The 2022 Presidential Tour of Turkey was a

road cycling Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling in which cyclists ride on paved roadways. It includes Recreational cycling, recreational, Road bicycle racing, racing, Bicycle commuting, commuting, and utility cycling. As users of the road, ...

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held between 10 and 17 April 2022 in Turkey. It was the 57th edition of the

Presidential Tour of Turkey The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ( tr, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, rated as a 2.2 even ...

Teams

Six UCI WorldTeams, twelve UCI ProTeams and seven

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teams participated in the race. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * * * * * *

Route

The 2022 edition included eight stages covering over eight days. Although only seven stages were raced due to the final stage being cancelled.

Stages

Stage 1

;10 April 2022 —

Bodrum Bodrum () is a port city in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Its population was 35,795 at the 2012 census, with a total of 136,317 inhabitants residing within the district's borders. Known in ancient t ...

Kuşadası Kuşadası () is a large resort town on Turkey's Aegean Sea, Aegean coast, and the center of the seaside district of the same name within Aydın Province. Kuşadası is south of İzmir, and about from Aydın. The municipality's primary industry ...

Stage 2

;11 April 2022 —

Selçuk Selçuk is a town in İzmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located northeast of the ancient city of Ephesus, that was once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its previous Greek name, Ag ...

Alaçatı Alaçatı is a part of İzmir on the Western coast of Turkey, often noted for its architecture, vineyards, windmills, and sea. Alaçatı is one of the most traditional towns in Turkey, with stone houses, narrow streets, boutique hotels and resta ...

Stage 3

;12 April 2022 —

Çeşme Çeşme () is a coastal town and the administrative centre of the district of the same name in Turkey's westernmost end, on a promontory on the tip of the peninsula that also carries the same name and that extends inland to form a whole with the ...

to Izmir,

Stage 4

;13 April 2022 — Izmir to Mount Sipylus,

Stage 5

;14 April 2022 — Manisa to

Ayvalık Ayvalık () is a seaside town on the northwestern Aegean coast of Turkey. It is a district of Balıkesir province. The town centre is connected to Cunda Island by a causeway and is surrounded by the archipelago of Ayvalık Islands, which face ...

Stage 6

;15 April 2022 — Edremit, Balıkesir to

Eceabat Eceabat, formerly Maydos (Madytos, el, Μάδυτος), is a small town and district of Çanakkale province in the Marmara region of Turkey, located on the eastern shore of the Gelibolu Peninsula, on the Dardanelles Strait. According to the 2010 ...

Stage 7

;16 April 2022 —

Gelibolu Gelibolu, also known as Gallipoli (from el, Καλλίπολις, ''Kallipolis'', "Beautiful City"), is the name of a town and a district in Çanakkale Province of the Marmara Region, located in Eastern Thrace in the European part of Turkey on th ...

to Tekirdağ,

Stage 8

;17 April 2022 —

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

to Istanbul, Cancelled after 25km

Classification leadership table

Notes

* In Stage 2

Jasper Philipsen Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2 ...

who was second in the points classification wore the green points jersey as first placed

Caleb Ewan Caleb Ewan (born 11 July 1994) is an Australian road and track bicycle racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam . A sprinter, Ewan has a style similar to that of Mark Cavendish, taking an extremely low position that offers him an aerodynamic advantage ...

wore the Cyan Leaders jersey. * In Stage 3

who was second in the points classification wore the green points jersey as first placed Kaden Groves wore the Cyan Leaders jersey. Vitaliy Buts who was wore the Turkish beauties white jersey as first placed

Noah Granigan Noah ''Nukh''; am, ኖህ, ''Noḥ''; ar, نُوح '; grc, Νῶε ''Nôe'' () is the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis, chapters 5– ...

wore the red mountain jersey. * In Stage 4 Kaden Groves who was second in the points classification wore the green points jersey as first placed

wore the Cyan Leaders jersey. * In Stage 5

who was second in the mountain classification wore the red jersey as first placed

Eduardo Sepúlveda Eduardo Sepúlveda (born 13 June 1991) is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Early life Sepúlveda was born in Rawson, the capital of Chubut, in the Patagonia ...

wore the Cyan Leaders jersey.

Final standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Turkish Beauties Sprints classification

Team classification

References

Sources

External links

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