It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour, and was held from 14 to 19 February 2012, in Oman.

The race was won by Slovakia's Peter Velits,[1] of the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step team, taking the race lead on the penultimate day and holding it to the finish.

Velits' winning margin over runner-up Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas–Cannondale) – winner of the race's queen stage to Jabal al Akhdar – was just one second,[2] after Nibali tried to gain bonus seconds at one of the final day's intermediate sprints but could not gain time.

[1] The final place on the podium went to RadioShack–Nissan's Tony Gallopin, sixteen seconds behind Nibali and 17 seconds down on Velits.

[3] Sixteen teams competed in the 2012 Tour of Oman.