Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) won Stage 6: Finike-Antalya

9 men took off after 12 kilometers: Rubens Bertogliati (Saunier Duval), Aitor Perez (Extremadura), Dominique Cornu (Silence-Lotto), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Danilo Hondo (Serramenti PVC-Diquigiovanni), Martin Mares (PSK Whirlpool), Sander Oostlander (Dutch national team), Mindaugas Striska (Mitsubishi-Jartazi), Der Zolt (Centri della Calzatura-Partizan). They got a maximum lead of three minutes but the teams he same mistake as the day before. They rode hard early enough for bringing them back, which they did with 28 kilometers to go. Benoît Joachim (Astana), Manuel Belletti (Serramenti PVC-Diquigiovanni), Mirco Lorenzetto (Lampre) and Paul Van Schalen (Dutch national team) try to escape from the bunch with no success. Ruslan Ivanov (Serramenti PVC-Diquigiovanni), Enrique Salgueiro (Extremadura) and Nebojsa Jovanovic (Cosmote) had more luck. They created a gap of 8 seconds with 20km to go. They reached an advantage of 13 seconds but they got brought back with 10km to go. A bunch sprint was inevitable. Milram looked to control the situation until Astana and later CSF-Navigare took the first positions of the bunch. Matteo Priamo (CSF) tried to surprise the sprinters but Alberto Ongarato was prompt to take Alessandro Petacchi back onto him. Petacchi easily won the sprint with two length of a bike. David Garcia Dapena (Karpin-Galicia) maintained the yellow jersey. 1. (ITA) Alessandro Petacchi Team Milram 2. (ARG) Maximiliano Richeze Ariel CSF Group Navigare 3. (SPA) Javier Benitez Pomares Benfica Click here to visit results page to see the full lists