2018 Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan)

Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) 2018 was a UCI Asia Tour 2.1 event and the 33rd edition of Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) which took place in six stages between September 29-October 4, 2018 in Iranian Azerbaijan.^[1] The race started in the city of Tabriz and traveled through Urmia, Jolfa, and Sarein.

Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) 2018

2018 UCI Asia Tour, race 33
Race details
Dates	September 29 - October 4, 2018
Stages	6
Distance	1,017.0 km (631.9 mi)
Winning time	23:48:46
Results
Winner  Dmitry Sokolov (RUS) (Russia)   Second  Meron Abraham (ERI) (Bike Aid)   Third  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) (Staki–Technorama)
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Teams

Thirteen teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:^[2]

Continental teams

• Tarteletto–Isorex
• Tabriz Shahrdary Team
• Pishgaman Cycling Team
• AC Sparta Praha
• Vino–Astana Motors
• Staki–Technorama
• Alecto Cycling Team
• Bike Aid
• DFT Team
• Gun Ay Tabriz Team

National teams

• Azerbaijan
• Iran
• Russia

Overview

Stages

Stage 1

Tabriz – Urmia (150.1 km)

Stage 1 result[3] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team 3h 25' 10" 2  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid s.t. 3  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia s.t. 4  Arman Kamyshev (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors s.t. 5  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid s.t. 6  Rick Ottema (NED) Alé–Cipollini s.t. 7  Nikita Sokolov (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors s.t. 8  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex s.t. 9  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha s.t. 10  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex s.t.

General classification after Stage 1[4] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team 3h 24' 54" 2  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 7" 3  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia + 12" 4  Rick Ottema (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 14" 5  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 15" 6  Arman Kamyshev (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors + 16" 7  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid s.t. 8  Nikita Sokolov (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors s.t. 9  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex s.t. 10  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha s.t.

Stage 2

Urmia – Aras Free Zone (209.4 km)

Stage 2 result[3] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia 5h 14' 51" 2  Mohammad Rajablou (IRN) Iran + 1' 12" 3  Michiel Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex s.t. 4  Savva Novikov (RUS) Russia + 3' 26" 5  Marco Doets (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 3' 31" 6  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team s.t. 7  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex s.t. 8  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid s.t. 9  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) Staki–Technorama s.t. 10  Mehdi Sohrabi (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team s.t.

General classification after Stage 2[5] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia 8h 39' 44" 2  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 3' 32" 3  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 3' 39" 4  Rick Ottema (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 3' 46" 5  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 47" 6  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 48" 7  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid s.t. 8  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha s.t. 9  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) Staki–Technorama s.t. 10  Arman Kamyshev (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors s.t.

Stage 3

Aras Free Zone – Tabriz (147.8 km)

Stage 3 result[3] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Alexander Vdovin (RUS) Russia 3h 34' 40" 2  Salim Kipkemboi (KEN) Kenya s.t. 3  Adne van Engelen (NED) Bike Aid + 6" 4  Savva Novikov (RUS) Russia + 15" 5  Niels De Rooze (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 29" 6  Sjors Dekker (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 1' 01" 7  Amir Kolahdozhagh (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team s.t. 8  Saeid Safarzadeh (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team s.t. 9  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 1' 10" 10  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid s.t.

General classification after Stage 3[6] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia 12h 15' 45" 2  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 3' 21" 3  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 3' 28" 4  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 36" 5  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid + 3' 37" 6  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha s.t. 7  Bahram Najafi (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team s.t. 8  Nikita Sokolov (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors + 3' 42" 9  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 44" 10  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) Staki–Technorama s.t.

Stage 4

Tabriz – Sarein (196.2 km)

Stage 4 result[3] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Sjors Dekker (NED) Alé–Cipollini 4h 12' 56" 2  Kevin De Jonghe (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 13" 3  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 1' 42" 4  Amir Kolahdozhagh (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team s.t. 5  Saeid Safarzadeh (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team s.t. 6  Savva Novikov (RUS) Russia + 1' 49" 7  Rick Ottema (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 1' 54" 8  Behnam Ariyan (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team s.t. 9  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid s.t. 10  Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors s.t.

General classification after Stage 4[7] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia 16h 30' 35" 2  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 3' 12" 3  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 36" 4  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid + 3' 37" 5  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha s.t. 6  Bahram Najafi (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team s.t. 7  Nikita Sokolov (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors + 3' 42" 8  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 44" 9  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) Staki–Technorama s.t. 10  Hamid Beikkhormizi (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team s.t.

Stage 5

Sarein – Tabriz (198.9 km)

Stage 5 result[3] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Saeid Safarzadeh (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team 5h 10' 53" 2  Savva Novikov (RUS) Russia + 11" 3  Jafar Alizadehchakhlou (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team + 19" 4  Folkert Oostra (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 36" 5  Amir Kolahdozhagh (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 38" 6  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid s.t. 7  Ruben Scheire (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 41" 8  Arvin Moazzami (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 47" 9  Farhad Mokhtari (IRN) Gun Ay Tabriz Team + 49" 10  Adne van Engelen (NED) Bike Aid + 51"

General classification after Stage 5[8] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia 21h 42' 42" 2  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 2' 36" 3  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) Staki–Technorama + 3' 24" 4  Nikita Sokolov (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors + 3' 36" 5  Folkert Oostra (NED) Alé–Cipollini + 3' 39" 6  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha + 3' 40" 7  Bahram Najafi (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team + 3' 44" 8  Hamid Beikkhormizi (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 3' 46" 9  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 47" 10  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 56"

Stage 6

Tabriz – Tabriz (91.2 km)

Stage 6 result[3] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Mohammad Ganjkhanlou (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team 2h 06' 08" 2  Marco Doets (NED) Alé–Cipollini s.t. 3  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia s.t. 4  Olamaei Mahdi (IRN) Iran s.t. 5  Alexey Voloshin (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors s.t. 6  Aleksandr Smirnov (RUS) Russia s.t. 7  Clint Hendricks (RSA) Bike Aid s.t. 8  Matthew Overste (NED) Alé–Cipollini s.t. 9  Bahram Najafi (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team s.t. 10  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha s.t.

Final standings

Final general classification[9] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dmitri Sokolov (RUS) Russia 23h 48' 46" 2  Meron Abraham (ERI) Bike Aid + 2' 40" 3  Venantas Lašinis (LTU) Staki–Technorama + 3' 28" 4  Nikita Sokolov (KAZ) Vino–Astana Motors + 3' 40" 5  Folkert Oostra (NED) Alecto Cycling Team + 3' 43" 6  Jan Stöhr (CZE) AC Sparta Praha + 3' 44" 7  Bahram Najafi (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team + 3' 48" 8  Hamid Beikkhormizi (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team + 3' 50" 9  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex + 3' 51" 10  Abram Stockman (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex + 4' 00"

Final mountains classification[9] Rank Rider Team Points 1  Saeid Safarzadeh (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team 62 2  Jafar Alizadehchakhlou (IRN) Tabriz Shahrdary Team 46 3  Amir Kolahdozhagh (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team 39 4  Savva Novikov (RUS) Russia 24 5  Adne van Engelen (NED) Bike Aid 22 6  Hamid Beikkhormizi (IRN) Pishgaman Cycling Team 22 7  Kevin De Jonghe (BEL) Tarteletto–Isorex 13 8  Sjors Dekker (NED) Alecto Cycling Team 12 9  Folkert Oostra (NED) Alecto Cycling Team 11 10  Ylber Sefa (ALB) Tarteletto–Isorex 10

Final team classification[9] Rank Team Time 1 Tarteletto–Isorex 71h 36' 58" 2 Russia + 2' 34" 3 Alecto Cycling Team + 2' 55" 4 Bike Aid + 3' 10" 5 Pishgaman Cycling Team + 3' 29" 6 AC Sparta Praha + 8' 48" 7 Vino–Astana Motors + 8' 54" 8 Tabriz Shahrdary Team + 9' 27" 9 Iran + 10' 27" 10 Gun Ay Tabriz Team + 1h 02' 46"