2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour

Initially, 21 teams were invited to the race. The peloton featured three Professional Continental Teams, 17 Continental Teams and a Romanian national team, including for the first time, teams from North America.[3][4]

However, Team ColoQuick–Cult and Kuwait–Cartucho.es did not compete, which left the starting peloton at 19 teams.[5]

The race route was announced in December 2016.

Stage schedule

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
P	5 July	Sibiu to Sibiu	2.3 km (1 mi)		Individual time trial	Andrea Palini (ITA)
1	6 July	Sibiu to Sibiu	211.8 km (132 mi)		Medium-mountain stage	Edwin Ávila (COL)
2	7 July	Sibiu to Bâlea Lake	160 km (99 mi)		Mountain stage	Egan Bernal (COL)
3	8 July	Sibiu to Păltiniș	211.5 km (131 mi)		Mountain stage	Egan Bernal (COL)
4	9 July	Sibiu to Sibiu	148.4 km (92 mi)		Medium-mountain stage	Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU)

In the 2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour, six different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.[6] Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third.[6] The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a yellow jersey.[6] This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.

There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey.[6] In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either category SA, A, B or C, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.[6] The third jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1994 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.

Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a white jersey.[6] In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages (with the exception of the prologue) were awarded the same number of points. 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 with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place.[6] The fifth classification was the sprints classification, the leader of which was awarded a blue jersey.[6] In the sprints classification, riders received points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage – awarded on a 3–2–1 scale – and these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.

The sixth and final jersey represented the classification for Romanian riders, marked by a red jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Romania were eligible to be ranked in the classification.[6] There was also a team classification, 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.[6]

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Sprints classification	Romanian rider classification	Teams classification
P[18]	Andrea Palini[19]	Andrea Palini	Not awarded	Not awarded	Gašper Katrašnik	Not awarded	Eduard-Michael Grosu	Androni–Sidermec–Bottecchia
1[20]	Edwin Ávila	Edwin Ávila	Edwin Ávila[lower-alpha 1]	Moritz Fußnegger		Edwin Ávila[lower-alpha 2]		Team Illuminate
2[21]	Egan Bernal	Egan Bernal	Egan Bernal[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]		Egan Bernal[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]	Germán Tivani		Roth–Akros
3[22]	Egan Bernal
4[23]	Eduard-Michael Grosu					Damian Lüscher
Final[23]		Egan Bernal[17]	Egan Bernal[24]	Moritz Fußnegger[25]	Egan Bernal[26]	Damian Lüscher[27]	Eduard-Michael Grosu[28]	Roth–Akros[29]

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