2010 Tour of Qatar

the 2010 Ladies edition 2010 Ladies Tour of Qatar 7–12 February 6 704 km 15h 55' 17" Wouter Mol NED VAC 2010 gold Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 Heinrich Haussler GER CTT 2010 white Roger Kluge GER MRM 2010 blue CTT 2010 2009 2011 The 2010 Tour of Qatar was the ninth edition of the Tour of Qatar cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour, and was held from 7 February to 12 February 2010, in Qatar. The race was won by Wouter Mol of VAC 2010. Teams Sixteen teams competed in the 2010 Tour of Qatar. These included ten UCI ProTour teams, five UCI Professional Continental teams, and one Continental team. Each team entered a squad of eight riders, giving the Tour a peloton of 128 riders. The teams participating in the race were:VeloNation Press http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/2944/Preview-Teams-announced-for-the-2010-Tour-of-Qatar.aspx Preview: Teams announced for the 2010 Tour of Qatar 2010-01-30 VeloNation VeloNation LLC 2010-02-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20111009125213/http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/2944/Preview-Teams-announced-for-the-2010-Tour-of-Qatar.aspx October 9, 2011 live 22em ALM 2010 BMC 2010 CTT 2010 GRM 2010 LIQ 2010 OLO 2010 QST 2010 SAU 2010 THR 2010 KAT 2010 MRM 2010 SAX 2010 SKY 2010 Trek-Livestrong U23 TSV 2010 VAC 2010 The same sixteen teams contested the inaugural Tour of Oman, which began on February 14. The teams' squads were expected to be similar for both events, with the individual time trial which closes out the Tour of Oman providing for the only minor changes.Stephen Farrand https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/classics-stars-pack-qatar-and-oman-start-lists Classics stars pack Qatar and Oman start lists 2010-01-28 Cycling News 2010-02-01 Stages Stage 1 7 February 2010 – West Bay Lagoon, 8.2 km 1 on (team time trial) With time trial specialist Bradley Wiggins pulling them most of the way, SKY 2010 won the opening stage team time trial with a time of 9' 41", and an average speed of over 50 km/h on, and over 70 km/h on on the closing section which featured a pronounced tailwind. Edvald Boasson Hagen was the first member of the team to cross the line, giving him the golden jersey. Defending Tour champion Tom Boonen's QST 2010 team was fifth, putting him 20 seconds off the race lead.Stephen Farrand http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-qatar-2-1/stage-1/results Dominant start for Sky in Qatar team time trial 2010-02-07 Cycling News 2010-02-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20100209192029/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-qatar-2-1/stage-1/results 9 February 2010 live The second place team was GRM 2010, after the disqualification of CTT 2010. The TestTeam was penalized a minute due to Heinrich Haussler pushing Gabriel Rasch after taking a turn on the front. The team protested the penalty, denying that the push was meant to gain any competitive advantage, with Haussler saying that it instead was to help Rasch avoid crashing. The penalty was upheld, and pre-race contender Haussler was placed over a minute off the race lead. The team's sporting director considered withdrawing them from the race because of the penalty, but decided against it.Stephen Farrand http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cervelo-testteam-penalised-for-pushing-in-qatar-ttt Cervélo TestTeam penalised for pushing in Qatar TTT 2010-02-07 Cycling News 2010-02-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20100210061859/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cervelo-testteam-penalised-for-pushing-in-qatar-ttt 10 February 2010 live Stage 1 resultshttp://velonews.competitor.com/2010/02/road/results-2010-tour-of-qatar-stage-1_104065 Results, 2010 Tour of Qatar Velo News 2010-02-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20100211021250/http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/02/road/results-2010-tour-of-qatar-stage-1_104065 11 February 2010 live TeamTime 1 SKY 2010 9' 41" 2 GRM 2010 + 8" 3 SAX 2010 + 13" 4 THR 2010 + 18" 5 QST 2010 + 20" 6 SAU 2010 + 21" 7 LIQ 2010 + 21" 8 BMC 2010 + 21" 9 VAC 2010 + 22" 10 MRM 2010 + 25"General Classification after Stage 1 CyclistTeamTime 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR 20px|Golden jersey 20px|Blue jersey SKY 2010 9′ 41″ 2 Juan Antonio Flecha ESP SKY 2010 s.t. 3 Bradley Wiggins GBR SKY 2010 s.t. 4 Geraint Thomas GBR SKY 2010 s.t. 5 Lars Petter Nordhaug NOR SKY 2010 s.t. 6 Russell Downing GBR SKY 2010 + 2″ 7 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 + 8″ 8 Martijn Maaskant NED GRM 2010 s.t. 9 Murilo Fischer BRA GRM 2010 s.t. 10 Svein Tuft CAN GRM 2010 s.t. Stage 2 8 February 2010 – Camel Race Track to Qatar Foundation, 147 km on Almost straight away, when racing got underway, a group of two, Geert Steurs and Wouter Mol attacked and immediately got a few minutes over the peloton. As the race went on, they increased their advantage to well over 12 minutes. However the peloton was not content to this breakaway. As a result, a group of favourites, which featured Tom Boonen from QST 2010, Tyler Farrar from GRM 2010, CTT 2010's fast man Heinrich Haussler were among about fifteen more riders, that were up the front when the split happened and formed a small chasing group. Golden jersey holder Edvald Boasson Hagen missed out on the breakaways and with approximately 40 km to go suffered a punctured tire which put him 11 minutes behind the lead group of riders. Heading into the final kilometer, the lead group held 2 and a half minute advantage and it was Steurs who won the stage, but with Mol becoming the overall leader.Chris Graetz http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=16324 2010 Tour of Qatar - Stage 2 Updated 2010-02-08 Pro Cycling News Daily Peloton 2010-02-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20120223152111/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=16324 2012-02-23 dead Stage 2 results CyclistTeamTime 1 Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 3h 31' 00" 2 Wouter Mol NED VAC 2010 s.t. 3 Roger Kluge GER MRM 2010 + 1' 51" 4 Heinrich Haussler GER CTT 2010 + 1' 54" 5 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 1' 55" 6 Roger Hammond GBR CTT 2010 + 1' 55" 7 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 1' 55" 8 Jeremy Hunt GBR CTT 2010 + 1' 55" 9 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 1' 55" 10 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 1' 55"General Classification after Stage 2 CyclistTeamTime 1 Wouter Mol NED 20px|Golden jersey VAC 2010 3h 40′ 51″ 2 Geert Steurs BEL 20px|White jersey TSV 2010 + 9" 3 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 + 2' 02" 4 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 2' 05" 5 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 2' 06" 6 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 2' 18″ 7 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 2' 18″ 8 Stuart O'Grady AUS SAX 2010 + 2' 40" 9 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 + 2' 41" 10 Marco Velo ITA QST 2010 + 2' 47" Stage 3 9 February 2010 – Dukhan to Mesaieed, 136.5 km 1 on Tom Boonen won his 16th career stage at the Tour of Qatar. The two-time defending champion began his sprint with 200 m on to go from the finish line and with the help of teammate Andreas Stauff and was clocked at going 72.8 km/h 1 on at the finish line to outsprint CTT 2010's Heinrich Haussler. It was the first time in the Tour of Qatar's history where a stage started from the city of Dukhan in the west of the country. Unlike the previous days, the wind dropped and was favourable for almost the whole course. Like the previous day, within 2 km on a breakaway occurred. The biggest lead they had over the peloton was 55 seconds, and they were caught a mere 23 km on from the start. At the 60 km on mark, another group of riders broke away and they managed to get a 2:30 lead on the peloton. At that point, CTT 2010 and GRM 2010 took the role of reeling the breakaway group back in, which they caught at the 107 km on mark.Al Fresco http://www.bikeworldnews.com/index.php/2010/02/09/2010-tour-qatar-stage-3-results/ 2010 Tour of Qatar - Stage 3 Results 2010-02-09 Bike World News 2010-02-09 Stage 3 resultshttp://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/300/classement/index.html Tour of Qatar https://web.archive.org/web/20100212110901/http://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/300/classement/index.html 12 February 2010 Tour of Qatar - 2010 dead 12 May 2013 dmy-all CyclistTeamTime 1 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 3h 01' 39" 2 Heinrich Haussler GER CTT 2010 s.t. 3 Baden Cooke AUS SAX 2010 s.t. 4 Kenny Dehaes BEL OLO 2010 s.t. 5 Daniele Bennati ITA LIQ 2010 s.t. 6 Peter Wrolich AUT MRM 2010 s.t. 7 Taylor Phinney USA Trek Livestrong U23 s.t. 8 Bobbie Traksel NED VAC 2010 s.t. 9 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 s.t. 10 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 s.t.General Classification after Stage 3 CyclistTeamTime 1 Wouter Mol NED 20px|Golden jersey VAC 2010 6h 42′ 30″ 2 Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 + 9" 3 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 1' 55" 4 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 + 1' 59" 5 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 2' 05" 6 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 2' 15″ 7 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 2' 17″ 8 Stuart O'Grady AUS SAX 2010 + 2' 40" 9 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 + 2' 41" 10 Heinrich Haussler GER20px|White jersey CTT 2010 + 2' 43" Stage 4 10 February 2010 – The Pearl to Al Khor Corniche, 146.5 km 1 on It was Italian Francesco Chicchi claiming a final sprint to the line with Heinrich Haussler coming in second, and Juan José Haedo arriving third. Like the previous stages, breakaways occurred and most were quickly reeled in. Sep Vanmarcke from VAC 2010 made a break from the peloton and was away for much of the stage. At the 40 km on to go mark, the gap was just below two minutes as VAC 2010 was contributing the majority of the pace setting preserving the leader's golden jersey for Wouter Mol. For the next 15 km on, the gap hovered around the 1 minute and 45 second mark with the sprinters teams holding back on making a move until later in the stage. The catch occurred with about 6 km on to go, with SAX 2010 doing the pacing. THR 2010 and SKY 2010 moved to the front with 2 km on to go. In the final kilometer the peloton was strung out in a long line and the pace was that high that a small split occurred. With 400 m on to go it was Theo Bos leading out the sprint to the line, trying to deliver Haussler first. Haussler had missed Bos' wheel, though, and with their teammate Roger Hammond directing Bos to continue his leadout, Haussler's chance at victory was quickly gone.Stephen Farrand http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/angry-haussler-still-looking-for-qatar-success Angry Haussler still looking for Qatar success 2010-02-11 Cycling News 2010-02-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100214003549/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/angry-haussler-still-looking-for-qatar-success 14 February 2010 live Chicchi made his winning move peeling out and got into the clear. No one could match his blistering pace and he crossed the line three bike lengths ahead of Haussler in second.Chris Graetz http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=16339 2010 Tour of Qatar - Stage 4 - Updated 2010-02-10 Daily Peloton 2010-02-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20110622002903/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=16339 2011-06-22 dead Stage 4 resultshttp://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/400/classement/index.html Tour of Qatar https://web.archive.org/web/20100212125833/http://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/400/classement/index.html 12 February 2010 Tour of Qatar - 2010 dead 12 May 2013 dmy-all CyclistTeamTime 1 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 3h 16' 58" 2 Heinrich Haussler GER CTT 2010 s.t. 3 Juan Jose Haedo ARG SAX 2010 s.t. 4 Theo Bos NED CTT 2010 s.t. 5 Kenny Dehaes BEL OLO 2010 s.t. 6 Roger Kluge GER MRM 2010 s.t. 7 Kristof Goddaert BEL ALM 2010 s.t. 8 Taylor Phinney USA Trek Livestrong U23 s.t. 9 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 s.t. 10 Baden Cooke AUS SAX 2010 s.t.General Classification after Stage 4 CyclistTeamTime 1 Wouter Mol NED 20px|Golden jersey VAC 2010 9h 59′ 28″ 2 Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 + 9" 3 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 1' 55" 4 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 + 1' 59" 5 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 2' 05" 6 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 2' 15″ 7 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 2' 17″ 8 Heinrich Haussler GER20px|White jersey CTT 2010 + 2' 37" 9 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 + 2' 38" 10 Stuart O'Grady AUS SAX 2010 + 2' 40" Stage 5 11 February 2010 – Lusail to Madinat Al Shamal, 142 km on Stage 5 came down to a sprint and for the second time in the Tour it was Tom Boonen claiming victory at the finish line. It was his 17th career stage win at the Tour of Qatar. While the victory gave him ten bonus seconds, the Belgian speedster still stood almost two minutes behind race leader Wouter Mol at day's end. Again, a breakaway occurred which consisted of six riders and but they were captured with 27 km on to go. A group of notables got away from the main peloton in a counterattack – this group consisted of the overall leader, Mol, the youth leader, Roger Kluge, Fabian Cancellara, and sprinters Boonen, Tyler Farrar, Heinrich Haussler, Juan José Haedo, and Daniele Bennati. The peloton never allowed them to get too far ahead and were eventually reeled in. The stage victory for Boonen put him within 8 points of Haussler for the points classification silver jersey.Vaughn Trevi http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=16346 2010 Tour of Qatar - Stage 5 2010-02-11 Daily Peloton 2010-02-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20120223152126/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=16346 2012-02-23 dead Stage 5 resultshttp://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/500/classement/index.html Tour of Qatar https://web.archive.org/web/20100318025014/http://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/500/classement/index.html 18 March 2010 Tour of Qatar - 2010 dead 12 May 2013 dmy-all CyclistTeamTime 1 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 3h 13' 00" 2 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 s.t. 3 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR SKY 2010 s.t. 4 Theo Bos NED CTT 2010 s.t. 5 Juan Jose Haedo ARG SAX 2010 s.t. 6 Peter Wrolich AUS MRM 2010 s.t. 7 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 s.t. 8 Heinrich Haussler GER CTT 2010 s.t. 9 Bernhard Eisel AUS THR 2010 s.t. 10 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 s.t.General Classification after Stage 5 CyclistTeamTime 1 Wouter Mol NED 20px|Golden jersey VAC 2010 13h 12′ 28″ 2 Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 + 9" 3 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 1' 45" 4 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 + 1' 59" 5 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 2' 05" 6 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 2' 09″ 7 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 2' 17″ 8 Heinrich Haussler GER20px|White jersey CTT 2010 + 2' 37" 9 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 + 2' 38" 10 Stuart O'Grady AUS SAX 2010 + 2' 40" Stage 6 12 February 2010 – Al Wakra to Doha Corniche, 123.5 km 1 on Stage 6 results CyclistTeamTime 1 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 2h 42' 49" 2 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 s.t. 3 Juan José Haedo ARG SAX 2010 s.t. 4 Matthew Goss AUS THR 2010 s.t. 5 Jimmy Casper FRA SAU 2010 s.t. 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR SKY 2010 s.t. 7 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 s.t. 8 Roger Kluge GER MRM 2010 s.t. 9 Heinrich Haussler GER CTT 2010 s.t. 10 John Murphy USA BMC 2010 s.t.Final General Classification CyclistTeamTime 1 Wouter Mol NED 20px|Golden jersey VAC 2010 15h 55′ 17″ 2 Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 + 37" 3 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 1' 45" 4 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 + 1' 59" 5 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 2' 05" 6 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 2' 09″ 7 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 2' 17″ 8 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 + 2' 28" 9 Heinrich Haussler GER20px|White jersey CTT 2010 + 2' 37" 10 Stuart O'Grady AUS SAX 2010 + 2' 40" Classification leadership In the 2010 Tour of Qatar, three different jerseys are awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on each stage and in intermediate sprints, the leader receives a golden jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Tour of Qatar, and the winner is considered the winner of the Tour. Additionally, there is a points classification, which awards a silver jersey. In the points classification, cyclists get points for finishing in the top three in an intermediate sprint or the top twenty of a stage. The first in an intermediate sprint gets 3 points, second 2, and third a single point. The stage win affords 30 points, second is worth 27 points, 25 for third, 23 for fourth, 21 for fifth, 19 for sixth, 17 for seventh, 15 for eighth, 13 for ninth, 11 for tenth, and one point less per place down the line, to a single point for twentieth. There is also a youth classification, which awards a blue jersey. This classification is calculated the same as the general classification, but only riders born on or after January 1, 1985, are eligible. The race also awards a teams classification, which is not represented by a jersey. The teams classification is calculated by adding the times of each team's best three riders per stage per day. Stage WinnerGeneral Classification25px|link=|alt=Points Classification25px|link=|alt=Young Rider Classification25px|link=|alt=Teams Classification 1 SKY 2010 Edvald Boasson Hagen not awarded Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Sky 2 Geert Steurs Wouter MolGeert Steurs Roger Kluge Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator 3 Tom Boonen Heinrich Haussler 4 Francesco Chicchi 5 Tom Boonen 6 Francesco Chicchi CTT 2010 Final Wouter Mol Heinrich Haussler Roger Kluge CTT 2010 Final standings Tour of Qatar - 2010 http://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/600/classement/index.html 2010-02-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20100213113426/http://www.letour.fr/2010/TQA/LIVE/us/600/classement/index.html 13 February 2010 dead dmy-all General classification RiderTeamTime 1 Wouter Mol NED 20px|Golden jersey VAC 2010 15h 55′ 17″ 2 Geert Steurs BEL TSV 2010 + 35" 3 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 + 1' 45" 4 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 + 1' 59" 5 Marcus Burghardt GER BMC 2010 + 2' 05" 6 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 + 2' 09″ 7 Philippe Gilbert BEL OLO 2010 + 2' 17″ 8 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 + 2' 28" 9 Heinrich Haussler GER20px|White jersey CTT 2010 + 2' 37" 10 Stuart O'Grady AUS SAX 2010 + 2' 40" Points classification RiderTeamPoints 1 Heinrich Haussler GER 20px|White jersey CTT 2010 108 2 Tom Boonen BEL QST 2010 104 3 Francesco Chicchi ITA LIQ 2010 82 4 Juan Jose Haedo ARG SAX 2010 80 5 Danilo Napolitano ITA KAT 2010 65 6 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 62 7 Kenny Dehaes BEL OLO 2010 52 8 Tyler Farrar USA GRM 2010 51 9 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR SKY 2010 48 10 Theo Bos NED CTT 2009 46 Young riders' classification RiderTeamPoints 1 Roger Kluge GER 20px|Blue jersey MRM 2010 15h 57' 16" 2 Klaas Lodewyck BEL TSV 2010 + 1' 01" 3 Nikolay Trusov RUS KAT 2010 + 1' 57" 4 Sep Vanmarcke BEL TSV 2010 + 2' 20" 5 Martin Reimer GER CTT 2010 + 3' 40" 6 Steven Van Vooren BEL TSV 2010 + 4' 33" 7 Martin Kohler SUI BMC 2010 + 5' 11" 8 Ian Stannard GBR SKY 2010 + 5' 39" 9Andreas Stauff GER QST 2010 + 5' 55" 10 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR SKY 2010 + 7' 30" Team classification Pos.TeamTime1 CTT 2010 47h 32′ 51″2TSV 2010 + 17″3QST 2010 + 1′ 26″4VAC 2010 + 1′ 34″5BMC 2010 + 2′ 04″6KAT 2010 + 2′ 15″7GRM 2010 + 4′ 34″8MRM 2010 + 7′ 50″9OLO 2010 + 8′ 52″10SAX 2010 + 9′ 14″ References 30em External links https://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_courseTQA.html Category:2010 in road cycling Category:2010 in Qatari sport 2010 Category:February 2010 sports events in Asia