Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey

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Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
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Race details
Date April–May
Region Turkey
English name Tour of Turkey
Local name(s) Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu (Turkish)
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour
Type Stage race
Organiser Turkish Cycling Federation
Race director Abdurrahman Açıkalın [1]
History
First edition 1964 (1964)
Editions 51 (as of 2015)
Most wins Since 2001: (2 wins)
 Mert Mutlu (TUR)
 Ghader Mizbani (IRI)
Most recent  Kristijan Đurasek (CRO)
Riders in Stage 8 of 49th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey at Bağdat Avenue, Istanbul on April 28, 2013.
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Riders in Stage 8 of 50th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey at Çetin Emeç Boulevard, Istanbul on May 4, 2014.

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,[2] before being upgraded to 2.1 in 2008,[3] and then to 2.HC for the 2010 edition.[4]

Winners

General classification

Rider Team
1998 Turkey Erdinç Doğan (TUR)
1999 Turkey Erdinç Doğan (TUR)
2000 Kazakhstan Sergey Lavrenenko (KAZ)
2001 Turkey Mert Mutlu (TUR) Brisaspor
2002 Iran Ghader Mizbani (IRI) Telekom Malaysia Cycling Team
2003 Turkey Mert Mutlu (TUR) (Elite)
2004 Iran Ahad Kazemi (IRI) Giant Asia Racing Team
2005 Bulgaria Svetoslav Tchanliev (BUL) Cycling Club Bourgas
2006 Iran Ghader Mizbani (IRI) Brisaspor
2007 Bulgaria Ivailo Gabrovski (BUL) Velo-M-Hemus-Makedonya
2008 Spain David García Dapena (ESP) Karpin–Galicia
2009 South Africa Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld
2010 Italy Giovanni Visconti (ITA) ISD–NERI
2011 Russia Alexander Efimkin (RUS) Team Type 1–Sanofi Aventis
2012 Kazakhstan Alexsandr Dyachenko (KAZ) Astana
2013 Eritrea Natnael Berhane (ERI) Team Europcar
2014 United Kingdom Adam Yates (GBR) Orica–GreenEDGE
2015 Croatia Kristijan Đurasek (CRO) Lampre–Merida


Wins per country since 1998

4 Turkey Turkey
3 Iran Iran
2 Bulgaria Bulgaria, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
1 Croatia Croatia, Eritrea Eritrea, Italy Italy, Russia Russia, South Africa South Africa, Spain Spain, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Points classification

Rider Team
2010 Germany André Greipel (GER) Team HTC–Columbia
2011 Italy Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) Lampre–ISD
2012 Australia Matthew Goss (AUS) GreenEDGE
2013 Germany André Greipel (GER) Lotto–Belisol
2014 United Kingdom Mark Cavendish (GBR) Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015 United Kingdom Mark Cavendish (GBR) Etixx–Quick-Step

Wins per country since 2010

2 Germany Germany, United Kingdom United Kingdom
1 Australia Australia, Italy Italy

Mountains classification

Rider Team
2010 France Rémi Pauriol (FRA) Cofidis
2011 Colombia Luis Felipe Laverde (COL) Colombia es Pasión–Café de Colombia
2012 Italy Marco Bandiera (ITA) Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2013 Ukraine Sergiy Gretchyn (UKR) Torku Şekerspor
2014 Curaçao Marc de Maar (CUW) UnitedHealthcare
2015 Colombia Juan Pablo Valencia (COL) Colombia

Wins per country since 2010

2 Colombia Colombia
1 Curaçao Curaçao, France France, Italy Italy, Ukraine Ukraine

Turkish Beauties classification

Rider Team
2010 France Christophe Kern (FRA) Cofidis
2011 Spain Arturo Mora (ESP) Caja Rural
2012 Russia Maxim Belkov (RUS) Team Katusha
2013 Russia Mikhail Ignatiev (RUS) Team Katusha
2014 Italy Mattia Pozzo (ITA) Neri Sottoli
2015 Spain Lluís Mas (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA

Wins per country since 2010

2 Russia Russia, Spain Spain
1 France France, Italy Italy

References

  1. About @ Tour of Turkey
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