Tour of Turkey 2019 – Stage 2 [LAST 20 KM]

April 17, 2019

Tour of Turkey 2019 – Stage 2 – Tekirdağ – Eceabat : 183,3 km

Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey. From 2006 it was rated as a 2.2 event, before being upgraded to 2.1 in 2008, and then to 2.HC for the 2010 edition.

Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) claimed back-to-back stages in the Tour of Turkey with an unstoppable sprint on stage 2.

The Irishman unleashed a powerful sprint to win ahead of his teammate Felix Großschartner (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Manzana Postobon) on the uphill drag to the line.

The victory extended Bennett’s overall lead in the race.

Bora-Hansgrohe almost claimed the stage through Lukas Pöstlberger after a late attack by the Austrian road champion but he was caught just before the line and finished 15th.

The win marked Bennett’s sixth of the 2019 campaign and once again highlighted Bora’s controversial decision to leave the Irishman at home for the Giro d’Italia next month. Bennett won three stages in the Giro last year.

The stage saw a group of six riders – Mauricio Moreira (Caja Rural), Lucas De Rossi (Delko), Liam Bertazzo (Neri), Emerson Oronte (Rally), Thimo Willems (Vlaanderen), Ricardo Mestre (W52) and Halil Doğan (Turkey) – break away inside the opening kilometres and establish a healthy lead. None of the riders in question were a threat on general classification and Bora set about controlling the pace during the opening kilometres.

When Doğan was dropped from the break, the Turkish national team hit the front and their pressure quickly brought the break back to a more manageable two minutes before Dimension Data and UAE Team Emirates moved to the front. A crash for Lotto Soudal’s sprinter, Caleb Ewan, saw the Australian take a heavy fall but he was quickly back on his bike. He was given brief medical attention and looked in contention for the sprint with team bringing him to the front in the closing stages.

With the break finally caught inside the last 25km, the sprinters’ began to take further control. QuickStep and Rally controlled the field on the rolling terrain leading to the finish with Mark Cavendish providing a turn for his Dimension Data squad before swinging off with 3km to go.

UAE were well-placed at the front but a late attack from Pöstlberger threatened to spoil the chances of the pure fastmen. However, the Austrian champion was caught inside the final few hundred meters, with Bennett the only true sprinter able to survive. With the line in sight, Bennett kicked clear. Two days into Turkey and Bennett’s feast continues.

Results :
1 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 4:41:48
2 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
3 Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Col) Manzana Postobon
4 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
5 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
6 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
7 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
8 Edgar Pinto (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:00:03
9 Sebastian Schönberger (Aut) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:00:04
10 Cyril Barthe (Fra) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
11 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Astana Pro Team
12 Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
13 Diego Antonio Ochoa Camargo (Col) Manzana Postobon
14 Onur Balkan (Tur) Turkey
15 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
17 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:09
18 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
19 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
20 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:13
21 Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:14
22 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
23 Etienne van Empel (Ned) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:00:16
24 Cristian Camilo Muñoz Lancheros (Col) UAE Team Emirates
25 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal
26 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
27 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
28 Yuriy Natarov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
29 Yecid Arturo Sierra Sanchez (Col) Manzana Postobon
30 Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
31 Kyle Murphy (USA) Rally UHC Cycling
32 Masakazu Ito (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
33 Umberto Marengo (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
34 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
35 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
36 Rob Britton (Can) Rally UHC Cycling
37 Ricardo Mestre (Por) W52-FC Porto
38 Hideto Nakane (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
39 Aaron Van Poucke (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:25
40 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
41 Mustafa Sayar (Tur) Turkey
42 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:28
43 Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:32
44 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00:34
45 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
46 Enrique Sanz Unzue (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:00:41
47 Daniel Lopez Parada (Spa) Burgos-BH 0:00:44
48 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
49 Lindsay De Vylder (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:16
50 Luca Pacioni (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:00:44
51 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
52 Rémy Rochas (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
53 Urko Berrade Fernandez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
54 Oscar Cabedo Carda (Spa) Burgos-BH
55 Omar Alberto Mendoza Cardona (Col) Manzana Postobon
56 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:53
57 Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane 0:00:57
58 Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:00:59
59 Hayato Yoshida (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
60 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
61 Ahmet Orken (Tur) Turkey 0:01:04
62 Nuno Matos (Por) Burgos-BH
63 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:15
64 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:29
65 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:01:34
66 Jordan Arley Parra Arias (Col) Manzana Postobon
67 Robbe Ghys (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
68 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:01:36
69 Samuel Caldeira (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:01:38
70 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data 0:01:46
71 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Dimension Data
72 Luis Carlos Chia Bermudez (Col) Manzana Postobon 0:01:50
73 Nelson Soto Martinez (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
74 Jaume Sureda Morey (Spa) Burgos-BH 0:00:16
75 Imerio Cima (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane 0:02:03
76 Simone Bevilacqua (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:02:20
77 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE Team Emirates
78 Alvaro Hodeg (Col) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:02:55
79 Shane Archbold (NZl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:57
80 Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:03:01
81 Hiroki Nishimura (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
82 Jose Daniel Viejo Redondo (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
83 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:03:05
84 Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:03:36
85 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) W52-FC Porto
86 Alvaro Robredo Crespo (Spa) Burgos-BH
87 Rafael Reis (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:00:16
88 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) W52-FC Porto
89 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:39
90 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
91 Thimo Willems (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
92 Xavier Cañellas Sanchez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
93 Mauricio Moreira (Uru) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
94 Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
95 Lucas De Rossi (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
96 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
97 Halil Dogan (Tur) Turkey
98 Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal
99 Victor Langellotti (Mon) Burgos-BH 0:03:43
100 Moreno De Pauw (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
101 Ahmet Akdilek (Tur) Turkey
102 Ander Barrenetxea Uriarte (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
103 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
104 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep
105 José Ferreira (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:03:49
106 Rasmus Iversen (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:04:00
107 Matthew Gibson (GBr) Burgos-BH 0:04:04
108 Muhammed Atalay (Tur) Turkey 0:05:35
109 Tyler Magner (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 0:05:37
110 Bryan Steve Gomez Peñaloza (Col) Manzana Postobon
111 John Murphy (USA) Rally UHC Cycling
112 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
113 Pier Andre Cote (Can) Rally UHC Cycling
114 Evan Huffman (USA) Rally UHC Cycling
115 Emerson Oronte (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 0:06:11
116 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:06:17
117 Feritcan Samli (Tur) Turkey 0:07:37

General Classification after Stage 2 :
1 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 8:14:02
2 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:14
3 Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Col) Manzana Postobon 0:00:16
4 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:20
5 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
6 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
7 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
8 Edgar Pinto (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:00:23
9 Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:24
10 Cyril Barthe (Fra) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
11 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Astana Pro Team
12 Sebastian Schönberger (Aut) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
13 Onur Balkan (Tur) Turkey
14 Diego Antonio Ochoa Camargo (Col) Manzana Postobon
15 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:29
17 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep
18 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
19 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:33
20 Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
21 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:00:34
22 Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr) UAE Team Emirates
23 Ricardo Mestre (Por) W52-FC Porto
24 Lindsay De Vylder (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:35
25 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:36
26 Hideto Nakane (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
27 Yuriy Natarov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
28 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
29 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
30 Jaume Sureda Morey (Spa) Burgos-BH
31 Umberto Marengo (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
32 Etienne van Empel (Ned) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
33 Yecid Arturo Sierra Sanchez (Col) Manzana Postobon
34 Cristian Camilo Muñoz Lancheros (Col) UAE Team Emirates
35 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal
36 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
37 Rob Britton (Can) Rally UHC Cycling
38 Kyle Murphy (USA) Rally UHC Cycling
39 Masakazu Ito (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
40 Rafael Reis (Por) W52-FC Porto
41 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) W52-FC Porto
42 Aaron Van Poucke (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:45
43 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
44 Mustafa Sayar (Tur) Turkey
45 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
46 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:48
47 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00:50
48 Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:52
49 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:00:54
50 Enrique Sanz Unzue (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:01:01
51 Luca Pacioni (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:01:04
52 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
53 Daniel Lopez Parada (Spa) Burgos-BH
54 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
55 Rémy Rochas (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
56 Urko Berrade Fernandez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
57 Omar Alberto Mendoza Cardona (Col) Manzana Postobon
58 Oscar Cabedo Carda (Spa) Burgos-BH
59 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:13
60 Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane 0:01:17
61 Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:01:19
62 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
63 Hayato Yoshida (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
64 Ahmet Orken (Tur) Turkey 0:01:24
65 Nuno Matos (Por) Burgos-BH
66 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:35
67 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:49
68 Jordan Arley Parra Arias (Col) Manzana Postobon 0:01:54
69 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
70 Robbe Ghys (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
71 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:01:56
72 Samuel Caldeira (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:01:58
73 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Dimension Data 0:02:06
74 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data
75 Nelson Soto Martinez (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:02:10
76 Luis Carlos Chia Bermudez (Col) Manzana Postobon
77 Imerio Cima (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane 0:02:23
78 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:40
79 Simone Bevilacqua (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM
80 Alvaro Hodeg (Col) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:03:15
81 Shane Archbold (NZl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:17
82 Jose Daniel Viejo Redondo (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:03:21
83 Hiroki Nishimura (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane
84 Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
85 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:03:25
86 Alvaro Robredo Crespo (Spa) Burgos-BH 0:03:54
87 Thimo Willems (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:03:56
88 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) W52-FC Porto
89 Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
90 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:03:57
91 Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:03:59
92 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
93 Xavier Cañellas Sanchez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
94 Halil Dogan (Tur) Turkey
95 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
96 Lucas De Rossi (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
97 Mauricio Moreira (Uru) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
98 Moreno De Pauw (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:04:03
99 Victor Langellotti (Mon) Burgos-BH
100 Ahmet Akdilek (Tur) Turkey
101 Ander Barrenetxea Uriarte (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
102 José Ferreira (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:04:09
103 Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:04:14
104 Rasmus Iversen (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:04:20
105 Matthew Gibson (GBr) Burgos-BH 0:04:24
106 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:37
107 Muhammed Atalay (Tur) Turkey 0:05:55
108 Bryan Steve Gomez Peñaloza (Col) Manzana Postobon 0:05:57
109 John Murphy (USA) Rally UHC Cycling
110 Pier Andre Cote (Can) Rally UHC Cycling
111 Tyler Magner (USA) Rally UHC Cycling
112 Emerson Oronte (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 0:06:31
113 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM 0:06:36
114 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:06:44
115 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:07:13
116 Feritcan Samli (Tur) Turkey 0:08:16
117 Evan Huffman (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 0:09:16