Wout Poels made a solo breakaway in the main stage of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye, the 115-kilometer Marmaris-Akyaka (Kıran) with a mountain finish. The experienced Dutch rider from XDS Astana Team wins the fourth stage and takes the leader's jersey. At the Akyaka finish line, Poels arrives 19" ahead of his teammate, Ecuadorian Harold Lopez, and 22" ahead of Colombian Guillermo Martinez from Team Picnic PostNL. Giovanni Carboni (Unibet Tietema Rockets) performs well, finishing in tenth place.

An initial breakaway of 15 riders was caught on the first climb of the day. On the subsequent rolling terrain under heavy rain, Jonas Rickaert (Alpecin Deceuninck), Victor Vaneeckhoutte (Lotto), Gorka Sorarrain (Caja Rural Seguros RGA), Xabier Isasa (Euskaltel Euskadi), and Mustafa Tekin (Spor Toto) gained an advantage. On the final climb to Akyaka, Sorarrain and Vaneeckhoutte pushed ahead, while the XDS Astana Team-led group chase was not far behind. All breakaway riders were caught 7 km from the finish. The decisive move was initiated by Van Den Broek, Martinez, Lopez, Poels, and Agirre, later joined by Balderstone. But Poels' winning attack came 2.2 km from the end: the Dutch XDS Astana Team rider flew solo to his first season victory.

STAGE RESULTS

1 POELS Wout XDS Astana Team 03:14:12

2 LÓPEZ Martin XDS Astana Team + 19

3 MARTINEZ Juan Guillermo Team Picnic PostNL + 22

4 VAN DEN BROEK Frank Team Picnic PostNL + 29

5 BALDERSTONE Abel Caja Rural-Seguros RGA + 43

6 KULSET Johannes Uno-X Mobility + 51

7 AGIRRE Jon Euskaltel-Euskadi + 54

8 GÓMEZ Germán Dario Team Polti VisitMalta + 01:03

9 MAIRE Adrien Unibet Tietema Rockets + 01:11

10 CARBONI Giovanni Unibet Tietema Rockets

11 RUIZ Ibon Equipo Kern Pharma + 01:34

12 BIZKARRA Mikel Euskaltel-Euskadi + 01:38

13 OTRUBA Jakub Caja Rural-Seguros RGA + 01:39

14 BREGENHØJ Mathias Terengganu Cycling Team + 01:41

15 DINA Marton Euskaltel-Euskadi + 02:16

16 ARRIOLA-BENGOA Julen Caja Rural-Seguros RGA + 02:30