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The 2011 Tour of Turkey is the 47th edition of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey

Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey

Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey. Historically the race attracted almost no attention from Europe's major cycling teams and best riders. However, its recent elevation in rankings has attracted an increasingly competitive...

cycling stage race. It is being held from 24 April–1 May 2011, and is rated as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour

2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour

The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...

. The last edition was won by 's rider Giovanni Visconti

Giovanni Visconti (cyclist)

Giovanni Visconti is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for UCI Professional Continental team . Visconti won the Italian National Championship road race on 1 July 2007, beating Paolo Bossoni and Davide Rebellin at the end in a sprint. At 12 km to go, Rebellin made his move...

. Also Turkish 2 cycling teams, Manisaspor and Konya Şekerspor

Konya Seker S.K.

Konya Şeker SK is a football club from Konya, Turkey. It was founded in 1955 and its colors are green and white. Like most other club having Şeker on their name, Konya Şeker Sk's roots are from the sugar factory of its town. The football team managed to gain promotion for the 2008-2009 season of...

debuted in this race.

Teams and cyclists

There were 22 teams in the 2011 Tour of Turkey. Among them were 6 UCI ProTeams, 14 UCI Professional Continental teams, and 2 Continental teams. Each team was allowed eight riders on their squad, giving the event a peloton

Peloton

The peloton , field, bunch or pack is the large main group of riders in a road bicycle race. Riders in a group save energy by riding close near other riders...

of 176 cyclists at its outset. The biggest names which compete here are Tyler Farrar

Tyler Farrar

Tyler Farrar is an American professional road racing cyclist since 2003.-Cycling career:Farrar started racing at 13, and rode for in 2003, in 2004, and in 2006 and 2007. In April 2006 he crashed near the finish of the Circuit de la Sarthe and broke his collarbone and missed most of the season...

, André Greipel

Andre Greipel

André Greipel is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .He currently lives in Hürth, close to Cologne in Germany...

, Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for .A specialist sprinter, Petacchi has won 51 grand tour stages with wins of the points jersey in the Giro d'Italia in 2004, the Vuelta a España in 2005 and the Tour de France in 2010.In 2007 Alessandro was banned from cycling...

and Sandy Casar

Sandy Casar

Sandy Casar is a French professional racing cyclist.Casar turned professional in 2000 after riding for Jean Floch-Mantes as an amateur. As a professional he has always ridden for FDJ.Severo...

Stage 1

24 April 2011 – Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, 114.1 km (70.9 mi)

Stage 1 results

	Team	Time
1		2h 35' 54"
2		s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7		s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.

General Classification after Stage 1

	Team	Time
1		2h 35' 54"
2		+ 4"
3		+ 6"
4		+ 10"
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7		s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.

Stage 2

25 April 2011 – Kuşadası

Kusadasi

Kuşadası is a resort town on Turkey's Aegean coast and the center of the seaside district of the same name in Aydın Province. Kuşadası lies at a distance of to the south from the region's largest metropolitan center of İzmir, and from the provincial seat of Aydın situated inland. Its primary...

to Turgutreis

Turgutreis

Turgutreis is a town in Turkey about a 60 minute drive from Bodrum International Airport. It is the second largest town on the Bodrum peninsula. The district, which comes under the City of Muğla and Bodrum Town, is in an area of 55,000 Hectare...

, 178 km (110.6 mi)

Stage 2 results

	Team	Time
1		4h 23' 38"
2		s.t.
3		s.t.
4	Colombia es Pasión	s.t.
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7		s.t.
8	Konya Torku Seker	s.t.
9	De Rosa-Ceramica Flaminia	s.t.
10		s.t.

General Classification after Stage 2

	Team	Time
1		6h 59' 12"
2		+ 4"
3		+ 6"
4		s.t.
5		+ 10"
6		s.t.
7	Konya Torku Seker	s.t.
8	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
9		s.t.
10		s.t.

Stage 3

26 April 2011 – Bodrum

Bodrum

Bodrum is a port city in Muğla Province, in the southwestern Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located on the southern coast of Bodrum Peninsula, at a point that checks the entry into the Gulf of Gökova. The site was called Halicarnassus of Caria in ancient times and was famous for housing the...

to Marmaris

Marmaris

Marmaris is a port city and a tourist resort on the Mediterranean coast, located in southwest Turkey, in Muğla Province.Marmaris' main source of income is tourism. Little is left of the sleepy fishing village that Marmaris was just a few decades ago after a construction boom in the 1980s...

, 166 km (103.1 mi)

Stage 3 results

	Team	Time
1		4h 22' 24"
2		s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10		s.t.

General Classification after Stage 3

	Team	Time
1		11h 21' 36"
2		+ 4"
3		+ 6"
4		+ 10"
5	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
6		s.t.
7		s.t.
8	Manisaspor Cycling Team	s.t.
9	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
10		s.t.

Stage 4

27 April 2011 – Marmaris

Marmaris

to Pamukkale

Pamukkale

Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water...

, 207 km (128.6 mi)

Stage 4 results

	Team	Time
1		5h 36' 26"
2	Team NetApp Team NetApp Team NetApp is a cycling team established in 2010 with a German UCI Professional Continental license that hopes to obtain a ProTour licence in 3 years time.The teams main sponsor is NetApp and in 2010 the team is sponsored by Focus Bikes.-Major results:...	s.t.
3		+ 1"
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
7		s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10		s.t.

General Classification after Stage 4

	Team	Time
1	Team NetApp Team NetApp Team NetApp is a cycling team established in 2010 with a German UCI Professional Continental license that hopes to obtain a ProTour licence in 3 years time.The teams main sponsor is NetApp and in 2010 the team is sponsored by Focus Bikes.-Major results:...	16h 58' 06"
2		+ 3"
3		+ 7"
4	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
5	Team NetApp Team NetApp Team NetApp is a cycling team established in 2010 with a German UCI Professional Continental license that hopes to obtain a ProTour licence in 3 years time.The teams main sponsor is NetApp and in 2010 the team is sponsored by Focus Bikes.-Major results:...	s.t.
6		s.t.
7		s.t.
8	Konya Torku Seker	s.t.
9		s.t.
10		s.t.

Stage 5

28 April 2011 – Denizli

Denizli

Denizli is a growing industrial city in the Southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about a hundred meters. Denizli is located in southwestern Turkey, in the country's Aegean Region.The city...

to Fethiye

Fethiye

Fethiye is a city and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey with about 68,000 inhabitants .-History:...

, 218.6 km (135.8 mi)

Stage 5 results

	Cyclist	Team	Time
1			5h 51' 25"
2			s.t.
3			+ 3"
4			s.t.
5			s.t.
6			s.t.
7			s.t.
8			s.t.
9			+ 14"
10			+ 25"

General Classification after Stage 5

	Team	Time
1		22h 49' 41"
2		+ 27"
3		+ 29"
4		+ 1' 42"
5		+ 2' 02"
6	Team NetApp Team NetApp Team NetApp is a cycling team established in 2010 with a German UCI Professional Continental license that hopes to obtain a ProTour licence in 3 years time.The teams main sponsor is NetApp and in 2010 the team is sponsored by Focus Bikes.-Major results:...	+ 11' 45"
7		+ 11' 48"
8		+ 11' 52"
9	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
10	Team NetApp Team NetApp Team NetApp is a cycling team established in 2010 with a German UCI Professional Continental license that hopes to obtain a ProTour licence in 3 years time.The teams main sponsor is NetApp and in 2010 the team is sponsored by Focus Bikes.-Major results:...	s.t.

Stage 6

29 April 2011 – Fethiye

Fethiye

Fethiye is a city and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey with about 68,000 inhabitants .-History:...

to Finike

Finike

Finike, the ancient Phoenicus , is a district on the Mediterranean coast of Antalya Province of Turkey, 90 minutes west of the city of Antalya.Finike is located in the south of the Teke peninsula, and the coast here is a popular tourist destination...

, 184 km (114.3 mi)> Stage 6 results

	Team	Time
1		4h 27' 02"
2	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7		s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10		s.t.

General Classification after Stage 6

	Team	Time
1		27h 17' 12"
2		+ 1' 13"
3		+ 1' 33"
4		+ 1' 50"
5		+ 2' 17"
6	Team NetApp Team NetApp Team NetApp is a cycling team established in 2010 with a German UCI Professional Continental license that hopes to obtain a ProTour licence in 3 years time.The teams main sponsor is NetApp and in 2010 the team is sponsored by Focus Bikes.-Major results:...	+ 11' 12"
7	Caja Rural Caja Rural Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...	+ 11' 17"
8		+ 11' 19"
9		+ 11' 23"
10		s.t.

Stage 7

30 April 2011 – Tekirova to Manavgat

Manavgat

Manavgat is a town and district of the Antalya Province in Turkey, from the city of Antalya. The Manavgat River has a waterfall near the town.-Geography:...

, 138 km (85.7 mi)
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Team NetApp

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Caja Rural

Caja Rural is a professional continental cycling team based in Spain that participates in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation. The team was founded in 2010.- Major results :2010...

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Stage 8

1 May 2011 – Side

Side

Side was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey...

to Alanya

Alanya

Alanya , formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a component district of Antalya Province in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey, from the city of Antalya. On the southern coast of Turkey, the district has an area of 1,598.51 km2 and 248,286 inhabitants...

, 157.8 km (98.1 mi)
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Caja Rural

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Caja Rural

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Classification leadership

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! style="background:#EFEFEF;" width="15%"|Turkish Beauties Classification

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| 1
| Andrea Guardini

Andrea Guardini

Andrea Guardini is an Italian cyclist, who rides for the Italian team, .-Palmarès:2011*Tour de Langkawi** 1st, Stage 1** 1st, Stage 2** 1st, Stage 6** 1st, Stage 7** 1st, Stage 10** 3rd, Stage 3* Tour of Qatar** 1st, Stage 5...

| style="background-color:lightblue;" rowspan="1"| Andrea Guardini

Andrea Guardini

| style="background-color:lightgreen;" rowspan="1"| Andrea Guardini

Andrea Guardini

Tyler Farrar

| style="background-color:pink;" rowspan="1"| Juan Pablo Villegas
| style="background-color:orange;" rowspan="1"| Caja Rural

Caja Rural

|-
| 3
| Manuel Belletti

Manuel Belletti

Manuel Belletti is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .-Palmares:20082009...

| style="background-color:lightblue;" rowspan="1"| Manuel Belletti

Manuel Belletti

Manuel Belletti is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .-Palmares:20082009...

| style="background-color:lightgreen;" rowspan="1"| Manuel Belletti

Manuel Belletti

Manuel Belletti is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .-Palmares:20082009...

| style="background-color:pink;" rowspan="2"| Luis Felipe Laverde

Luis Felipe Laverde

Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez is Colombian professional road bicycle racer for Café de Colombia-Colombia es Pasión. His best results are two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia, in 2006 and 2007.- Major victories :...

| style="background-color:orange;" rowspan="6"|
|-
| 4
| Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi

| style="background-color:lightblue;" rowspan="1"| Bartosz Huzarski

Bartosz Huzarski

Bartosz Huzarski is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Team NetApp.- Palmarès :20032005...

| style="background-color:lightgreen;" rowspan="5"| Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi

| style="background-color:white;" rowspan="2"| Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi

|-
| 5
| Matteo Rabottini

Matteo Rabottini

Matteo Rabottini is an Italian racing cyclist with UCI Professional Continental team .-External links:...

| style="background-color:lightblue;" rowspan="1"| Thomas Peterson

Thomas Peterson

Thomas Peterson is a professional racing cyclist who rides for . In 2004 he became the Junior US National Road Race Champion.-Career accomplishments:200420062007-External links:...

| style="background-color:pink;" rowspan="1"| Alexander Efimkin

Alexander Efimkin

Alexander Alexandrovich Efimkin is a Russian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team . His twin brother is Vladimir Efimkin. Alexander Efimkin burst on to the professional cycling scene in 2005 with a 2nd place overall at the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda, a highly...

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| 6
| Andre Greipel

Andre Greipel

André Greipel is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .He currently lives in Hürth, close to Cologne in Germany...

| style="background-color:lightblue;" rowspan="3"| Alexander Efimkin

Alexander Efimkin

| style="background-color:pink;" rowspan="3"| Luis Felipe Laverde

Luis Felipe Laverde

Andrea Guardini

|-
| 8
| Kenny van Hummel

Kenny van Hummel

Kenny van Hummel is a road bicycle racer from the Netherlands. He rides for and used to live in Driel, before moving to Elden. Van Hummel is a sprinter. Van Hummel started cycling races at the age of seven, and one year later he became a member of cycling club "De Adelaar" in Apeldoorn...

Alexander Efimkin

| style="background-color:limegreen;" rowspan="1"| Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi

| style="background-color:red;" rowspan="1"| Luis Felipe Laverde

Luis Felipe Laverde

| style="background-color:offwhite;" rowspan="1"| Arturo Mora
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