Tour of Almaty 2013

Tour of Almaty 2013
Host country	Kazakhstan
Competition period	October 6, 2013
overall length	186 km
Starting field	133 drivers from 26 nations in 20 teams (111 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Maxim Iglinski 3:23:01 h 2. Sonny Colbrelli + 0:30 min 3. Ruslan Tleubajew same time
course
	2014 →

The 1st Tour of Almaty took place on October 6, 2013 in the Kazakh metropolis of Almaty . The one-day race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2014 , in which it was the first race of the season, in category 1.2. The first eight riders received points for the ranking of the Asia Tour. The Tour of Almaty 2013 was the first ever international cycling race in Kazakhstan .

Local Maxim Iglinski , who started as part of a national team, won the first edition of the competition . Thirty seconds behind him, the Italian Sonny Colbrelli ( Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox ) won the sprint of the chasing field ahead of Iglinski's team-mate Ruslan Tleubajew .

Attendees

There were three Professional Continental and twelve Continental teams at the start . There were also three national teams, the Global Cycling Team from the Netherlands and Club Vino4-Ever , a selection of young Kazakh riders whose name was based on the former professional and Olympic champion Alexander Vinokurow . In the Kazakh national team some of the local UCI WorldTour professionals drove, mainly from the Astana Pro Team , whose actual teams were not allowed to take part in this competition. ARBÖ Gebrüder Weiss-Oberndorfer from Austria was the only participating German-speaking team. With Christoph Schweizer ( Synergy Baku Cycling Project ) and Benjamin Edmüller (ARBÖ-Oberndorfer) two riders from Germany were also at the start.

Professional Continental Teams Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox Team Novo Nordisk CCC Polsat Polkowice 0 0 0

Continental teams ARBÖ Gebrüder Weiss-Oberndorfer ISD Continental Team Kolss Cycling Team Rietumu dolphin CCN Cycling Team Alpha Baltic-Unitymarathons.com

0 La Pomme Marseille Polygon Sweet Nice Synergy Baku Project Itera katusha Ayandeh Continental Team Continental Team Astana

National teams  Uzbekistan  Kazakhstan  Moldova Others Global Cycling Team Club Vino 4-Ever

Distance and result

The drivers completed a 31-kilometer circuit, which had to be driven six times (total distance: 186 km) in the former Kazakh capital. The start and finish lines were at the Nurlytau Business Center. Towards the end of each lap, there was an approximately five-kilometer ascent on the program, with two hundred meters of altitude to be overcome. From the five-man breakaway group of the day with Vitaly Buz ( Kolss Cycling Team ), Julien Antomarchi ( La Pomme Marseille ), Vitaly Popkow ( ISD Continental Team ) and his teammate Alexei Lutsenko , Maxim Iglinski was able to break away from the Kazakh national team on the last lap and up to claim a lead of thirty seconds over the remaining peloton, which had caught up with his fellow escapees shortly before the finish.

Result

	driver	nation	team	time	Points Asia Tour
1.	Maxim Iglinski		National team	3:23:01 h	-
2.	Sonny Colbrelli		Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox	+ 0:30 min	40
3.	Ruslan Tleubaev		National team	same time	30th
4th	Baqtiyar Qoshataev		Continental Team Astana	same time	16
5.	Andris Smirnovs		Rietumu dolphin	same time	12
6th	Mychajlo Kononenko		Kolss Cycling Team	same time	10
7th	Dmitri Grusdew		National team	same time	8th
8th.	Dmytro Kryvtsow		ISD Continental Team	same time	6th
9.	Schandos Bischigitow		Continental Team Astana	same time	3

Web links

• Official website of the race
• Results of the race on the official website of the UCI Asia Tour