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April 30, 2025
60th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye 2025 🇹🇷 (2.Pro) ME – Stage 4 – Marmaris – Akyaka (Kıran) : 115,4 km
The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963.
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April 30, 2025
60th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye 2025 🇹🇷 (2.Pro) ME – Stage 4 – Marmaris – Akyaka (Kıran) : 115,4 km
The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, rated as a 2.2 event, before being upgraded to 2.1 in 2008, and then to 2.HC for the 2010 edition. The race became part of the UCI World Tour in 2017, and was relegated to the newly formed UCI ProSeries in 2020. In 2023, it was again relegated to a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.
Dutchman Wout Poels has captured stage 4 of the Tour of Turkiye from Marmaris to Akyaka, moving into the overall lead as he claimed his first ever win for XDS Astana on the first and toughest summit finish of the race.
In a triumphant day for the Chinese-Kazakh team, Poels’ teammate Harold Martín López placed second, 19 seconds back, with Guillermo Juan Martinez (Picnic-PostNL) in third.
On a crash-marred, rainsoaked stage and after a hilly opening leg where the bunch deemed a 15-man move too powerful and numerous to let go, the battle for victory boiled down to the final cat.1 9.1 kilometre Kiran ascent.
At its foot, 60 riders chased a breakaway comprising Jonas Rickaert (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Victor Vaneeckhoute (Lotto Development Team), Gorka Sorarrain (Caja Rural-SegurosRGA), Mustafa Tekin (Spor Toto Cycling Team) and Xabier Isasa (Euskaltel-Euskadi) with a rapidly dropping advantage of about 90 seconds.
One by one the break was caught and after former Tour de France stage winner Poels attacked in the last five kilometres, a new, decisive move emerged containing the Dutchman and his XDS Astana teammate Harold Martín López, Ion Agirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi), and Picnic-PostNL duo Frank van den Broek – the 2024 overall winner – and Martinez.
All four were at 14 seconds on GC so had serious options on the overall, but Poels was, again, the first to really open up the throttle two kilometres from the line, followed by Martín López. However, Poels maintained his advantage to stay away for a lone victory.
After former leader and allrounder Tibor del Grosso (Deceuninck-Alpecin) was dropped eight kilometres from the line, Poels now heads the GC by 23 seconds ahead of his teammate Martín Lopez.
Stage 5 from Marmaris to Aydan should see the sprinters back in action before a second and potentially decisive summit finish on Friday at Selcuk.
Results :
 ME - Stage 4 </strong> - Marmaris - Akyaka (Kıran) : 115,4 km
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The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, rated as a 2.2 event, before being upgraded to 2.1 in 2008, and then to 2.HC for the 2010 edition. The race became part of the UCI World Tour in 2017, and was relegated to the newly formed UCI ProSeries in 2020. In 2023, it was again relegated to a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.
Dutchman Wout Poels has captured stage 4 of the Tour of Turkiye from Marmaris to Akyaka, moving into the overall lead as he claimed his first ever win for XDS Astana on the first and toughest summit finish of the race.
In a triumphant day for the Chinese-Kazakh team, Poels' teammate Harold Martín López placed second, 19 seconds back, with Guillermo Juan Martinez (Picnic-PostNL) in third.
On a crash-marred, rainsoaked stage and after a hilly opening leg where the bunch deemed a 15-man move too powerful and numerous to let go, the battle for victory boiled down to the final cat.1 9.1 kilometre Kiran ascent.
At its foot, 60 riders chased a breakaway comprising Jonas Rickaert (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Victor Vaneeckhoute (Lotto Development Team), Gorka Sorarrain (Caja Rural-SegurosRGA), Mustafa Tekin (Spor Toto Cycling Team) and Xabier Isasa (Euskaltel-Euskadi) with a rapidly dropping advantage of about 90 seconds.
One by one the break was caught and after former Tour de France stage winner Poels attacked in the last five kilometres, a new, decisive move emerged containing the Dutchman and his XDS Astana teammate Harold Martín López, Ion Agirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi), and Picnic-PostNL duo Frank van den Broek - the 2024 overall winner - and Martinez.
All four were at 14 seconds on GC so had serious options on the overall, but Poels was, again, the first to really open up the throttle two kilometres from the line, followed by Martín López. However, Poels maintained his advantage to stay away for a lone victory.
After former leader and allrounder Tibor del Grosso (Deceuninck-Alpecin) was dropped eight kilometres from the line, Poels now heads the GC by 23 seconds ahead of his teammate Martín Lopez.
Stage 5 from Marmaris to Aydan should see the sprinters back in action before a second and potentially decisive summit finish on Friday at Selcuk.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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