| 1996 Tour of Slovenia | |
| Series: | UCI‑5 race |
| Date: | 6–12 May 1996 |
| Stages: | 7 + Criterium |
| Distance: | 983 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 23h 24' 41" |
| First Color: | yellow |
| Points Color: | white |
| Mountains Color: | pink |
| Sprints: |  Alexander Vinokourov |
| Sprints Color: | green |
| Youth Color: | polkadot |
| Team: |  |
The 1996 Tour of Slovenia (Slovenian: Dirka po Sloveniji) was the 4th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as UCI‑5 stage race held between 6 and 12 May 1996.[1] [2]
Tha main and biggest Slovenian daily newspaper Delo, sponsored additional money awarded sprints classification. Winner took then 150 deutsche marks (DEM) for each stage sprint win.[3]
The Tour started with three short stages prologue (team time trial, elimination race and criterium).
And the main race consisted of actual 7 stages with 983 km (610.8 mi) in total.
Total 96 riders (72 finished it) from 10 different countries and 18 teams started the race.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Joko Nardi
Belarus (canceled)
Canada Kazakhstan
Slovakia| 0 | 6 May | Ljubljana (BTC) | 2.55km (01.58miles) | Team time trial | Rog | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 6 May | Ljubljana (BTC) | 12 rounds | Elimination race | Marco Antonio Di Renzo | |||
| 0 | 6 May | Ljubljana (BTC) | Criterium | Alexander Vinokourov | ||||
| 1 | align=right style="border-top-width:4px" | 7 May | Metlika – Metlika | 161km (100miles) | Plain stage | Stefano Giraldi | ||
| 2 | 8 May | 149km (93miles) | Plain stage | Marco Antonio Di Renzo | ||||
| 3 | 9 May | 29km (18miles) | Time trial | Robert Pintarič | ||||
| 4 | 9 May | Ljutomer – Beltinci | 86km (53miles) | Plain stage | Olaf Pollack | |||
| 5 | 10 May | Beltinci – Grosuplje | 220km (140miles) | Hilly stage | Igor Kranjec | |||
| 6 | 11 May | 159km (99miles) | Mountain stage | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | ||||
| 7 | 12 May | Nova Gorica – Novo mesto | 179km (111miles) | Hilly stage | Zoran Klemenčič | |||
| Total | 983km (611miles) | |||||||
| Stage | Winner | General classification | Points classification | Mountains classification | Young rider classification | Intermed. sprints classification | Delo's sprints classification | Team classification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Rog | Marco Di Renzo | Robert Pintarič | Matthias Jandt | not available | Alexander Vinokourov | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | Rog | |
| 1 | Stefano Giraldi | Stefano Giraldi | not available | Stefano Giraldi | Bedin | Bogdan Fink | |||
| 2 | |||||||||
| 3 | Robert Pintarič | not available | not available | not awarded | not available | ||||
| 4 | Olaf Pollack | Bedin | |||||||
| 5 | Igor Kranjec | Marco Di Renzo | Stefano Giraldi | Alexander Vinokourov | |||||
| 6 | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | not available | not available | not available | not available | |||
| 7 | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | Alexander Vinokourov | Tadej Valjavec | Alexander Vinokourov | Alexander Vinokourov | ||||
| Final | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | Lorenzo Di Silvestro | Alexander Vinokourov | Alexander Vinokourov | |||||
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denotes the leader of the general classification | Denotes the leader of the mountains classification | |||
| Denotes the leader of the points classification | Denotes the leader of the Delo's blue jersey classification | |||
| Denotes the winner of the int. sprints classification | Denotes the leader of the young rider classification | |||
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=235 | width=140 | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | width=72 align=right | ||
| 2 | Stefano Giraldi | Selle Italia - Glacial | ||||
| 3 | Marco Antonio Di Renzo | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | ||||
| 4 | Boris Premužič | Rog | ||||
| 5 | Nicola Ramacciotti | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | ||||
| 6 | Iztok Melanšek | Perutnina Ptuj | ||||
| 7 | Robert Pintarič | Rog | ||||
| 8 | Martin Hvastija | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | ||||
| 9 | width=200 | Sava | ||||
| 10 | Stefano Toniazzo | Nardi |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=235 | width=140 | Kazahstan | width=72 align=center | 18 | |
| 2 | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | 16 | ||||
| 3 | Andrej Kivilev | Kazahstan | 12 | |||
| 4 | Stefano Giraldi | Selle Italia - Glacial | 12 | |||
| 5 | Bogdan Ravbar | Krka | 5 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=235 | width=140 | Kazahstan | width=72 align=center | 24 | |
| 2 | Andrej Kivilev | Kazakhstan | 18 | |||
| 3 | Bogdan Fink | Krka | 7 | |||
| 4 | Michal Reif | Czechia | 6 | |||
| 5 | Bogdan Ravbar | Krka | 5 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=235 | width=140 | Kazahstan | width=72 align=center | 24 | |
| 2 | Bogdan Fink | Krka | 15 | |||
| 3 | Rajko Petek | Sava | 13 | |||
| 4 | Bogdan Ravbar | Rog | 8 | |||
| 5 | Marco Antonio Di Renzo | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | 6 |
| Rank | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=235 | Cantina Tollo-Co.Bo. | width=72 align=right | |
| 2 | Selle Italia - Glacial | |||
| 3 | Rog | |||
| 4 | ||||
| 5 | ||||
| ... | ... | ... | ||
| 6 | Krka I | |||
| 7 | Krka II |