The 2022 Tour of Slovenia ( sl, Dirka po Sloveniji) was 28th edition of the

Tour of Slovenia Tour of Slovenia is a stage race cycling race held in Slovenia. Between 2005 and 2018, it was organised as a 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle spor ...

stage race scheduled between 15 and 19 June 2022. The 2.Pro-category race is a part of the

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. Tour was participated by defending

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

and

winner

Tadej Pogačar Tadej Pogačar (; born 21 September 1998) is a Slovenian cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Tour de France, winning three different jerseys during each Tour, a feat unseen in nearly four deca ...

and

Matej Mohorič Matej Mohorič (born 19 October 1994) is a Slovenian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Mohorič turned professional in 2014. He is the Slovenian road race champion for 2018 and 2021. Biography Born on ...

, first and sixth by UCI Men's road racing world ranking list (). The race was won for the second time in a row by Tadej Pogačar of . Pogačar with his teammate

Rafał Majka Rafał Majka (Polish pronunciation: ; born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finis ...

controlled the race and especially all of the climbs. The only other rider who was competitive in the ascents was Matej Mohorič (). Powerful climbing duo Pogačar-Majka () showed to be strong competition against similar duo Roglič- Vingegaard from (who showed domination in the

2022 Critérium du Dauphiné The 2022 Critérium du Dauphiné was the 74th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné, a road cycling stage race in the titular region of southeastern France. The race took place between 5 and 12 June 2022. Teams All eighteen UCI WorldTeams an ...

) for season main race -

2022 Tour de France The 2022 Tour de France was the 109th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1 July 2022 and ended with the final stage on the Champs-Élysées, Paris on 24 July 2022. Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard () won the general clas ...

. The Tour consisted of 5 stages with and 9.152 m of ascent. Total sum of prizes was €70,975 . Tour attracted around 300,000 people who were watching the race by the road.

Teams

Four

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s, seven UCI ProTeams, nine

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teams, and the Slovenian national team made up the twenty-one teams that participated in the race with 144 riders at the start (124 finished it). UCI WorldTeams * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * * * * * * * * National Teams *

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

Route and stages

Stage 1

;15 June 2022 –

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Stage 2

;16 June 2022 – Ptuj to

Rogaška Slatina Rogaška Slatina (; german: Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 248.) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the large ...

, On hilly second stage was led by

and Jan Tratnik on the front trying to blew the peloton apart and get rid of classical sprinters (

Tim Merlier Tim Merlier (born 30 October 1992) is a Belgian cyclist who currently rides, in road racing and cyclo-cross, for UCI ProTeam . In 2019, he was the winner of the Belgian National Road Race Championships. He currently specializes as a sprinter and ...

Pascal Ackermann Pascal Ackermann (born 17 January 1994) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Kandel, Ackermann joined the team in 2013, and spent four seasons with the team. In August 2016 announced that Ackermann would ...

Dylan Groenewegen Dylan Groenewegen (born 21 June 1993) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has won five individual Tour de France stages and one team time trial stage. He has also won the Dutch National Road R ...

) in an effort to help their newest member Matevž Govekar who is part of from 1 June 2022. Ackermann () and Merlier () were both dropped but Ackermann was able to rejoin the peloton before the finish. Stage was won by Dylan Groenewegen with help of lead-out sprinter

Luka Mezgec Luka Mezgec (born 27 June 1988) is a Slovenian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . After scoring numerous podium finishes in 2013, Mezgec finally tasted victory on the fifth stage of the Tour of Beijing. He was named in t ...

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Stage 3

;17 June 2022 –

Žalec Žalec (; german: Sachsenfeld''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 44.) is a town in central Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipalit ...

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Stage 4

;18 June 2022 –

Laško Laško (; german: Tüffer) is a spa town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Laško. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. The town is loca ...

Velika Planina Velika Planina ( ; literally 'big pasture') is a dispersed high-elevation settlement of mostly herders' dwellings on the karst Big Pasture Plateau in the Kamnik Alps in Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. History Velika Planina became an indepe ...

, Mountain stage with two Cat.3 climbs ( Jesenovo; 2.8 km at 6.9%,

Trojane Trojane (; la, Atrans, german: Trojana''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 22.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Lukovica in centr ...

; 2.4 km at 8.2%), one Cat.2 climb ( Črnivec; 10.6 km at 5.7%) and one Cat.1 climb (

; 8.2 km at 7.6%) showed utter dominance by

and

(both ) where winner was solved with

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Stage 5

;19 June 2022 –

Vrhnika Vrhnika (; german: Oberlaibach;''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 120. la, Nauportus) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Mun ...

Novo Mesto Novo Mesto (; sl, Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered ...

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Classification leadership

Final classification standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Young rider classification

Team classification

UCI point ranking

References

Notations

External links

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