Tour of Turkey 2016 – Stage 8 [FULL STAGE]

May 1, 2016

Tour of Turkey 2016 – Marmaris – Selcuk – 201,7 km

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Jakub Mareczko of Southeast outsprinted Lampre-Merida’s Sacha Modolo on the final day of the 52nd Presidential Tour of Turkey to equal his compatriot’s haul of stage victories in the pre-Giro d’Italia event. Portugal’s José Gonçalves of Caja Rural-RGA comfortably retained the overall lead to claim his first international stage race at the age of 27.

“This is an important victory in my career as I want to join a World Tour team,” Gonçalves explained. “I feel a bit of frustration for not taking the form I have now to the Giro but our team hasn’t been invited. However, the next big goal will be the Vuelta a España, where I expect to share the captaincy with Pello Bilbao. I’m an all-rounder and I want to capitalize on this victory in Turkey to improve my potential. This is a very nice race. I’m delighted with the experience.”

The last stage concluded in Selçuk, where the TUR has had an uphill finish in the past three editions, but it was a flat finish this time around. The uphill exit of the sea side city of Marmaris enabled four riders to break away: Muhammat Atalay (Torku), Nicolas Baldo (Roth), Alessandro Malaguti (Unieuro) and Jan Hirt (CCC Sprandi Polkowice). For most of the race, they cruised with an advantage of 2:30 over the bunch led by Lampre-Merida but the Italian team gave up with 40km to and the time gap went out.

Baldo got dropped when Atalay, Malaguti and Hirt sped up to reach a maximum lead of 5.50 with 29km remaining into the last stage.

Astana City, the team of surprise third-place finisher Nikita Stalnov – he went by Umerbekov, his father’s name, until he changed for his mother’s name last year – was first to react. Lotto-Soudal also realized the danger and Lampre-Merida pulled again with 15km to go. It was all together again 12km before the finish in Selçuk.

A few attacks took place in the finale but a bunch sprint finish was inevitable. “I was guided by my teammates Eugert Zhupa, Liam Bertazzo and Manuel Belletti.” Mareczko explained. “300 metres before the line, I was on Modolo’s wheel and I managed to pass him. It’s a big satisfaction because today’s stage wasn’t flat. It didn’t exactly suit my characteristics. The team tremendously helped me in the hills, particularly in the long climb at the beginning. Having learned from yesterday, we rode uphill at the front of the bunch so I was able to crest the summit in the middle of the bunch and not get dropped.

“This has been a very positive Tour of Turkey for me ahead of the Giro d’Italia. I’m not going home, I’ll fly straight to Holland where I hope to get a good result in one of the first few stages of the Giro as well.”
The happiest people were obviously in the Caja Rural-RGA camp. “It’s been all nice today, the weather, the results, the atmosphere…” commented team captain and Beauties of Turkey competition winner Lluis Mas. “We were happy with the breakaway that took shape. In our quest for GC, it was fine for us if they made it to the finish. But with 40km to go, Lampre-Merida stopped pulling. They said we could let the breakaway five minutes ahead and catch them up later, so other teams went to the front. My only concern was to stay with José [Gonçalves].

“The race situation was perfect at the Beauties of Turkey point, because the riders in the lead were no threat for my jersey so I win it for the second straight year. We came to Turkey with the aim of winning GC, either with Pello Bilbao or José, but we would have never thought we could win the two hardest stages, come first, second and fourth overall, and win another classification like the Beauties of Turkey. For the second time, we get a big success in Turkey. We’re happy as a team.”

The 52nd Presidential Tour of Turkey might have attracted fewer World Tour teams than in the past few years but all stage winners have exhibited a Grand Tour pedigree, successively Przemyslaw Niemiec (Lampre-Merida), Bilbao, André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal), Modolo, and Mareczko, while the race also revealed the big potential of queen stage winner Jaime Roson, also from Caja Rural-RGA.

Results :
1 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 5:46:24
2 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre – Merida
3 Francisco Chamorro (Arg) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
4 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal
5 Ahmet Orken (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
6 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
7 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
8 Grzegorz Stepniak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
9 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
10 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini
11 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Veranclassic-Ago
12 Giovanni Pedretti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
13 Lukas Jaun (Swi) Team Roth
14 José Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
15 Matteo Draperi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
16 Galym Akhmetov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
17 Andris Smirnovs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv
18 Domingos André Maciel Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
19 Vadim Galeyev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
20 Alexander Meier (Ger) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam
21 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
22 Alberto Cecchin (Ita) Team Roth
23 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
24 Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Soudal
25 Fredrik Strand Galta (Nor) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
26 Jasper Ockeloen (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
27 Raphael Hammerschmid (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam
28 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
29 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre – Merida
30 Christophe Laborie (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
31 Fatih Keles (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
32 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
33 Peter Schulting (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
34 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto Soudal
35 Ahmet Akdylek (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
36 Feritcan Samli (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
37 Luis Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
38 Viesturs Luksevics (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv
39 Jaime Roson Garcia (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
40 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
41 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
42 Stig Broeckx (Bel) Lotto Soudal
43 Sven Van Luijk (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
44 Karel Hnik (Cze) Veranclassic-Ago
45 Dominik Hrinkow (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam
46 Grischa Janorschke (Ger) Team Roth
47 Anton Kuzmin (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
48 Michal Podlaski (Pol) Veranclassic-Ago 0:00:10
49 Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
50 Antonio Piedra Perez (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
51 David Belda Garcia (Spa) Team Roth
52 Nazim Bakirci (Tur) Torku Sekerspor
53 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
54 Marco Molteni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
55 Enrico Salvador (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
56 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
57 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
58 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
59 Simone Petilli (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:00:15
60 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Lampre – Merida
61 Alessandro Malaguti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier
62 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre – Merida
63 Florian Gaugl (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam
64 Leszek Plucinski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
65 Mirko Tedeschi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela
66 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:20
67 Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini
68 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00:25
69 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
70 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Southeast – Venezuela 0:00:30
71 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:00:32
72 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
73 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:00:36
74 Nicola Toffali (Ita) Team Roth 0:00:50
75 Andreas Graf (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam 0:01:09
76 Muhammet Atalay (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:01:28
77 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre – Merida
78 Kaspars Sergis (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv
79 Antonio Viola (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:01:47
80 Yuriy Chsherbinin (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:48
81 Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:02:22
82 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Team Roth 0:03:23
83 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:03:28
84 Colin Stüssi (Swi) Team Roth 0:04:24
85 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
86 Daniel Diaz (Arg) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
87 André De Souza Almeida (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
88 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:04:28
89 Nurbolat Kulimbetov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:08:24
90 Maxim Satlikov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
DNF Bram Nolten (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
DNF Adrian Banaszek (Pol) Veranclassic-Ago
DNF Kristofers Racenajs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv

Final General classification :

1 José Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 32:31:35
2 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:18
3 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:56
4 Luis Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:02:13
5 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:04:46
6 Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Soudal 0:06:46
7 Stig Broeckx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:09:22
8 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:12:46
9 Jaime Roson Garcia (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:12:58
10 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:13:08
11 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:13:34
12 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:13:57
13 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 0:15:32
14 Jasper Ockeloen (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:16:06
15 Karel Hnik (Cze) Veranclassic-Ago 0:16:25
16 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:19:28
17 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Veranclassic-Ago 0:20:27
18 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:22:17
20 Sven Van Luijk (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:23:50
21 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:25:49
22 Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:26:29
23 Galym Akhmetov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:27:02
24 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre – Merida 0:28:41
25 Leszek Plucinski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:30:53
26 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Lampre – Merida 0:31:26
27 Antonio Piedra Perez (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 0:32:02
28 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:33:01
29 Simone Petilli (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:34:02
30 Nazim Bakirci (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:34:19
31 Lukas Jaun (Swi) Team Roth 0:34:46
32 Alberto Cecchin (Ita) Team Roth 0:35:30
33 Fatih Keles (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:37:04
34 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:37:32
35 Peter Schulting (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:37:52
37 David Belda Garcia (Spa) Team Roth 0:41:04
38 Ahmet Orken (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:41:26
39 Viesturs Luksevics (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv 0:43:22
40 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:45:20
41 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:46:50
42 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:47:32
43 Christophe Laborie (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:48:48
44 Michal Podlaski (Pol) Veranclassic-Ago 0:50:39
47 Dominik Hrinkow (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam 0:52:28
48 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:52:31
50 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:53:45
52 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:54:34
54 Feritcan Samli (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:56:13
55 Yuriy Chsherbinin (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:56:15
57 Anton Kuzmin (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:56:40
58 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:56:48
59 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 0:57:26
60 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Southeast – Venezuela 0:57:27
61 Ahmet Akdylek (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 0:57:43
62 Andris Smirnovs (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv 0:58:15
63 Alexander Meier (Ger) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam 1:00:36
64 Nicola Toffali (Ita) Team Roth 1:01:37
65 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 1:02:49
67 Grzegorz Stepniak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 1:04:27
68 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 1:05:55
69 Muhammet Atalay (Tur) Torku Sekerspor 1:06:00
70 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 1:06:38
71 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 1:07:02
72 Vadim Galeyev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 1:07:08
73 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Team Roth 1:10:51
76 Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 1:12:36
77 Colin Stüssi (Swi) Team Roth 1:13:15
78 Florian Gaugl (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam 1:13:56
79 Antonio Viola (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 1:16:06
80 Matteo Draperi (Ita) Southeast – Venezuela 1:16:48
82 Maxim Satlikov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 1:22:01
84 Giovanni Pedretti (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 1:25:19
85 Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 1:28:51
86 Marco Molteni (Ita) Unieuro Wilier 1:31:50
87 Andreas Graf (Aut) Hrinkow Advarica Cycleangteam 1:33:11
90 Kaspars Sergis (Lat) Alpha Baltic – Maratoni.lv 1:36:50