Tour of Turkey 2011
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Tour of Turkey Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey |
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| Racing series | UCI Europe Tour - Category 2.HC |
| Host country |
 Turkey
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| Competition period | April 24th to May 1st, 2011 |
| Stages | 8 stages |
| overall length | 1363.5 km |
| Starting field | 168 from 22 nations in 22 teams (of which 137 arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Alexander Jefimkin 33:45:48 h 2. Andrey Zeits + 01:13 min 3. Thibaut Pinot + 01:33 min  
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| Team evaluation |
FDJ 101: 39: 41 h
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The 47th Tour of Turkey ( Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ) was held from April 24 to May 1 2011th The cycle stage race was part of the UCI Europe Tour 2011 , in which it was classified in the highest category 2nd HC, and was held in eight stages over a total of 1363 kilometers.
Attendees
22 cycling teams started, including six ProTeams ( Team Garmin-Cervélo , Omega Pharma-Lotto , Lampre-ISD , Liquigas-Cannondale , Saxo Bank SunGard , Pro Team Astana ). In addition, 14 Professional Continental Teams were invited, including the German NetApp team . The other two teams were Turkish UCI Continental teams .
route
The first stage in Istanbul , only 121 kilometers long and largely flat , connected the continents of Europe and Asia for the first time in a cycle race .
After a transfer to the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, another flat stage followed to Turgutreis , before a hilly section with a mountain classification of the 1st category followed with the section to Marmaris for the first time.
On the fourth day of the race, a 200-kilometer stage to Pamukkale was on the program, where another first category mountain had to be conquered. After a long descent, the way to the destination also increased. The next day, at 218 kilometers, the longest section of the race to Fethiye followed . Here, too, there were two first category mountain ratings to be climbed, but towards the end the road led the drivers downhill from the interior to the sea. The next stage was also the last with serious topographical difficulties. After two more mountains of the 1st category and a descent, the riders moved almost 40 kilometers along a flat coastal road.
The last two stages were ultimately not very long and seemed predestined for sprint finishes. Traditionally, the race ended in front of the Turkish President's house in Alanya .
Overall, the majority of the sections corresponded to the corresponding stages of the previous year.
Stages
| stage | Day | Start finish | Art | km | Stage winner | Leader |
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| 1. | April 24th | İstanbul - İstanbul |  |
114.1 |
 Andrea Guardini
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Andrea Guardini
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| 2. | April 25 | Kuşadası - Turgutreis |  |
178 |
Valentin Iglinski
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Valentin Iglinski
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| 3. | 26th of April | Bodrum - Marmaris | |
166 |
Manuel Belletti
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Manuel Belletti
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| 4th | April 27 | Marmaris - Pamukkale |  |
207 |
Alessandro Petacchi
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 Bartosz Huzarski
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| 5. | April 28 | Denizli - Fethiye | |
218.6 |
Matteo Rabottini
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 Thomas Peterson
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| 6th | April 29 | Fethiye - Finike | |
184 |
 André Greipel
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Alexander Yefimkin
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| 7th | April, 30th | Tekirova - Manavgat | |
138 |
Andrea Guardini
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| 8th. | 1st of May | Side - Alanya | |
157.8 |
 Kenny van Hummel
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Race course
The winner of the first section, which ended in a mass sprint, was the young Italian Andrea Guardini from Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli , who had already won stages in the Tour de Langkawi and the Tour of Oman in his first year as a professional . Guardini also prevailed again on the penultimate stage. On the second day, the Kazakh Valentin Iglinski surprised the favored sprinters with his greatest success to date as a professional cyclist. Surprisingly, the American Tyler Farrar ( Team Garmin-Cervélo ) could not intervene in the sprint decisions . The somewhat hilly third stage went to the Italian Manuel Belletti from Colnago-CSF Inox , who won the sprint of a larger group.
Alessandro Petacchi took his first victory on the difficult fourth section, when the Lampre ISD professional caught the Polish Bartosz Huzarski on the uphill straight . However, the driver from the German team NetApp secured the turquoise jersey of the overall leader. But the next day, a top group of ten worked out a lead of almost twelve minutes on the field. While Farnese Vini's Matteo Rabottini secured his first professional victory, the American Thomas Peterson (Garmin-Cervélo) took over the leader's jersey. However, on the following stage on the last climb, Peterson lost contact with the other favorites, who were able to distance him by more than two minutes. Therefore, the Russian Alexander Jefimkin from the second division Team Type 1-Sanofi Aventis took over the overall lead. As the only rider on the tour, he was able to defend it for more than a day and finally won the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2011.
While the German André Greipel from the Belgian team Omega Pharma-Lotto secured the sixth stage and thus achieved his third win of the season, he had to admit defeat to the Dutchman Kenny van Hummel ( Skil-Shimano ) on the last section in the photo finish , after Guardini on the penultimate Day ahead in the mass sprint.
Scoring jerseys in the course of the race
| stage |
 Overall rating
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 Scoring
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 Mountain scoring
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 Sprint scoring
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 Team evaluation
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| 1. | Andrea Guardini | Andrea Guardini | Arturo Mora | De Rosa-Ceramica Flaminia | |
| 2. | Valentin Iglinski | Tyler Farrar | Juan Villegas | Caja Rural | |
| 3. | Manuel Belletti | Manuel Belletti | Luis Felipe Laverde | FDJ | |
| 4th | Bartosz Huzarski | Alessandro Petacchi | Alessandro Petacchi | Team NetApp | |
| 5. | Thomas Peterson | Alexander Yefimkin | FDJ | ||
| 6th | Alexander Yefimkin | Luis Felipe Laverde | Arturo Mora | ||
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official website results ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2011 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.
