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The 2018 Tour of the Alps was a
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that took place in
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and
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between 16 and 20 April 2018. It was the 42nd edition of the renamed
Giro del Trentino The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino () until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of Italy. In 2015, th ...
and was rated as a
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event as part of the
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. The race was won by
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of .


Route

The race itinerary was announced in November 2017, including a final-day finish on the route of the men's road race for the
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, to be held the following September in
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.


Teams

On 25 January 2018, the race's twenty competing teams – up from eighteen in
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– were announced at the
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event in
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, Austria. These included nine
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s, eight
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teams, two
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teams and an Italian national team.


Stages


Stage 1

;16 April 2018 —
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(Italy) to
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(Italy),


Stage 2

;17 April 2018 —
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(Italy) to Alpe di PampeagoFiemme (Italy),


Stage 3

;18 April 2018 — Auer (Italy) to
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(Italy),


Stage 4

;19 April 2018 — Klausen (Italy) to
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(Austria),


Stage 5

;20 April 2018 —
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(Austria) to
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(Austria),


Classification leadership table

In the 2018 Tour of the Alps, four different jerseys were awarded. The
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was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the general classification received a fuchsia jersey; this classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of the Alps, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race. The second classification was the sprints classification, the leader of which was awarded a red jersey. In the sprints classification, riders received points for finishing in the top three at intermediate sprint points during each stage. Points were awarded on a 6–4–2 scale for all stages. There was also a
mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing, Queen of the Mountains (QoM) is used. While the title may be given to the rider who achieves the highest p ...
, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each of the ten climbs were categorised as either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top five riders earned points; on the other climbs, only the top three riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a green jersey. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.


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