# Tour of Qatar

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Qatari multi-day road cycling race

Tour of Qatar Race details Date January–February Region Qatar Discipline Road Type Stage race Organiser Amaury Sport Organisation Web site www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTQA.html History First edition 2002 (2002) Editions 15 (as of 2016) First winner Thorsten Wilhelms (GER) Most wins Tom Boonen (BEL) (4 wins) Most recent Mark Cavendish (GBR)

The **Tour of Qatar** was an annual professional [cycling stage race](/source/Road_bicycle_racing#stage_race) held in [Qatar](/source/Qatar). First organized in 2002, the event was part of the [UCI Asia Tour](/source/UCI_Asia_Tour) until 2016. The [2017 edition](#2017_Cancellation) was to have seen the event upgraded to the [UCI World Tour](/source/UCI_World_Tour) for the first time,[1][2] but it was cancelled due to lack of sponsorship support.[3]

The event consisted of a men's competition over five stages, and, since [2009](/source/2009_Ladies_Tour_of_Qatar), a women's competition over four stages – held a week before the men's race. Because Qatar is entirely flat, the tour was almost always won by a sprinter or classics specialist. Belgian [Tom Boonen](/source/Tom_Boonen) and Dutchwoman [Kirsten Wild](/source/Kirsten_Wild) hold the record with four overall wins, in the men's and ladies' competition respectively.

## Men's past winners

### General classification

[Tom Boonen](/source/Tom_Boonen) *(pictured at the [2012 Tour of Qatar](/source/2012_Tour_of_Qatar))* holds a record 4 overall wins and 22 stage wins.

Year Country Rider Team 2002 Germany Thorsten Wilhelms Team Coast 2003 Italy Alberto Loddo Lampre 2004 South Africa Robert Hunter Rabobank 2005 Denmark Lars Michaelsen Team CSC 2006 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step–Innergetic 2007 Belgium Wilfried Cretskens Quick-Step–Innergetic 2008 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step 2009 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step 2010 Netherlands Wouter Mol Vacansoleil 2011 Australia Mark Renshaw HTC–Highroad 2012 Belgium Tom Boonen Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 2013 Great Britain Mark Cavendish Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 2014 Netherlands Niki Terpstra Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 2015 Netherlands Niki Terpstra Etixx–Quick-Step 2016 Great Britain Mark Cavendish Team Dimension Data

### Points classification

Year Country Rider Team 2002 Germany Thorsten Wilhelms Team Coast 2003 Italy Alberto Loddo Lampre 2004 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step–Davitamon 2005 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step–Innergetic 2006 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step–Innergetic 2007 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step–Innergetic 2008 Belgium Tom Boonen Quick-Step 2009 Germany Heinrich Haussler Cervélo TestTeam 2010 Germany Heinrich Haussler Cervélo TestTeam 2011 Australia Heinrich Haussler[N 1] Garmin–Cervélo 2012 Belgium Tom Boonen Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 2013 Great Britain Mark Cavendish Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 2014 Belgium Tom Boonen Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 2015 Norway Alexander Kristoff Team Katusha 2016 Norway Alexander Kristoff Team Katusha

### Stage wins

Rider Country Stages Tom Boonen Belgium 22 Mark Cavendish United Kingdom 9 Alexander Kristoff Norway 6 Alberto Loddo Italy 3 Francesco Chicchi Italy 2 Arnaud Démare France 2 Heinrich Haussler Australia Germany 2 Robert Hunter South Africa 2 Niki Terpstra Netherlands 2 Thorsten Wilhelms Germany 2

## Ladies' past winners

Ladies Tour of Qatar Race details Date February Region Qatar Discipline Road Type Stage race Organiser Amaury Sport Organisation Web site www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTQA.html History First edition 2009 (2009) Editions 8 (as of 2016) First winner Kirsten Wild (NED) Most wins Kirsten Wild (NED) (4 wins) Most recent Trixi Worrack (GER)

[Eddy Merckx](/source/Eddy_Merckx) presenting [Ellen van Dijk](/source/Ellen_van_Dijk) with the gold leader's jersey after the first stage of the [2015 Ladies Tour of Qatar](/source/2015_Ladies_Tour_of_Qatar).

### General classification

Year Country Rider Team 2009 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Cervélo TestTeam 2010 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Cervélo TestTeam 2011 Netherlands Ellen van Dijk HTC–Highroad Women 2012 Germany Judith Arndt Orica–AIS 2013 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Argos–Shimano 2014 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Giant–Shimano 2015 Great Britain Lizzie Armitstead Boels–Dolmans 2016 Germany Trixi Worrack Canyon//SRAM

### Points classification

Year Country Rider Team 2009 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Cervélo TestTeam 2010 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Cervélo TestTeam 2011 Netherlands Ellen van Dijk HTC–Highroad Women 2012 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Netherlands (national team) 2013 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Argos–Shimano 2014 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Giant–Shimano 2015 Great Britain Lizzie Armitstead Boels–Dolmans 2016 Netherlands Kirsten Wild Team Hitec Products

## 2017 Cancellation

The **2017 Tour of Qatar** was scheduled to take place between 6 and 10 February 2017. However, in December 2016, the event was cancelled due to lack of sponsorship support.[5][6] It would have been the 16th edition of the race and third event of the [2017 UCI World Tour](/source/2017_UCI_World_Tour).[7] It was included in the UCI World Tour calendar for the first time.[1][2]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Haussler announced he would give up his German citizenship and would ride for Australia in the future.[4]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-2017CN_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-2017CN_1-1) ["UCI expands WorldTour to 37 events"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-expands-worldtour-to-37-events/). *Cycling News*. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-2017UCI_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-2017UCI_2-1) ["The UCI reveals expanded UCI WorldTour calendar for 2017"](http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/the-uci-reveals-expanded-uci-worldtour-calendar-for-207/). *UCI*. Retrieved 2 October 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["UCI statement on Tour of Qatar"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195540/http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-tour-qatar/). *www.uci.ch*. Archived from [the original](http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-tour-qatar/) on 28 December 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["TestTeam — News — Heinrich Haussler will race for Australia in the future — Cervélo"](http://www.cervelo.com/en_us/news-blog/article/heinrich-haussler-will-race-for-australia-in-the-future/712/). Cervelo.com. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-UCI-can_6-0)** ["UCI statement on Tour of Qatar"](http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-tour-qatar/). *UCI*. Retrieved 28 December 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-CN-can_7-0)** ["Tour of Qatar and Ladies Tour of Qatar cancelled"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-of-qatar-and-ladies-tour-of-qatar-cancelled/). *Cycling News*. 28 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-BBC_8-0)** ["Tour of Qatar: 2017 edition of race is cancelled over lack of sponsorship"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38452417). *BBC Sport*. Retrieved 28 December 2016.

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Tour of Qatar (Men)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tour_of_Qatar_(Men)).

- [Tour of Qatar palmares](https://web.archive.org/web/2021/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=520) at *Cycling Archives* (archived, or [current page in French](https://siteducyclisme.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=520))

- [Statistics](http://www.the-sports.org/tour-of-qatar-stage-races-men-statistics-s2-c2-b0-g23-t3227-u0-v1-l4.html) at *the-sports.org*

- [Tour of Qatar](http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race_history.asp?tourid=2373) at *cqranking.com*

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