The 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan was a five-day cycling stage race that took place in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

in May 2016. The race is the fifth edition of the

Tour d'Azerbaïdjan Tour d'Azerbaïdjan was a 2.1 multi-stage bicycle race of the UCI Europe Tour, which took place in Azerbaijan around May between 2012 and 2017. Each day, participants started on a new phase of the race. The race was held in 7 regions of Azerbaij ...

. It was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the

2016 UCI Europe Tour The 2016 UCI Europe Tour was the twelfth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2016 season began on 28 January 2016 with the Trofeo Santanyí-Ses Salines-Campos and ended on 23 October 2016 with the Chrono des Nations. French rider Nacer Bouhanni ...

. The race included five stages, starting in Baku on 4 May and returning there for the finish on 8 May. The race was won by Markus Eibegger (). He finished the race 2 seconds ahead of Rinaldo Nocentini (), with Nikita Stalnov () third. Eibegger's teammate Daniel Schorn won a stage and the points classification, while Synergy Baku won both the team classification and the mountains classification through Alex Surutkovich. The youth classification was won by

Ildar Arslanov Ildar Rinasovich Arslanov (russian: Ильда́р Рина́сович Арсла́нов; born 6 April 1994) is a Russian former professional racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2014 and 2019 for the and teams. Major results ...

().

Schedule

Participating teams

Twenty-one (21) teams participated in the 2016 edition of the

Classification leadership

References

External links

Official website
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