Tour of Turkey 2012

Tour of Turkey Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2012
Racing series	UCI Europe Tour  -  Category 2.HC
Host country	Turkey
Competition period	April 22-29, 2012
Stages	8th
overall length	1172.7
Starting field	194 in 25 teams (163 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Alexander Dyachenko 28:49:43 h 2. Danail Petrow + 0:05 min 3. Adrián Palomares + 0:11 min
Team evaluation	(AST) 86:33:08 h
Scoring jerseys
Scoring	Matthew Goss
Mountain scoring	Marco Bandiera
Sprint scoring	Maxim Belkov
course
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The 48th Tour of Turkey ( Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ) was held from 22 April to 29 April 2012 found. The cycle stage race was part of the UCI Europe Tour 2012 , in which it was classified in the highest category 2nd HC, and was held in eight stages over a total of 1172.7 kilometers.

The Bulgarian Iwajlo Gabrowski , who rode for the Turkish cycling team Konya Torku Şeker Spor-Vivelo , was honored as the overall winner . It was later announced that his A-sample tested positive for the doping agent erythropoietin after the third stage, which he also won . Gabrovski was disqualified and the other drivers moved up one place each. The new overall winner was Alexander Djatschenko from the Astana Pro Team .

Attendees

ProTeams Ag2r (ALM) Astana Pro Team (AST) GreenEdge Cycling Team (GEC) Katusha Team (KAT) Lampre ISD (LAM)	Lotto Belisol Team (LTB) Omega Pharma-Quick Step (OPQ) Rabobank Cycling Team (RAB) Team Saxo Bank (SAX)
Professional Continental Teams Accent Jobs-Willems Veranda’s (ACC) Andalucía (ACG) Brittany-Schuller (BSC) Caja Rural (CJR) Colnago-CSF Inox (COG) Colombia-Coldeportes (COL) Team Europcar (EUC)	Farnese Vini-Selle Italia (FAR) Team Argos-Shimano (ARG) Team NetApp (APP) SpiderTech-C10 (SPI) Team Type 1-Sanofi (TT1) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team (UHC) Utensilnord Named (UNA)
Continental teams Konya Torku Şeker Spor (KTS)	Salcano-Arnavutköy (SLC)

Stage overview

stage	Day	Start finish	Art	km	Stage winner	Leader
1.	April 22	Alanya - Alanya		135.2	Theo Bos (RAB)	Theo Bos (RAB)
2.	April 23	Alanya - Antalya		152.2	André Greipel (LTB)	Matthew Goss (GEC)
3.	April 24th	Antalya - Elmalı (Antalya)		151.8	Alexander Dyachenko (AST)	Alexander Dyachenko (AST)
4th	April 25	Fethiye - Marmaris		132.5	Mark Renshaw (RAB)
5.	26th of April	Marmaris - Turgutreis		177.8	Andrea Di Corrado (CSF)
6th	April 27	Bodrum - Kusadasi		179.0	Sacha Modolo (CSF)
7th	April 28	Kusadasi - Izmir		123.8	Iljo Keisse (OPQ)
8th.	April 29	İstanbul - İstanbul		120.4	Theo Bos (RAB)

Stages

Stage 1

April 22, 2012 - Alanya - Alanya (with 8 laps of 17 km) - 135 km

Result of the 1st stage driver team time 1 Theo Bos (RAB) 3:05:55 h 2 Matthew Goss (GEC) + 0:00 min 3 Daniele Colli (TT1) + 0:00 min 4th Alessandro Petacchi (LAM) + 0:00 min 5 Boy van Poppel (UHC) + 0:00 min 6th Francesco Chicchi (OPQ) + 0:00 min 7th Takashi Miyazawa (SAX) + 0:00 min 8th Rafael Andriato (FAR) + 0:00 min 9 Filippo Baggio (UNA) + 0:00 min 10 Tom Veelers (ARG) + 0:00 min

Stage 2

April 23, 2012 - Alanya - Antalya - 153 km

Result of the 2nd stage driver team time 1 André Greipel (LTB) 3:16:04 h 2 Matthew Goss (GEC) + 0:00 min 3 Matteo Pelucchi (EUC) + 0:00 min 4th Mark Renshaw (RAB) + 0:00 min 5 André Schulze (APP) + 0:00 min 6th Francesco Chicchi (OPQ) + 0:00 min 7th Jacopo Guarnieri (AST) + 0:00 min 8th Filippo Baggio (UNA) + 0:00 min 9 Alexei Zatevich (KAT) + 0:00 min 10 Andrea Guardini (FAR) + 0:00 min

Overall ranking after the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Matthew Goss (GEC) 6:21:47 h 2 André Greipel (LTB) + 0:02 min 3 Matteo Pelucchi (EUC) + 0:08 min 4th Theo Bos (RAB) + 0:08 min 5 Francesco Chicchi (OPQ) + 0:12 min 6th Filippo Baggio (UNA) + 0:12 min 7th Mark Renshaw (RAB) + 0:12 min 8th Valentin Iglinski (AST) + 0:12 min 9 Alessandro Petacchi (LAM) + 0:12 min 10 Alexei Zatevich (KAT) + 0:12 min

Stage 3

April 24, 2012 - Antalya - Elmalı (Antalya) - 152 km

Result of the 3rd stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 4:21:09 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:29 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:32 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:34 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 1:51 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:13 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:19 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:38 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 2:52 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 2:55 min

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 10:43:04 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:33 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:38 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:44 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 2:01 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:23 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:29 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:48 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 3:02 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 3:05 min

Stage 4

April 25, 2012 - Fethiye - Marmaris - 131.7 km

Result of the 4th stage driver team time 1 Mark Renshaw (RAB) 3:14:01 h 2 Matthew Goss (GEC) + 0:00 min 3 Daniele Colli (TT1) + 0:00 min 4th Boy van Poppel (UHC) + 0:00 min 5 Davide Viganò (LAM) + 0:00 min 6th Alexei Zatevich (KAT) + 0:00 min 7th Florian Vachon (BSC) + 0:00 min 8th James Vanlandschoot (ACC) + 0:00 min 9 Lucas Sebastián Haedo (SAX) + 0:00 min 10 Sébastien Turgot (EUC) + 0:00 min

Overall ranking after the 4th stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 13:57:05 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:33 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:38 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:44 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 2:01 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:23 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:29 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:48 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 3:02 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 3:05 min

Stage 5

April 26, 2012 - Marmaris - Turgutreis - 177.8 km

Result of the 5th stage driver team time 1 Andrea Di Corrado (CSF) 4:50:25 h 2 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen (SAX) + 0:40 min 3 Jérôme cousin (EUC) + 0:40 min 4th Alfredo Balloni (FAR) + 0:42 min 5 Sébastien Duret (BSC) + 0:42 min 6th Dmitriy Gruzdev (AST) + 0:42 min 7th Matteo Pelucchi (EUC) + 1:27 min 8th Alexei Zatevich (KAT) + 1:27 min 9 Rafaâ Chtioui (EUC) + 1:27 min 10 Andrea Guardini (FAR) + 1:27 min

Overall ranking after the 5th stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 18:48:57 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:33 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:38 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:44 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 2:01 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:23 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:29 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:58 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 3:02 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 3:05 min

Stage 6

April 27, 2012 - Bodrum - Kusadasi - 179.0 km

Result of the 6th stage driver team time 1 Sacha Modolo (CSF) 4:34:00 h 2 Matthew Goss (GEC) + 0:00 min 3 Mark Renshaw (RAB) + 0:00 min 4th Lucas Sebastian Haedo (SAX) + 0:00 min 5 Alexei Zatevich (KAT) + 0:00 min 6th Rafael Andriato (FAR) + 0:00 min 7th Daniele Colli (TT1) + 0:00 min 8th Davide Viganò (LAM) + 0:00 min 9 Marco Coledan (CSF) + 0:00 min 10 Blaz Jarc (APP) + 0:00 min

Overall ranking after the 6th stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 23:22:57 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:33 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:38 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:44 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 2:01 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:23 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:29 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:58 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 3:02 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 3:14 min

Stage 7

April 28, 2012 - Kusadasi - Izmir - 123.8 km

Result of the 7th stage driver team time 1 Iljo Keisse (OPQ) 2: 52: 38h 2 Marcel Kittel (ARG) + 0:00 min 3 Alessandro Petacchi (LAM) + 0:00 min 4th Andrea Guardini (FAR) + 0:00 min 5 Mark Renshaw (RAB) + 0:00 min 6th Robert Forster (UHC) + 0:00 min 7th Jean-Pierre Drucker (ACC) + 0:00 min 8th Daniele Colli (TT1) + 0:00 min 9 Alexei Zatevich (KAT) + 0:00 min 10 Juan José Haedo (SAX) + 0:00 min

Overall ranking after the 7th stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 26:15:35 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:33 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:38 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:44 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 2:01 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:23 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:29 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:58 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 3:02 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 3:14 min

Stage 8

April 29, 2012 - Istanbul - Istanbul (with 23.0 km + 8 laps of 12.175 km) - 120.4 km

Result of the 8th stage driver team time 1 Theo Bos (RAB) 2:23:35 h 2 Andrew Fenn (OPQ) + 0:00 min 3 Stefan Van Dijk (ACC) + 0:00 min 4th Andrea Guardini (FAR) + 0:00 min 5 Matteo Pelucchi (EUC) + 0:00 min 6th Alessandro Petacchi (LAM) + 0:00 min 7th Robert Forster (UHC) + 0:00 min 8th Juan José Haedo (SAX) + 0:00 min 9 Daniele Colli (TT1) + 0:00 min 10 Jonas Vangenechten (LTB) + 0:00 min

Final result after the 8th stage driver team time DSQ Ivajlo Gabrowski (KTS) 28:48:10 h 1 Alexander Dyachenko (AST) + 1:33 min 2 Danail Petrov (CJR) + 1:38 min 3 Adrian Palomares (ACG) + 1:44 min 4th Romain Bardet (ALM) + 2:01 min 5 Alexander Efimkin (TT1) + 2:23 min 6th Florian Guillou (BSC) + 2:29 min 7th Enrico Battaglin (COG) + 2:58 min 8th Michał Gołaś (OPQ) + 3:02 min 9 Will Routley (SPI) + 3:14 min

Ratings in the course of the race

stage	winner	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Turkish Beauties rating	Team evaluation
1	Theo Bos (RAB)	Theo Bos (RAB)	Theo Bos (RAB)	not forgiven	Frédérique Robert (LTB)	(UNA)
2	André Greipel (LTB)	Matthew Goss (GEC)	Matthew Goss (GEC)	not forgiven	László Bodrogi (TT1)	(KAT)
3	Iwajlo Gabrowski ( KTS )	Iwajlo Gabrowski ( KTS )		Iwajlo Gabrowski ( KTS )	Matteo Fedi (UNA)	(AST)
4th	Mark Renshaw (RAB)
5	Andrea Di Corrado (CSF)
6th	Marco Bandiera (OPQ)		Maxim Belkov (KAT)	Marco Bandiera (OPQ)	Maxim Belkov (KAT)
7th	Iljo Keisse (OPQ)		Matthew Goss (GEC)
8th	Theo Bos (RAB)

Web links

• Official website
• Tour of Turkey 2012 in the database of Radsportseiten.net

References and comments

1. ↑ radsport-news.com from July 18, 2012: Tour of Turkey winner Gabrovski tested positive for EPO
2. ↑ velonation.com of October 7, 2012: Disqualified Tour of Turkey winner Ivaïlo Gabrovski gets a two-year suspension for EPO
3. ↑ cf. Results on uci.ch ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 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. Retrieved April 10, 2013 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x} Iwajlo Gabrowski was disqualified.