The 2023 UCI Asia Tour was the 19th season of the UCI Asia Tour. The season began on 13 November 2022 with the Tour de Okinawa and ended in October 2023.[1]

2023 UCI Asia Tour
Nineteenth edition of the UCI Asia Tour
Details
Dates13 November 2022 – 16 October 2023
LocationAsia
Races26
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The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wore the UCI Asia Tour cycling jersey.

Throughout the season, points were awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determined how many points were awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points were awarded.

The UCI race classifications from highest to lowest were as follows:

  • Multi-day events: 2.1 and 2.2
  • One-day events: 1.1 and 1.2

Events

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Races in the 2023 UCI Asia Tour[1]
Race Rating Date Winner Team
  Tour de Okinawa 1.2 13 November 2022   Benjamín Prades (ESP) Team Ukyo
  Tour of Sharjah 2.2 27–31 January 2023   Adne van Engelen (NED) Roojai Online Insurance
  Saudi Tour 2.1 30 January – 3 February 2023   Ruben Guerreiro (POR) Movistar Team
  Muscat Classic 1.1 10 February 2023   Jenthe Biermans (BEL) Arkéa–Samsic
  Tour de Taiwan 2.1 12–16 March 2023   Jeroen Meijers (NED) Terengganu Polygon Cycling Team
  Tour of Thailand 2.1 1–6 April 2023   Batsaikhany Tegshbayar (MGL) Roojai Online Insurance
  The Tour Oqtosh - Chorvoq - Mountain I 1.2 10 May 2023   Ulugbek Saidov (UZB) Team Novo Nordisk
  The Tour Oqtosh - Chorvoq - Mountain II 1.2 11 May 2023   Periklis Ilias (GRE) P.S. Kronos
  Tour of Bostonliq I 1.2 13 May 2023   Daniil Marukhin (KAZ) Kazakhstan (national team)
  Tour of Bostonliq II 1.2 14 May 2023   Ilkhan Dostiyev (KAZ) Kazakhstan (national team)
  Tour of Japan 2.1 21–28 May 2023   Nathan Earle (AUS) JCL Team Ukyo
  Kozagawa-City International Road Race 1.2 2 June 2023 The race was cancelled due to the bad weather conditions.
  Tour de Kumano 2.2 3–4 June 2023   Atsushi Oka (JPN) JCL Team Ukyo
  Aziz Shusha 2.2 8–11 June 2023   Emanuele Ansaloni (ITA) Team Technipes #inEmiliaRomagna
  Tour of Huangshan 2.2 21–23 July 2023   Julien Trarieux (FRA) China Glory–Mentech Continental Cycling Team
  Tour of Kandovan 1.2 26 August 2023   Anton Kuzmin (KAZ) Almaty Cycling Team
  Tour of Iran (Azarbaijan) 2.1 27–31 August 2023   Saeid Safarzadeh (IRI) Tianyoude Hotel Cycling Team
  PingTan International Road Race 1.2 3 September 2023 Race is cancelled due to bad weather circumstances.
  Tour de Hokkaido 2.2 8–10 September 2023 The race was cancelled after an accident involving a rider and a car.
  Tour of Poyang Lake 2.2 8–12 September 2023   Lü Xianjing (CHN) China Glory–Mentech Continental Cycling Team
  Tour of Salalah 2.2 10–13 September 2023   Grega Bole (SVN) Shabab Al Ahli Cycling Team
  Tour of Binzhou 2.2 23–24 September 2023   Lucas Carstensen (GER) Roojai Online Insurance
  Oita Urban Classic 1.2 1 October 2023   Ryan Cavanagh (AUS) Kinan Racing Team
  Tour de Kyushu 2.1 7–9 October 2023   Andrey Zeits (KAZ) Astana Qazaqstan Team
  Trans–Himalaya Cycling Race 2.2 14–16 October 2023   Carlos Torres (VEN) SCOM - Taishantiyu Team

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tour de Okinawa 2022". Retrieved 13 November 2022.
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