Tour of Turkey 2019 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE]

April 20, 2019

Tour of Turkey 2019 – Stage 5 – Bursa – Kartepe : 164,1 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.

Felix Großschartner (Bora-Hansgrohe) claimed victory on the summit finish at Kartepe on stage 5 of the Tour of Turkey, taking the overall lead of the race with just one stage remaining.

The Austrian, who started the day second overall, took the sky blue jersey from his teammate Sam Bennett after kicking away from Merhawi Kudus (Astana) 200 metres from the finish line, which had to be moved 4km down the mountain due to heavy snowfall further up.

A fading Kudus, who had led solo going into the final kilometre before being caught and passed by Großschartner, was pipped to second place by Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates), nine seconds behind the winner. They had emerged in a select four-man group just under 5km from the top, with neo-pro Remo Evenepoel (Deceuninck-QuickStep) finishing fourth, 16 seconds down.

Großschartner now leads the general classification, with Conti second overall at 19 seconds, Kudus third at 25 seconds, and Evenepoel fourth at 41 seconds. Though Sunday’s final stage is far from straightforward, there are no major climbs on the road to Istanbul and Großschartner is very much in the driving seat.

After four stages won by sprinters, the Tour of Turkey changed gears on stage 5, which was dubbed the queen stage and featured a summit finish of the scale rarely seen at the week-long race. Even chopping 4km off the top left a 12km ascent with an average gradient of 9.1 per cent, which was always bound to be the crucial juncture of the race for the overall title. Kartepe in Turkish translates to ‘snowy hill’, and the blizzard conditions had led the organisers and team and rider representatives to come together under the UCI’s Extreme Weather Protocol and decide to move the finish line down the mountain.

After an early third-category climb, Roger Kluge (Lotto-Soudal), Jose Viejo (Euskadi) and Robbe Ghys (Vlaanderen-Baloise) went up the road in a small three-man breakaway. They built a lead of seven minutes but that was gradually eaten into on the flat roads that led to the imposing final climb. Ghys was the last man standing but was pretty much caught as soon as he had started climbing.

Dimension Data took control for the first half of the climb, with Scott Davies and then Stefan De Bod leading the way for their GC hope Ben O’Connor. However, O’Connor was unable to build on that platform and started to slip away with the accelerations came with 6km to go. The first major attack came from Conti with 5km to go.

Evenepoel responded and ripped across to the Italian, drawing out Großschartner and Kudus in turn. They emerged as the four strongest before Evenepoel upped the tempo again and went it alone. The junior road race and time trial world champion dug in but was back with the other three with 3km to go, whereupon he gestured for them all to take turns.

Großschartner then attacked with 2.1km to go, and while Evenepoel and Conti were dropped, it looked like he’d have to settle for second as Kudus followed and then accelerated away himself. The Eritrean champion, however, faded as the road flattened in the final 1200 metres, and Großschartner came back. The duo rode together through the mist and the snow-lined roads before Großschartner kicked with 200m to go and Kudus had no response.

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

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