| 2017 Tour of Slovakia | |
| Series: | 2017 UCI Europe Tour |
| Date: | 7–11 June 2017 |
| Stages: | 4 & Prologue |
| Distance: | 762.1 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 18h 13' 29" |
| First: | Jan Tratnik |
| First Nat: | SLO |
| First Color: | yellow |
| Second: | Mattia Cattaneo |
| Second Nat: | ITA |
| Third: | Piotr Brożyna |
| Third Nat: | POL |
| Points: | Jan Tratnik |
| Points Nat: | SLO |
| Points Color: | blue polkadot |
| Mountains: | Daniel Turek |
| Mountains Nat: | CZE |
| Mountains Color: | polkadot |
| Youth: | Piotr Brożyna |
| Youth Nat: | POL |
| Youth Color: | white |
| Previous: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 Okolo Slovenska was a five-day cycling stage race that took place in Slovakia between 7 and 11 June 2017. The race was the 61st edition of the Okolo Slovenska; it was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour, an upgrade from 2.2 in 2016.[1] The race included four stages and a race-opening prologue individual time trial, starting in Levoča and finishing in Trnava.[2]
The race was won by Slovenian rider Jan Tratnik, riding for the team.[3]
The race route was announced on 5 April 2017.[2]
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | 7 June | Levoča | 3.7km (02.3miles) | Individual time trial | ||||
| 1 | 8 June | Levoča to Banská Bystrica | 211.8km (131.6miles) | Hilly stage | ||||
| 2 | 9 June | Banská Bystrica to Nitra | 172km (107miles) | Mountain stage | ||||
| 3 | 10 June | Nitra to Trnava | 222.1km (138miles) | Hilly stage | ||||
| 4 | 11 June | Trnava to Trnava | 152.5km (94.8miles) | Intermediate stage | ||||
| Total | 762.1km (473.5miles) | |||||||
Twenty-five teams participated in the 2017 edition of the Okolo Slovenska. These included five UCI Professional Continental teams, sixteen UCI Continental teams and four national teams.[4]
In the 2017 Tour of Slovakia, five different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of mass-start stages; these were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey; it was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour of Slovakia, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points for | 6 | 4 | 2 | |
| Points for | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage finishes | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Intermediate sprints | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
The fourth jersey represented the classification for young riders, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Slovakian riders, marked by a white, blue and red jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Slovakia were eligible to be ranked in the classification. 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.
| Stage | Winner | General classification | Points classification | Mountains classification | Young rider classification | Slovakian rider classification | Team classification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | P | Jan Tratnik | Jan Tratnik | Not awarded | Not awarded | Piotr Brożyna | Patrik Tybor | |
| scope=row | 1 | Mihkel Räim | Jan Tratnik | Daniel Turek | ||||
| scope=row | 2 | Matteo Malucelli | ||||||
| scope=row | 3 | Matej Mugerli | ||||||
| scope=row | 4 | Ivan Savitskiy | ||||||
| Final | Jan Tratnik | [10] | [11] | Piotr Brożyna[12] | Patrik Tybor | [13] | ||