2016 Tour de Yorkshire, Stages, Stage 2
30 April — Otley to Doncaster 135.5 km (84.2 mi)


2016 Tour de Yorkshire, Stages, Stage 3
1 May — Middlesbrough to Scarborough 198 km (123 mi)


2016 Tour de Yorkshire, Classifications
The race included three classifications the most important the general classification. This was calculated by adding up each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Bonus seconds were awarded for top-three placings in each stage (10 seconds for the first rider, 6 seconds for the second, 4 seconds for the third) and for placings in intermediate sprints (3 seconds for the first rider, 2 seconds for the second, 1 second for the third). The rider with the lowest cumulative time after taking bonus seconds into account was the leader of the classification and was awarded a blue and yellow jersey. (Blue and yellow are colours traditionally associated with Yorkshire.) The winner of the general classification was considered the winner of the race.


2016 Tour de Yorkshire, Classifications
The second classification was points classification. On each stage of the race, points were awarded to the top 10 riders. The winner won 15 points, with 12 for the second-placed rider, 9 for the third-placed rider, 7 for the sixth-placed rider and then one point fewer for each place down to tenth place. Points were also awarded to the top three riders at intermediate sprints, with five points for the winner of the sprint and three, and one points for the riders in second and third places respectively. The rider with the most points was the leader of the classification and was awarded a green jersey.


2016 Tour de Yorkshire, Classifications
There was also a mountains classification. Over the three stages, there were 13 categorised climbs. On each of these climbs, the first four riders to the summit were awarded points, with 5 for the first rider, 3 for the second, 2 for the third and 1 for the fourth. The rider with the most accumulated points was the leader of the classification and was awarded a dark pink jersey.


2016 Tour de Yorkshire, Classifications
Another jersey was awarded at the end of each stage. This was a combativity prize and was to be awarded to the rider who "made the greatest effort and [...] demonstrated the best qualities in terms of sportsmanship". A jury selected a list of riders to be eligible for the prize; the winner of the prize was then decided by a vote on Twitter. The rider was awarded a grey jersey.


2016 Tour du Haut Var
The 2016 Tour du Haut Var was a road cycling stage race that took place on 20 and 21 February 2016. The race was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour, and was the 48th edition of the Tour du Haut Var.


2016 Tour du Haut Var
The overall race victory was decided upon cumulative stage finishes, after ten riders finished both stages in the same time; with a stage win and a second-place finish, Arthur Vichot took honours in both the general classification and the points classification for the FDJ team. Second place in the overall standings went to Jesús Herrada (Movistar Team) with finishes of fourth and second, while the podium was completed by Lampre–Merida's Diego Ulissi, with finishes of fifth and sixth. Finishing fifth overall, Petr Vakoč won the young rider classification for Etixx–Quick-Step, 2015 race winner Ben Gastauer (AG2R La Mondiale) won the mountains classification, while the teams classification was won by the Movistar Team.


2016 Tour du Haut Var, Teams
Nineteen teams were invited to start the race. These included eight UCI WorldTeams, six UCI Professional Continental teams and five UCI Continental teams.


2016 Tour du Haut Var, Classification leadership table
In the 2016 Tour du Haut Var, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2016 Tour du Haut Var, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2016 Tour du Haut Var, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a mass-start 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, then 1 point fewer per place down to 1 for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.


2016 Tour du Haut Var, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1991 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.


2016 Tour of Austria
The 2016 Tour of Austria (German: Österreich-Rundfahrt) was the 68th edition of the Tour of Austria cycling stage race. The 1287.3 km (799.9 mi)-long race started in Vienna on 2 July with an individual time trial prologue, and concluded in Vienna on 9 July. This was the first time in several years that the race consisted of 7 stages plus a prologue. The race is part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour, and is rated as a 2.1 event.


2016 Tour of Austria, Participating teams
Nineteen (19) team participated in the 2016 edition of the Tour of Austria.


2016 Tour of Belgium
The 2016 Tour of Belgium was the 86th edition of the Tour of Belgium cycling stage race. It took place from 25 to 29 May 2016 in Belgium as part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour and was won by Dries Devenyns. Defending champion Greg Van Avermaet did not take part in the race.


2016 Tour of Belgium
On 28 May 2016, during the Stage 3, a crash of two motorcycles into the peloton injured 19 riders. The stage was cancelled that day and several riders abandoned the race and did not start on Stage 4. Stig Broeckx was reported to suffer severe injuries and was in a coma and vegetative (succumbing) state in the hospital in Gent.


2016 Tour of Belgium, Stages, Stage 3
Two motorbikes crashed and fell into the peloton at high speeds about 65km into the stage. 19 riders were involved into the crash, with Stig Broeckx, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Jesper Asselman, Andrea Guardini, Kristoffer Skjerping and Pieter Jacobs all transported to the hospital because of injuries. Broeckx, who had just recovered from injury after already being hit by a motorbike during the 2016 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne race two months earlier, was in worst shape as he immediately went unconscious and was later diagnosed to have two intracranial hemorrhages and a broken eye socket. Race direction and riders decided not to continue the race. A closed peloton rode to the finish in Verviers as the stage was cancelled.


2016 Tour of Belgium, Stages, Stage 4
Several riders did not start the race, most notably the entire team of Stig Broeckx, Lotto–Soudal.


2016 Tour of Britain
The 2016 Tour of Britain was a nine-stage men's professional road cycling race. It was the thirteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of Britain and the 76th British tour in total. The race started on 4 September in Glasgow and finished on 11 September in London. The race was part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour.


2016 Tour of Britain
Team Dimension Data rider Steve Cummings became the first British rider to win the Tour overall since Bradley Wiggins in 2013, as well as improving upon two previous runner-up finishes to win the race for the first time. Cummings finished second on the second stage in Cumbria, and assumed the race lead from Belgium's Julien Vermote (Etixx–Quick-Step) at the summit finish at Haytor, and maintained the yellow jersey over the final two days.


2016 Tour of Britain
Cummings eventually won the race by 26 seconds ahead of Australian rider Rohan Dennis of the BMC Racing Team – who won the circuit race in Bristol on the penultimate day – while the podium was completed by Tom Dumoulin from the Netherlands, riding for Team Giant–Alpecin, 12 seconds behinds Dennis and 38 seconds in arrears of Cummings.


2016 Tour of Britain
In the race's other classifications, another Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL–Jumbo) won the blue jersey for the points classification on the final stage, taking the lead from Dennis with a second-place finish to Caleb Ewan in London. Groenewegen also won a stage during the race, the longest stage of the Tour, into Builth Wells. Dutchman Jasper Bovenhuis won the green jersey for the sprints classification for An Post–Chain Reaction, having featured in breakaways on the first and last stages of the race.


2016 Tour of Britain
Xandro Meurisse from Belgium, riding for the Wanty–Groupe Gobert team as a stagiaire, won the black jersey for the mountains classification, as well as finishing seventh overall in the general classification. With two riders in the top ten overall – Nicolas Roche sixth and Ben Swift eighth – Team Sky won the teams classification, while Germany's André Greipel (Lotto–Soudal), who won the opening stage into Castle Douglas, was named as the Tour's most combative rider.


2016 Tour of Britain
For the first time since 2006, no rider won more than one stage. As well as the victories recorded by Greipel, Vermote, Groenewegen, Dennis and Ewan; Team Sky pair Ian Stannard and Wout Poels, Cannondale–Drapac's Jack Bauer and Etixx–Quick-Step rider Tony Martin took stage wins.


2016 Tour of Britain, Teams
The twenty-one teams invited to participate in the Tour of Britain are:


2016 Tour of Britain, Schedule
The route for the race was announced in February 2016.


2016 Tour of California
The 2016 Amgen Tour of California was the eleventh edition of the Tour of California cycling stage race. It was held from May 15–22, and rated as a 2.HC event on the UCI America Tour. It began in San Diego and finished in Sacramento.


2016 Tour of California, Teams
18 teams were selected to take part in the race. 10 UCI WorldTeams were invited, along with 3 Professional Continental teams and 5 Continental teams.


2016 Tour of California, Classification leadership
In the 2016 Tour of California, 5 jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, the leader received a yellow jersey (Amgen Race Leader Jersey). Time bonuses were awarded for the first three finishers on mass-start stages (10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively) and on intermediate sprints (3, 2 and 1 seconds respectively). This classification was considered the most important of the Tour of California, and the winner of the general classification was considered the winner of the Tour of California.


2016 Tour of California, Classification leadership
Additionally, there was also a sprints classification, akin to what is called the points classification in other races, which awards a green jersey (Visit California Sprint Jersey). In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. In addition, some points could be won in intermediate sprints as well as bonus seconds in the overall classification. The first across the line got 3 seconds, the second two and the third rider, one.


2016 Tour of California, Classification leadership
There was also a mountains classification, which awarded a Polka dots jersey (Lexus King of the Mountain Jersey). In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized, either first, second, third, or fourth category, with more points available for the harder climbs.


2016 Tour of California, Classification leadership
There was also a youth classification. This classification was calculated the same way as the general classification, but only young cyclists (under 23) were included. The leader of the young rider classification received a white and green jersey (SRAM Best Young Rider Jersey).


2016 Tour of California, Classification leadership
The last jersey was awarded to the most combative rider of a stage for him to wear on the next stage. It was generally awarded to a rider who attacks constantly or spent a lot of time in the breakaways. This jersey was blue, white and yellow (Amgen Breakaway from Cancer© Most Courageous Rider Jersey).


2016 Tour of California, Classification leadership
There was also a classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage were added, and the team with the lowest time was the leader.


2016 Tour of California (women's race)
The 2016 Amgen Tour of California Women's Race (also known as the Amgen Breakaway From Heart Disease Women's Race Empowered by SRAM for sponsorship reasons) was the second edition of the Tour of California Women's Race cycling stage race. It is scheduled to run from 19 to 22 May 2016, and is part of the 2016 UCI Women's World Tour. It will begin in South Lake Tahoe and finish in Sacramento.


2016 Tour of California (women's race), Teams
BepinkBoels–DolmansCanyon–SRAMColavita/BianchiCylance Pro CyclingDropsHagens Berman–SupermintTeam Hitec ProductsPodium Ambition Pro CyclingRabo–LivRally CyclingTibco–Silicon Valley BankTWENTY16–RidebikerUnitedHealthcareVisit Dallas DNA Pro CyclingWeber Shimano Ladies PowerWiggle High5


2016 Tour of Chongming Island
The 2016 Tour of Chongming Island was the tenth staging of Tour of Chongming Island, a women's stage race held in Shanghai, China. It ran from 6 to 8 May 2016 and was part of the UCI Women's World Tour.


2016 Tour of Croatia
The 2016 Tour of Croatia was the 2nd edition of the Tour of Croatia cycling stage race. The race started on 19 April in Osijek and ended on 24 April in Zagreb and consisted of six stages. The race is part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour, and is rated as a 2.1 event.


2016 Tour of Croatia
The race has been won by Synergy Baku Cycling Project's Croatian rider Matija Kvasina, who took the leader's jersey after winning the fourth stage. Giacomo Nizzolo claimed the Points classification, Riccardo Zoidl won the Mountains classification, and Domen Novak finished first in the Young Rider classification Synergy Baku Cycling Project won the Teams classification.


2016 Tour of Croatia, Participating teams
Twenty-one (21) teams participated in the 2016 edition of the Tour of Croatia.


2016 Tour of Flanders
The 2016 Tour of Flanders was a one-day classic cycling race that took place in Belgium on Sunday 3 April 2016. It was the 100th edition of the Tour of Flanders; it was the eighth event of the UCI World Tour and the third of the cobbled one-day classics. It was the second Monument race of the 2016 cycling season.


2016 Tour of Flanders
The race started in Bruges and finished in Oudenaarde. The total distance was 255 kilometres (158 mi), covering 18 categorized climbs and seven flat cobblestoned sectors. The principal favourites for the overall victory were Fabian Cancellara (Trek–Segafredo), Tom Boonen (Etixx–Quick-Step) and Peter Sagan (Tinkoff).


2016 Tour of Flanders
After several riders had abandoned the race due to crashes and injuries, the decisive break was formed with 30 kilometres (19 mi) to go by Sagan, Michał Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) and Sep Vanmarcke (LottoNL–Jumbo). On the last climb of the Oude Kwaremont, Kwiatkowski was dropped; on the Paterberg, which followed shortly afterwards and was final climb of the race, Sagan dropped Vanmarcke and set off alone towards the finish. Vanmarcke and Cancellara collaborated in an effort to chase him down, but Sagan was able to ride to the finish alone. Cancellara finished second with Vanmarcke third, both more than 20 seconds behind Sagan.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Route
The route of the 100th edition was presented on 29 November 2015 at Brussels Airport. It contained small changes from previous editions: the Tiegemberg in West Flanders was omitted, while in the Flemish Ardennes the flat cobbled sector of the Holleweg was cut from the race and replaced with the Jagerij cobbled road. The change was needed to keep the iconic Molenberg climb in the route due to roadworks. The recent tradition of announcing a Dorp van de Ronde ("Village of the Tour") was also abandoned, although the route passed through Kanegem and Aarsele in tribute to Briek Schotte and Roger Decock (the oldest living winner of the Tour of Flanders) respectively.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Route
The race started in the Market Square in Bruges with a neutralised zone, leaving the town to the south. The racing started outside the city and took the riders southwest through Torhout to Roeselare, then east through Ardooie and Tielt, then south-east to Oudenaarde, passing across the first cobbled sector of the day, the flat Huisepontweg. After Oudenaarde, the route continued into a series of circuits through the hilly area to the south and east.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Route
After 103 kilometres (64 mi) came the first climb, the Oude Kwaremont, a 2,200-metre (2,400 yd), partially cobbled climb that would feature twice more later in the race. The route turned north and, following the climb of the non-cobbled Kortekeer, the riders entered a 20-kilometre (12 mi) section with several cobbled roads. These included the cobbled climbs of the Eikenberg and the Wolvenberg, then the flat Ruiterstraat, Kerkgate and Jagerij, the climb of the Molenberg, then finally the 2,300 metres (2,500 yd) of the flat Paddestraat.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Route
The route then turned back to the south-west, across the flat Haaghoek cobbles and then the non-cobbled climbs of the Leberg, Berendries, Valkenberg, Kaperij and Kanarieberg. This brought the route back to take on the second ascent of the Oude Kwaremont, followed immediately by the steep cobbled climb of the Paterberg, 360 metres (390 yd) long with an average gradient of 12.9% and sections at over 20%. At the summit of the Paterberg, there were 51 kilometres (32 mi) left to the finish.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Route
There were six more climbs in the next 40-kilometre (25 mi) loop. The first of these was the Koppenberg, which includes the steepest roads of the race, with gradients of 22%. This was followed by the flat cobbles of the Mariaborrestraat and the climbs of the Steenbeekdries and the Taaienberg. The roads took the riders south into Ronse for the climb of the Kruisberg, then north-west to the foot of the Oude Kwaremont. The Oude Kwaremont–Paterberg combination was used for a second time; at the top of the Paterberg there were 11.7 kilometres (7.3 mi) to the finish. These took place over mainly flat roads, with a long finishing straight on the outskirts of Oudenaarde.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Participating teams
The 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to participate in the race. An additional seven UCI Professional Continental teams were given wildcard entries: two Belgian teams (Wanty–Groupe Gobert and Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise), a Dutch team (Roompot–Oranje Peloton), a German team (Bora–Argon 18), a French team (Direct Énergie), an Italian team (Southeast–Venezuela) and a Polish team (CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice). With eight on each team, the peloton at the start of the race included 200 riders. Of these, 118 reached the finish line.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Pre-race favourites
The principal favourites for the race were Tom Boonen (Etixx–Quick-Step) and Fabian Cancellara (Etixx–Quick-Step), both of whom had won the race on three previous occasions. Cancellara was in strong form, having won the Strade Bianche and having come fourth in E3 Harelbeke and Gent–Wevelgem the previous week. Boonen, however, was not in strong form: he had not won a major classic since 2012 and had not performed strongly in the previous week's races. Nevertheless, Cycling Weekly wrote "you can never write the three-time Flanders winner off in a race like this."


2016 Tour of Flanders, Pre-race favourites
The other former winners present at the start were Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha), the defending champion, and Cancellara's teammate Stijn Devolder. Kristoff's strong sprint gave him an advantage if he was in a group that finished together; he had, however, been ill in the previous week. Devolder, meanwhile, was expected to work for Cancellara.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Pre-race favourites
The other major favourite for the race was Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), the reigning world road race champion. Sagan had come second in E3 Harelbeke and first in Gent–Wevelgem. He had the advantage of being able to follow attacks and also to wait to use his strong sprint if he came to the finish with other riders.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Pre-race favourites
Other riders with a chance of victory included Michał Kwiatkowski (Team Sky), who had won E3 Harelbeke ahead of Sagan and who had a strong team with Geraint Thomas, Ian Stannard and Luke Rowe; Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team); Boonen's teammates Niki Terpstra and Zdeněk Štybar; Sep Vanmarcke (LottoNL–Jumbo); and Tiesj Benoot (Lotto–Soudal).


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
Before the race began, there was a minute's silence in memory of Antoine Demoitié, a Wanty–Groupe Gobert rider who had been killed in a crash with a motorbike during Gent–Wevelgem. After 25 kilometres (16 mi), the riders arrived in Hooglede, the birthplace of Daan Myngheer, a rider for Roubaix–Métropole Européenne de Lille who had died following a heart attack in the Critérium International; the peloton rode slowly through the town in memory of him.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
The day's breakaway took a long time to form: over an hour into the day's racing, with more than 70 kilometres (43 mi) covered, a six-man move broke free. The riders were Hugo Houle (AG2R La Mondiale), Federico Zurlo (Lampre–Merida), Imanol Erviti (Movistar), Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora–Argon 18), Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise) and Wesley Kreder (Roompot–Oranje Peloton). They earned a lead of over four minutes, but broke apart as the day's climbs began.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
During the middle part of the race several riders were forced to withdraw after crashes. Arnaud Démare (FDJ), the winner of Milan–San Remo, crashed after 100 kilometres (62 mi), while Marcus Burghardt (BMC) and Tiesj Benoot crashed on the Wolvenberg shortly afterwards. Less than 30 kilometres (19 mi) later, several BMC riders crashed together and four were forced to withdraw. These included Greg Van Avermaet, who broke his collarbone.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
On the Molenberg, with more than 110 kilometres (68 mi) remaining, a hard effort by Tony Martin (Etixx–Quick-Step) caused a split in the main peloton, with 25 riders in the front group, but the groups came back together shortly afterwards. André Greipel (Lotto–Soudal) and Nils Politt (Katusha) then attacked on the Leberg and were allowed to go; they were followed by Dmitriy Gruzdev (Astana) and Dimitri Claeys (Wanty–Groupe Gobert).


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
These four riders joined up with Houle, Erviti and Van Hoecke from the original break; Houle was dropped soon afterwards to form a six-man leading group, which had a two-minute lead at the foot of the second ascent of the Oude Kwaremont. On the climb, Stijn Vandenbergh (Etixx–Quick-Step) and Dylan van Baarle (Cannondale) attacked from the peloton. Another group, including Sep Vanmarcke and Ian Stannard, attacked before the Koppenberg. Stannard then went solo over the top of the climb. Meanwhile, Vandenbergh and Van Baarle caught up with the group of leaders.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
There were several more attacks before the climb of the Taaienberg, where a small group of favourites formed and quickly caught Stannard. Shortly afterwards, with 30 kilometres (19 mi) remaining, Michał Kwiatkowski and Peter Sagan attacked together and were joined by Sep Vanmarcke. They crossed the Kruisberg together and caught the remainder of the breakaway with 23.5 kilometres (14.6 mi) remaining, 40 seconds ahead of the peloton. On the final climb of the Oude Kwaremont, Kwiatkowski was unable to follow Sagan and Vanmarcke, while Cancellara rode clear of the peloton. Sagan was first to the summit with Vanmarcke; Cancellara was twelve seconds behind. Cancellara was then caught by Niki Terpstra, Erviti and Claeys.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Race summary
On the final climb, the Paterberg, Sagan rode away from Vanmarcke, who was caught by Cancellara at the top of the climb. They rode in pursuit of Sagan, who had a 15-second lead at the summit. The chasing pair were unable to bring Sagan back and he rode to the finish to win his first Monument. Cancellara finished second, 25 seconds back, with Vanmarcke allowing him to take second place. Kristoff won the sprint for fourth place, ahead of Luke Rowe (Sky), 49 seconds behind Sagan.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Post-race analysis, Rider reactions
Sagan celebrated his victory by doing a wheelie after the finishing line. He said afterwards that it was the hardest Tour of Flanders he had ever raced, having been "full gas" throughout and suggested that Cancellara had made a mistake by not following the attack he had made with Kwiatkowski and Vanmarcke. Cancellara was emotional after finishing his final Tour of Flanders. He said that he had "missed this one second", referring to the attack by Sagan. He said that he and Vanmarcke had done all they could in the chase, but that Sagan was too strong. Vanmarcke, meanwhile, said that he had struggled due to crashes in the middle part of the race and then had suffered cramp when Sagan attacked on the Paterberg. He described the move by Sagan and Kwiatkowski as the "decisive moment in the race".


2016 Tour of Flanders, Post-race analysis, Rider reactions
Boonen, who finished fifteenth, described Sagan as "really strong" and as the "deserved winner"; he said "The way [Sagan] rode up the Paterberg was a good showcase on how to ride a bike". Boonen, meanwhile, turned his attention to Paris–Roubaix the following week. Van Avermaet described himself as "really disappointed" following his crash, which ruled him out of Paris–Roubaix.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Post-race analysis, Rider reactions
Luke Rowe's fifth place was Team Sky's best ever performance in the Tour of Flanders; he praised Kwiatkowski's move, but said "there’s not much you can do when someone has better legs"; he described Sagan, Cancellara and Vanmarcke as "the three strongest guys in the race". Imanol Erviti, who had been in the breakaway for 180 kilometres (110 mi), finished seventh. Cycling Weekly described this as "phenomenal"; it was Movistar's best ever result.


2016 Tour of Flanders, Post-race analysis, World Tour standings
Sagan remained at the top of the 2016 UCI World Tour standings following his victory; his total of 329 points was more than 100 ahead of the next rider, his teammate Alberto Contador. Cancellara moved up from thirteenth to fourth and Vanmarcke from sixteenth to sixth. Sagan's total put Slovakia in third place in the nations' rankings, ahead of Great Britain and Spain, even though he was the only Slovakian to have scored World Tour points.


2016 Tour of Flanders for Women
The 2016 Tour of Flanders for Women was the 13th running of the women's Tour of Flanders, a women's bicycle race in Belgium. It was held on 3 April 2016, as the fifth race of the inaugural World Tour season over a distance of 141.2 kilometres (87.7 miles), starting and finishing in Oudenaarde. Britain's Lizzie Armitstead won the race in a two-woman sprint with Sweden's Emma Johansson.


2016 Tour of Flanders for Women, Race Summary
Emma Johansson accelerated on the top of Oude Kwaremont, 17 km from the finish, followed by Lizzie Armitstead. The duo powered on over the Paterberg and held a small lead over a group of eight until the finish. In the sprint, Armitstead narrowly beat Johansson at the line.


2016 Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan)
Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) 2016 is the 31st edition of Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) which is took place between May 13 till May 18, 2016 in Iranian Azerbaijan. The tour had 6 stages and the total length is 1005 km. In 31st stage of the tour 21 teams from four continents participate. For the first time in the history of Tour of Azerbaijan a cycling team from United States, Team Illuminate, participated in the tournament.


2016 Tour of Norway
The 6th edition of the Tour of Norway road cycling race took place from 18 to 22 May 2016. The race was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.HC.


2016 Tour of Oman
The 2016 Tour of Oman was a road cycling stage race that took place between 16 and 21 February 2016 in Oman. It was the seventh edition of the Tour of Oman and is rated as a 2.HC race as part of the 2016 UCI Asia Tour. The previous year's champion, Rafael Valls, was not present to defend his title.


2016 Tour of Oman, Teams
Eighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included nine UCI WorldTeams and nine UCI Professional Continental teams.


2016 Tour of Oman, Pre-race favourites
The Tour of Oman comes towards the beginning of the road cycling season. It follows two other races in the Middle East: the Dubai Tour and the Tour of Qatar, which in 2016 were won by Marcel Kittel (Etixx–Quick-Step) and Mark Cavendish (Team Dimension Data respectively. The Dubai Tour and the Tour of Qatar are focused particularly on sprinters and classics riders, but the Tour of Oman is an opportunity for the climbers to compete for overall victory, with the climb of Jebel Akhdar normally decisive. Many riders who compete for the Grand Tours and the Ardennes classics start the race as part of their preparation, although increased competition from early-season European races meant that the start list for the 2016 Tour of Oman was not as strong as in some previous editions.


2016 Tour of Oman, Pre-race favourites
The champion of the 2015 edition was Rafael Valls, who was then riding for Lampre–Merida but had moved to Lotto–Soudal for the 2016 season. Lotto–Soudal was not among the teams invited to the race, so Valls was not present to defend his title. In his absence, the contenders for overall victory included Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), who had won on Jebel Akhdar in 2012, and Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team), who had won the queen stage of the Tour Down Under. Other strong riders included the AG2R La Mondiale riders Romain Bardet and Domenico Pozzovivo, Team Giant–Alpecin's Tom Dumoulin, Etixx–Quick-Step's Dan Martin, Lampre–Merida's Rui Costa and Fortuneo–Vital Concept's Eduardo Sepúlveda.


2016 Tour of Oman, Pre-race favourites
The varied stages in the Tour of Oman meant that several different kinds of riders started the race. These included sprinters such as Sam Bennett (Bora–Argon 18), Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha), Sacha Modolo (Lampre–Merida), Andrea Guardini (Astana) and Moreno Hofland (LottoNL–Jumbo). The hilly finishes also attracted classics riders such as Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Davide Rebellin (CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Dimension Data).


2016 Tour of Oman, Route
The 2016 race is scheduled to include six stages. This included one flat stage, three hilly stages, one stage with an uphill finish to Qurayyat and the queen stage finishing on Jebel Akhdar (the Green Mountain) where previous editions of the race have been decided. The climb of Jebel Akhdar was extended from previous races: it continued 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) from the former finish line up to the top of the climb.


2016 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership
There were five principal classifications in the 2016 Tour of Oman.


2016 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership
The first and most important was the general classification; the winner of this is considered the overall winner of the race. It is calculated by adding together each rider's times on each stage, then applying bonuses. Bonuses are awarded for coming in the top three on a stage (10 seconds for the winner, 6 seconds for the second placed rider and 4 seconds for the rider in third) or at intermediate sprints (3 seconds, 2 seconds and 1 second for the top three riders). The rider in the lead of the general classification wears a red jersey.


2016 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership
The second competition is the points classification. This is calculated by awarding points for the top 10 riders at the finish of each stage (15 points to the winner down to 1 point for the rider in tenth place) and to the top three at intermediate sprints (3 points, 2 points and 1 point). The rider with the highest points total is the leader of the classification and wears a green jersey.


2016 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership
The young rider classification is open to those born on or after 1 January 1990. The young rider ranked highest in the general classification is the leader of the young rider classification and wears a white jersey.


2016 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership
The combativity classification is based on points won at intermediate sprints and classified climbs along the route. Points are awarded to the top three riders across each sprint or climb (3 points, 2 points and 1 point). The rider with the most accumulated points is the leader of the classification and wears a white jersey with red and green sections.


2016 Tour of Oman, Classification leadership
The final competition is the team classification. On each stage, each team is awarded a time based on the cumulative time of its top three riders. The times for each stage are then added together and the team with the lowest total time is the leader of the team classification. There is no jersey awarded for this classification.


2016 Tour of Qatar
The 2016 Tour of Qatar was a road cycling stage race that took place in Qatar between 8 and 12 February 2016. It was organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour de France and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the 2016 UCI Asia Tour. It was the 15th edition of the Tour of Qatar


2016 Tour of Qatar
The race consisted of five stages. It began in Dukhan and ended in Doha. The Tour of Qatar puts unusual demands on riders: it has no significant climbs, but almost every stage is affected by strong crosswinds. These conditions make the race ideal preparation for the spring classics season, so many prominent classics riders were present. The champion of the 2015 Tour of Qatar was Niki Terpstra (Etixx–Quick-Step), but his team was not invited to the event for disciplinary reasons.


2016 Tour of Qatar
The race was won by Mark Cavendish (Team Dimension Data). This was his second victory, following the 2013 edition. He won Stage 1 and finished second on the second and fifth stages. Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha) won three other stages, with Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Dimension Data) winning the time trial but losing time to a puncture on the fourth stage.


2016 Tour of Qatar, Teams
Eighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. Eight of these were UCI WorldTeams; eight were UCI Professional Continental teams; two were UCI Continental teams. The WorldTeam Etixx–Quick-Step, which had won eight of the previous ten editions, including the 2015 edition with Niki Terpstra, was not invited.


2016 Tour of Qatar, Teams
Although Wilfried Peeters, a directeur sportif with the team, had suggested that the team had chosen not to take part for sporting reasons, it was suggested in the days before the race that the president of the Qatar Cycling Federation, Sheikh Khalid Bin Ali Al-Thani, had declined to invite the team because riders had failed to attend podium ceremonies promptly after winning stages in previous editions.


2016 Tour of Qatar, Stages, Stage 1
8 February – Dukhan to Al Khor Corniche, 176 km (109 mi)


2016 Tour of Qatar, Stages, Stage 2
9 February – Doha to Doha, 135 km (84 mi)


2016 Tour of Qatar, Stages, Stage 4
11 February – Al Zubara Fort to Madinat ash Shamal, 189 km (117 mi)


2016 Tour of Slovenia
The 2016 Tour of Slovenia (Slovene: Dirka po Sloveniji) was the 23rd edition of the Tour of Slovenia cycling stage race. It was scheduled from 16 to 19 June.


2016 Tour of Slovenia
The winner of overall classification was Rein Taaramäe. The selection was made on Stage 1 to Trije Kralji.


2016 Tour of Slovenia, Participating teams
Nineteen (19) teams participated in the 2016 edition of the Tour of Slovenia.


2016 Tour of Szeklerland
The 2016 Tour of Szeklerland was a six-day cycling stage race that took place in Székely Land in early August 2016. The race is the 9th edition of the Tour of Szeklerland. It was rated as a 2.2 event as part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour. The race included 4 stages, starting in Miercurea Ciuc on 5 August and returning there for the finish on 8 August in Miercurea Ciuc.


2016 Tour of Utah
The 2016 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah was the 13th edition of the Tour of Utah. It started on August 1 in Logan and finished on August 7 in Park City. It was rated as a 2.HC event on the UCI America Tour. The race was won by Lachlan Morton of Jelly Belly–Maxxis.


2016 Tour of Utah, Teams
The sixteen teams invited to participate in the Tour of Utah are:


2016 Tour of the Basque Country
The 2016 Tour of the Basque Country (Spanish: Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Basque: Euskal Herriko itzulia) was a road cycling stage race that took place in the Basque Country between 4 and 9 April 2016. It was the 56th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country and the ninth event of the 2016 UCI World Tour.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country
The race took place over mountainous terrain and was suitable for climbers. The first five stages were mountainous; the sixth and final stage was a hilly individual time trial. The defending champion was Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha), with Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team), Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) and Sergio Henao (Team Sky) also among the favourites for the overall victory.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country
Luis León Sánchez won the opening stage, but lost the lead the following day on the first uphill finish to Mikel Landa (Sky). Landa lost the lead on Stage 4, with Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL–Jumbo) taking over the lead. On the second uphill finish of the race on the penultimate day, Henao took over the lead after escaping with Contador. Contador then won the time trial on the final stage and beat Henao to the overall victory by 12 seconds, with Quintana a further 23 seconds behind in third. Henao won the points classification, while Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) won the intermediate sprints competition and Diego Rosa (Astana) the mountains classification.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Route
The route of the 2016 Tour of the Basque Country was generally mountainous, with no stages suited for the sprinters. The first stage included eight categorised climbs, the last of which was 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) from the finish. The second finished with a 2-kilometre (1.2 mi) climb at an average gradient of 11.7%; the third and fourth stages again contained multiple climbs shortly before the finish. The fifth stage was the most difficult, with the 5.5-kilometre (3.4 mi) climb of the Arrate (referred to by its Basque name Usartza and averaging 8.5%), shortly before the finish. The final stage was a hilly individual time trial around Eibar.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Participating teams
As the Tour of the Basque Country is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and were obliged to enter a team in the race. Two UCI Professional Continental teams – Cofidis and Caja Rural–Seguros RGA – were awarded wildcard places, bringing the number of teams to twenty. As each team included eight riders, there were a total of 160 at the start of the first stage.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Pre-race favourites
The mountainous terrain meant that the favourites for victory were exclusively climbers; every stage offered the opportunity for attacks. The final two stages (the climb to Arrate and the individual time trial) were expected to be decisive. The top two riders from the 2015 edition, Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) and Sergio Henao (Team Sky), both returned to the race. Rodríguez had not been in good form and had not been in the top ten at any race in 2016.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Pre-race favourites
Henao had been expected to ride in support of his team's new signing Mikel Landa, but Landa had been ill and was not yet in good form; Henao was therefore his team's leader. The principal favourites, however, were Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) and Alberto Contador (Tinkoff); both men are former winners of the race (Quintana in 2013 and Contador in 2008, 2009 and 2014). Quintana had beaten Contador the previous month at the Volta a Catalunya. Other favourites included Dan Martin (Etixx–Quick-Step) and Fabio Aru (Astana), along with Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), who had won the Critérium International.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 1
4 April – Etxebarria to Markina-Xemein, 144 km (89 mi)


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 1
The first stage took place over a 144-kilometre (89 mi) course that started in Etxebarria and followed a looping course to finish near the start in Markina-Xemein. The stage began with two third-category climbs, followed by a flat section along the coast, before turning back inland for two second-category climbs; there were then two more third-category climbs. The most difficult climb of the day was the first-category Alto de Ixua (6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) at 7%); at the summit there were 26 kilometres (16 mi) remaining. This included one more second-category climb – the eighth of the day – and a final 8-kilometre (5.0 mi) descent to the finish, which came on flat, straight roads.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 1
The day's main breakaway formed after the first climb. It was made up of Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx–Quick-Step), Marcel Wyss (IAM Cycling), Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) and Jonathan Lastra (Caja Rural–Seguros RGA). Brambilla fell back from the break before the third climb of the day, where the lead over the peloton was around three minutes. The peloton was led throughout by riders from Tinkoff and from Orica–GreenEDGE and was just over a minute 42 kilometres (26 mi) from the end.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 1
Wyss was dropped on the Alto de Ixua, with 35 kilometres (22 mi) remaining, and the lead dropped to less than half a minute. The peloton's chase slowed on the climb, however, and Dario Cataldo was able to attack and come across to the breakaway; he immediately dropped Lastra and, after working with Edet for a while, dropped him too and continued alone. Meanwhile, there were attacks in the peloton, with Philip Deignan (Team Sky) and Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL–Jumbo) both attempting to escape.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 1
Towards the top of the climb, Alberto Contador attacked and was followed by the other general classification favourites; this acceleration brought Cataldo back to the group. On the final climb, Daniel Navarro (Cofidis) attacked and was joined by Luis León Sánchez (Astana). Sánchez led Navarro down the fast descent; they held a small lead going into the final kilometres. Sánchez sprinted first and Navarro was unable to come past. The main group were very close at the finish, with Simon Gerrans (Orica–GreenEDGE) sprinting into third place. Sánchez therefore took the overall lead of the race, with 50 other riders on the same time.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
4 April – Markina-Xemein to Baranbio-Garrastatxu (Amurrio), 174.2 km (108.2 mi)


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
The second stage started where the first had finished, in Markina-Xemein, and headed south-west towards the finish in Amurrio. It began with a second-category climb very early in the stage; after a flat section came two more climbs, one third-category and one second-category. After a long plateau and a descent, the riders arrived in Amurrio for the first time. Another third-category ascent followed; at the summit there were 47 kilometres (29 mi) to the finish.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
Most of this was over fairly flat roads as the riders looped around Amurrio, but the final part of the race was a steep climb, the 2.7-kilometre (1.7 mi) Alto de Garrastatxu, with an average gradient of 11.7%. The climb started with a section at 11.5%, followed by another at 13.5%; the final part of the climb had a gradient of 9.3%.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
The first half of the stage took place in cold and rainy conditions. Nicholas Edet won the first mountain sprint, putting him into the lead of the mountain classification. A breakaway formed in the following kilometres, but the presence of two well-placed Lampre–Merida riders (Simone Petilli and Louis Meintjes) meant that the group was not allowed to build an advantage. Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling) and Ángel Madrazo (Caja Rural–Seguros RGA) were part of this group and were then able to escape again, forming a two-man breakaway that led most of the stage. Their lead was over three minutes with 30 kilometres (19 mi) remaining, but fell rapidly; they were caught with 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) remaining.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
Team Sky, along with Orica–GreenEDGE, Cannondale and Movistar, led the peloton towards the climb, with LottoNL–Jumbo taking over as the road began to rise. Blel Kadri (AG2R La Mondiale) then attacked, but was soon overtaken by Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL–Jumbo) and Mikel Landa (Sky). Going into the final kilometre, they had a 14-second lead. Contador, who had lost the key stage of the Volta a Catalunya after doing too much work on the final climb, waited for the other riders in the group to chase Landa and Kelderman.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
Rui Costa attempted to bring the two riders back, with Contador, Henao, Rodriguez and Samuel Sánchez (BMC Racing Team) following, but they were unable to catch them. In the final few hundred metres, Landa came past Kelderman and took the stage win, his first since signing for Team Sky. Keldeman was second, one second behind Landa, with Henao four seconds further back in third. Landa took over the race lead. After the stage, however, he said that Henao remained the team leader for the rest of the race and that he "could crack tomorrow".


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
6 April 2016 – Vitoria-Gasteiz to Lesaka, 193.5 km (120.2 mi)


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
The third stage covered a 193.5-kilometre (120.2 mi) route from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Lesaka. The route initially took the riders east along flat roads to Irurtzun, then north towards the coast. Shortly after the turn, there was a third-category climb followed immediately by a second-category climb. There were then flat roads as far as Hernani, when the riders turned east again, through Oiartzun. The final 35 kilometres (22 mi) included three second-category climbs. The last of these, the Alto de la Piedad, was crossed with 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) to the finish line. After the descent, there were flat roads to the finish.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
There was an early breakaway formed by Blel Kadri (AG2R La Mondiale), Sam Oomen (Team Giant–Alpecin), José Gonçalves (Caja Rural–Seguros RGA), Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data) and, for the second consecutive day, Stefan Denifl (IAM). Gonçalves won the first mountain sprint and Denifl the second, but the group was kept close by the peloton; going into the three final climbs they had just a minute's lead.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
On the first of these climbs, Denifl attacked the breakaway, with only Oomen able to follow; meanwhile Michael Albasini (Orica–GreenEDGE) attacked from the peloton and was joined by Dario Cataldo (Astana), Daniel Navarro (Cofidis) and Laurens De Plus (Etixx–Quick-Step). Denifl was first to the summit of the day's third climb, with the four chasers around 30 seconds behind.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
On the day's penultimate climb, the chasers were joined by Adam Yates (Orica–GreenEDGE) and Pierre Rolland (Cannondale); the whole group then came across to Denifl and Oomen. Denifl once again won the mountain sprint to take the lead in the mountain classification. As both Yates and Rolland were potential threats to Landa's general classification lead, Sky chased hard on the final climb, with the gap at around 15 seconds. Navarro attacked over the summit; Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) attacked from the peloton and was followed by Landa, Quintana, Samuel Sanchez and Rui Costa. Navarro rode the descent hard and had a small gap to the chasers at the foot, with a larger gap to the main peloton. Rolland and Yates attacked and caught Navarro; all the breakaway riders were finally caught with under 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) remaining.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
Within the last 1 kilometre (0.6 mi), Steve Cummings (Team Dimension Data) attacked solo and held on to take the stage win. The peloton came close to catching him – with Simon Gerrans second and Fabio Felline (Trek–Segafredo) – but Cummings had time to celebrate as he crossed the line. Cummings's victory came just hours after he had said in an interview with Cyclingnews.com that he would attempt to win stages with late attacks; it was his second such victory of the year, after a stage of the Tirreno–Adriatico. Landa retained his overall lead, with no  change in the top ten riders.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
7 April 2016 – Lesaka to Orio, 165 km (103 mi)


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
The fourth stage of the race once again included several late climbs, coming at the end of a 165-kilometre (103 mi) course. The racing started in Lesaka, where Stage 3 had finished, and took the riders to Orio, travelling principally along the coast. There were two climbs in the first 50 kilometres (31 mi), one first-category and the other third-category. There was then a long section of flat roads before a second-category climb with 65 kilometres (40 mi) remaining.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
There were then three more second-category climbs in the final 35 kilometres (22 mi); the last two were ascents of different sides of the Alt de Aia, with the last summit coming 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the finish. After the final descent, there were 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the finish, which included an uncategorised climb of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) at 7%.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
The beginning part of the stage was raced hard; a large breakaway formed early and contested the early climbs. Denifl won the first two climbs, but the breakaway was caught and, after 80 kilometres (50 mi), a new breakaway was formed. This was made up of six riders: Simone Petilli (Lampre–Mérida), Tim Wellens (Lotto–Soudal), Christophe Riblon (AG2R La Mondiale), Luis Ángel Maté (Cofidis), Carlos Verona (Etixx–Quick-Step) and Ángel Vicioso (Katusha). The breakaway split on the fourth climb of the day, but re-formed on the descent. Team Sky held their advantage under three minutes for most of the stage and it was reduced further approaching the final climbs; it was around 90 seconds with 22 kilometres (14 mi) remaining.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
On the penultimate climb of the day, Warren Barguil (Team Giant–Alpecin) attacked and was followed by Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff), but Astana chased the move down. Meanwhile, Vicioso was dropped from the break; the rest of the breakaway had a one-minute lead going into the final climb. On the final climb, which had sections with a gradient of 28%, Verona attacked and escaped from the breakaway group, with Maté and Wellens chasing. Henao, Contador and Quintana attacked from the peloton, with Landa unable to follow.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
The riders were in several groups coming off the final climb, but Kreuziger's efforts brought the front groups back together with 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) remaining. On the final, uncategorised climb, Contador attacked, with Henao following, but Samuel Sánchez came past both of them and descended fast to the finish line, where he won the stage. Rui Costa (Movistar) finished second, on the same time as Sánchez, as part of a sixteen-rider chasing group that included all the main favourites except Landa, who lost eight seconds. Kelderman therefore moved into the race lead, four seconds ahead of Henao, with Landa now seven seconds behind in third place. Sánchez's victory was his first since he won a stage of the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné and his first since signing for BMC.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
8 April 2016 – Orio to Arrate (Eibar), 159 km (99 mi)


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
The final road stage of the race included eight categorised climbs, the last of which came just 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) before the finish. It began where Stage 4 finished, in Orio, and covered a 159-kilometre (99 mi) course to Eibar, where it finished at the top of the Arrate climb. The first 60 kilometres (37 mi) took the riders along the coast, then inland to Eibar. On the way there were two climbs, one third-category and one second-category. The riders then left Eibar to the south for a 70-kilometre (43 mi) circuit that included three second-category climbs.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
There was then a 30-kilometre (19 mi) circuit to the north of Eibar with a further two second-category climbs. The riders then returned to the town for the final climb – the Arrate or Usartza – which was 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long at an average gradient of 8.2%. Following the summit, there was a short descent to the finish line.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
A large breakaway group formed at the beginning of the stage, consisting of at least eighteen riders. After 41 kilometres (25 mi), Diego Rosa attacked the breakaway. No one followed, and he set off on a solo breakaway. Rosa said after the stage that he had been intending to draw out a smaller breakaway group; as no one followed him, he decided to continue alone, even though he was more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the end of the stage. For a significant portion of the stage, Rosa was chased by Maxime Monfort and Sander Armée (both Lotto–Soudal), but they were not able to reduce his advantage. At the start of the final climb of the day, he had several minutes' lead.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
In the peloton, Kelderman's LottoNL–Jumbo team was unable to stay with him to the end of the day and he was isolated for the final two climbs. Earlier in the day, he crashed on a corner during a wet descent and was left with rips in his clothing. On the final climb, Mikel Landa attacked from the group of overall favourites; he joined up with his teammate David López, who had been part of the early breakaway. López paced him for some time, with Simon Clarke (Cannondale) also joining the group. They were chased, however, by Tinkoff and brought back on the final climb. Contador then attacked, with only Henao able to follow. Ródriguez and Pinot chased; Kelderman attempted to stay with them but was dropped.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
Rosa continued over the final climb and took a solo victory, several minutes ahead of the rest of the field. In the final metres, he stopped, dismounted and crossed the finish line on foot, holding his bike above his head. L'Équipe described his celebration as "unlikely but well deserved", after he had spent most of the stage riding alone. Henao and Contador finished together, two seconds ahead of Ródriguez and Pinot. Kelderman dropped to eighth place after finishing over a minute behind Henao and Contador. Henao took over both the overall lead and the points classification, while Rosa took over the lead of the mountains classification after winning six of the day's seven climbs.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
More than thirty riders abandoned the race during the fifth stage. They included Fabio Aru, Dan Martin, Simon Gerrans, Ryder Hesjedal (Trek–Segafredo) and Simon Yates (Orica–GreenEDGE). Many of the retirements came after crashes on the wet roads.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6
9 April 2016 – Eibar, 16.5 km (10.3 mi) (ITT)


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6
The final stage of the race was a hilly, 16.5-kilometre (10.3 mi) individual time trial that started and ended in Eibar. The first 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) were fairly flat, but there was then a significant climb of 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) at 9.7%. There was then a 6.3-kilometre (3.9 mi) descent, followed by 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) of flat roads to the finish line.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6
Seventeen of the riders remaining in the race chose not to compete in the final stage. Caleb Fairly (Team Giant–Alpecin) was the first to start and completed the course in 34' 44". The first significant time was set by Adam Yates, who crossed the finish line with a time of 30' 06". This time remained the best time until the eighth-placed rider overnight – Nairo Quintana – set a time of 29' 18". Other well placed riders, including Pinot, Rodríguez and Landa, struggled on the steep climb.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6
At the top of the climb, Quintana changed from a road bicycle to a time trial bicycle. The only rider able to beat Quintana's time was Alberto Contador. He was 23 seconds up at the top of the climb and finished five seconds ahead by the finish line. Cyclingnews.com suggested after the stage that Quintana's bike change may have cost him the stage victory. Henao, who had lost 46 seconds to Contador on the climb, finished 18 seconds behind and fell to second place overall.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6
Contador therefore won the race, twelve seconds ahead of Henao, with Quintana moving up to third place overall. It was the third time that he had won the Tour of the Basque Country in the final time trial.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Post-race analysis, Rider reactions
Alberto Contador had on various previous occasions announced that the 2016 would be his last as a professional racer. After his victory in the Tour of the Basque Country, however, he said "I'm sure this isn't the last time I come here" and said that he would probably continue beyond the 2016 season. It was his first general classification victory since the 2015 Route du Sud; he dedicated the victory to his fans and to Oleg Tinkov, the owner of the Tinkoff team.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Post-race analysis, Rider reactions
Sergio Henao said that he had tried a different tactic in the time trial – holding back early on in order to give more effort later in the stage – and said that he was pleased both with his own performance and with how his team had ridden. He said that he was feeling strong ahead of his main objectives for the season, the Ardennes classics. Quintana said that his bike change in the time trial had helped, but that it was not quite enough to win the stage. He said that he was pleased with how he had ridden the race and in particular with how he had recovered from illness earlier in the week.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Post-race analysis, UCI World Tour standings
In the 2016 UCI World Tour season-long competition, Contador's victory moved him from third place to second, 59 points behind his teammate Peter Sagan. Sergio Henao moved from eighth to fourth and Quintana from twelfth to fifth. Spain moved into the lead of the nations' ranking, having previously been fifth. Tinkoff retained their overall lead in the teams' ranking, ahead of Team Sky.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Classifications
In the Tour of the Basque Country, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage; the leader received a yellow jersey. No bonus seconds were awarded.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Classifications
The points classification – the leader of which wore a white jersey – was awarded on the basis of positions at stage finishes. The top 15 riders on each stage were awarded points (25 points for first, 20 points for second, 16 for third, 14 for fourth, 12 for fifth, 10 for sixth and one point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th). The rider with the highest number of points overall was the leader of the classification.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Classifications
There were also two classifications awarded for positions at points in the middle of stages. Each stage (except the individual time trial) included individual sprint points (3, 2 and 1 points respectively for the top three riders); the rider with the highest total led the classification and wore a blue jersey. Each stage also included several categorised climbs, with more points awarded for the most difficult ("first-category") climbs. The rider with the most accumulated points led the classification and wore a red and white jersey.


2016 Tour of the Basque Country, Classifications
There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists from each team on each stage were added together; the team with the lowest total time led the classification.


2016 Touring Car Endurance Series
The 2016 Touring Car Endurance Series powered by Hankook was the first season of the Touring Car Endurance Series (TCES). Creventic is the organiser and promoter of the series. The races were contested with touring cars. The 24H Silverstone and the 24H Epilog Brno are part of both the TCES and the 24H Series.


2016 Touring Car Masters
The 2016 Touring Car Masters was an Australian motor racing series for modified touring cars manufactured between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1978. It was the tenth running of the Touring Car Masters. The series was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as an Authorised Series with Touring Car Masters Pty. Ltd. appointed as the Category Manager by CAMS.


2016 Touring Car Masters
The Pro Master class was won by John Bowe (Holden Torana), Pro Am by Jason Gomersall (Holden Torana), Pro Sport by Adam Garwood (Holden Torana) and the Invitational class by Greg Garwood (Ford Capri Perana).


2016 Touring Car Masters
The Touring Cars Masters field was combined with New Zealand Central Muscle Car series competitors for the Bathurst round. The Trans-Tasman Challenge featured over 50 cars from both series with Glenn Seton winning the round in his Ford Mustang. Dean Perkins was the best placed New Zealander with his Ford Falcon.


2016 Touring Car Masters, Race calendar
The series was contested over eight rounds. Each round comprised a minimum of two Series Races and a Trophy Race.


2016 Touring Car Masters, Classes
Each automobile was allocated into one of the following classes:


2016 Touring Car Masters, Points system
Series points were awarded in each Series Race per the following table:


2016 Touring Car Masters, Points system
In addition, each driver was awarded 25 points for each Trophy Race in which they started and 25 points for each Trophy Race in which they finished.


2016 Townsville Blackhawks season
The 2016 Townsville Blackhawks season was the second in the club's history. Coached by Kristian Woolf and co-captained by Glenn Hall and Anthony Mitchell, they compete in the Intrust Super Cup.


2016 Townsville Blackhawks season, Season summary
The year started off on a sour note, with club captain Daniel Beasley tearing his ACL and being ruled out for the season. In his place, Glenn Hall and Anthony Mitchell were announced as co-captains of the team. Coming off a minor premiership and Grand Final appearance in 2015, the Blackhawks got off to a strong start to their second season in the Intrust Super Cup, winning their first five games. On May 19, inaugural Blackhawk Neville Costigan retired due to a chronic knee injury.


2016 Towson Tigers football team
The 2016 Towson Tigers football team represented Towson University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Rob Ambrose and played their home games at Johnny Unitas Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 4–7, 3–5 in CAA play to finish in a tie for eighth place.


2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
The 2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 2016 IndyCar Series and the 42nd annual running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The race was contested over 80 laps on a temporary street circuit in Long Beach, California on April 17, 2016. Hélio Castroneves qualified on pole for the second consecutive race with a time of 1:07.1246. Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon started alongside him in second. Some confusion surrounded the second round of qualifying as timing and scoring malfunctioned. IndyCar officials would correct the mistakes caused by this and set the correct Fast Six qualifiers shortly after round two ended. Fast six qualifying was briefly delayed when Will Power clipped a tire barrier and went into a run-off area. Power started sixth due to his mishap.


2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Castroneves took the lead from the start and led 49 of the opening 51 laps. Behind him, Simon Pagenaud was able to move his way past Scott Dixon into second, while Dixon was scuffled down to fourth by the time the first round of pit stops came. During pit stops, Dixon was able to leapfrog Pagenaud and his teammate Tony Kanaan to move up to second. At the second round of stops, Dixon was able to pass Castroneves with quick pit work.


2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
However, Simon Pagenaud was able to move even faster and get out of the pits just ahead of Dixon, handing Pagenaud the lead of the race. Controversy surrounded this, though, as Pagenaud placed two tires over the blend line at the exit of pit lane while trying to beat Dixon to turn one. IndyCar officials let Pagenaud off with a warning for the incident, despite protests from Chip Ganassi Racing and Scott Dixon.


2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
In the end, Pagenaud was able to hold on and take victory by 0.3032 seconds, the closest finish in the history of the Grand Prix of Long Beach. It was Pagenaud's first victory while driving for Team Penske and his first win since the second race of the 2014 Grand Prix of Houston.


2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
For only the 4th time in the history of the race, no full course caution occurred at any point.


2016 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Report, Race results
Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.


2016 Toyota Owners 400
The 2016 Toyota Owners 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on April 24, 2016, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps on the 0.75 mile (1.2 km) asphalt short track, it was the ninth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Carl Edwards won the race, Kyle Busch finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top-five. The race had 23 lead changes among different drivers and eight cautions over 29 laps.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Report, Background
Richmond International Raceway (RIR) is a 3/4-mile (1.2 km), D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County. It hosts the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Xfinity Series. Known as "America's premier short track", it formerly hosted a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, an IndyCar Series race, and two USAC sprint car races.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Entry list
The entry list for the Toyota Owners 400 was released on Monday, April 18 at 12:58 a.m. Eastern time. Forty-one cars are entered for the race.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, First practice
Kevin Harvick was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 20.919 and a speed of 129.069 mph (207.716 km/h). The session was cut short by rain.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Qualifying
Kevin Harvick earned the pole for Sunday's race after rain washed out qualifying. He said afterwards that his team "had decided to come into the weekend and approach qualifying a little bit different, with just the way the race tracks have been and the timing of the practices. We decided to go and take advantage of being the first car on the race track, which is usually a big advantage here when the track is green and doesn't have a lot of rubber on it. It worked out today, and Rodney and everybody had a good plan, and it's going to be interesting just for the fact that, the second and third times out, the times weren't near what the first time was because the tires fall off -- which is great."


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Qualifying
Joey Logano, who earned the second starting spot, said that he felt "like my team did a great job understanding the weather today before we hit the race track. We went out there and made our qualifying run off the truck and then focused in on race trim thinking that we weren’t going to qualifying anyway. The plan was executed perfectly besides second instead of first. Overall it is a good starting spot.”


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Final practice
Jimmie Johnson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.342 and a speed of 120.849 mph (194.488 km/h).


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, First half, Start
Under clear blue Virginia skies, Kevin Harvick led the field to the green flag at 1:16 p.m. After 15 laps, he pulled to seven-tenths of a second over Jimmie Johnson. By lap 20, however, Johnson reeled in Harvick and passed him on the outside going into turn 1 to take the lead on lap 21. After 10 laps, he pulled to a second and a quarter lead over Harvick. By lap 54, Carl Edwards pulled to within a quarter of a second of Johnson.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, First half, Start
After battling back and forth for nearly 10 laps, Edwards edged Johnson for the lead on lap 63. Johnson would pull back ahead to retake it the next lap. Edwards pulled ahead of Johnson the next lap to assume the lead. A number of teams began pitting on lap 85. Edwards pitted on lap 90 and handed the lead to Denny Hamlin. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Johnson. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Matt Kenseth. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled back to Edwards.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
After the first cycle of stops, Edwards led over Kyle Busch by two seconds. By lap 115, however, that lead had been cut by half a second. By lap 155. Busch pulled to within half a second of teammate Edwards. Debris on the backstretch brought out the first caution of the race on lap 157. Busch exited pit road with the race lead. Chris Buescher and Hamlin were tagged for an uncontrolled tire and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 165. Edwards spun the tires on the restart and Busch pulled away. Edwards, however, reeled him back in and took back the lead on lap 169. Debris on the backstretch brought out the second caution of the race on lap 195.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 203. By lap 231, Harvick reeled in and passed Edwards for the lead. After 15 laps, he pulled away to a two and three-quarter second lead over Edwards. Debris in turn 2 brought out the third caution of the race on lap 251. It came from the shredded tire of the No. 23 car of David Ragan.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 258. The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 268 for a single-car incident in turn 2. After cutting down his left-rear, Tony Stewart suffered a blowout and slowed down on the track. Brad Keselowski opted not to pit and assumed the lead.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 275. After going back and forth for three laps, Kurt Busch passed Keselowski for the lead. Brother Kyle passed him for the lead on lap 287. Debris in turns 1 and 2 brought out the fifth caution of the race with 88 laps to go. Kurt Busch exited pit road with the race lead.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 82 laps to go. The sixth caution of the race flew one lap later for a single-car spin in turn 4. Exiting the turn, Ryan Newman suffered a left-rear tire blowout and spun out.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 75 laps to go and the seventh caution of the race flew just after the restart for a spin by Ryan Ellis after being turned by Landon Cassill.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 66 to go. The eighth caution of the race flew with 42 laps to go for a single-car spin in turn 4 involving Brian Scott. Kyle Busch exited pit road with the race lead.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 36 laps to go. Rounding turn 4, Edwards bumped Busch out of the lead and scored the victory.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Edwards said in victory lane that Kyle Busch is "an amazing teammate and it’s like he got really slow there at the end. Something happened that last lap. It was like his rear tires went off or something. He went down into (turn) one and I dove it in and I got to him and I thought, ‘Man, I’ve got something.’


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
And he went to get down to the bottom and park it in three and four and I had already decided to go down there so I thought, ‘Man, I’m going to give him a little nudge,’ and we both have got wins and we’re racing for fun getting these trophies and just an awesome day.”


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
“It's racing, I guess,” Busch said. “We had a really great car. We were fast - maybe not as good as Carl on the long run. The guys gave me everything we needed today. We lost it there on the second-to-last run, but we had a shot to win and that's all that matters."


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Media, Television
Fox Sports covered their 16th race at the Richmond International Raceway. Mike Joy, two-time Richmond winner Jeff Gordon and six-time Richmond winner Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.


2016 Toyota Owners 400, Media, Radio
MRN will have the radio call for the race which will also be simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and six-time Richmond winner Rusty Wallace will call the race in the booth when the field is racing down the frontstretch. Mike Bagley will call the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field is racing down the backstretch. Kim Coon, Alex Hayden and Steve Post will work pit road for the radio side.


2016 Toyota Premier Cup
The 2016 Toyota Premier Cup was the 6th Toyota Premier Cup. It's a single-game cup competition organized by the Toyota  and Football Association of Thailand. It features Buriram United the winners of the 2015 Thai League Cup and Albirex Niigata an invited team from the 2015 J1 League (Japan). It features at i-mobile Stadium. It is sponsored by Toyota Motor (Thailand) Co., Ltd.


2016 Toyota Premier Cup, Match, Details
Assistant referees:  Anuwat Feemuechang  Binlha PreedaFourth official:  Mongkolchai PechsriMatch Commissioner:  Danai Mongkolsiri


2016 Toyota Racing Series
The 2016 Toyota Racing Series was the twelfth running of the Toyota Racing Series, the premier open-wheel motorsport category held in New Zealand. The series, which consisted of fifteen races at five meetings, began on 16 January at Ruapuna Park in Christchurch, and ended on 14 February with the 61st running of the New Zealand Grand Prix, at Manfeild Autocourse in Feilding.


2016 Toyota Racing Series
As the first European driver to win the Toyota Racing Series, M2 Competition's Lando Norris wrapped up the championship with a race to spare, amassing six wins, eight poles, five fastest laps, and three round wins on his way to the title. Norris won a race at every meeting, taking a pair of victories in Taupo, while only finishing off the podium four times.


2016 Toyota Racing Series
Force India protégé Jehan Daruvala took the runner-up spot in the championship, with one pole and three wins. Daruvala struggled in Ruapuna, but a strategic tyre gamble in a soggy Race 3 paid off, enabling him to take the Lady Wigram Trophy, despite starting 15th. Two further wins followed in Teretonga and Taupo, and solid top-8 finishes in each of the last nine races helped the Indian to second place overall.


2016 Toyota Racing Series
New Zealand's Brendon Leitch finished the season in a strong third, despite only one win and three podiums. However, it was his amazing consistency that gave him such a good championship position, as he finished every race in the top 10. Leitch's 754-point haul is also the most points accrued by a Victory Motor Racing driver in team history.


2016 Toyota Racing Series
Of the other drivers, Ferdinand Habsburg was top Giles Motorsport driver, after a strong campaign saw him take two wins. Pedro Piquet also took victory on two occasions, first in the second race at Teretonga, and again at Hampton Downs, where a superb run from pole saw him take the NZ Motor Cup. Piquet was often runaway leader Norris's main challenger, both on track and in the standings. Ferrari Driver Academy member Guanyu Zhou scored a breakthrough win in Hampton Downs and finished strongly throughout the duration of the series, although a disastrous final weekend compromised his attack. Rookie Taylor Cockerton was the best-placed ETEC Motorsport driver, finishing in ninth.


2016 Toyota Racing Series, Race calendar and results
The calendar for the series was announced on 23 June 2015, and will be held over five successive weekends in January and February. As opposed to the previous year, all rounds will be triple-headers.


2016 Toyota Racing Series, Championship standings
In order for a driver to score championship points, they have to complete at least 75% of the race winner's distance, and be running at the race's completion. All races counted towards the final championship standings.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350
The 2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 26, 2016 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps on the 1.99-mile (3.20 km) road course, it was the 16th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350
The race had 12 lead changes among different cautions and 4 cautions for 10 laps. This was three-time series champion Tony Stewart's 49th and final career victory.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
Sonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway is a 2.52-mile (4.06 km) road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains in Sonoma, California, USA. The road course features 12 turns on a hilly course with 160 feet (49 m) of total elevation change. It is host to one of only two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races each year that are run on road courses (the other being Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York).


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
It is also host to the Verizon IndyCar Series and several other auto races and motorcycle races such as the American Federation of Motorcyclists series. Sonoma Raceway continues to host amateur, or club racing events which may or may not be open to the general public. The largest such car club is the Sports Car Club of America.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Entry list
The preliminary entry list for the race included forty-one cars and was released on June 3, 2016 at 12:29 pm ET.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice, First practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 75.299 and a speed of 95.141 mph (153.115 km/h).


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice, Final practice
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 75.175 and a speed of 95.298 mph (153.367 km/h).


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Qualifying
Carl Edwards scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:14.799 and a speed of 95.777 mph (154.138 km/h). He said that his pole lap "was amazing, the car was really good and then I wasn’t sure about the second lap. It was good enough and that tells you how good the car is. I just can’t say enough about Stanley and all the things they’re doing for us. We had a dinner last night for us and this will be really exciting for them to have their Stanley Toyota up on the pole for the start of the race and hopefully we can stay there and get another win.”


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Qualifying
A. J. Allmendinger, who qualified second, said when he "saw Carl's first lap, I was like, I don't care what kind of lap I run, I'm never going to catch that. There's no pressure on me. He's won here before (in 2014); my best finish is seventh. We just have to go out and have a solid day." “Definitely a big gain from where we were yesterday,” he added. “We’ve still got to go to work, we’ve still got to figure out race trim, but a good start at least.”


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Qualifying
Dylan Lupton qualified 38th in his Sprint Cup Series debut. Cody Ware failed to qualify for the race.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, First half
Under clear blue California skies, Carl Edwards led the field to the green flag at 3:22 p.m. The first caution of the race flew on the seventh lap after Clint Bowyer's car came to a halt in the esses after the wiring in the dashboard caught fire. He said afterwards that the issue was probably "the ignition; it was a wiring fire. I've had oil smoke and stuff like that pour into the car … I've never had an electrical fire. Damn, it choked me out, I couldn't breathe. I bailed out and the damn thing starts rolling so I had to reach in and put it in gear. That's a great start to the day." He would go on to finish 40th.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, First half
The race restarted on lap 8. A. J. Allmendinger passed Edwards climbing up turn 2 to take the lead. After 10 laps, his lead had only grown to close to a second over Edwards. A number of cars started hitting pit road on lap 20. Jamie McMurray was tagged for speeding and was forced to serve a pass through penalty. Allmendinger made his stop on lap 25 and handed the lead to Paul Menard. Kevin Harvick out-braked Menard going into turn 4a to take the lead on lap 28. He pitted on lap 31 and the lead cycled to Edwards.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, First half
A number of cars began pitting on lap 45. Debris in turn 1 brought out the second caution of the race on lap 46. Kyle Busch opted to stay out when most of the field pitted and assumed the lead.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Second half
The race restarted with 61 laps to go. Denny Hamlin drove to the outside of his teammate in the esses to take the lead with 60 laps to go. A number of cars began pitting with 42 laps to go. Kyle Larson was tagged for speeding on pit road and was forced to serve a pass through penalty. Hamlin pitted with 39 laps to go and handed the lead to Allmendinger. Both drivers pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Danica Patrick. Michael McDowell was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and was forced to serve a pass through penalty. Hamlin took back the lead from Patrick passing to her outside at the top of turn 2.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Second half
Debris in turn 7a brought out the third caution of the race with 24 laps to go. Tony Stewart opted to stay out when the leaders pitted and assumed the lead. Allmendinger was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and restarted the race from the tail end of the field, to which he sarcastically told his crew "Good job, guys."


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Second half
The race restarted with 20 laps to go. The fourth caution of the race flew with 18 laps to go after McDowell's car stalled off the track near turn 9.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Second half
The race restarted with 14 laps to go. Martin Truex Jr. attempted to out-brake Stewart going into turn 7a with 12 laps to go, but he carried too much speed and had to stay on the brakes longer. This allowed Hamlin to pass him for second. In the remaining laps, Hamlin attempted to run down and pass Stewart to no avail. On the final lap, however, Hamlin out-braked Stewart going into turn 7a and took the lead. At turn 11, he locked the brakes and left the inside line open. Stewart drove his car into the gap, sent Hamlin and himself into the wall and drove on to score the victory.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Stewart said after the race that with "eight to go it was the first time I thought, 'hey, we might actually have a shot to hold onto this,' and I actually got a little bit emotional thinking about it while I was driving," Stewart said. "But you stay so focused and you have to. That was when they got racing each other and there was a bit of a gap and I had a little bit of a breather there to kind of think that once Denny (Hamlin) got closing in, it was back to business. You didn't have time to think about wine and flowers and ponies and all that stuff. I had to get back to business. But it was nice."


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Hamlin said afterwards that his "car was the worst it was all day. I didn’t have any forward drive (on turn 11). I didn’t run a low enough line. Once I knew he had position, I knew he wasn’t going to leave it to chance and have a drag race."


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Media, Television
Fox NASCAR televised the race in the United States on FS1 for the second consecutive year. Mike Joy was the lap-by-lap announcer, while six-time Sonoma winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip were the color commentators. Jamie Little, Chris Neville and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane during the race.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Media, Radio
Radio coverage of the race was broadcast by Performance Racing Network. PRN's broadcast of the race was simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini announced the race in the booth while the field was racing on the pit straight. Pat Patterson called the race from a stand outside of turn 2 when the field was racing up turns 2, 3 and 3a. Brad Gillie called the race from a stand outside of turn 7a when the field was racing through turns 4a and 7a.


2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Media, Radio
The field came back into the view of the booth in turns 8 and 9. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard outside turn 11 when the field was racing through turns 10 and 11. Heather DeBeaux, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Steve Richards reported from pit lane during the race.


2016 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2016 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate serving a four-year term of office, expiring in 2020. The Conservative Party held overall control of the council.


2016 Trans-Am Series
The 2016 Trans-Am Series was the 48th running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. It is the 50th anniversary of the series' first season


2016 Trans-Am Series, Rule changes
The Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro will receive updated bodywork for TA2 class entries in 2016


2016 Trans-Am Series, Rule changes
TA and TA2 continue essentially unchanged. TA3-I has been renamed TA3 for 2016. TA3-A has been renamed TA4. The new TA5 class has been created for Porsche Carrera Cup cars. Due to increased size of its field, TA2 will have separate race and qualifying sessions than the rest of the series at 11 of the 12 rounds of the championship.


2016 Trans-Am Series, Rule changes
After Round 4 the TA5 class was discontinued and the Porsche Cup cars were rolled back into TA3.


2016 Trans-Am Series, Rule changes
Amy Ruman made history for the third time by becoming the first woman ever to win two consecutive Trans Am Series Championships, in addition to her unprecedented first Trans Am Series win in 2011.


2016 Trans-Am Series, Schedule
The initial schedule was announced November 2, 2015, with an additional event in Detroit announced on March 21, 2016. The Detroit round will be invitational due to space constraints and will not count for championship points.


2016 Trans-Am Series, Driver standings, TA3
TA5 class was discontinued and re-combined with TA3 class after five races. The league published a combined standings table tabulated for the first five races as if TA5 and TA3 were contested as a single class and those standings are reflected here. The league also published separate standings tables for the five races where TA3 and TA5 compete separately as well as only for the seven races where they competed as a combined class. Those standings are available .


2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy
The 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy was a field hockey tournament contested by men's and women's field hockey teams from Australia and New Zealand. The tournament was held in the New Zealand city of Auckland, at the Lloyd Elsmore Hockey Stadium.


2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy
At the conclusion of the tournament, results from the men's and women's tournament were combined to determine the winning country. Australia won the 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy, after defeating New Zealand on aggregate scores.


2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy, Statistics, Final Standings
Results from the men's and women's competitions were combined to determine the champions.


2016 Transnistrian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Transnistria on 11 December 2016. The result was a victory for Supreme Council Speaker, Vadim Krasnoselsky, who defeated incumbent President Yevgeny Shevchuk.


2016 Transnistrian presidential election, Candidates
Seven candidates registered to contest the elections. However, former Interior Minister Gennady Kuzmichev later withdrew their candidacy.


2016 Travelers Curling Club Championship
The 2016 Travelers Curling Club Championship was held from November 23 to 26 at the Kelowna Curling Club in Kelowna, British Columbia.


2016 Travelers Men's NOCA Provincials
The 2016 Travelers Northern Ontario Men's Provincial Championship, the "provincial" men's curling championship of Northern Ontario was held February 10–14 at the North Bay Granite Curling Club in North Bay, Ontario. The winning Brad Jacobs team represented Northern Ontario at the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier in Ottawa.


2016 Tre Valli Varesine
The 2016 Tre Valli Varesine was the 96th edition of the Tre Valli Varesine road cycling one day race. It was held on 27 September 2016 as part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC, over a distance of 192.9 km, starting in Saronno and ending in Varese.


2016 Tre Valli Varesine, Teams
Twenty-seven teams were invited to take part in the race. These included ten UCI WorldTeams, thirteen UCI Professional Continental teams, three UCI Continental teams and the Italian national team.


2016 Trek–Segafredo season
The 2016 season for the Trek-Segafredo cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2016 Treviso Open
The 2016 Treviso Open was a Nine-ball pool event, and part of the Euro Tour. The event was held between 24–26 November 2016 in the BHR Treviso Hotel  in  Treviso, Italy.


2016 Treviso Open
The winner was David Alcaide. The Spaniard secured his second Euro Tour victory by a 9–6 final win against the German Joshua Filler. Third place went to the Pole Mieszko Fortuński and the Dutch Niels Feijen who won the previous Euro Tour tournament, the 2016 Leende Open


2016 Treviso Open
The defending champion was the Englishman Mark Gray, who lost in the round of 16 against Marco Teutscher.


2016 Treviso Open, Tournament results
The event saw 163 Participants first in a Double elimination tournament. With 32 players left, the event turned into a  Single-elimination tournament.


2016 Tri-Cities Fever season
The 2016 Tri-Cities Fever season was the team's twelfth season as a professional indoor football franchise and seventh in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of ten teams that compete in the IFL for the 2016 season, the Fever are members of the Intense Conference.


2016 Tri-Cities Fever season
Under the leadership of owner/general manager Teri Carr and head coach Adam Shackleford, the team played their home games at the Toyota Center in Kennewick, Washington.


2016 Tri-Cities Fever season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 21, 201626 Active, 2 Inactive→ More rosters


2016 Triangle Torch season
The 2016 Triangle Torch season was the first season for the American indoor football franchise, and their first in American Indoor Football.


2016 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup
The 2016 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2016 First Citizens Cup) was the seventeenth season of the Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, which is the league cup competition for Trinidad and Tobago teams competing in the TT Pro League. W Connection entered as the cup holders having defeated Central by a score of 2–1 in the 2015 final. First Citizens Bank changed the slogan to "Where Winners Reign" due to the amount of money that the winner of the tournament would obtain. Team were drawn randomly where teams from numbers 7–10 enter at the play-offs, while numbers 1–6 enter at the quarterfinal stage. Defence Force won their 3rd title with a 1–0 win over Ma Pau Stars.


2016 Trinidadian local elections
On Monday November 28, 2016, local elections were held in Trinidad, the bigger of the two main islands of Caribbean island state Trinidad and Tobago. The elections were held slightly more than one month later than originally planned. They were held to select the membership of 14 local authorities, with representatives elected from 137 single-member districts across the country. The entire membership of Trinidad's local government was renewed as a result of these elections, with the previous set of local representatives having been elected in 2013. The elections came roughly a year following the 2015 parliamentary general election.


2016 Trinidadian local elections
Local elections were not held in Tobago, which has an autonomous legislative chamber - the Tobago House of Assembly - in lieu of traditional forms of local government. Elections to the Tobago House of Assembly were held in 2017.


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Electoral system
As with elections to the parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, the 137 local representatives up for election were chosen using the First Past the Post system, in which the candidate with the most votes in each district was duly elected. Voters could cast one vote for the candidate of their choice.


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Seats before election
Since the 2013 local elections, the Elections and Boundaries Commission has conducted a review of the boundaries for each local corporation. As a consequence, the number of seats overall was enlarged from 136 to 137. Three local corporations saw their membership enlarged by one representative (Tunapuna & Piarco, Siparia and Mayaro & Rio Claro) whilst one authority lost a seat (Penal and Debe). As a result of these boundary changes, comparisons with the 2013 election are somewhat imperfect. Nonetheless, after the 2013 poll the total number of representatives was as follows:


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Seats before election
The UNC contested the 2013 elections in coalition with the COP, nominating 77 candidates to the COP's 52. The PNM won control of 8 councils to 5 for the UNC-lead coalition.


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Candidates
A total of 317 candidates nominated themselves to contest the elections by the deadline of November 7, 2016. This represented a sharp decline from the 418 candidates who contested the 2013 local elections. According to the election authorities, three of the UNC's candidates were found ineligible or withdrew themselves before polling day, resulting in a walkover victory for the PNM in one district.


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Results, Overall
In terms of seats and councils won, the elections resulted in a victory for the ruling People's National Movement, which had won the previous year's general election. The PNM successfully defended 83 of the 84 seats it had won in the 2013 local elections and won majority control of seven of the fourteen councils up for election. It lost one council, Sangre Grande, to no overall control after the election there resulted in a 4 - 4 seat split between the two major parties. The PNM subsequently formed a minority administration in the regional corporation after the incumbent local PNM leader, Terry Rondon, controversially used his casting vote to break the tie 5 - 4 in favour of the PNM and re-elect himself Chairman. This leaves the PNM in power in eight authorities.


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Results, Overall
The opposition United National Congress managed only a modest improvement in its tally of councillors, going from 48 to 54, falling far short of the 88 councillors elected in 2010 for the party. The party made a gain of one council by winning five of eight seats in Chaguanas compared to the previous elections. However, the UNC had already governed there in minority following a defection by a councillor from the Independent Liberal Party after the 2013 poll. As such the UNC failed to gain control of any councils from the PNM. Consolation did come for the party in the form of a narrow victory in the popular vote; the UNC captured 50% of the national vote compared to 48% for the PNM.


2016 Trinidadian local elections, Results, Overall
Minor parties fared extremely poorly in the election. The ILP and the Congress of the People, the only other parties with representation in local government, lost all of their seats and failed to win a significant share of the popular vote. The ILP won just 1.2% of the popular vote in Chaguanas, where the party had previously won a parliamentary seat in a by-election with 69% of the vote (though its share of the vote across Chaguanas had fallen to 3.1% by the 2015 general election).