Tour of Turkey 2016 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE]

April 28, 2016

Tour of Turkey 2016 – Alanya – Kemer – 189,3 km

The 2016 Presidential Tour of Turkey is a road cycling stage race that will take place in Turkey between 24 April and 1 May 2016. It is the 52nd edition of the Presidential Tour of Turkey and is rated as a 2.HC event as part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour. The race includes eight stages; seven of these are moderately hilly, while Stage 6 ends with a summit finish at Elmalı. The defending champion is Lampre–Merida’s Kristijan Đurasek.

Jakub Mareczko of Southeast-Venezuela claimed his first stage victory in the Presidential Tour of Turkey. It came just one week before going to start his first Grand Tour, the Giro d’Italia, at the age of 22 [he’ll celebrate his birthday on the penultimate stage of the Tour of Turkey]. He out-sprinted André Greipel in Kemer while his teammate Manuel Belletti completed the podium. Spain’s Pello Bilbao of Caja Rural-RGA retained the overall lead ahead of the queen stage to Elmali.

“Yesterday we launched the sprint too early but today we got it right,” Mareczko observed. “I was helped by Belletti, who led me out. It’s great to win again this month after I did it in January [at the Tour de San Luis], February [at Le Tour de Langkawi] and March [at the Settimana Coppi e Bartali]. Except in Belgium from where I came back with a throat inflammation, I’ve performed at every race I took part in.”

Riccardo Stacchiotti (Nippo-Vini Fantini), Michal Podlaski (Verva-Activejet), Kaspars Sergis (Alpha Baltic), Peter Schulting (Parkhotel), Ahmet Akdilek (Torku) and Enrico Salvador (Unieuro) formed the long lasting breakaway of the day after they managed to escape just before the twentieth kilometre of racing. The peloton didn’t allow them to enjoy more than two and half minutes of an advantage, so another bunch gallop looked inevitable. Sergis was the first one to surrender with 45km to go.

Schulting and Salvador forged on with 10km to go. The Dutchman continued solo until the whole bunch got back together again 3.5km before the finishing line. Italian continental team Unieuro seized the reins of the peloton before the most famous teams got organised for their lead out.

“My team did a really good job today,” Greipel said. “They timed it right. But racing against the wind wasn’t easy at all. The sprint happened to be too long. I lost the momentum a bit. Mareczko was strong and fast. I couldn’t go past him.”

“This is a good outcome,” Belletti echoed. “Well, first and third is more than good. We had planned that Mareczko would stay on my wheel before sprinting. It was a very convincing sprint by him. Our team rode at perfection today. We took our responsibilities from the start, and I completed the result with this third place. It’s a great satisfaction, as I came to Turkey in the unknown one month after breaking my scaphoid in Belgium. Now I’m focused on the second last stage finishing in Marmaris. I’ve won there before [in 2011], and I’d like to double up.”

Marmaris is the place where Mareczko will celebrate his 22nd birthday. “I have no experience of that finale because I pulled out during that stage last year”, the Polish-born sprinter recalled. “I know that it’s a difficult one because of the hill before riding down to town, but hopefully, I’ll be up there. I came to Turkey to shape up my form for the Giro where I hope for some result. A podium place would be great. It’s a big satisfaction to beat top sprinters like Greipel and [Sacha] Modolo today, but I can’t ask for too much at my first participation to the Giro. It’ll be more difficult than here with all the World Tour teams in contention.”

Stage 6 to Elmali will most probably designate the overall winner.

“We have been able to control the race without wasting too much energy,” race leader Bilbao explained. “With the top three positions in our camp, we can say that we are in a good position to keep the race lead tomorrow at least, so maybe I am more confident now that I was when I took the turquoise jersey on day 2. The team looks strong, and I think we can make a good race tomorrow. Lampre-Merida, Astana City, and CCC look like the most dangerous teams climbing, especially the Astana guy who is fourth now [Nikita Stalnov]. We have to keep him near all the time. I think we have a great climbing team, so we are hoping to race conservatively and let other teams work.”

Results :

1 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 4:20:28
2 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
3 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
4 Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
5 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
6 Christophe Laborie (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
7 Grzegorz Stepniak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
8 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre – Merida
9 Alberto Cecchin (Ita) Team Roth
10 Vadim Galeyev (Kaz) Astana City
11 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
12 Domingos Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
13 Ahmet Orken (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
14 Grischa Janorschke (Ger) Team Roth
15 Alexander Meier (Ger) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam
16 Dominik Hrinkow (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam
17 Adrian Banaszek (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
18 Galym Akhmetov (Kaz) Astana City
19 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
20 Andris Smirnovs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv
21 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
22 José Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
23 Jasper Ockeloen (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
24 David Arroyo (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
25 Roberto Pinheiro (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
26 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
27 Francisco Chamorro Paiva (Arg) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
28 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
29 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana City
30 Kristofers Racenajs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv
31 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
32 Colin Stüssi (Swi) Team Roth
33 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
34 Nazim Bakirci (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
35 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
36 Jaime Roson (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
37 Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Soudal
38 Fatih Keles (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
39 Karel Hnik (Cze) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
40 David Belda Garcia (Spa) Team Roth
41 Antonio Piedra Perez (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
42 Viesturs Luksevics (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv
43 Luis Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
44 Yuriy Chsherbinin (Kaz) Astana City
45 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
46 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
47 Sven Van Luijk (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
48 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
49 Anton Kuzmin (Kaz) Astana City
50 Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:08
51 Nicola Toffali (Ita) Team Roth 0:00:12
52 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:16
53 Remco Te Brake (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:00:17
54 Bram Nolten (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:00:27
55 Raphael Hammerschmid (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam
56 Stig Broeckx (Bel) Lotto Soudal
57 Fredrik Strand Galta (Nor) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
58 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
59 Mirko Tedeschi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:00:30
60 Lukas Jaun (Swi) Team Roth
61 Antonio Viola (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:33
62 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
63 Lucas Gaday Orozco (Arg) Team Roth 0:00:37
64 Alessandro Malaguti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:00:39
65 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
66 Feritcan Samli (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
67 André De Souza Almeida (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
68 Kaspars Sergis (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv
69 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto Soudal
70 Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
71 Matteo Draperi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
72 Enrique Salz Unzue (Spa) Southeast – Venezuela
73 Massimo Graziato (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
74 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre – Merida
75 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Southeast – Venezuela
76 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Lampre – Merida
77 Simone Petilli (Ita) Lampre – Merida
78 Muhammet Atalay (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
79 Michal Podlaski (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
80 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Team Roth
81 Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini
82 Florian Gaugl (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam
83 Maxim Satlikov (Kaz) Astana City 0:01:19
84 Nurbolat Kulimbetov (Kaz) Astana City
85 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
86 Leszek Plucinski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
87 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
88 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
89 Giovanni Pedretti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
90 Andreas Graf (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam
91 Peter Schulting (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
92 Ahmet Akdilek (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
93 Daniel Diaz (Arg) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
94 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre – Merida
95 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:25
96 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre – Merida
97 Marco Molteni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:01:40
98 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
99 Xu Gang (Tpe) Lampre – Merida 0:02:11
100 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:16
101 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:27
102 Enrico Salvador (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:02:53
103 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:06:09
104 Matvey Nikitin (Kaz) Astana City 0:07:33
DSQ Norbert Banaszek (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
DNF Daniel Staniszewski (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
DNS Alex Correia Diniz (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
DNS Mustafa Sayar (Tur) Torku Sekerspor

General classification after stage 5 :

1 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 20:07:06
2 José Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:05
3 David Arroyo (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:13
4 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana City 0:00:22
5 Luis Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:01:14
6 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:02:22
7 Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Soudal 0:03:46
8 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:05:41
9 Stig Broeckx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:08:01
10 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:09:38
11 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:13:05
12 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:13:08
13 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
14 Jaime Roson (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:13:33
15 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:14:01
16 Jasper Ockeloen (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:15:17
17 Karel Hnik (Cze) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team
18 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:15:30
19 Ahmet Orken (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:16:53
20 Alberto Cecchin (Ita) Team Roth 0:17:56
21 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:19:56
22 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:20:47
23 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team 0:20:50
24 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:21:10
25 Galym Akhmetov (Kaz) Astana City 0:21:12
26 Michal Podlaski (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team 0:21:29
27 Sven Van Luijk (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:21:42
28 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:21:52
29 Antonio Piedra Perez (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 0:22:01
30 Leszek Plucinski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:22:09
31 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:22:11
32 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Lampre – Merida 0:22:14
33 Alessandro Malaguti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:22:46
34 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:23:45
35 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre – Merida 0:23:46
36 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:24:13
37 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:25:01
38 Massimo Graziato (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:25:13
39 Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:26:03
40 Simone Petilli (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:26:14
41 Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
42 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre – Merida
43 Anton Kuzmin (Kaz) Astana City 0:26:28
44 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:27:17
45 Enrique Salz Unzue (Spa) Southeast – Venezuela 0:27:33
46 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:30:40
47 Domingos Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
48 Nazim Bakirci (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
49 David Belda Garcia (Spa) Team Roth
50 Lukas Jaun (Swi) Team Roth 0:31:51
51 Peter Schulting (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:32:02
52 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
53 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 0:32:40
54 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:33:05
55 Vadim Galeyev (Kaz) Astana City
56 Alexander Meier (Ger) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam 0:33:25
57 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:33:41
58 Remco Te Brake (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:34:47
59 Muhammet Atalay (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:34:58
60 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:35:10
61 Fatih Keles (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:35:29
62 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:36:12
63 Nicola Toffali (Ita) Team Roth 0:37:12
64 Adrian Banaszek (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team 0:37:31
65 Mirko Tedeschi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:38:41
66 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Southeast – Venezuela 0:38:50
67 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:39:20
68 Viesturs Luksevics (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv 0:39:46
69 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:42:58
70 Grzegorz Stepniak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
71 Yuriy Chsherbinin (Kaz) Astana City
72 Christophe Laborie (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
73 Andris Smirnovs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv 0:43:18
74 Dominik Hrinkow (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam 0:43:43
75 Raphael Hammerschmid (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam 0:43:55
76 André De Souza Almeida (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 0:43:57
77 Florian Gaugl (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam 0:44:07
78 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:44:22
79 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Team Roth
80 Ahmet Akdilek (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:44:37
81 Antonio Viola (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:44:45
82 Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:45:02
83 Colin Stüssi (Swi) Team Roth 0:45:09
84 Daniel Diaz (Arg) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:45:15
85 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:45:43
86 Maxim Satlikov (Kaz) Astana City 0:46:00
87 Bram Nolten (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:46:13
88 Xu Gang (Tpe) Lampre – Merida 0:46:27
89 Feritcan Samli (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:46:33
90 Enrico Salvador (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:46:56
91 Fredrik Strand Galta (Nor) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
92 Matteo Draperi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:47:48
93 Grischa Janorschke (Ger) Team Roth 0:50:51
94 Giovanni Pedretti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:51:49
95 Nurbolat Kulimbetov (Kaz) Astana City 0:52:10
96 Matvey Nikitin (Kaz) Astana City 0:55:36
97 Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 1:01:00
98 Kristofers Racenajs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv 1:01:07
99 Kaspars Sergis (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.Lv 1:01:12
100 Lucas Gaday Orozco (Arg) Team Roth 1:01:16
101 Francisco Chamorro Paiva (Arg) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 1:01:59
102 Marco Molteni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 1:02:03
103 Andreas Graf (Aut) Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam 1:06:29
104 Roberto Pinheiro (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 1:27:38