| 1998 Tour of Slovenia | |
| Series: | UCI‑5 race |
| Date: | 4–10 May 1998 |
| Stages: | 7 + prologue |
| Distance: | 1085 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 26h 28' 01" |
| First Color: | yellow |
| Points Color: | blue |
| Mountains: | Igor Kranjec |
| Mountains Color: | polkadot |
| Sprints: | Igor Kranjec |
| Sprints Color: | green |
| Youth: | Mitja Mahorič |
| Youth Color: | white |
| Next: | 1999 |
The 1998 Tour of Slovenia (Slovenian: Dirka po Sloveniji) was the 5th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as UCI‑5 stage race held between 4 and 10 May 1998.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The race consisted of prologue and actual 7 stages with 1,085 km (674.2 mi) in total.[6] [7]
Total 98 riders (62 finished it) from 13 different countries and 16 teams started the race.[8] [9]
Slovak
Ukraine| 0 | 4 May | 3.4km (02.1miles) | Prologue | Olaf Pollack | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=right style="border-top-width:4px" | 5 May | Radenci – Beltinci | 198km (123miles) | Plain stage | Olaf Pollack | ||
| 2 | 6 May | 168km (104miles) | Intermediate stage | Andrej Hauptman | ||||
| 3 | 7 May | Krško – Brežice – Krško | 18km (11miles) | Time trial | Valter Bonča | |||
| 4 | 7 May | Semič – Metlika – Semič | 85km (53miles) | Plain stage | Maurizio De Pasquale | |||
| 5 | 8 May | Ribnica – Nova Gorica | 230km (140miles) | Intermediate stage | Simone Zucchi | |||
| 6 | 9 May | 206km (128miles) | Mountain stage | Simone Mori | ||||
| 7 | 10 May | Grosuplje – Novo mesto | 177km (110miles) | Hilly stage | Andrej Hauptman | |||
| Total | 1085km (674miles) | |||||||
| Stage | Winner | General classification | Points classification | Mountains classification | Young rider classification | Intermediate sprints classification | Team classification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Olaf Pollack | Olaf Pollack | not available | not available | Tadej Valjavec | not available | not available | |
| 1 | Olaf Pollack | Rik Reinerink | ||||||
| 2 | Andrej Hauptman | Gorazd Štangelj | Mitja Mahorič | Marko Baloh | Mroz | |||
| 3 | Branko Filip | not available | not available | not available | not available | |||
| 4 | Maurizio De Pasquale | |||||||
| 5 | Simone Zucchi | Andrej Hauptman | Igor Kranjec | Martin Čotak | ||||
| 6 | Simone Mori | not available | not available | |||||
| 7 | Andrej Hauptman | Igor Kranjec | Mitja Mahorič | Igor Kranjec | Krka Telekom | |||
| Final | Branko Filip | Mitja Mahorič | Igor Kranjec | Krka Telekom | ||||
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denotes the leader of the general classification | Denotes the leader of the mountains classification | |||
| Denotes the leader of the points classification | Denotes the winner of the young rider classification | |||
| Denotes the leader of the int. sprints classification | Denotes the leader of the team classification | |||
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=200 | width=140 | Krka Telekom | width=78 align=right | ||
| 2 | Gorazd Štangelj | Krka Telekom | ||||
| 3 | Pavel Shumanov | Krka Telekom | ||||
| 4 | Valter Bonča | PP&RR | ||||
| 5 | Cezary Zamana | Mroz | ||||
| 6 | Andrzej Sypytkowski | Mroz | ||||
| 7 | Tomáš Konečný | ZVVS | ||||
| 8 | Saša Sviben | Krka Telekom | ||||
| 9 | Miloslav Kejval | ZVVS | ||||
| 10 | Rajko Petek | Sava |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=200 | width=140 | PP&RR | width=78 align=center | 97 | |
| 2 | Simone Zucchi | Amore & Vita | 75 | |||
| 3 | Tomáš Konečný | ZVVS | 74 | |||
| 4 | Gorazd Štangelj | Krka Telekom | 71 | |||
| 5 | Boštjan Mervar | Krka Telekom | 65 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=200 | width=140 | PP&RR | width=78 align=center | 18 | |
| 2 | Martin Čotar | Sava | 14 | |||
| 3 | Maurizio De Pasquale | Amore & Vita | 13 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=200 | width=140 | PP&RR | width=78 align=right | 26h 39' 43" | |
| 2 | width=200 | Richard Faltus | aZVVS | |||
| 3 | width=200 | Tadej Valjavec | Sava |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=200 | width=140 | PP&RR | width=78 align=center | 24 | |
| 2 | Martin Čotak | Sava | 16 | |||
| 3 | Julian Clark | Linda McCartney | 11 |
| Rank | Team | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=230 | Krka Telekom | width=80 align=right | 79h 55′ 02″ | |
| 2 | width=190 | Mroz | width=50 align=right | + 55″ | |
| 3 | width=190 | Perutnina Ptuj - Radenska Rog | width=50 align=right | + 1′ 20″ | |
| 4 | width=190 | ZVVS | width=50 align=right | + 2′ 21″ | |
| 5 | width=190 | Amore & Vita | width=50 align=right | + 5′ 22″ | |
| ... | width=190 | ... | width=50 align=right | ... | |
| 6 | width=190 | Sava | width=50 align=right | + 1h 07′ 10″ | |
| 10 | width=190 | Hit Casino | width=50 align=right | + 1h 25′ 54″ |