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April 29, 2026
61st Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye 2026 🇹🇷 (2.Pro) ME – Stage 4 – Marmaris – Fethiye : 130,4 km
The Presidential Tour of Turkey is a UCI 2.1 classification that unfolds as a late-season journey through a landscape of dramatic contrasts,
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April 29, 2026
61st Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye 2026 🇹🇷 (2.Pro) ME – Stage 4 – Marmaris – Fethiye : 130,4 km
The Presidential Tour of Turkey is a UCI 2.1 classification that unfolds as a late-season journey through a landscape of dramatic contrasts, where the roads weave between turquoise coastlines, sunbaked plateaus, and timeworn valleys, their surfaces telling stories of endurance. The terrain is a relentless blend of long, undulating climbs and deceptive false flats, with ascents that stretch for kilometers, their gradients steady and unforgiving, designed to sap strength rather than shatter resolve. Along the Aegean coast, the route flattens but never eases, as the wind roars in from the sea, turning the roads into a battleground of crosswinds and echelons, the peloton strung out in a fragile, ever-shifting line. The roads vary from pristine highways to rougher, weathered stretches where the tarmac cracks under the weight of the bikes, the vibrations echoing through the frames. The race typically begins with a measured tempo, the peloton conserving energy for the challenges ahead, but as the days progress, the attacks grow more audacious, the climbs serving as crucibles that whittle the group down to the strongest. The finish often arrives after a sweeping descent or a final, fast drag to the line, where a reduced bunch sprints for victory, or a lone rider who has timed their escape perfectly holds off the chasing pack by a sliver of daylight, the golden light of dusk settling over the road.
Hard work throughout the day by Cofidis on stage 4 of the Tour of Turkey was rewarded with a bunch sprint victory for their fastman Stanisław Aniołkowski.
Modern Adventure’s Riley Pickrell took second on the short, rugged trek from Marmaris to Fethiye, with Davide Persico in third (MBH Bank CSB Telecom Fort).
The winner of Turkey’s opening two sprint stages, Belgium’s Tom Crabbe (Flanders-Baloise), was swamped on one side of the long dash along the seafront, and Fernando Gaviria (Caja Rural Seguros RCA) launched his sprint too early. But Aniołkowski timed it perfectly and came from late behind Pickrell to cross the line with half a bikelength to spare.
Whilst the Polish racer could celebrate his first win since a stage of the Tour of Hellas nearly three years ago, overall leader Iván Parra (Equipo Kern Pharma) remained safely in the lead for a second straight day.
For the first hour, barring a couple of very short-lived attacks, the peloton largely remained together, rocketing along at an average speed of over 50kph.
One interesting seven-rider move emerged at the halfway point with around 65km to go, sparked by Polti-VisitMalta’s Dario Belletta and including young American Jonah Killy (Tartoletto-Isorex), and reaching an advantage of over two minutes.
However, Alpecin-Premier Tech and Equipo Kern Pharma’s driving pace behind them for Parra ensured the group was kept on a narrow leash, and shortly after the summit of the one classified ascent, a grindingly long third-category climb peaking out with 37km to go, the last two of the seven breakaways were all reeled in.
Such a short stage on varied terrain and dry weather was always going to spark lots of action late on, and repeated attacks in the rugged but broad highway in the last 20km caused numerous large groups to splinter off and then be reabsorbed. Mario Aparicio (Burgos Burpellet BH) was one very active attacker in the perpetually fraught finale, shearing away solo, but Modern Adventure closed down that move.
Then, as the race reached the much flatter run-in along the coast to Fethiye, the peloton became more cohesive again, with a lone rider from Tom Crabbe’s Flanders-Baloise squad combining with Cofidis and TotalEnergies to take control.
A hefty contingent of Modern Adventure riders added their collective shoulder to the wheel with six kilometres to go, and on a day very much made for the fastmen – in the race’s last visit to Fethiye in 2017, Sam Bennett won the stage – it was clear that this would come down to a bunch sprint.
Swinging onto the very long finishing straight, Modern Adventure dropped back to be replaced by Picnic-PostNL and Flanders-Baloise again, but the distance made it difficult for any squad to dominate. Gaviria went from distance, but it was impossible for him to maintain his lead, and then Aniołkowski finished it off in style.
Results :
 ME - Stage 4 </strong> - Marmaris - Fethiye : 130,4 km
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The Presidential Tour of Turkey is a UCI 2.1 classification that unfolds as a late-season journey through a landscape of dramatic contrasts, where the roads weave between turquoise coastlines, sunbaked plateaus, and timeworn valleys, their surfaces telling stories of endurance. The terrain is a relentless blend of long, undulating climbs and deceptive false flats, with ascents that stretch for kilometers, their gradients steady and unforgiving, designed to sap strength rather than shatter resolve. Along the Aegean coast, the route flattens but never eases, as the wind roars in from the sea, turning the roads into a battleground of crosswinds and echelons, the peloton strung out in a fragile, ever-shifting line. The roads vary from pristine highways to rougher, weathered stretches where the tarmac cracks under the weight of the bikes, the vibrations echoing through the frames. The race typically begins with a measured tempo, the peloton conserving energy for the challenges ahead, but as the days progress, the attacks grow more audacious, the climbs serving as crucibles that whittle the group down to the strongest. The finish often arrives after a sweeping descent or a final, fast drag to the line, where a reduced bunch sprints for victory, or a lone rider who has timed their escape perfectly holds off the chasing pack by a sliver of daylight, the golden light of dusk settling over the road.
Hard work throughout the day by Cofidis on stage 4 of the Tour of Turkey was rewarded with a bunch sprint victory for their fastman Stanisław Aniołkowski.
Modern Adventure's Riley Pickrell took second on the short, rugged trek from Marmaris to Fethiye, with Davide Persico in third (MBH Bank CSB Telecom Fort).
The winner of Turkey's opening two sprint stages, Belgium's Tom Crabbe (Flanders-Baloise), was swamped on one side of the long dash along the seafront, and Fernando Gaviria (Caja Rural Seguros RCA) launched his sprint too early. But Aniołkowski timed it perfectly and came from late behind Pickrell to cross the line with half a bikelength to spare.
Whilst the Polish racer could celebrate his first win since a stage of the Tour of Hellas nearly three years ago, overall leader Iván Parra (Equipo Kern Pharma) remained safely in the lead for a second straight day.
For the first hour, barring a couple of very short-lived attacks, the peloton largely remained together, rocketing along at an average speed of over 50kph.
One interesting seven-rider move emerged at the halfway point with around 65km to go, sparked by Polti-VisitMalta's Dario Belletta and including young American Jonah Killy (Tartoletto-Isorex), and reaching an advantage of over two minutes.
However, Alpecin-Premier Tech and Equipo Kern Pharma's driving pace behind them for Parra ensured the group was kept on a narrow leash, and shortly after the summit of the one classified ascent, a grindingly long third-category climb peaking out with 37km to go, the last two of the seven breakaways were all reeled in.
Such a short stage on varied terrain and dry weather was always going to spark lots of action late on, and repeated attacks in the rugged but broad highway in the last 20km caused numerous large groups to splinter off and then be reabsorbed. Mario Aparicio (Burgos Burpellet BH) was one very active attacker in the perpetually fraught finale, shearing away solo, but Modern Adventure closed down that move.
Then, as the race reached the much flatter run-in along the coast to Fethiye, the peloton became more cohesive again, with a lone rider from Tom Crabbe's Flanders-Baloise squad combining with Cofidis and TotalEnergies to take control.
A hefty contingent of Modern Adventure riders added their collective shoulder to the wheel with six kilometres to go, and on a day very much made for the fastmen – in the race's last visit to Fethiye in 2017, Sam Bennett won the stage – it was clear that this would come down to a bunch sprint.
Swinging onto the very long finishing straight, Modern Adventure dropped back to be replaced by Picnic-PostNL and Flanders-Baloise again, but the distance made it difficult for any squad to dominate. Gaviria went from distance, but it was impossible for him to maintain his lead, and then Aniołkowski finished it off in style.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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