| 2017 Tour of Slovenia | |
| Series: | 2017 UCI Europe Tour (2.1 race) |
| Date: | 15–18 June |
| Stages: | 4 |
| Distance: | 655.2 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 15h 56' 23"[1] |
| Speed: | 41.098 |
| First: |  Rafał Majka |
| First Color: | green 2 |
| Second: |  Giovanni Visconti |
| Third: |  Jack Haig |
| Points: |  Sam Bennett |
| Points Color: | red |
| Mountains: | Rafał Majka |
| Mountains Color: | blue |
| Youth: | Tadej Pogačar |
| Youth Color: | white |
| Team: | |
| Previous: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 Tour of Slovenia (sl|Dirka po Sloveniji) was the 24th edition of the Tour of Slovenia categorized as 2.1 stage race (UCI Europe Tour), held between 15 and 18 June.[2]
This year was a game changer for the race on the International stage, when Slovenian Tourist Board (STB) stepped in as the new lead partnership. They brought the race on a whole new level with broadcast on Eurosport, now available to 120 countries around the world.
Another thing was a new jersey color in general classification. Green replaced yellow jersey, with 2012 exception (blue) as Slovenian tourism is promoting with this color, after the nature of the country is widely known for and with new powerful slogan "Fight for Green".[3]
The race was decided on the race's queen stage, with the top-three stage placings taking the final podium positions. Rafał Majka won both the general and mountains classification, by taking first place at the summit finish in Rogla. He won the race by seven seconds overall,[1] from 's Giovanni Visconti, while a further ten seconds in arrears was Jack Haig of ; having finished second in 2016, Haig completed the podium in 2017.
In the race's other classifications, Majka's teammate Sam Bennett won the points classification in a three-way tiebreak with Luka Mezgec and Sonny Colbrelli,[1] as Bennett won two stages during the race; Tadej Pogačar was the winner of the under-23 young rider classification in fifth place overall, while were the winners of the teams classification.
Total 147 riders (133 finished it) from 19 teams (initially only eighteen), but a 19th team – – was added a month before the race.[4]
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 June | Koper – Kočevje | 159.4km (99miles) | Intermediate stage | Sam Bennett | |||
| 2 | 16 June | Ljubljana – Ljubljana | 169.9km (105.6miles) | Intermediate stage |  Luka Mezgec | |||
| 3 | 17 June | Celje – Rogla | 167.7km (104.2miles) | Mountain stage | Rafał Majka | |||
| 4 | 18 June | Rogaška Slatina – Novo Mesto | 158.2km (98.3miles) | Intermediate stage | Sam Bennett | |||
| Total | 655.2km (407.1miles) | |||||||
|-| align=center colspan=4|Official results[7] |-| align=center|1||width=186px| Sam Bennett||width=205px|||align=right width=76px|3h 49' 46"|-| align=center colspan=4|General classification after the stage[7]
|-| align=center colspan=4|Official results[9] |-| align=center|1||width=186px| Luka Mezgec||width=205px|||width=76px align=right|3h 50' 51"|-| align=center colspan=4|General classification after the stage[9]
|-| align=center colspan=4|Official results[11] |-| align=center|1|| width=186px| Rafał Majka|| width=205px||| width=76px align=right|4h 34' 08"|-| align=center colspan=4|General classification after the stage[11]
|-| align=center colspan=4|Official results[13] |-| align=center|1|| width=186px| Sam Bennett|| width=205px| ||width=76px align=right|3h 41' 48"
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points for | 12 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Points for | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Points for | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 25 points, with 20 for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth and a point fewer per place down to 1 point for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued – awarded on a 5–3–1 scale – at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.
There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a blue jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The fourth and final 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. There was also a classification for teams, 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.
Best young rider (under 23 years) by time was awarded with white jersey.
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denotes the winner of the General classification | Denotes the winner of the Points classification | |||
| Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification | Denotes the winner of the Young rider classification | |||
|-| align=center|1|| width=186px| Rafał Majka || width=205px||| width=76px align=right|15h 56' 23"
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=205px | width=76px style="text-align:center;" | 50 | ||
| 2 | Luka Mezgec | 50 | |||
| 3 | 50 | ||||
| 4 | Roberto Ferrari | 46 | |||
| 5 | 33 | ||||
| 6 | Andrea Palini | Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec | 28 | ||
| 7 | Marco Canola | 27 | |||
| 8 |  Mark Cavendish | 26 | |||
| 9 | Rok Korošec | 25 | |||
| 10 | Giovanni Visconti | 20 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=205px | width=76px style="text-align:center;" | 12 | ||
| 2 | Giovanni Visconti | 8 | |||
| 3 | Žiga Grošelj | 7 | |||
| 4 | Jack Haig | 6 | |||
| 5 | Manuel Belletti | Wilier Triestina–Selle Italia | 6 | ||
| 6 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec | 6 | ||
| 7 |  Gregor Mühlberger | 4 | |||
| 8 | Enrico Salvador | Tirol Cycling Team | 4 | ||
| 9 |  Tomáš Bucháček | 4 | |||
| 10 | Žiga Jerman | 4 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | width=205px | width=76px style="text-align:right;" | 15h 57' 09" | ||
| 2 | Domen Novak | + 2' 30" | |||
| 3 | Izidor Penko | + 3' 39" | |||
| 4 |  Daniel Martínez | Wilier Triestina–Selle Italia | + 9' 31" | ||
| 5 | Nicola Bagioli | + 15' 33" | |||
| 6 | Žiga Ručigaj | + 21' 44" | |||
| 7 | Gorazd Per | + 22' 36" | |||
| 8 | Žiga Jerman | + 23' 42" | |||
| 9 | Žiga Jerman | + 23' 48" | |||
| 10 | Luka Čotar | Slovenia | + 23' 48" |
| Rank | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | width=76px style="text-align:right;" | 47h 55' 44" |
| 2 | | + 53" | |
| 3 | Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec | + 3' 34" | |
| 4 |  | + 5' 16" | |
| 5 |  | + 11' 04" | |
| 6 | Wilier Triestina–Selle Italia | + 11' 13" | |
| 7 | | + 12' 46" | |
| 8 | | + 14' 02" | |
| 9 | | + 14' 17" | |
| 10 | + 14' 21" |