Saudi Tour

Saudi Tour
Race details
DateEarly February
RegionSaudi Arabia
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Asia Tour
TypeStage race
OrganiserAmaury Sport Organisation
Web sitewww.thealulatour.com Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Editions8
First winner Amr Elnady (EGY)
Most wins Ghader Mizbani (IRN) (2 wins)
Most recent Simon Yates (GBR)

The AlUla Tour, formerly known as the Saudi Tour and 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]

Winners

Year Winner Second Third
1999 Egypt Amr Elnady Uzbekistan Yuriy Plyukhin Slovakia Ondrej Slobodník
2000 No race
2001 Iran Ghader Mizbani Egypt Mohamed Abdel Fattah Iran Hossein Askari
2002 Iran Ghader Mizbani Kazakhstan Sergey Lavrenenko Kazakhstan Sergey Tretyakov
2003–2012 No race
2013 United Arab Emirates Murad Tarik Obaid Saudi Arabia Ali Abadi Saudi Arabia Ayman Al Habtra
2014–2019 No race
2020 Germany Phil Bauhaus France Nacer Bouhanni Portugal Rui Costa
2021 No race
2022 Belgium Maxim Van Gils Colombia Santiago Buitrago Portugal Rui Costa
2023 Portugal Ruben Guerreiro Italy Davide Formolo Colombia Santiago Buitrago
2024[2] United Kingdom Simon Yates Belgium William Junior Lecerf New Zealand Finn Fisher-Black

References

  1. ^ "ASO confirms inaugural Saudi Tour for 2020". Cyclingnews. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  2. ^ "2024 Rankings after stage 5". Alula Tour. Retrieved 4 February 2024.


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