UAE Tour 2027

The 2026 race had seven stages, from Madinat Zayed to Abu Dhabi Breakwater, with a 12.2-kilometer time trial on Al Hudayriyat Island and two summit finishes. Jebel Hafeet had been in the race before, and Jebel Mobrah was new: about 15 kilometers of climbing, the last six at an average of 12 percent.

Isaac Del Toro, in his first race of the season, won the opening stage on the ramp to Liwa Palace. Remco Evenepoel won the time trial and took the lead, and Del Toro lost 42 seconds. A day later, on Jebel Mobrah, Antonio Tiberi attacked 4 kilometers from the finish and won the stage, his first victory in the WorldTour. Del Toro came in 15 seconds later and Evenepoel more than two minutes down, and Tiberi led the race by 21 seconds.

Tiberi kept the lead through two sprint stages, both won by Jonathan Milan, until Jebel Hafeet on the second-to-last day. Del Toro attacked twice in the last 5 kilometers of the climb. The second attack, with 2.5 kilometers left, dropped Tiberi, and Luke Plapp and Felix Gall then went past him. Del Toro won the stage and, a day later, the race, 20 seconds ahead of Tiberi, with Plapp third at 1 minute 14 seconds.

At 22 years, 2 months and 26 days Del Toro was the youngest winner of the UAE Tour, a record that had belonged to his teammate Tadej Pogačar, and the first from outside Europe. It was also his first win in a WorldTour stage race. Milan won the last stage in Abu Dhabi too, his third of the week. Plapp said afterward that Jebel Mobrah was the hardest climb he had ever done.