In fact, the race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.2 category race and was part of the 2012–13 UCI Asia Tour calendar.

Loh Sea Keong of Malaysia won the race, followed by Sergey Kuzmin of Kazakhstan second and Kiril Pozdnyakov of Russia third overall.

Mohamed Harrif Salleh of Malaysia won the points classification and Mohamed Zamri Salleh of Malaysia won the mountains classification.

Synergy Baku Cycling Project won the team classification.

A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2013 Jelajah Malaysia.