The flat opening stage of the 2025 Tour of Turkey duly delivered a dash end with Simon Dehairs (Alpecin-Deceuninck) taking the victory on the finish of 132km of racing in Antalya.
The Belgian rider’s first skilled victory got here on the expense of Matteo Malucelli (XDS-Astana) after the pair confronted off within the closing drag to the end line.
Following a closing nook crash in Picnic-PostNL’s lead-out, Alpecin-Deceuninck hit the entrance with a mini lead-out of their very own inside the ultimate kilometre, timing the ultimate launch to perfection as Dehairs sprinted house.
Malucelli ran the 23-year-old neo-pro shut on the line, simply lacking out on victory by lower than half a wheel, whereas Jules Hesters (Flanders-Baloise) rounded out the rostrum after a quick end.
The stage, which started and ended within the coastal metropolis of Antalya, was at all times set to characteristic a closing dash with no climbs alongside the best way. That did not postpone a seven-man breakaway from racing up the street, nevertheless.
Willie Smit (China Glory-Mentech) was joined within the transfer by Filippo Ridolfo (Novo Nordisk), Vinzent Dorn (Bike Help), Muhammad Nur Ariman Mohd Zariff (Terengganu), and Turkish trio Ahmet Orken (Spor Toto), Arda Tekirdag (Istanbul Büyüksehir Belediye Spor), and Yunus Yilmaz (Konya Büyüksehir Belediye Spor).
The group by no means obtained greater than a two-minute benefit, nevertheless, and because the stage entered its closing 40km, the peloton was closing in. Tekirdag and Yilmaz had been first to drop again, whereas the rest of the break continued into the ultimate 30km with a 40-second lead.
At 20km to go, solely Ridolfo and Dorn had been ignored entrance, with the pair battling on till the 15km mark earlier than they, too, had been introduced again.
All that remained then, on the run again to Antalya, was for the dash groups to take cost and arrange the end. Picnic-PostNL, Lotto, Resolution Tech-Vini Fantini, Uno-X Mobility, XDS-Astana, and Alpecin-Deceuninck all did their share on the entrance, with the Belgian WorldTour squad profiting on the line for his or her sixth win of the season.
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