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665 kilometers total.

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4th and Final Stage: Burj Stage / February 6 Dubai International Marine Club – Burj Khalifa (132km)

Marcel Kittel wins stage 4

The Course: The final stage is now a classic, with just a few changes compared to the previous editions, going through the Old and New Town. It starts in the direction of the great Meydan Racecourse to reach and cross Mushrif Park and then move to the beaches of Al Mamzar. It then runs through Deira, Al Maktoum Bridge and the entire Old Town, almost to Port Rashid, and from there enters the Jumeirah Road past the large Union Flag. Then there’s a u-turn at the Burj-al-Arab to go back to Jumeirah Road and reach the Burj Khalifa which is the finishing point.

The Race: as told by the team of stage and overall winner Marcel Kittel.

Marcel Kittel was a man on a mission on Saturday. Starting the fourth and final day of the Dubai Tour only 6 seconds behind overall leader Giacomo Nizzolo, the 27-year-old rider of Etixx – Quick-Step knew everything was still possible at the finish, where the victory and 10 potentially decisive bonus seconds were on the line. That's why his teammates came to the front inside the last 30 kilometers and took control of the bunch, in order to catch the six riders in the breakaway: Mark Christian (Team Wiggins), Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida), Roy Curvers (Giant-Alpecin), Sebastian Lander (One Pro Cycling), Jan Polanc (Lampre-Merida) and Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data).

Inside the final 5 kilometers, it all came down to a duel between Etixx – Quick-Step and Trek Factory-Segafredo for the best line, and thanks to the excellent work of his teammates, Marcel Kittel entered third in the last corner, before opening the sprint with his trademark acceleration and getting the stage victory – his second of the week and fifth in the race – ahead of Elia Viviani (Sky) and Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data).

"In the morning, at the technical meeting, we said it's going to be all or nothing and that we're going to focus only on the final sprint. During the stage, we stayed calm and moved to the front at the right moment. The key in the Dubai Tour is to have a strong team all the time, and I had one, which gave 100% for me. I was in an ideal position coming to the line and didn't think at all of my opponents, just focused on doing things right. Now I'm very happy", said the German, who credited his strong ride on the Hatta Dam climb as being decisive in the final outcome: "That was the most important day of the race. It was a very hard ascent, with a 17% gradient, but I was in form and wanted to show what I can do on such a tough finish."

The bonus seconds he grabbed at the Burj Khalifa finish meant that Marcel also won the general classification of the Dubai Tour, as well as the red jersey, which rewards the best rider in the points standings, and will now leave the Middle East with three victories in the bag: "It's really awesome, it gives you a fantastic feeling to cap off the week like that. We trained a lot for the Dubai Tour in the winter and we were fully committed, not only because it was my first race of the season, but also because it was an opportunity to see how the train and the lead-out work. I'm more than satisfied with the way things went and I think we can all be proud. Now I'm even more motivated, and I can't wait for the next races to come."

Complete Results:

137 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.131 km/hr

1	Marcel Kittel	Etixx - Quick-Step	2hr 50min 47sec
2	Elia Viviani	Sky	s.t.
3	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	s.t.
4	Andrea Palini	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
5	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
6	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
7	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
8	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
9	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	s.t.
10	Yanto Barker	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
11	Chris Opie	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
12	Koen De Kort	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
13	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	s.t.
14	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	s.t.
15	Silvan Dillier	BMC	s.t.
16	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
17	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	s.t.
18	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
19	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	s.t.
20	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	s.t.
21	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	s.t.
22	Martijn Verschoor	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
23	Soufiane Haddi	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
24	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	s.t.
25	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
26	Roy Curvers	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
27	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
28	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	s.t.
29	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
30	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
31	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	s.t.
32	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
33	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
34	Nikolas Maes	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
35	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
36	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
37	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
38	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
39	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
40	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
41	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
42	Andrew Fenn	Sky	s.t.
43	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
44	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
45	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
46	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
47	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
48	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
49	Stephen Clancy	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
50	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
51	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
52	Carter Jones	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
53	Andrea Guardini	Astana	s.t.
54	Bert De Backer	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
55	Loic Vliegen	BMC	s.t.
56	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
57	Caleb Fairly	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
58	Adil Jelloul	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
59	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
60	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
61	Hayden Mccormick	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
62	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
63	Marcin Bialoblocki	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
64	Peter Williams	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
65	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
66	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	s.t.
67	Michal Golas	Sky	s.t.
68	Ibrahim Al Ali	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
69	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
70	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	s.t.
71	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
72	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar	s.t.
73	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
74	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
75	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
76	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
77	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	s.t.
78	Javier Megias Leal	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
79	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
80	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	s.t.
81	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	s.t.
82	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	s.t.
83	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	s.t.
84	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
85	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	@ 23sec
86	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
87	Ivan Santaromita	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
88	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	0:00:26
89	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	0:00:29
90	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
91	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
92	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	0:00:31
93	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
94	Julien Vermote	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
95	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	s.t.
96	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Sky	s.t.
97	Matteo Trentin	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
98	Iljo Keisse	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
99	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	s.t.
100	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
101	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
102	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	s.t.
103	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
104	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
105	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
106	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	0:00:39
107	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
108	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:00:41
109	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	0:00:43
110	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	0:00:49
111	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
112	Tony Martin	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:00:54
113	Gianni Moscon	Sky	@ 1min 1sec
114	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	0:01:09
115	Sebastian Lander	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
116	Matthew Harley Goss	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
117	Martin Mortensen	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
118	Lars Boom	Astana	s.t.
119	Tariq Obaid	Skydive Dubai	0:01:41
120	Alex Dowsett	Movistar	0:02:19

Final GC after Stage 4:

• Final GC leader: Marcel Kittel
• Points classification winner: Marcel Kittel
• Young rider classification winner: Soufiane Haddi
• Team Classification winner: Movistar

665 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.988 km/hr

1	Marcel Kittel	Etixx - Quick-Step	14hr 46min 54sec
2	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	@ 4sec
3	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	0:00:06
4	Silvan Dillier	BMC	0:00:16
5	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	0:00:23
6	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	0:00:25
7	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
8	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	0:00:28
9	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
10	Soufiane Haddi	Skydive Dubai	0:00:29
11	Elia Viviani	Sky	0:00:32
12	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:00:33
13	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:00:35
14	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
15	Andrea Palini	Skydive Dubai	0:00:41
16	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	0:00:43
17	Koen De Kort	Team Giant-Alpecin	0:00:44
18	Ben Swift	Sky	0:00:48
19	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	0:00:50
20	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	0:00:53
21	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
22	Roy Curvers	Team Giant-Alpecin	0:00:58
23	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
24	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	0:00:59
25	Chris Opie	One Pro Cycling	@ 1min 0sec
26	Matteo Trentin	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:01:03
27	Javier Megias Leal	Novo Nordisk	0:01:04
28	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:01:05
29	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	0:01:09
30	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	0:01:12
31	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar	0:01:16
32	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
33	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
34	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	0:01:31
35	Marc Soler	Movistar	0:01:33
36	Michal Golas	Sky	0:01:36
37	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Sky	s.t.
38	Loic Vliegen	BMC	0:01:41
39	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
40	Tom Bohli	BMC	0:01:43
41	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:01:46
42	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
43	Peter Williams	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
44	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
45	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	0:02:05
46	Lars Boom	Astana	0:02:08
47	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	0:02:13
48	Adil Jelloul	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
49	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	0:02:17
50	Nikolas Maes	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:02:18
51	Ivan Santaromita	Skydive Dubai	0:02:28
52	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:02:34
53	Caleb Fairly	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
54	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:02:39
55	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
57	Bert De Backer	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
58	Marcin Bialoblocki	One Pro Cycling	0:02:47
59	Yanto Barker	One Pro Cycling	0:02:50
60	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	0:02:56
61	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
62	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	0:02:57
63	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	0:02:59
64	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	0:03:05
65	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:03:07
66	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	0:03:21
67	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	0:03:26
68	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	0:03:45
69	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
70	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
71	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:46
72	Tony Martin	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:03:49
73	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	0:03:56
74	Sebastian Lander	One Pro Cycling	0:03:59
75	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
76	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:04:14
77	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:04:17
78	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:04:19
79	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	0:04:24
80	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	0:04:37
81	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	s.t.
82	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	0:05:14
83	Carter Jones	Team Giant-Alpecin	0:05:19
84	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	0:05:20
85	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	0:05:21
86	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	0:05:29
87	Andrea Guardini	Astana	0:05:36
88	Martijn Verschoor	Novo Nordisk	0:05:48
89	Stephen Clancy	Novo Nordisk	0:05:52
90	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	0:05:53
91	Hayden Mccormick	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
92	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	0:05:55
93	Alex Dowsett	Movistar	0:05:56
94	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	0:06:00
95	Martin Mortensen	One Pro Cycling	0:06:07
96	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	0:06:12
97	Julien Vermote	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:06:27
98	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:06:36
99	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
100	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:06:42
101	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	0:06:53
102	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	0:07:12
103	Matthew Harley Goss	One Pro Cycling	0:07:22
104	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:08:08
105	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Skydive Dubai	0:08:14
106	Ibrahim Al Ali	Skydive Dubai	0:09:16
107	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	0:09:18
108	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	0:09:19
109	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:09:42
110	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai	0:10:01
111	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	0:10:14
112	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:10:39
113	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	0:10:58
114	Gianni Moscon	Sky	0:12:29
115	Iljo Keisse	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:12:32
116	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:12:43
117	Andrew Fenn	Sky	0:12:47
118	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	0:13:49
119	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	0:17:07
120	Tariq Obaid	Skydive Dubai	0:19:17

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Stage 3: The Westin Stage / February 5 Dubai International Marine Club – Hatta Dam (172km)

Juan José Lobato wins at Hatta Dam

The Course: It’s the hardest stage of Dubai tour, 172km on a course which replicates almost entirely the inaugural edition stage, with the addition of the harder final climb of Hatta Dam, as experienced in 2015. It’s characterized by long stretches in the desert crossing the two neighboring Emirates of Sharjah and Ras-al-Khaimah. Once it has left the last buildings in Dubai, the stage will touch Labab, Al Madam and Al Malahia on the road to Hatta where, before facing the finale, riders will face two climbs, the second with peaks of 11% and a fast and challenging downhill. The last three kilometres are a continuous ascent up to face the final climb that leads to the dam: a short stretch of about 200 meters with an inclination from 12% to 17%.

The Race: Just a few kilometers into the race five men rolled off the front. Team Sky spent the day spending watts keeping the break close at hand. Indeed, the quintet was never allowed much more than a couple of minutes.

The day's racing was always going to be centered on the Hatta Dam ascent, and that's where the action did start. The break was caught as Astana rider Dimitry Gruzdev tried his luck. Others rolled the dice, but it was for naught as the big guns began their moves.

It was Movistar rider Juan José Lobato who had the strength to go slightly clear at the end, dropping such storied riders and Fabian Cancellara and Philippe Gilbert.

The day's second-place, Giacomo Nizzolo, becomes the new GC leader.

Complete Results:

172 kilometers race at an average speed of 40.729 km/hr

1	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	4hr 13min 23sec
2	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	@ 2sec
3	Silvan Dillier	BMC	0:00:04
4	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
5	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	s.t.
6	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
7	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	0:00:07
8	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	s.t.
9	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
10	Matteo Trentin	Etixx-Quick Step	0:00:11
11	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:00:14
12	Soufiane Haddi	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
13	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
14	Lars Boom	Astana	0:00:17
15	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	0:00:20
16	Andrea Palini	Skydive Dubai	0:00:25
17	Ben Swift	Sky	0:00:27
18	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	s.t.
19	Koen De Kort	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
20	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	s.t.
21	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	0:00:32
22	Javier Megias Leal	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
23	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
24	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
25	Elia Viviani	Sky	s.t.
26	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	s.t.
27	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
28	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	0:00:37
29	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
30	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	0:00:40
31	Adil Jelloul	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
32	Roy Curvers	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
33	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
34	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Sky	0:00:44
35	Chris Opie	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
36	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar	s.t.
37	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
38	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
39	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
40	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
41	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	@ 1min 9sec
42	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	0:01:15
43	Michal Golas	Sky	s.t.
44	Tom Bohli	BMC	0:01:22
45	Loic Vliegen	BMC	s.t.
46	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	0:01:25
47	Peter Williams	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
48	Julien Vermote	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
49	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
50	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
51	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
52	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
53	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	0:01:33
54	Ivan Santaromita	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
55	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	0:01:48
56	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	0:01:52
57	Nikolas Maes	Etixx-Quick Step	0:01:57
58	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	0:02:00
59	Tony Martin	Etixx-Quick Step	0:02:05
60	Caleb Fairly	Giant-Alpecin	0:02:13
61	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
62	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:02:15
63	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	0:02:18
64	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	s.t.
65	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
66	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	s.t.
67	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
68	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	0:02:24
69	Carter Jones	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
70	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
71	Marcin Bialoblocki	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
73	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:02:29
74	Sebastian Lander	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
75	Martin Mortensen	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
76	Yanto Barker	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
77	Bert De Backer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
78	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	0:02:36
79	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	0:02:40
80	Alex Dowsett	Movistar	0:03:05
81	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
82	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	0:03:24
83	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
84	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
85	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:30
86	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	0:03:35
87	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	0:03:39
88	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	0:03:47
89	Nicolas Lefrancois	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
90	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:03:58
91	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
92	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	0:04:05
93	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	0:05:15
94	Stephen Clancy	Novo Nordisk	0:05:20
95	Andrea Guardini	Astana	s.t.
96	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
97	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
98	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:05:23
99	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
100	Iljo Keisse	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
101	Martijn Verschoor	Novo Nordisk	0:05:32
102	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
103	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	s.t.
104	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	0:05:35
105	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	s.t.
106	Hayden Mccormick	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
107	Matthew Harley Goss	One Pro Cycling	0:05:41
108	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	0:05:46
109	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	0:06:09
110	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:06:15
111	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:06:29
112	Ibrahim Al Ali	Skydive Dubai	0:07:16
113	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	0:07:48
114	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Skydive Dubai	0:07:53
115	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
116	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	s.t.
117	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
118	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	0:08:56
119	Gianni Moscon	Sky	0:10:56
120	Andrew Fenn	Sky	0:11:09
121	Tariq Obaid	Skydive Dubai	0:11:36
122	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	0:12:34

GC after Stage 3:

539 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 45.156 km/hr

1	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	11hr 56min 11sec
2	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	@ 2sec
3	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	0:00:06
4	Silvan Dillier	BMC	0:00:12
5	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	0:00:19
6	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	0:00:21
7	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
8	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	0:00:24
9	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
10	Soufiane Haddi	Skydive Dubai	0:00:25
11	Matteo Trentin	Etixx-Quick Step	0:00:28
12	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:00:29
13	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:00:31
14	Elia Viviani	Sky	0:00:34
15	Andrea Palini	Skydive Dubai	0:00:37
16	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
17	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	0:00:39
18	Koen De Kort	Giant-Alpecin	0:00:40
19	Ben Swift	Sky	0:00:44
20	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	0:00:49
21	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
22	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
23	Manuel Senni	BMC	0:00:54
24	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	0:00:55
25	Lars Boom	Astana	s.t.
26	Chris Opie	One Pro Cycling	0:00:56
27	Roy Curvers	Giant-Alpecin	0:00:57
28	Marc Soler	Movistar	0:00:58
29	Javier Megias	Novo Nordisk	@ 1min 0sec
30	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:01:01
31	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Sky	s.t.
32	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	0:01:05
33	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	0:01:08
34	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar	0:01:12
35	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
36	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
37	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
38	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	0:01:27
39	Michal Golas	Sky	0:01:32
40	Loic Vliegen	BMC	0:01:37
41	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
42	Tom Bohli	BMC	0:01:39
43	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	0:01:42
44	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
45	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
46	Peter Williams	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
47	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
48	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:01:53
49	Ivan Santaromita	Skydive Dubai	0:02:01
50	Adil Jelloul	Skydive Dubai	0:02:09
51	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
52	Nikolas Maes	Etixx-Quick Step	0:02:14
53	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	0:02:16
54	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:02:30
55	Caleb Fairly	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
56	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:02:32
57	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:02:35
58	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
59	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	0:02:41
60	Bert De Backer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
61	Marcin Bialoblocki	One Pro Cycling	0:02:43
62	Yanto Barker	One Pro Cycling	0:02:46
63	Sebastian Lander	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
64	Tony Martin	Etixx-Quick Step	0:02:51
65	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	0:02:52
66	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
67	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	0:02:53
68	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	0:03:01
69	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	0:03:16
70	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	0:03:17
71	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	0:03:22
72	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	0:03:32
73	Alex Dowsett	Movistar	0:03:33
74	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	0:03:41
75	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
76	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
77	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:42
78	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	0:03:52
79	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	0:04:02
80	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	0:04:07
81	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:04:10
82	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:04:15
83	Nicolas Lefrancois	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
84	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	0:04:20
85	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	0:04:33
86	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	0:04:47
87	Martin Mortensen	One Pro Cycling	0:04:54
88	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	0:04:59
89	Carter Jones	Giant-Alpecin	0:05:15
90	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	0:05:21
91	Andrea Guardini	Astana	0:05:32
92	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	0:05:37
93	Martijn Verschoor	Novo Nordisk	0:05:44
94	Stephen Clancy	Novo Nordisk	0:05:48
95	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	0:05:49
96	Hayden Mccormick	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
97	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	0:05:51
98	Julien Vermote	Etixx-Quick Step	0:05:52
99	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	0:05:56
100	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	0:06:03
101	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	0:06:06
102	Matthew Harley Goss	One Pro Cycling	0:06:09
103	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
104	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:06:32
105	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	0:06:37
106	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:08:04
107	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Skydive Dubai	0:08:10
108	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	0:08:45
109	Ibrahim Al Ali	Skydive Dubai	0:09:12
110	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	0:09:15
111	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai	0:09:34
112	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:09:38
113	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	0:09:39
114	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:10:04
115	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	0:10:54
116	Gianni Moscon	Sky	0:11:24
117	Iljo Keisse	Etixx-Quick Step	0:11:57
118	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:12:08
119	Andrew Fenn	Sky	0:12:43
120	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	0:13:14
121	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	0:16:14
122	Tariq Obaid	Skydive Dubai	0:17:32

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Stage 2: Nakheel Stage / February 4 Dubai International Marine Club – Palm Jumeirah (Atlantis) (183km)

Elia Viviani wins Dubai stage 2

The Course: A stage of two distinct parts. The first part is just outside the metropolis, partially in the desert, the second part within Dubai Marina to end in Palm Jumeirah, in front of the Atlantis “door”. The first part will pass next to the Camel Track, the Al Qudra bike path, the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Sports Complex pool and through the desert. The second part returns into the city touching Dubailand, the Jumeirah Golf Club and Dubai Sports City. It then heads to the finale on the Palm through an underwater tunnel before the last kilometers, with the halfway point on the artificial island. From here there will be 3200m to the final sprint.

The race: Since I was shameless enough to post Sky's telling of today's Herald Sun Tour stage, I figure I might as well continue on that path. Here's Sky's telling of their second race victory of the day.

Elia Viviani sprinted to his first win of the season at the Dubai Tour and took the race lead. After a 'perfect' lead-out the Italian claimed a comfortable win on the Palm Jumeirah island, with team-mate Ben Swift finishing sixth. As well as taking the blue race leader's jersey, Viviani also moved to the top of the points classification.

It made it a stunning 24 hours for the team, following Wout Poels' time-trial victory at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Peter Kennaugh's stage win at the Herald Sun Tour.

The lead-out worked to perfection in Dubai after the disappointment of day one, and Viviani was quick to thank his team-mates after the stage. He said: "[Michal] Golas, Andy Fenn and [Ben] Swifty did a perfect lead-out for me. We came out of the tunnel really, really fast. Andy and Swifty took me to 100m to go so a big thanks to the team. Perfect job!

"Yesterday we had some faults and we went too early. I had to do two sprints and I'm not competitive with big sprinters if I have to sprint to take position before sprinting for the victory.

"We had a good meeting this morning with (Sport Directors) Nico (Portal) and Brett (Lancaster). Brett has a lot of experience in the lead-outs and we knew yesterday that we went too early. Everyone was really motivated after that and I'm really happy we worked out."

The victory marked the first step in an ambitious goal for Viviani during the 2016 campaign as he aims for 10 victories on the road.

He explained: "This year we decided to do something with the fans to countdown my wins from one to hopefully 10. This is the first one on the board. Last year I finished with nine victories so this year I said okay, we need to do 10 for the first time because I've never done it before. But it is good to have a goal like this to aim for. I would have preferred to win at the Tour de San Luis last week but it's perfect to start the season here like I did last year. Maybe it's a lucky race for me!"

The pan-flat stage unfolded as expected and a four-man break was swallowed up by the peloton with 15 kilometres to go. As the pace ramped up towards the finish the sprinters' teams begun to fight for position at the front of the bunch before a Trek-Segafredo rider crashed inside the last kilometre, disrupting the peloton.

Sky were on the outside edge of the group and unaffected by the crash, which seemed to cause race leader Marcel Kittel problems.

That left Viviani in the perfect position to sprint and, after a great lead-out by Gianni Moscon, Christian Knees, Golas, Fenn and Swift, he did the rest.

Complete results:

1	Elia Viviani	Sky	4hr 7min 39sec
2	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
3	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
4	Andrea Guardini	Astana	s.t.
5	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
6	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
7	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	s.t.
8	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
9	Chris Opie	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
10	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	s.t.
11	Martijn Verschoor	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
12	Andrea Palini	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
13	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar Team	s.t.
14	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	s.t.
15	Yanto Barker	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
16	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	s.t.
17	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	s.t.
18	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar Team	s.t.
19	Silvan Dillier	BMC	s.t.
20	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
21	Loic Vliegen	BMC	s.t.
22	Marcel Kittel	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
23	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	s.t.
24	Matteo Trentin	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
25	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
26	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
27	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
28	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
29	Charles Planet	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
30	Andrew Fenn	Sky	s.t.
31	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
32	Nikolas Maes	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
33	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	s.t.
34	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
35	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
36	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
37	Roy Curvers	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
38	Bert De Backer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
39	Koen De Kort	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
40	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
41	Michal Golas	Sky	s.t.
42	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
43	David Lozano Riba	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
44	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
45	Nicolas Lefrancois	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
46	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
47	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar Team	s.t.
48	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar Team	s.t.
49	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
50	Andrea Peron	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
51	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
52	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
53	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
54	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	s.t.
55	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
56	Joonas Henttala	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
57	Soufiane Haddi	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
58	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
59	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	s.t.
60	Sebastian Lander	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	s.t.
62	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	s.t.
63	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
64	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
65	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
66	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
67	Caleb Fairly	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
68	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
69	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
70	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	s.t.
71	Peter Williams	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Marcin Bialoblocki	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
73	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
74	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
75	Alex Dowsett	Movistar Team	s.t.
76	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
77	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
78	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
79	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	s.t.
80	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
81	Marc Soler	Movistar Team	s.t.
82	Hayden Mccormick	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
83	Ibrahim Al Ali	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
84	Stephen Clancy	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
85	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
86	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
87	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	s.t.
88	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	s.t.
89	Ivan Santaromita	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
90	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
91	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
92	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
93	Adil Jelloul	Al Nasr-Dubai	@ 1min 12sec
94	Bernhard Eisel	Dimension Data	s.t.
95	Lars Boom	Astana	s.t.
96	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
97	Javier Megias Leal	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
98	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
99	Carter Jones	Giant-Alpecin	0:01:45
100	Tony Martin	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
101	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Team Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
102	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff	s.t.
103	Gianni Moscon	Sky	s.t.
104	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	s.t.
105	Martin Mortensen	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
106	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
107	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
108	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
109	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	0:02:12
110	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
111	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
112	Matthew Harley Goss	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
113	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	0:02:30
114	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	s.t.
115	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	0:02:32
116	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
117	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
118	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	0:02:54
119	Francisco Mancebo	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:45
120	Tariq Obaid	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:47
121	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
122	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar Team	0:03:57
123	Julien Vermote	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:03:59
124	Iljo Keisse	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.

GC after stage 2:

1	Elia Viviani	Sky	7hr 42min 50sec
2	Marcel Kittel	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
3	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	@ 2sec
4	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	0:00:04
5	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	s.t.
6	Soufiane Haddi	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:00:09
7	Andrea Guardini	Astana	0:00:10
8	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
9	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	s.t.
10	Chris Opie	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
11	Andrea Palini	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
12	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
13	Martijn Verschoor	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
14	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar Team	s.t.
15	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar Team	s.t.
16	Silvan Dillier	BMC	s.t.
17	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	s.t.
18	Bert De Backer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
19	Koen De Kort	Giant-Alpecin	0:00:11
20	Loic Vliegen	BMC	0:00:13
21	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
22	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	0:00:15
23	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	s.t.
24	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	s.t.
25	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	s.t.
26	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
27	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
28	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
29	Roy Curvers	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
30	Matteo Trentin	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
31	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
32	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
33	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
34	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
35	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	s.t.
36	Michal Golas	Sky	s.t.
37	Yanto Barker	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
38	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
39	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
40	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
41	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
42	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
43	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
44	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
45	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
46	Nikolas Maes	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
47	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar Team	s.t.
48	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
49	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
50	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
51	Andrea Peron	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
52	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
53	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
54	Sebastian Lander	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
55	Caleb Fairly	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
56	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
57	Peter Williams	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
58	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
59	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
60	Hayden Mccormick	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
62	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
63	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
64	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
65	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Team Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
66	Marcin Bialoblocki	ONE Pro Cycling	0:00:17
67	Marc Soler	Movistar Team	0:00:24
68	Charles Planet	Team Tinkoff	0:00:26
69	David Lozano Riba	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
70	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar Team	s.t.
71	Nicolas Lefrancois	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
72	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	s.t.
73	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
74	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
75	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	s.t.
76	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
77	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
78	Alex Dowsett	Movistar Team	s.t.
79	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	s.t.
80	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
81	Stephen Clancy	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
82	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
83	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
84	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
85	Ivan Santaromita	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
86	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	s.t.
87	Javier Megias Leal	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
88	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
89	Gianni Moscon	Sky	s.t.
90	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff	s.t.
91	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
92	Matthew Harley Goss	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
93	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	0:00:34
94	Joonas Henttala	Team Tinkoff	s.t.
95	Lars Boom	Astana	0:00:36
96	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	0:00:44
97	Tony Martin	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
98	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	0:00:55
99	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	0:00:57
100	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	0:00:59
101	Bernhard Eisel	Dimension Data	s.t.
102	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	@ 1min 10sec
103	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:01:12
104	Adil Jelloul	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:01:27
105	Andrew Fenn	Sky	0:01:32
106	Ibrahim Al Ali	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:01:54
107	Martin Mortensen	ONE Pro Cycling	0:02:23
108	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	0:02:27
109	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	0:02:45
110	Carter Jones	Giant-Alpecin	0:02:49
111	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	0:03:20
112	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:33
113	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	0:03:38
114	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	s.t.
115	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
116	Francisco Mancebo	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:04:00
117	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:04:13
118	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
119	Julien Vermote	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:04:25
120	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	0:05:17
121	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	0:05:19
122	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar Team	0:05:32
123	Tariq Obaid	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:05:54
124	Iljo Keisse	Etixx - Quick-Step	0:06:22

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Stage 1: Fujairah Stage / February 3 Dubai International Marine Club – Fujairah (173km)

Stage 1 video

Marcel Kittel wins stage one.

The course: The stage joins the beach of Dubai Marina on the Arabian Gulf with the beach of Fujairah on the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman). It runs through the entire stretch of desert between Dubai and Fujairah through the territory of four different Emirates (Dubai, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Fujairah).

It touches the Silicon Oasis area before facing the long straights that, cutting through the dunes, lead to the Hajar Mountains for a short and mild sequence of hills. It then arrives into Fujairah, where there will be a 6.6km circuit to be completed twice.

The race: Marcel Kittel put on a superb display of power and speed today when he started his sprint early, from way back to take the Dubai Tour's first stage. Mark Cavendish was moving up (see video), but no one was going to beat the big German today.

After the race Kittel said, "Especially after the hard season I had last year, I'm incredibly happy that I could win today for my first race with my new team. Everything has worked so well that I can't think of any topic to raise to make it better. The boys have done a good job. We were the strongest in the lead out and the timing was perfect. We made a plan and we executed it. I certainly enjoyed the win, this one has a special flavour. As I said before the season, I restart at zero. I feel very good about today's outcome. We'll stay focused and hopefully there's more to come for us at the Dubai Tour."

Complete results:

173 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.201 km/hr (yes, I checked it several times!)

1	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick-Step	3hr 35min 21sec
2	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	s.t.
3	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
4	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
5	Andrea Palini	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
6	Andrea Guardini	Astana	s.t.
7	Chris Opie	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
8	Elia Viviani	Sky	s.t.
9	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	s.t.
10	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
11	Bert De Backer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
12	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	s.t.
13	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
14	Martijn Verschoor	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
15	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	s.t.
16	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	s.t.
17	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	@ 5sec
18	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
19	Silvan Dillier	BMC	s.t.
20	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	s.t.
21	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	s.t.
22	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
23	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
24	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
25	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	s.t.
26	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
27	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
28	Roy Curvers	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
29	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	s.t.
30	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
31	Loic Vliegen	BMC	s.t.
32	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
33	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
34	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
35	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
36	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
37	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
38	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
39	Michal Golas	Sky	s.t.
40	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
41	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
42	Matteo Trentin	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
44	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
45	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
46	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
47	Caleb Fairly	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
48	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
49	Koen De Kort	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
50	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
51	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
52	Peter Williams	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
53	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
54	Sebastian Lander	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
55	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Sky	s.t.
56	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
57	Hayden Mccormick	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
58	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
59	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
60	Soufiane Haddi	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
61	Nikolas Maes	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
62	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
63	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	s.t.
64	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
65	Adil Jelloul	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
66	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
67	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	s.t.
68	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
69	Yanto Barker	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
70	Marcin Bialoblocki	ONE Pro Cycling	0:00:16
71	Stephen Clancy	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
72	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
73	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
74	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	s.t.
75	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar	s.t.
76	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	s.t.
77	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
78	Alex Dowsett	Movistar	s.t.
79	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
80	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
81	Ivan Santaromita	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
82	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
83	Nicolas Lefrancois	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
84	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
85	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
86	Javier Megias Leal	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
87	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
88	Matthew Harley Goss	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
89	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	s.t.
90	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
91	Gianni Moscon	Sky	s.t.
92	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
93	Julien Vermote	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
94	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
95	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	s.t.
96	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
97	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff	s.t.
98	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	s.t.
99	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
100	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	0:00:24
101	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
102	Lars Boom	Astana	0:00:26
103	Tony Martin	Etixx-Quick-Step	0:00:34
104	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
105	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	0:00:45
106	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	0:00:47
107	Bernhard Eisel	Dimension Data	0:00:49
108	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	s.t.
109	Carter Jones	Giant-Alpecin	0:00:54
110	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	@ 1min 0sec
111	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick-Step	0:01:02
112	Andrew Fenn	Sky	0:01:22
113	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	0:01:25
114	Ibrahim Al Ali	Skydive Dubai	0:01:44
115	Tariq Obaid	Skydive Dubai	0:01:57
116	Martin Mortensen	ONE Pro Cycling	0:02:13
117	Iljo Keisse	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
118	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	0:02:37
119	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	s.t.
120	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:23
121	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	0:03:28
122	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
123	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	s.t.
124	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:04:03

GC after Stage 1:

1	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick-Step	3hr 35min 11sec
2	Mark Cavendish	Dimension Data	@ 4sec
3	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	0:00:06
4	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	0:00:09
5	Andrea Palini	Skydive Dubai	0:00:10
6	Andrea Guardini	Astana	s.t.
7	Chris Opie	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
8	Elia Viviani	Sky	s.t.
9	Michal Kolar	Tinkoff	s.t.
10	Tomas Vaitkus	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
11	Bert De Backer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
12	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	s.t.
13	Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
14	Martijn Verschoor	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
15	Michael Gogl	Tinkoff	s.t.
16	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	s.t.
17	Erik Baska	Tinkoff	s.t.
18	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick-Step	0:00:13
19	Silvan Dillier	BMC	s.t.
20	Daniele Bennati	Tinkoff	0:00:15
21	Christopher Latham	Team Wiggins	s.t.
22	Simone Ponzi	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
23	Kamberaj Xhuliano	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
24	Luca Wackermann	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
25	Laurens De Vreese	Astana	s.t.
26	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
27	Essaid Abelouache	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
28	Roy Curvers	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
29	Philippe Gilbert	BMC	s.t.
30	Yousif Mirza	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
31	Loic Vliegen	BMC	s.t.
32	Jaber Almansoori	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
33	Boy Van Poppel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
34	Rui Alberto Faria	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
35	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
36	Ruslan Tleubayev	Astana	s.t.
37	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
38	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
39	Michal Golas	Sky	s.t.
40	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
41	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
42	Matteo Trentin	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Ben Hermans	BMC	s.t.
44	Fabian Cancellara	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
45	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
46	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
47	Caleb Fairly	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
48	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
49	Koen De Kort	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
50	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
51	Amael Moinard	BMC	s.t.
52	Peter Williams	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
53	Manuel Senni	BMC	s.t.
54	Sebastian Lander	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
55	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Sky	s.t.
56	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
57	Hayden Mccormick	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
58	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
59	Stijn Devolder	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
60	Soufiane Haddi	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
61	Nikolas Maes	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
62	Francisco Mancebo	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
63	Liam Holohan	Team Wiggins	s.t.
64	Adrian Honkisz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
65	Adil Jelloul	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
66	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
67	Jonathan Dibben	Team Wiggins	s.t.
68	Jesus Alberto Rubio	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
69	Yanto Barker	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
70	Marcin Bialoblocki	ONE Pro Cycling	0:00:24
71	Stephen Clancy	Novo Nordisk	0:00:26
72	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
73	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
74	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	s.t.
75	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar	s.t.
76	Daniel Patten	Team Wiggins	s.t.
77	Samuel Sanchez	BMC	s.t.
78	Alex Dowsett	Movistar	s.t.
79	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
80	Simone Petilli	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
81	Ivan Santaromita	Skydive Dubai	s.t.
82	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
83	Nicolas Lefrancois	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
84	Christian Knees	Sky	s.t.
85	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
86	Javier Megias Leal	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
87	Sindre Skjoestad Lunke	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
88	Matthew Harley Goss	ONE Pro Cycling	s.t.
89	Mark Christian	Team Wiggins	s.t.
90	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
91	Gianni Moscon	Sky	s.t.
92	Daniil Fominykh	Astana	s.t.
93	Julien Vermote	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
94	Grégory Rast	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
95	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana	s.t.
96	Majid Albalushi	Al Nasr-Dubai	s.t.
97	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff	s.t.
98	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Dimension Data	s.t.
99	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
100	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	0:00:34
101	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
102	Lars Boom	Astana	0:00:36
103	Tony Martin	Etixx-Quick-Step	0:00:44
104	Chun Kai Feng	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
105	Marco Coledan	Trek-Segafredo	0:00:55
106	Mark Renshaw	Dimension Data	0:00:57
107	Bernhard Eisel	Dimension Data	0:00:59
108	Juraj Sagan	Tinkoff	s.t.
109	Carter Jones	Giant-Alpecin	@ 1min 4sec
110	Yaroslav Popovych	Trek-Segafredo	0:01:10
111	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick-Step	0:01:12
112	Andrew Fenn	Sky	0:01:32
113	Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo	Movistar	0:01:35
114	Ibrahim Al Ali	Skydive Dubai	0:01:54
115	Tariq Obaid	Skydive Dubai	0:02:07
116	Martin Mortensen	ONE Pro Cycling	0:02:23
117	Iljo Keisse	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
118	Matt Brammeier	Dimension Data	0:02:47
119	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	s.t.
120	Ahmed Almansouri	Al Nasr-Dubai	0:03:33
121	Bradley Wiggins	Team Wiggins	0:03:38
122	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	s.t.
123	Andrew Tennant	Team Wiggins	s.t.
124	Nick Dougall	Dimension Data	0:04:13

Stage 1 video:

 

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Start list with back numbers, February 1, 2016:

	DIMENSION DATA
1	CAVENDISH Mark
2	BERHANE Natnael
3	BRAMMEIER Matthew
4	DOUGALL Nick
5	EISEL Bernhard
6	JIM Songezo
7	RENSHAW Mark
8	TEKLEHAYMANOT Daniel
	ASTANA
11	GUARDINI Andrea
12	BOOM Lars
13	DE VREESE Laurens
14	FOMINYKH Daniil
15	GRUZDEV Dmitriy
16	SMUKULIS Gatis
17	TLEUBAYEV Ruslan
18	WESTRA Lieuwe
	BMC
21	GILBERT Philippe
22	BOHLI Tom
23	DILLIER Silvan
24	HERMANS Ben
25	MOINARD Amaël
26	SANCHEZ Samuel
27	SENNI Manuel
28	VLIEGEN Loïc
	CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE
31	REBELLIN Davide
32	KIENDYS Tomasz
33	KUREK Adrian
34	HONKISZ Adrian
35	MARYCZ Jaroslaw
36	SAMOILAU Branislau
37	STEPNIAK Grzegorz
38	PONZI Simone
	ETIXX-QUICK STEP
41	KITTEL Marcel
42	MARTIN Tony
43	MAES Nikolas
44	KEISSE Iljo
45	SABATINI Fabio
46	TRENTIN Matteo
47	VERMOTE Julien
48	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz
	LAMPRE-MERIDA
51	MODOLO Sacha
52	BONO Matteo
53	CONTI Valerio
54	FARIA Rui Alberto
55	FENG Chun Kai
56	FERRARI Roberto
57	PETILLI Simone
58	POLANC Jan
	MOVISTAR
61	VISCONTI Giovanni
62	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan
63	DOWSETT Alex
64	IZAGUIRRE Gorka
65	LOBATO Juan Jose
66	SANTOS SIMOES Nelson Filipe
67	SOLER Marc
68	SÜTTERLIN Jasha
	ONE PRO CYCLING
71	GOSS Matthew Harley
72	BARKER Yanto
73	BIALOBLOCKI Marcin
74	LANDER Sebastian
75	MCCORMICK Hayden
76	MORTENSEN Martin
77	OPIE Chris
78	WILLIAMS Peter
	SKYDIVE DUBAI PRO CYCLING TEAM-AL AHLI CLUB
81	SANTAROMITA Ivan
82	HADDI Soufiane
83	JELLOUL Adil
84	MANCEBO Francisco
85	OBAID Tarek Murad
86	PALINI Andrea
87	CHTIOUI Rafai
88	XHULIANO Kamberaj
	GIANT-ALPECIN
92	CURVERS Roy
93	DE BACKER Bert
94	DE KORT Koen
95	FAIRLY Caleb
96	JONES Carter
98	SKJOESTAD LUNKE Sindre
	NOVO NORDISK
101	CLANCY Stephen
102	HENTTALA Joonas
103	DEMESMAEKER Kevin
104	LEFRANCOIS Nicolas
105	LOZANO David
106	PERON Andrea
107	PLANET Charles
108	VERSCHOOR Martijn
	SKY
111	VIVIANI Elia
112	FENN Andrew
113	GOLAS Michal
114	KNEES Christian
115	MOSCON Gianni
116	NORDHAUG Lars Petter
117	SWIFT Ben
	TEAM WIGGINS
121	WIGGINS Bradley
122	CHRISTIAN Mark
123	DIBBEN Jonathan
124	DOULL Owain
125	HOLOHAN Liam
126	LATHAM Christopher
127	PATTEN Daniel
128	TENNANT Andrew
	TINKOFF
131	BENNATI Daniele
132	BASKA Erik
133	GOGL Michael
134	KISERLOVSKI Robert
135	KOLAR Michal
136	ROGERS Michael
137	ROVNY Ivan
138	SAGAN Juraj
	TREK
141	CANCELLARA Fabian
142	COLEDAN Marco
143	DEVOLDER Stijn
144	NIZZOLO Giacomo
145	POPOVYCH Yaroslav
146	RAST Grégory
147	STUYVEN Jasper
148	VAN POPPEL Boy
	AL NASR PRO CYCLING TEAM - DUBAI
151	WACKERMANN Luca
152	ABELOUACHE Essaïd
153	ALBALUSHI Majid Mohammad Abdulrahim
154	ALMANSOORY Abdulla Ahmed
155	ALMANSOORY Jaber Hussain
156	ALHAMMADI Yousif
157	RUBIO ARRIBAS Jesus Alberto
158	VAITKUS Tomas

Teams invited:

UCI WorldTeams:

ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ)
BMC RACING TEAM (USA)
DIMENSION DATA (RSA)
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (BEL)
LAMPRE - MERIDA (ITA)
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP)
TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN (GER)
TEAM SKY (GBR)
TINKOFF (RUS)
TREK FACTORY RACING (USA)

UCI Professional Continental Teams:

CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE (POL)
ONE PRO CYCLING (GBR)
TEAM NOVO NORDISK (USA)

UCI Continental Teams:

SKYDIVE DUBAI PRO CYCLING TEAM - AL AHLI CLUB (UAE)
TEAM WIGGINS (GBR)

National Selection:

UAE NATIONAL SELECTION (UAE)