Tour of Saudi Arabia
The Tour of Saudi Arabia is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race first held in Saudi Arabia in 1999. It has been held intermittently since its creation, and in 2020 joined the UCI Asia Tour for the first time. It is promoted by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and is classified by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.1 category race.[1]
| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | Early February |
| Region | Saudi Arabia |
| Discipline | Road |
| Competition | UCI Asia Tour |
| Type | Stage race |
| Organiser | Amaury Sport Organisation |
| Web site | www |
| History | |
| First edition | 1999 |
| Editions | 5 |
| First winner |  Amr Elnady (EGY) |
| Most wins |  Ghader Mizbani (IRN) (2 wins) |
| Most recent |  Phil Bauhaus (GER) |
Winners
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Amr Elnady |
 Yuriy Plyukhin |
 Ondrej Slobodník |
| 2000 | No race | ||
| 2001 | Ghader Mizbani |
Mohamed Abdel Fattah |
Hossein Askari |
| 2002 | Ghader Mizbani |
 Sergey Lavrenenko |
Sergey Tretyakov |
| 2003-2012 | No race | ||
| 2013 |  Murad Tarik Obaid |
 Ali Abadi |
Ayman Al Habtra |
| 2014-2019 | No race | ||
| 2020 | Phil Bauhaus |
 Nacer Bouhanni |
 Rui Costa |
References
- "ASO confirms inaugural Saudi Tour for 2020". Cyclingnews. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
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