The 2017 Tour of Austria (german: Österreich-Rundfahrt 2018) was the 70th edition of the

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria (german: Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt) is a stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2 ...

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stage race. It began in

Feldkirch Feldkirch may refer to: Places * Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, a medieval city and capital of an administrative district in Austria ** Feldkirch (district), an administrative division of Vorarlberg, Austria * Feldkirch (Hartheim), a village in the munici ...

and finished in Fels, covering a course of over eight stages. The race was ranked 2.1 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. Belgian cyclist

Ben Hermans Ben Hermans (born 8 June 1986) is a Belgians, Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Hermans was born in Hasselt, Flanders, and he turned professional in 2009 with . Hermans left at the end of ...

, of the team, won the race overall. He finished eighteen seconds ahead of second-place Hermann Pernsteiner, of Austria and , and forty-four seconds ahead of Italian Dario Cataldo, riding for , in third. Pernsteiner's teammate, Giovanni Visconti, won the points classification, while Australian rider Aaron Gate, of the team, took home the mountains classification jersey. The teams classification was won by .

Teams

Twenty teams competed in the 2018 Tour of Austria, among them four

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, nine

UCI Professional Continental teams UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, United States * Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for the sport of cycling UCI may also refer to: * Uganda Cancer In ...

, and seven UCI Continental teams. Most teams started with seven riders; however, and started with only six. UCI Continental Teams * * * * * *

Tirol Cycling Team Tirol KTM Cycling Team is an Austrian UCI Continental team founded in 2008. Team roster Major wins ;2011 :Gran Premio Palio del Recioto, Georg Preidler ;2012 : National Time Trial Championships, Péter Palotai :Tour of Voj ...

Route

Stages

Stage 1

;7 July 2018 –

to Feldkirch,

Stage 2

;8 July 2018 – Feldkirch to

Fulpmes Fulpmes is a market town and a municipality in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria. In 2015 it had a population of 4,250, of whom 14.5% did not have Austrian nationality. Fulpmes is the center of iron production in the area, and lies at the base of the Sch ...

Telfes Telfes (officially Telfes im Stubai) is a village in the district Innsbruck Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is situated in the Stubaital 11 km south of Innsbruck. The municipality consists of the districts ''Telfes'', ''Gagers'', ''K ...

Stage 3

;9 July 2018 –

Kufstein Kufstein (; Central Bavarian: ''Kufstoa'') is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the administrative seat of Kufstein District. With a population of about 19,600 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck. The grea ...

Kitzbüheler Horn The Kitzbüheler Horn (also spelt Kitzbühler Horn) is a mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps in Tyrol, Austria, whose western flank lies near the smart ski resort of Kitzbühel. With a height of it only just misses being a 'two-thousander'. At the ...

Stage 4

;10 July 2018 – Kitzbühel to Prägraten,

Stage 5

;11 July 2018 – Matrei to

Grossglockner The Grossglockner (german: Großglockner ; or just ''Glockner'') is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glo ...

Stage 6

;12 July 2018 –

Knittelfeld Knittelfeld is a city in Styria, Austria, located on the banks of the Mur river. The name of the town has become notorious for the Knittelfeld Putsch of September 7, 2002, a party meeting of the Freedom Party of Austria, which resulted in the ...

to Wenigzell,

Stage 7

;13 July 2018 – Waidhofen/Ybbs to

Sonntagberg Sonntagberg is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria. It is an important Catholic pilgrimage center. Geography Sonntagberg lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 29 percent of the municipality is forested. Si ...

Stage 8

;14 July 2018 –

Scheibbs Scheibbs () is a town in Austria in the Scheibbs district of Lower Austria. In 1886, it became the first town in Austria to have street lighting powered by electricity. Population Mayors *1950-1965: Anton Herok *1965-1983: Alois Derfler *1983 ...

Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria. Geography Wels is in the ...

Classification leadership

Final classification standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Team classification

Notes

References

External links

* {{Tour of Austria

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