# Stage 1: Madinat Zayed → Liwa Palace · UAE Tour 2026

Monday, February 16 (2026-02-16) · 144 km · Sprint Stage

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A flat stage with an uphill sprint finish after two laps of the Moreeb Dune cycle path.

**Stages shaped like this ended in a sprint 58 of 100 times.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

Total elevation gain: 1347 m · Max elevation: 164 m


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