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May 2/15 10:40 am - Tour of Turkey: Stage 7


Posted by Editoress on 05/2/15
 

The Etixx - Quick-Step leadout train remained fully operational despite a tough chase in the final kilometers, bringing Mark Cavendish to the front of Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey Stage 7 in time for him to launch inside 200m and win in Izmir.

Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani - CSF Pro Team) was 2nd, and Kristian Sbaragli (MTN - Qhubeka) was 3rd.

Etixx - Quick-Step brought Cavendish back to a front group with 12km remaining, after the peloton split over the final Category 1 climb of the 165km stage. A four rider breakaway was also chased down by the front group with 23km to go, and the peloton split with about 30km left to race.

Despite the tough effort of bringing the Manx Missile back into contention for the reduced bunch arrival, Etixx - Quick-Step still firmly established a leadout inside 5km to go. Tom Boonen perfectly led Mark Renshaw and the British rider into position for the final kilometer. Renshaw then brought Cavendish to the forefront of the peloton, and he launched to win convincingly out of a reduced field.

Cavendish brought his total wins at the 2015 edition of Tour of Turkey to three. He trails Daniele Ratto (UnitedHealthcare) in the points competition by just two points with forty-six. Etixx - Quick-Step has won 22 road stages in 2015, with Cavendish earning nine of those victories.

Etixx - Quick-Step looks next to the final stage on Sunday. The 8th and final Stage, 121km in distance, is a short circuit stage that the sprinters will likely aim to win. The technical nature of the final kilometers will make the leadout trains difficult to organize. With 1.6km remaining there is a 180-degree turn, followed by three turns before they even get to the final kilometer. Inside the final kilometer there are two more turns before the final 600 meters.

"In terms of the sprint this was probably my easiest win with a reduced field," Cavendish said. "We didn't have a lot of the pure sprinters there and we knew that. Teams made it clear to us they were going to make it hard on the last climb, and I told them they better make it count because with the team I have with me, I knew we'd make it back. So we just kept our tempo, making sure we didn't go over the limit on the climb. The gap was a little bigger than we hoped, but my guys did an incredible job on the descent to come back. They grouped together, stayed with me, and they rode immediately. It was superb. I quickly got back, took a breath to recover, and then we went into leadout mode. It went well. I spoke with Mark Renshaw and asked him to put a few riders of Lampre-Merida between Tom Boonen, because it would put them on the front a bit early. He just missed them but I managed to get them in and it went exactly as planned. They slowed down, Mark came around. I was able to jump on him and it was pretty straight forward from there. I felt super good all the way until the line and I'm super happy with this win. I never went over the limit at any point today. It would have probably been worse if I had stayed with the first group instead of us riding within ourselves. For me the biggest thing I take from today is the way the team stayed together. We did the climb together, straight away worked, and for me that is a bigger satisfaction than crossing the line first."

Etixx - Quick-Step press release

 

 

Results

Stage 7: Selçuk to Izmir, 166.3 km
1 Mark Cavendish (Etixx - Quick Step) 3:59:49
2 Andrea Piechele (Bardiani CSF)
3 Kristian Sbaragli (MTN - Qhubeka)
4 Manuel Belletti (Southeast)
5 Magnus Cort Nielsen (Orica GreenEDGE)
6 Daniele Ratto (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
7 Armindo Fonseca (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
8 Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal)
9 Davide Appollonio (Androni Giocattoli)
10 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Astana Pro Team)
11 Pier Paolo De Negri (Nippo - Vini Fantini)
12 Adam Phelan (Drapac Professional Cycling)
13 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Astana Pro Team)
14 Mirko Selvaggi (Wanty - Groupe Gobert)
15 Natnael Berhane (MTN - Qhubeka)
16 Daniele Bennati (Tinkoff - Saxo)
17 Juan Pablo Valencia (Colombia)
18 Eugert Zhupa (Southeast)
19 Luis Mas Bonet (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
20 Enrico Barbin (Bardiani CSF)
21 Victor Campenaerts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
22 Christian Meier (Orica GreenEDGE)
23 Nazim Bakirci (Torku Sekerspor)
24 Alessandro Petacchi (Southeast)
25 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
26 Tomasz Kiendys (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
27 Javier Megias Leal (Team Novo Nordisk)
28 Eduard Prades Reverte (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
29 Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
30 Tomasz Marczynski (Torku Sekerspor)
31 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
32 Mark Renshaw (Etixx - Quick Step)
33 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
34 Jan Ghyselinck (Wanty - Groupe Gobert)
35 Sacha Modolo (Lampre - Merida)
36 Peter Koning (Drapac Professional Cycling)
37 Carlos Julian Quintero (Colombia)
38 Fernando Grijalba (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
39 Alex Cano Ardila (Colombia)
40 Pieter Jacobs (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
41 Frédéric Brun (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
42 Daniel Martínez (Colombia)
43 Davide Rebellin (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
44 Frederik Veuchelen (Wanty - Groupe Gobert)
45 Jay Mccarthy (Tinkoff - Saxo)
46 Serge Pauwels (MTN - Qhubeka)
47 Nicola Boem (Bardiani CSF)
48 Fabricio Ferrari Barcelo (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
49 Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani CSF)
50 Adrien Niyonshuti (MTN - Qhubeka)
51 Adam Hansen (Lotto Soudal)
52 Valerio Agnoli (Astana Pro Team)
53 José Gonçalves (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
54 Frantisek Padour (Androni Giocattoli)
55 Timothy Roe (Drapac Professional Cycling)
56 Boris Vallee (Lotto Soudal)
57 Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff - Saxo)
58 Stefan Schumacher (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
59 Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal)
60 Evgeny Petrov (Tinkoff - Saxo)
61 Heiner Rodrigo Parra Bustamente (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
62 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Torku Sekerspor)
63 Eduardo Sepulveda (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
64 Adrian Honkisz (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
65 Alessandro Bazzana (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
66 Enrico Battaglin (Bardiani CSF)
67 Daniil Fominykh (Astana Pro Team)
68 Lucas Euser (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
69 Florian Guillou (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
70 Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani CSF)
71 Mateusz Taciak (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
72 Cameron Meyer (Orica GreenEDGE) all s.t.
73 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Lampre - Merida) 0:17
74 Mario Jorge Faria Da Costa (Lampre - Merida)
75 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Etixx - Quick Step) both s.t.
76 Nikolas Maes (Etixx - Quick Step) 0:20
77 Christopher Jones (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) s.t.
78 Tom Boonen (Etixx - Quick Step) 0:29
79 Brice Feillu (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
80 Kevin Ledanois (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) both s.t.
81 Jan Hirt (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) 0:40
82 Youcef Reguigui (MTN - Qhubeka) 0:46
83 Gert Dockx (Lotto Soudal) 0:52
84 Daniele Colli (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 1:39
85 Ilia Koshevoy (Lampre - Merida) 1:43
86 Kristijan Durasek (Lampre - Merida) 0:00
87 Roberto Ferrari (Lampre - Merida) 1:43
88 Damien Howson (Orica GreenEDGE) 1:48
89 Kris Boeckmans (Lotto Soudal) 1:58
90 Roy Jans (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 6:06
91 Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Colombia)
92 Adam Blythe (Orica GreenEDGE)
93 Gang Xu (Lampre - Merida)
94 Fabio Sabatini (Etixx - Quick Step)
95 Iljo Keisse (Etixx - Quick Step)
96 Jens Mouris (Orica GreenEDGE) all s.t.
97 Samuele Conti (Southeast) 7:53
98 Paolo Simion (Bardiani CSF)
99 Edward Fabian Diaz Cardenas (Colombia)
100 Scott Ambrose (Team Novo Nordisk)
101 Arman Kamyshev (Astana Pro Team)
102 Ruslan Tleubayev (Astana Pro Team)
103 Eduard Michael Grosu (Nippo - Vini Fantini)
104 Antonio Viola (Nippo - Vini Fantini)
105 Carlos Mario Ramirez Botero (Colombia)
106 Andrea Peron (Team Novo Nordisk)
107 Songezo Jim (MTN - Qhubeka)
108 Chun Kai Feng (Lampre - Merida)
109 Alberto Nardin (Androni Giocattoli)
110 Jarl Salomein (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
111 Michal Kolár (Tinkoff - Saxo)
112 Federico Zurlo (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
113 Charles Planet (Team Novo Nordisk)
114 Lander Seynaeve (Wanty - Groupe Gobert)
115 Robert Förster (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
116 Ahmet Akdilek (Torku Sekerspor)
117 Mattia Pozzo (Nippo - Vini Fantini)
118 Eduard Alexander Beltran Suarez (Tinkoff - Saxo)
119 Juraj Sagan (Tinkoff - Saxo)
120 Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
121 Nicolas Lefrancois (Team Novo Nordisk)
122 Martijn Verschoor (Team Novo Nordisk)
123 Davide Frattini (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
124 Sean De Bie (Lotto Soudal)
125 Jef Van Meirhaeghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
126 Brenton Jones (Drapac Professional Cycling)
127 Francesco Chicchi (Androni Giocattoli)
128 Ramon Carretero (Southeast)
129 John Kronborg Ebsen (Androni Giocattoli)
130 Bernard Sulzberger (Drapac Professional Cycling)
131 Graeme Brown (Drapac Professional Cycling)
132 David Lozano Riba (Team Novo Nordisk)
133 Bert Van Lerberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
134 Tom Devriendt (Wanty - Groupe Gobert)
135 Marco Benfatto (Androni Giocattoli)
136 Nikolay Trusov (Tinkoff - Saxo)
137 Ahmet Orken (Torku Sekerspor)
138 Mirac Kal (Torku Sekerspor)
139 James Vanlandschoot (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) all s.t.
140 Andrea Dal Col (Southeast) 11:35
141 Malcom Rudolph (Drapac Professional Cycling)
142 Samuel Spokes (Drapac Professional Cycling)
143 Yauheni Hutarovich (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
144 Jay Robert Thomson (MTN - Qhubeka)
145 Genki Yamamoto (Nippo - Vini Fantini)
146 Nicolas Marini (Nippo - Vini Fantini)
147 Theo Bos (MTN - Qhubeka)
148 Ken Hanson (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team)
149 Daniel Mclay (Bretagne-Seche Environnement)
150 Caleb Ewan (Orica GreenEDGE)
151 Shiki Kuroeda (Nippo - Vini Fantini) all s.t.
152 Muhammet Atalay (Torku Sekerspor) 12:46
DNF Rafael Andriato (Southeast)
DNF Sergiy Grechyn (Torku Sekerspor)
DNS Nikolay Mihaylov (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
DNS Lukasz Owsian (CCC Sprandi Polkowice)
 
GC
1 Kristijan Durasek (Lampre - Merida) 28:21:23
2 Davide Rebellin (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) at 0:21
3 Eduardo Sepulveda (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 0:32
4 Jay Mccarthy (Tinkoff - Saxo) 1:14
5 Alex Cano Ardila (Colombia) 1:30
6 Serge Pauwels (MTN - Qhubeka) 1:32
7 Mirko Selvaggi (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 2:05
8 Enrico Barbin (Bardiani CSF) 2:08
9 Adam Hansen (Lotto Soudal) 2:18
10 Tomasz Marczynski (Torku Sekerspor) 2:20
11 Javier Megias Leal (Team Novo Nordisk) 2:22
12 Heiner Rodrigo Parra Bustamente (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 2:32
13 Luis Mas Bonet (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 2:40
14 Daniele Ratto (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 2:44
15 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Astana Pro Team) 2:47
16 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Astana Pro Team) 3:49
17 Christian Meier (Orica GreenEDGE) 3:52
18 Victor Campenaerts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 4:01
19 Enrico Battaglin (Bardiani CSF) 4:12
20 Pieter Jacobs (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 4:26
21 Lucas Euser (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 4:44
22 Pier Paolo De Negri (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 4:46
23 Carlos Julian Quintero (Colombia) 5:13
24 Eduard Prades Reverte (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 6:50
25 Adam Phelan (Drapac Professional Cycling) 6:57
26 Cameron Meyer (Orica GreenEDGE) 8:12
27 Stefan Schumacher (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) 8:48
28 Youcef Reguigui (MTN - Qhubeka) 9:01
29 José Gonçalves (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 9:23
30 Valerio Agnoli (Astana Pro Team) 9:36
31 Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) 9:58
32 Juan Pablo Valencia (Colombia) 10:47
33 Christopher Jones (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 13:16
34 Gang Xu (Lampre - Merida) 13:50
35 Adrien Niyonshuti (MTN - Qhubeka) 13:59
36 Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal) 14:48
37 Nazim Bakirci (Torku Sekerspor) 15:47
38 Mario Jorge Faria Da Costa (Lampre - Merida) 16:20
39 Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff - Saxo) 17:42
40 Daniil Fominykh (Astana Pro Team) 18:05
41 Tom Boonen (Etixx - Quick Step) 18:06
42 Gert Dockx (Lotto Soudal) 18:14
43 Timothy Roe (Drapac Professional Cycling) 18:15
44 Ilia Koshevoy (Lampre - Merida) 18:26
45 Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani CSF) 18:37
46 Eduard Alexander Beltran Suarez (Tinkoff - Saxo) 18:49
47 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 19:54
48 Frédéric Brun (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 20:39
49 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 20:41
50 Fabricio Ferrari Barcelo (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 22:02
51 Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 22:04
52 Natnael Berhane (MTN - Qhubeka) 23:07
53 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Torku Sekerspor) 23:20
54 Evgeny Petrov (Tinkoff - Saxo) 23:31
55 Adrian Honkisz (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) 23:48
56 Fernando Grijalba (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 24:20
57 Brice Feillu (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 25:05
58 Jan Hirt (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) 26:02
59 Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 26:15
60 Daniele Colli (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 27:13
61 Davide Frattini (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 27:21
62 Tomasz Kiendys (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) 27:25
63 Scott Ambrose (Team Novo Nordisk) 28:22
64 Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani CSF) 28:27
65 Kristian Sbaragli (MTN - Qhubeka) 28:31
66 Nicola Boem (Bardiani CSF) 28:34
67 Songezo Jim (MTN - Qhubeka) 28:51
68 Edward Fabian Diaz Cardenas (Colombia) 28:58
69 Arman Kamyshev (Astana Pro Team) 29:28
70 Armindo Fonseca (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 29:42
71 Kevin Ledanois (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 30:33
72 Magnus Cort Nielsen (Orica GreenEDGE) 30:45
73 Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Colombia) 31:03
74 Mark Renshaw (Etixx - Quick Step) 31:18
75 Frederik Veuchelen (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 33:24
76 Alessandro Petacchi (Southeast) 33:29
77 Peter Koning (Drapac Professional Cycling) 34:13
78 Mark Cavendish (Etixx - Quick Step) 34:20
79 Manuel Belletti (Southeast) 34:35
80 Frantisek Padour (Androni Giocattoli) 35:27
81 Mirac Kal (Torku Sekerspor) 35:28
82 Florian Guillou (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 35:32
83 Charles Planet (Team Novo Nordisk) 35:56
84 James Vanlandschoot (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 35:58
85 Daniele Bennati (Tinkoff - Saxo) 35:58
86 Alessandro Bazzana (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 36:02
87 Jarl Salomein (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 36:14
88 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) 36:23
89 Daniel Martínez (Colombia) 36:23
90 Juraj Sagan (Tinkoff - Saxo) 36:54
91 Davide Appollonio (Androni Giocattoli) 37:28
92 Alberto Nardin (Androni Giocattoli) 38:34
93 Bernard Sulzberger (Drapac Professional Cycling) 39:11
94 Ruslan Tleubayev (Astana Pro Team) 39:30
95 Mateusz Taciak (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) 39:53
96 Boris Vallee (Lotto Soudal) 40:00
97 Jan Ghyselinck (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 40:29
98 Samuele Conti (Southeast) 40:29
99 Nikolas Maes (Etixx - Quick Step) 40:38
100 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Lampre - Merida) 42:02
101 Sean De Bie (Lotto Soudal) 42:12
102 Carlos Mario Ramirez Botero (Colombia) 42:17
103 Federico Zurlo (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 43:22
104 Fabio Sabatini (Etixx - Quick Step) 43:44
105 Martijn Verschoor (Team Novo Nordisk) 45:06
106 Roberto Ferrari (Lampre - Merida) 45:17
107 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Etixx - Quick Step) 45:57
108 Eugert Zhupa (Southeast) 45:59
109 Jay Robert Thomson (MTN - Qhubeka) 45:59
110 Sacha Modolo (Lampre - Merida) 46:46
111 Bert Van Lerberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 46:57
112 Ahmet Orken (Torku Sekerspor) 47:27
113 Iljo Keisse (Etixx - Quick Step) 47:57
114 Jef Van Meirhaeghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise) 49:16
115 Andrea Piechele (Bardiani CSF) 49:46
116 Brenton Jones (Drapac Professional Cycling) 49:54
117 Chun Kai Feng (Lampre - Merida) 49:56
118 Paolo Simion (Bardiani CSF) 50:00
119 Samuel Spokes (Drapac Professional Cycling) 50:24
120 David Lozano Riba (Team Novo Nordisk) 51:31
121 Andrea Peron (Team Novo Nordisk) 52:21
122 Caleb Ewan (Orica GreenEDGE) 52:26
123 Adam Blythe (Orica GreenEDGE) 52:30
124 Robert Förster (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 52:57
125 Michal Kolár (Tinkoff - Saxo) 53:10
126 Muhammet Atalay (Torku Sekerspor) 53:17
127 Damien Howson (Orica GreenEDGE) 53:20
128 John Kronborg Ebsen (Androni Giocattoli) 53:45
129 Yauheni Hutarovich (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 54:29
130 Kris Boeckmans (Lotto Soudal) 55:25
131 Genki Yamamoto (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 56:47
132 Marco Benfatto (Androni Giocattoli) 58:07
133 Lander Seynaeve (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 58:22
134 Eduard Michael Grosu (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 58:26
135 Daniel Mclay (Bretagne-Seche Environnement) 59:11
136 Ahmet Akdilek (Torku Sekerspor) 59:32
137 Antonio Viola (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 1:00:08
138 Ramon Carretero (Southeast) 1:01:37
139 Ken Hanson (Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling Team) 1:02:15
140 Roy Jans (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 1:02:26
141 Jens Mouris (Orica GreenEDGE) 1:04:06
142 Theo Bos (MTN - Qhubeka) 1:04:12
143 Francesco Chicchi (Androni Giocattoli) 1:04:28
144 Graeme Brown (Drapac Professional Cycling) 1:06:31
145 Shiki Kuroeda (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 1:08:28
146 Mattia Pozzo (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 1:08:59
147 Nikolay Trusov (Tinkoff - Saxo) 1:09:18
148 Tom Devriendt (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) 1:09:45
149 Malcom Rudolph (Drapac Professional Cycling) 1:10:53
150 Nicolas Lefrancois (Team Novo Nordisk) 1:19:57
151 Andrea Dal Col (Southeast) 1:23:37
152 Nicolas Marini (Nippo - Vini Fantini) 1:26:56

 

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