2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour

The peloton featured three Professional Continental Teams, 14 Continental Teams and two national teams.[2]

The race route was announced in December 2017.

Stage schedule

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
P	5 July	Sibiu to Sibiu	2.2 km (1 mi)		Individual time trial	Davide Ballerini (ITA)
1	6 July	Sibiu to Balea Lac	91.2 km (57 mi)		Mountain stage	Ivan Sosa (COL)
2	7 July	Sibiu to Paltinis	185.4 km (115 mi)		Mountain stage	Stage Cancelled
3a	8 July	Cisnadie to Sibiu	9.6 km (6 mi)		Team time trial	CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice
3b	8 July	Sibiu to Sibiu	152.8 km (95 mi)		Medium-mountain stage	Jason van Dalen (NED)

In the 2018 Sibiu Cycling Tour, six different jerseys are awarded of which four are worn in the race. The most important is the general classification, which is calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses are 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.[3] 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.[3] The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a yellow jersey.[3] This classification is considered the most important of the 2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour, and the winner of the classification is considered the winner of the race.

There is also a mountains classification, the leadership of which is marked by a white jersey.[3] In the mountains classification, points towards the classification are won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb is categorised as either category SA, A, B or C, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.[3]

The third jersey represents the young rider classification, marked by an orange jersey. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 are eligible to be ranked in the classification.

The fourth classification is the sprints classification, the leader of which is awarded a blue jersey.[3] In the sprints classification, riders receive 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 offer bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.

Additionally, there is a points classification, which awards a green jersey but that jersey is not represented in the race and only present on the podium.[3] In the points classification, cyclists receive 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) are awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earns 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.[3]

The sixth and final jersey represents the classification for Romanian riders, marked by a red jersey. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Romania are eligible to be ranked in the classification. Like the points jersey this is only present on the podium and is not worn in race[3]

There are also awards for the team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added together; the leading team at the end of the race is the team with the lowest total time.

Stage	Winner	General classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Sprints classification	Points classification	Romanian rider classification	Teams classification
P	Davide Ballerini[10]	Davide Ballerini	Not awarded	Jens Van Den Dool[11]	Not awarded	Not awarded	Eduard-Michael Grosu[12]	Delta Cycling Rotterdam[13]
1	Ivan Sosa	Ivan Sosa	Ivan Sosa[14][lower-alpha 1]	Ivan Sosa[15][lower-alpha 2]	Adrian Janssen[16]	Ivan Sosa[17]	Emil Dima[18]	Sangemini–MG.K Vis Vega[19]
2	Stage Cancelled
3a	CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice							Gazprom–RusVelo
3b	Jason Van Dalen

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