The Tour of Istanbul opens under the sign of Baptiste Vadic, first leader of the Turkish race thanks to his victory in the inaugural stage, the 165 km from Silivri to Çatalca. The class of 2002 rider from Total Energies, originally from Guéret, outsprinted Swiss Alexandre Balmer from Solution Tech NIPPO Rali and his French teammate Artem Fofonov from XDS Astana, thus securing his first professional victory.
With a gap of 4" Thierry took fourth place ahead of a group of around thirty athletes at 10" led by Lonardi (Polti VisitMalta) over Dauphin and the Italian under-23 champion Negrente (XDS Astana Development).

FINAL CLASSIFICATION
1 46 Baptiste VADIC TOTALENERGIES 10069096720 FRA 2002 3:58:35--10s 2 31 Alexandre BALMER SOLUTION TECH NIPPO RALI 10016568287 SUI 2000 3:58:35--6s 3 62 *Artem FOFONOV ASTANA DEVELOPMENT TEAM 10071221929 FRA 2005 3:58:35--4s 4 47 Pierre THIERRY TOTALENERGIES 10071620437 FRA 2003 3:58:39 +0:04 5 11 Giovanni LONARDI TEAM POLTI VISITMALTA 10014704978 ITA 1996 3:58:45 +0:10 6 41 Florian DAUPHIN TOTALENERGIES 10025438636 FRA 1999 3:58:45 +0:10 7 61 *Mattia NEGRENTE ASTANA DEVELOPMENT TEAM 10030767370 ITA 2005 3:58:45 +0:10 8 56 Marcin BUDZINSKI MBH BANK CSB TELECOM FORT 10011026860 POL 1998 3:58:45 +0:10 9 44 Mathis LE BERRE TOTALENERGIES 10069510079 FRA 2001 3:58:45 +0:10 10 17 Javier SERRANO TEAM POLTI VISITMALTA 10041726653 ESP 2001 3:58:45 +0:10 11 1 *Mauro CUYLITS LOTTO INTERMARCHÈ 10065102744 BEL 2005 3:58:45 +0:10 12 51 Christian BAGATIN MBH BANK CSB TELECOM FORT 10030206487 ITA 2002 3:58:45 +0:10 13 42 Emilien JEANNIERE TOTALENERGIES 10015289810 FRA 1998 3:58:45 +0:10 14 53 *Cesare CHESINI MBH BANK CSB TELECOM FORT 10028838686 ITA 2004 3:58:45 +0:10 15 32 Matteo REGNANTI SOLUTION TECH NIPPO RALI 10030164354 ITA 2001 3:58:45 +0:10 16 14 Mirco MAESTRI TEAM POLTI VISITMALTA 10006684896 ITA 1991 3:58:45 +0:10 17 75 Serdar Anıl DEPE SPOR TOTO CYCLING TEAM 10010129915 TUR 1998 3:58:45 +0:10 18 15 *Adrian BENITO GONZALEZ TEAM POLTI VISITMALTA 10053109605 ESP 2004 3:58:45 +0:10 19 63 *Pietro GALBUSERA ASTANA DEVELOPMENT TEAM 10111998002 ITA 2006 3:58:45 +0:10 20 54 *Lorenzo NESPOLI MBH BANK CSB TELECOM FORT 10031753841 ITA 2004 3:58:45 +0:10 21 4 *Matys GRISEL LOTTO INTERMARCHÈ 10066177525 FRA 2005 3:58:45 +0:10 22 36 Valerio CONTI SOLUTION TECH NIPPO RALI 10007518692 ITA 1993 3:58:45 +0:10 23 64 Gustav WANG ASTANA DEVELOPMENT TEAM 10048319522 DEN 2003 3:58:45 +0:10