| 2017 Tour de Wallonie | |
| Series: | 2017 UCI Europe Tour |
| Date: | 22–26 July 2017 |
| Stages: | 5 |
| Distance: | 908.7 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 21h 19' 34"[1] |
| Speed: | 42.61 |
| First: | Dylan Teuns |
| First Nat: | BEL |
| First Color: | yellow |
| Second: | Tosh Van der Sande |
| Second Nat: | BEL |
| Third: | Benjamin Thomas |
| Third Nat: | FRA |
| Mountains: | Alexis Gougeard |
| Mountains Nat: | FRA |
| Mountains Color: | white |
| Points: | Dylan Teuns |
| Points Nat: | BEL |
| Points Color: | green |
| Sprints: | Evaldas Šiškevičius |
| Sprints Nat: | LTU |
| Sprints Color: | violet |
| Youth: | Benjamin Thomas |
| Youth Nat: | FRA |
| Youth Color: | red |
| Previous: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 VOO-Tour de Wallonie was a five-stage men's professional road cycling race, held in Belgium as a 2.HC race on the 2017 UCI Europe Tour. It was the forty-fourth running of the Tour de Wallonie, starting on 22 July in Stavelot and finishing on 26 July in Thuin.
The race was won by Belgian rider Dylan Teuns, winning two stages and the points classification alongside his overall success.[2]
The race route was announced on 4 May 2017.[3]
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 July | Stavelot to Marchin | 189.9km (118miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 2 | 23 July | Chaudfontaine to Seraing | 189.4km (117.7miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 3 | 24 July | Arlon to Houffalize | 182.7km (113.5miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 4 | 25 July | Brussels (Brussels Capital Region) to Profondeville | 164.1km (102miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 5 | 26 July | Chièvres to Thuin | 182.6km (113.5miles) | Hilly stage | |||
Initially, 19 teams were selected to take part in Tour de Wallonie.[4] Six of these were UCI WorldTeams, with ten UCI Professional Continental teams and three UCI Continental teams. A 20th team, Professional Continental team were later added to the race.[5]
In the 2017 Tour de Wallonie, 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 all stages to the first three finishers: 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 de Wallonie, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points for | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | |
| Points for | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for young riders, marked by a red jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 22 July 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. This jersey was only awarded post-stage, and was not worn during the race. 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 | Sprints classification | Teams classification | Combativity award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 1[6] | Benjamin Thomas | Benjamin Thomas | Benjamin Thomas | Alexis Gougeard | Benjamin Thomas | Kévin Ledanois | Alexis Gougeard | |
| scope=row | 2[7] | Jasper De Buyst | Dylan Teuns | Jimmy Turgis | Tosh Van der Sande | Alexis Gougeard | |||
| scope=row | 3[8] | Dylan Teuns | Dylan Teuns | Alexis Gougeard | Evaldas Šiškevičius | Evaldas Šiškevičius | |||
| scope=row | 4[9] | Jempy Drucker | Kevin Van Melsen | ||||||
| scope=row | 5 | Dylan Teuns | Lasse Norman Hansen | ||||||
| Final | Dylan Teuns | Dylan Teuns | Alexis Gougeard | Benjamin Thomas | Evaldas Šiškevičius | No final award | |||