Tour of Oman 2012
| Tour of Oman 2012 | |
| Host country |
 Oman
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| Competition period | 14.-19. February |
| Stages | 6 stages |
| overall length | 875 km |
| Starting field | 127 drivers in 16 teams (120 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Peter Velits 21:32:02 h 2. Vincenzo Nibali + 00:01 min 3. Tony Gallopin + 00:17 min  
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| Team evaluation |
 RadioShack-Nissan 64:38:52 h
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| Scoring jerseys | |
 Overall rating
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Peter Velits
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 Scoring
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Peter Sagan
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 Young talent evaluation
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Tony Gallopin
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| ← 2011 | 2013 → |
The third Tour of Oman (dt. Oman Tour ) was a bicycle race in Oman , which took place from 14 to 19 February 2012. It was held in six stages over a total distance of 875 kilometers. The stage race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2012 and classified there in the 2nd HC category.
The Slovak Peter Velits from Omega Pharma-Quickstep secured the overall victory with a narrow lead over the Italian Vuelta winner Vincenzo Nibali ( Liquigas-Cannondale ) and the French Tony Gallopin ( RadioShack-Nissan ).
Attendees
A total of eleven ProTeams were invited by the Amaury Sport Organization . In addition, three Professional Continental Teams and two Asian Continental Teams took part. As in the previous year, all participating teams had already taken part in the Qatar tour a few days earlier . Eight Germans, five Swiss and one Austrian were nominated.
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Stages and course of the race
The first three sections of the day passed without major topographical difficulties near the Gulf of Oman . The mass sprint of the first stage was won by the German André Greipel ( Lotto Belisol Team ), while Peter Sagan ( Liquigas-Cannondale ) won the second stage, taking on the red jersey of the overall leader. On the third stage there was a German double victory, Marcel Kittel ( Project 1t4i ) won another mass sprint ahead of André Greipel, who was also able to take over the overall lead from Peter Sagan with his second place. The slightly hilly fourth stage was again won by André Greipel, who was able to successfully defend his red jersey.
The preliminary decision about overall victory was made on the fifth stage, which, like last year, led inland up to the "Green Mountain", which was 5.8 kilometers long and an average of 10.3% steep. The Italian Vincenzo Nibali ( Liquigas-Cannondale ) won at the same time ahead of the Slovak Peter Velits ( Omega Pharma-Quick Step ), who took the lead in the overall standings with a one-second lead over Nibali with his second place. All of Nibali's attacks on the flat final stage, on which Marcel Kittel celebrated his second day's victory, were unsuccessful, which is why Peter Velits was able to win the tour with a wafer-thin margin.
| stage | Day | Start finish | Type | km | Stage winner | Overall rating |
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| 1. | 14th of February | Al Alam Royal Place > Wadi Al Hoqay |  |
159 |
 André Greipel
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André Greipel
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| 2. | February 15th | Sur > Wadi Dayqah Dam | |
140.5 |
Peter Sagan
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Peter Sagan
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| 3. | February 16 | Al Awabi (Al Alya)> Muscat Heights | |
144.5 |
Marcel Kittel
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André Greipel
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| 4th | February 17th | Bidbid > Al Wadi Al Kabir | |
142.5 |
André Greipel
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| 5. | February 18 | Royal Opera House, Muscat > Jabal Al Akhdhar (Green Mountain) |  |
158 |
Vincenzo Nibali
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Peter Velits
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| 6th | 19th of February | Al Khawd > Matrah Corniche | |
130.5 |
Marcel Kittel
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