2012 Tour of Oman

2012 Tour of Oman
Race details
Dates14–19 February
Stages6
Distance875 km (543.7 mi)
Winning time21h 32' 02"
Results
Winner  Peter Velits (Slovakia) (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step)
  Second  Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) (Liquigas–Cannondale)
  Third  Tony Gallopin (France) (RadioShack–Nissan)

Points  Peter Sagan (Slovakia) (Liquigas–Cannondale)
Youth  Tony Gallopin (France) (RadioShack–Nissan)
  Team RadioShack–Nissan

The 2012 Tour of Oman was the third edition of the Tour of Oman cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour, and was held from 14 to 19 February 2012, in Oman.

The race was won by Slovakia's Peter Velits, of the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step team, taking the race lead on the penultimate day and holding it to the finish. Velits' winning margin over runner-up Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas–Cannondale) – winner of the race's queen stage to Jabal al Akhdar – was just one second, after Nibali tried to gain bonus seconds at one of the final day's intermediate sprints but could not gain time. The final place on the podium went to RadioShack–Nissan's Tony Gallopin, sixteen seconds behind Nibali and 17 seconds down on Velits. In the race's other classifications, Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale won the points classification on the final stage, Gallopin won the white jersey for the youth classification with his third place overall in the general classification, BMC Racing Team's Klaas Lodewyck won the combative classification for the race's intermediate sprints, and RadioShack–Nissan finished at the head of the teams classification.