 Soon after the start in Antalya, many attacks created a lot of action in the race. Mitsubishi-Jartazi was very active with Grégory Habeaux and Mathieu Criquiélion breaking clear but none of the sprinters’ teams agreed for the skirmishes to turn into a threatening breakaway.
A crash occurred after 60 kilometers. It forced Alessandro Petacchi to stop for a while. The sprinter from Milram was already riding at the back because he felt sick. He made it back to the bunch a few kilometers further.
An escapee was finally
formed after the only hot spot sprint of the day (km 81): Dimitri Nikandrov (Centri della Calzatura-Partizan), Fabian Schaar
(Team Ista), Herrero (Extremadura) quickly got 30 seconds advantage on a
bunch led by the Benfica team. As the Portuguese didn’t receive any help,
they stopped chasing and the gap moved up to 5 minutes. It went down to 2.48
with 46 km to go under the action of Silence-Lotto and Serramenti PVC-Diquigiovanni.
The three breakaway riders got
caught in the streets of Alanya with
10km to go. Petacchi chose to not
contest the bunch sprint.
There was a big crash 200 meters
before the line. Danilo Hondo (Serramenti
PVC-Diquigiovanni) and Sean Lacey (Ireland) were
the most injured but no fracture was reported.
Maximiliano Richeze (CSF-Navigare) won stage 7 ahead of Andre Schulze
(PSK-Whirlpool) and Assan Bazayev (Astana). David Garcia Dapena (Karpin Galicia) is the final winner of the
44th Presidential Tour of Turkey.
1. (ARG) RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano CSF 3:56:44
2. (GER) SCHULZE André PSK
3. (KAZ) BAZAYEV Assan AST
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