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    PETACCHI (Milram) won Stage 1: İzmir-Kuşadası
    From the 148 starters, the Irish riders proved to be some of the most motivated for stage 1 in the Presidential Tour of Turkey. Peter Hawkins was the first man in action. The significant breakaway took shape with another member of the Irish national team Sean Lacey together with Josef Soukup (Sparta Praha) and Christoph Meschenmoser (Team Ista).

    At the sprint prime of km 83.4, Lacey was first ahead of Soukup and Meschenmoser. They had 5.25 lead at that point. Soukup became the king of the mountains when he passed in first position at km 98.2, preceding Meschenmoser, Lacey and Dimitri Nikandrov (Centri della Calzatura-Partizan) who was the first rider of the main bunch. Meschenmoser took the Turkish Beauty sprint in Ephesus with 18.5km to go. Soukup was second and Lacey third, but the peloton was coming closer and closer. Their adventure ended up just after that that sprint.

    In the final ten kilometers, Pierigiorgio Camussa (NGC Medical), Rubens Bertogliati (Saunier Duval) and Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Karpin-Galicia) tried their luck but the straight roads towards the end didn’t favor their initiative. They got caught with 6km to go as the Milram blue train led the charge. Vytautas Kaupas (Mitsubishi-Jartazi) also went away on his own. Many riders were active with 5km to go alongside the Aegean Sea. But it went down to a bunch sprint. Alessandro Petacchi was left alone by his team-mates from Milram with 250 meters to go. He led the sprint from far by himself. Ruben Bongiorno (CSF) almost overtook him on the line but the Italian was declared a winner while Javier Benitez (Benfica) from Spain took third place.

    1. (ITA)  PETACCHI Alessandro MRM 3:24:21 -
    2. (ARG) BONGIORNO Guillermo Ruben CSF '' ''
    3. (ESP)  BENITEZ Javier SLB '' ''

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    Stage 1: İzmir - Kuşadası

    All teams have arrived and getting ready for the race. The race will begin at 14:30.

    Stage distance is 132,7 km. Total climb 451m. There are three stage bonuses. First one is Sprint and it is at the 85.4th km. The second one is King of the Mountain and it is at the 98.2th km. And the last one is Turkish Beauty Sprint Bonus which is at the 113,8th km.
    It is foreseen that the stage will finish between 18:10 - 18:30 (estimated approximate race speed 40-44km/h).

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