Tour of Oman 2024 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE] (arabic)

February 14, 2024

Tour of Oman 2024 🇴🇲 – Stage 5 – Samail ”Al Fayhaa Reshouse’ – Jabal Al Akhdhar (Green Mountain) : 72 km

The Tour of Oman is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Oman since 2010, as part of the UCI Asia Tour through 2019 and on the UCI ProSeries since 2022. During the race, the leader of the General Classification wears a red jersey, the leader of sprinter’s points classification is denoted by a green jersey and best young rider by white. The race does not contain a mountains jersey. The most aggressive rider wears a white jersey with green and red polka-dots.

Adam Yates won the final stage of the Tour of Oman on the steep exposed slopes of Green Mountain, gaining enough time on his rivals to also secure overall victory in the five-day stage race.

Recent heavy rain again forced organisers to shorten the final stage from 139 km to just 72 km but the 5.7km climb on the slopes of Green Mountain was always going to be decisive.

Four riders formed the early break and even started the final climb to the line ahead of the peloton. Huub Artz of Intermarché-Wanty even appeared to have a chance of victory after UAE Team Emirates struggled to reel in the breakaway.

However, on the steepest final kilometre of Green Mountain, Yates attacked hard, dropping teammate and race leader Finn Fisher-Black as part of a clear tactical plan aimed at winning overall.

Only Jan Hirt (Soudal-Quick Step) was able to stay with Yates for a while but the British climber surged away again on the long final curve and was able to celebrate his double victory with his arms in the air.

Hirt finished second at 11 seconds, with Artz third at 29 seconds.

Thanks to his time gap and bonus seconds, Yates won overall, 19 seconds ahead of Hirt and 39 seconds ahead of Fisher-Black.

Results :

Final General Classification :