Saudi Tour

Saudi Tour
Race details
DateEarly February
RegionSaudi Arabia
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Asia Tour (2020-2025)
UCI ProSeries (2026-)
TypeStage race
OrganiserAmaury Sport Organisation
Web sitewww.thealulatour.com
History
First edition1999 (1999)
Editions10
First winner Amr Elnady (EGY)
Most wins Ghader Mizbani (IRN) (2 wins)
Most recent Jan Christen (SUI)

The AlUla Tour, formerly known as the Saudi Tour and the Tour of Saudi Arabia, is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race first held in Saudi Arabia in 1999. It has been held intermittently since its creation, and in 2020 joined the UCI Asia Tour for the first time. It is promoted by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and were classified by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.1 category race from 2020 to 2025.[1] From 2026, the race were upgraded to UCI ProSeries and were classified as 2.Pro.[2]

Winners

Year Winner Second Third
1999 Amr Elnady Yuriy Plyukhin Ondrej Slobodník
2000 No race
2001 Ghader Mizbani Mohamed Abdel Fattah Hossein Askari
2002 Ghader Mizbani Sergey Lavrenenko Sergey Tretyakov
2003–2012 No race
2013 Murad Tarik Obaid Ali Abadi Ayman Al Habtra
2014–2019 No race
2020 Phil Bauhaus Nacer Bouhanni Rui Costa
2021 No race
2022 Maxim Van Gils Santiago Buitrago Rui Costa
2023 Ruben Guerreiro Davide Formolo Santiago Buitrago
2024[3] Simon Yates William Junior Lecerf Finn Fisher-Black
2025 Tom Pidcock Fredrik Dversnes Johannes Kulset
2026[4] Jan Christen Sergio Higuita Igor Arrieta

References

  1. ^ "ASO confirms inaugural Saudi Tour for 2020". Cyclingnews. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  2. ^ "AlUla Tour Upgraded to Second Tier of World's Leading Cycling Races". www.mos.gov.sa. 6 January 2026. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  3. ^ "2024 Rankings after stage 5". Alula Tour. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  4. ^ Ostanek, Dani (31 January 2026). "AlUla Tour: Jan Christen takes final stage victory and overall title with late attack". CyclingNews. Retrieved 3 February 2026.