017-)
Data
Events 7th
Last winner Yuri Natarov KazakhstanKazakhstan
Record winner Alexei Lutsenko 4x KazakhstanKazakhstan

The Tour of Almaty is a cycling - day races that year in the largest Kazakh city of Almaty takes place. The competition will be held in October and, when it was held for the first time in 2013, was part of the UCI Asia Tour in category 1.2 . In 2014 the race was upgraded to category 1.1 . The race director is Alexander Antischewa . The local Maxim Iglinski won the first edition.

After numerous international successes by Kazakh cyclists, such as the Olympic victory of Alexander Vinokurov in London in 2012 and in the run-up to the Asian cycling championships in Kazakhstan in 2014 and the junior track cycling world championships in Astana planned for 2015, the Tour of Almaty was the first international road Launched a cycling competition in the country, which was presented to the public in February 2013. The course of the first edition led the drivers over a round course with a length of 31 kilometers to be completed six times through the urban area of ​​the former capital of the country. The race was broadcast live on television by the broadcaster Eurosport 2 , including in Germany . Some of the country's top local drivers - especially from the Astana Pro Team , which was not eligible to compete as a team in the first international division - took part in the jersey of a national team that also won the premiere thanks to Iglinski.

In 2017 it was held as a stage race for the first time and was classified in category 2.1 .

Winners list

Wikidata logo S.svgyear winner Second Third
2013 KAZ Maxim Iglinski ITA Sonny Colbrelli KAZ Ruslan Tleubaev
2014 KAZ Alexei Lutsenko RUS Sergei Chernetsky RUS Sergey Lagutin
2015 KAZ Alexei Lutsenko ITA Fabio Aru RUS Pavel Kochetkov
2016 KAZ Alexei Lutsenko ITA Mauro Finetto RUS Roman Maikin
2017 KAZ Alexei Lutsenko FRA Rémy Di Grégorio THE Jakob Fuglsang
2018 ITA Davide Villella SUI Simon Pellaud ITA Pierpaolo Ficara
2019 KAZ Yuriy Natarov RUS Aleksandr Vlasov ITA Danilo Celano

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