The Aspendos-Termessos stage of the Tour Of Antalya 2022 started at 12:45 from the Aspendos Antique Theatre. In this stage, where everyone controlled each other, the first 20 kilometers were passed in a single group. In the beginning, the tempo of the athletes was between 35-42 kilometers per hour. At the 26th kilometer, Giotti Victoria Savini Due's Gergely Szarka and Spor Toto's Edgar Nieto Nohales attacked and formed the front group and increased the lead with the peloton to 1 minute 10 seconds, then 1 minute 50 seconds, and then 2 minutes 25 seconds.
NOHALES GAVE CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS
Edgar Nieto Nohales from Spor Toto team passed the Climate Change Awareness Bonus Gate on the 53rd kilometer of the stage. Gergely Szarka from Giotti Victoria Savini Due took 2nd place, while Jakub Scott of Win Sungod took 3rd place.
NOHALES TAKES CLIMBING BONUS
At km 72.7, the Climb Premium Gate was passed with the 1st place of Edgar Nieto Nohales from Spor-Toto, one of the leading duos, while Gergely Szarka took the 2nd place. Meanwhile, Szarka from the front escape group was dropped and Saris Rouvy was chasing after Sauerland's Jan Knolle Nohales. The new time difference is given as 40 seconds.
SPRINT TAKES BONUS WITH KNOL
At kilometer 88.3 of the stage, the Sprint Premium Gate was passed. Jan Knolle from Saris Rouvy Sauerland, who later joined the escape group, crossed the line 1st. Edgar Nieto Nohales took 2nd place. The new time difference with the peloton increased to 1 minute and 10 seconds.
3 ATHLETES ESCAPE FROM PELOTON ARE INCLUDED IN THE FRONT DOUBLE
With 14 kilometers from the finish, Ludovic Robeet of Bingoal Pauwels Sauces, Matthew Gibson and Jakub Scott of Win Sungod, escaping from the peloton, caught the escape group and the 5 riders started to pace together. With 9 kilometers to the finish, the Peloton's speed reached 27 kilometers per hour just as the climb started.
20 CYCLISTS ENTERED THE FINISH
The group was very crowded until the last meters of the climbing stage. With 2 kilometers left, the groups gradually disintegrated. The attacks followed one after the other in the last 500 meters. Jacob Hindsgaul Madsen from Uno-X won the stage with his attack and also got the last climbing bonus.
The Tour of Antalya, which has been going on for 3 days, will end with the 162.1-kilometer Antalya-Antalya stage that will be run tomorrow and the champion of 2022 will be determined.
Antalya, one of the attraction centers of world tourism, continues to break records in the number of foreign tourists in the first 3 months of the year, with an increase of 25 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. Developing under the leadership of tourism, Antalya continues to be a favorite of global investors by increasing its brand value. According to TUIK data, Antalya, which ranks second after Istanbul in housing sales to foreigners, experienced a 47 percent increase in January-February-March when compared to the same period of the previous year.
The rising star of the Mediterranean, Antalya, while breaking new records in tourism, continues to attract investors in housing sales to foreigners. According to TUIK data, when compared to January - February - March 2018, there was a 47 percent increase in sales to foreigners in January - February - March 2019. According to the data of Antalya Airport Civil Administration, the number of tourists coming to the city in the last 3 months is 571 thousand 207, with an increase of 25 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, and it is expected to break a record on a yearly basis. Breaking the record of all time with 13 million 642 thousand foreign tourists and over 3 million domestic tourists in 2018, Antalya's foreign tourist target for 2019 increased from 15 million to 16 million.
GERMANY, RUSSIA AND ENGLAND ARE LEADING
Antalya, which is the third most visited city in the world after London and Paris, attracts tourists from approximately 140 countries. Considering the ranking of tourists coming to Antalya by countries as of the first 3 months of 2019; With an increase of 8 percent, with 151,391 tourists, Germany was the country sending the most tourists to Antalya, while Russia ranked second with 136 thousand 689 tourists with an increase of 74 percent, and England with 36 thousand 791 tourists with an increase of 58 percent.
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