The 2017 Tour du Haut Var was a

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that took place on 18 and 19 February 2017. The race was rated as a

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event as part of the

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, and was the 49th edition of the

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transformed ...

. Just as it was in

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, the overall race victory was decided upon cumulative stage finishes, after nine riders finished both stages in the same time. With stage finishes of second and third,

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took honours in both the general classification and the points classification for the team. Second place in the overall standings went to

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() with finishes of eighth and first, while the podium was completed by 's

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, with two sixth-place finishes.

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won the young rider classification for ,

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() won the mountains classification, while the teams classification was won by the .

Teams

Sixteen teams were invited to start the race. These included three

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s, six

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teams and seven

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teams.

Route

Stages

Stage 1

;18 February 2017 —

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Saint-Paul-en-Forêt Saint-Paul-en-Forêt (, literally ''Saint-Paul in Forest''; Provençal: ''Sant Pau de la Galina'') is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Government The mayor of Saint-Paul-en-Forêt ...

Stage 2

;19 February 2017 —

Draguignan Draguignan (; oc, Draguinhan) is a commune in the Var department in the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (formerly Provence), southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department and self-proclaimed "capital of Ar ...

to Draguignan,

Classification leadership table

In the 2017 Tour du Haut Var, four different jerseys were awarded. For the

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, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour du Haut Var, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race. Additionally, there was a

points classification The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning sprints at certain places along the route, most often called ''intermediate sprints''. The points cl ...

, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a mass-start stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25 points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth, then 1 point fewer per place down to 1 for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage. There was also a

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, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour du Haut Var, 2017 2017 UCI Europe Tour 2017 in French sport

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