Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2024, 21st to 28th April

[Tim Cahill]

Tobias Lund Andresen takes his first win

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Both Kanter and Lund getting their first wins in the same race. Great stuff.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Lund is also the new GC leader

 

[Earns1985]

Tobias Lund Andresen takes his first win

Such a waste, that he has to ride in 95% of his races as lead-out rider for Jakobsen.

 

[Rob5091]

Good win for Andresen & DSM & now GC leader- Uhlig with a good turn of speed too but boxed in. Van Poppel seems to have taken over the sprinters role.

 

[Rob5091]

Thursday's stage 5 is from Bodrum to Kusadasi, 177.9 km, start at 10.54 CET and TV from 13.30 CET. A chance again for the break or a reduced bunch sprint.

Some real lumpy stuff in the last 25 km and a 4 km descent to the finish.

 

[jmdirt]

ToT has provided several interesting/messy sprints.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmaBx7Mp9Y

 

[Forever The Best]

Not that same MTF of last year?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wait they used Babadağ last year? OMG that is the hardest climb on Turkey bar none, I would say even harder than this gravel climb: https://forum.cyclingnews.com/threads/gravel-climbs.33485/page-2#post-2434909
I designed a stage finishing at Babadağ all the way back in 2016, but never posted here. So very surprised to see them use that monstrous climb.

Ah, Kalkan. I had a stage idea for around there.

It looked like this:

First climb there is the main one in the real stage, then they follow the coast road whereas I go over a mountain to get to Kalkan then have a loop with the final climb.

That's a great stage design. That area has lots of untapped potential for mountain stages. I would love to see a Tour of Turkey on Race Design Thread by one of the regular users there by the way.

I had a nice idea what one could do with the diffent sides of a brute of a climb like Kartepe
https://www.cronoescalada.com/tracks/viewTour/48997

I think I also designed something similar for my last stage of 7 day Tour of Turkey-Marmara that I posted here I believe, although it seems I may have used a different side for one of those climbs ( can't view my stage because Cronoescalada got hacked and all those designs got deleted because of that a while ago and I didn't save it). Had used a gradual MTF at Uludağ the stage before I believe.

 

[search]

Thursday's stage 5 is from Bodrum to Kusadasi, 177.9 km, start at 10.54 CET and TV from 13.30 CET. A chance again for the break or a reduced bunch sprint.

last time they did this finish there wasn't too much of a selection, and Cav won.

Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2021 Stage 8 results

José Manuel Díaz is the winner of Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2021, before Jay Vine and Eduardo Sepúlveda. Mark Cavendish is the winner of the final stage.

www.procyclingstats.com

With speeds up to 80 km/h, this sprint is honestly a bit on the scary side, though

View: https://youtu.be/9xmP-WJkam8?t=140

 

[Rob5091]

Thanks for posting the video from 2021 search. The finish seems to be the same with that crazy almost 180 degree turn at about 2.5 km to go. So as well as the twists and turns, the road is descending, and that finishing straight is not very wide, so as you wrote, it is a bit scary.

The well known sprinters this year don't seem on top form so another messy sprint could well be on the cards.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Kinda surprised that Bardiani did send at least one better climber to this race to score some easy points, but I guess it's all about the Giro.

 

[Earns1985]

This time gap..

 

[Squire]

Kinda surprised that Bardiani did send at least one better climber to this race to score some easy points, but I guess it's all about the Giro.

Surprised almost nobody sent any decent climbers here. Langelotti, Cepeda and Harold Lopez being the big favourites in a European(-ish) 2.Pro race is extremely underwhelming.

 

[Rob5091]

Impressive from Mattheis - 2nd on GC at the recently done Tour of Mersin in Turkey so in good form.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

With a total of 8 stages and one climb, I doubt a decent GC guy would risk a crash for the Ottoman Tour.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

What a finish.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Hmmm, slightly dangerous

 

[Didinho]

Tobias Lund again!

 

[Rob5091]

Jeez that was a scary sprint! Chapeau Andresen - win number 2! Jakobsen 2nd, so was that a leadout?!
edit add- https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...cking-sprint-win-and-gift-from-fabio-jakobsen

“This is unbelievable. We went for Fabio today, but it was a very hectic final and he finally told me that I could sprint. I took the lead in the sprint and suddenly the line was there, I almost forgot to cheer. It was really a shock,"

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Another win by Lundani.

 

[Rob5091]

The sprinters have had their fun so far, and Friday's stage is for the GC.
Stage 6, Kusadsi to Manisa, 160.1 km, start 10.51 CET, TV from 13.30 CET.

Spil Dagi is the climb of the day -

Not the epic Babadag but should sort out the GC winner for the race.
Edit add- Cepeda, Langellotti and Double are favourites but it's a day for a youngster to shine so we might get an unexpected winner.

 

[Rob5091]

According to PCS, 43 km done and not surprisingly no one wants to go off in the break. With a classic hockey stick profile, the action will all happen when the guys reach the base of Spil Dagi.

 

[tobydawq]

According to PCS, 43 km done and not surprisingly no one wants to go off in the break. With a classic hockey stick profile, the action will all happen when the guys reach the base of Spil Dagi.

How is that 'not surprising'?

 

[Rob5091]

How is that 'not surprising'?

Climbers will wait to the climb and everyone else will take it easy as they're not going to bust a gut today.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jefferson Cepeda vs Paul Double