Turkey tour

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The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu ) is a Turkish cycling race and is held in eight stages.

The race was held for the first time in 1968 and has been held annually in April since then. From 2005 to 2016 the stage race was part of the UCI Europe Tour . Initially it was categorized in UCI category 2.2 and in 2008 it was upgraded to category 2.1. In 2011 the event was upgraded to the hors category again . The competition was added to the UCI WorldTour calendar starting with the 2017 season . After the minimum number of 10 UCI WorldTeams could not be guaranteed in the 2018 and 2019 editions , the Tour of Turkey was no longer included in this series in 2020 and instead became part of the newly introduced UCI ProSeries .

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References and comments

  1. Eschborn-Frankfurt will be part of the WorldTour from 2017. radsport-news.com, August 2, 2016, accessed August 5, 2016 .
  2. UCI reveals the calendars for the 2020 UCI WorldTour and UCI Women's WorldTour. In: uci.org. June 26, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  3. The original winner Mustafa Sayar is no longer listed by the organizers as the winner after a positive doping test in the run-up to the Tour of Turkey, cf. www.tourofturkey.org/2013/results ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 15, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tourofturkey.org
  4. The original winner Iwajlo Gabrowski was disqualified for doping, cf. velonation.com of October 7, 2012: Disqualified Tour of Turkey winner Ivaïlo Gabrovski gets a two-year suspension for EPO

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