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October 8, 2023
Tour of Turkey 2023 🇹🇷 – Stage 1 – Alanya – Antalya : 135 km
Usually falling between the cobbled Classics and the Ardennes Classics,
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October 8, 2023
Tour of Turkey 2023 🇹🇷 – Stage 1 – Alanya – Antalya : 135 km
Usually falling between the cobbled Classics and the Ardennes Classics, the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey takes place in October this year after an earthquake hit the region in February. Despite being postponed until the Autumn, the eight-day race still offers something for both sprinters and climbers alike. The race debuted back in 1963 and has slowly climbed its way up cycling’s hierarchical racing calendar, rising all the way up from a 2.2 event in 2007 to WorldTour status in 2017. It has since been relegated however and from 2020 onwards it has formed part of the UCI ProSeries – the second-tier on pro cycling’s racing calendar. The Tour of Turkey has followed an eight-stage format for the majority of its editions and has largely toured the western edge of the country, following the Mediterranean coast north towards the former capital, Istanbul, or south towards the popular tourist destination of Antalya. The mountains they climb here aren’t known for their altitude, but rather their length. This makes them fantastic training grounds for those riders who would be eyeing up the impending Giro d’Italia when the race is traditionally held in the spring.
Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won the opening sprint stage at the 2023 Tour of Turkey, outkicking Gleb Syritsa (Astana Qazaqstan) to the line in Antalya after a solid leadout from Ramon Sinkeldam.
Alpecin-Deceuninck stayed off the front for much of the straight run-in, staying behind Bora-Hansgrohe until the 2.5km to go point where they began to show themselves and take control alongside Astana Qazaqstan.
Under the flamme rouge, the best sprinting squad in the world showed their credentials, arriving with three riders remaining in the final kilometre, allowing Philipsen to start his sprint and glance to his left seemingly looking for anyone to try and challenge him.
Timothy Dupont (Tarteletto-Isorex) completed a Belgian 1-3 as he closed quickly in the final few hundred metres, but neither he nor Syritsa were even close to getting onto Philipsen’s wheel, let alone sprinting past the best sprinter in the world.
This was Philipsen’s 16th win of the 2023 season, moving back within one win of catching Tadej Pogačar’s haul, and the Belgian should have the opportunity to overtake his good friend and former teammate during the racing here in Turkey.
Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) didn’t sprint for his own ambitions in what is his first race back from his race-ending crash at the Tour de France, and was instead on duty for Syritsa, getting some racing in the legs ahead of 2024 after announcing that he wouldn’t retire as originally planned.
A seven-rider breakaway had been up the road for much of the day’s racing with Róbigzon Leandro Oyola (Team Medellín-EPM), Doğukan Arikan, Serdar Anıl Depe (Spor Toto Cycling Team), Mateusz Kostański (Voster ATS Team), Alex Vandenbulcke (Tarteletto – Isorex), Tobias Nolde (P&S Benotti) and Bram Dissel (BEAT Cycling Club) fighting it out on the 175km flat route for KOM points and the intermediate sprints.
Results :
 won the opening sprint stage at the 2023 Tour of Turkey, outkicking Gleb Syritsa (Astana Qazaqstan) to the line in Antalya after a solid leadout from Ramon Sinkeldam.
Alpecin-Deceuninck stayed off the front for much of the straight run-in, staying behind Bora-Hansgrohe until the 2.5km to go point where they began to show themselves and take control alongside Astana Qazaqstan.
Under the flamme rouge, the best sprinting squad in the world showed their credentials, arriving with three riders remaining in the final kilometre, allowing Philipsen to start his sprint and glance to his left seemingly looking for anyone to try and challenge him.
Timothy Dupont (Tarteletto-Isorex) completed a Belgian 1-3 as he closed quickly in the final few hundred metres, but neither he nor Syritsa were even close to getting onto Philipsen’s wheel, let alone sprinting past the best sprinter in the world.
This was Philipsen’s 16th win of the 2023 season, moving back within one win of catching Tadej Pogačar’s haul, and the Belgian should have the opportunity to overtake his good friend and former teammate during the racing here in Turkey.
Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) didn’t sprint for his own ambitions in what is his first race back from his race-ending crash at the Tour de France, and was instead on duty for Syritsa, getting some racing in the legs ahead of 2024 after announcing that he wouldn’t retire as originally planned.
A seven-rider breakaway had been up the road for much of the day’s racing with Róbigzon Leandro Oyola (Team Medellín-EPM), Doğukan Arikan, Serdar Anıl Depe (Spor Toto Cycling Team), Mateusz Kostański (Voster ATS Team), Alex Vandenbulcke (Tarteletto - Isorex), Tobias Nolde (P&S Benotti) and Bram Dissel (BEAT Cycling Club) fighting it out on the 175km flat route for KOM points and the intermediate sprints.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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