Astana Cycling Team

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Today, the second stage of the Tour of Turkey with a road of 178km between Kusadasi and Tugurgreis.

This stage was concluded with the victory in the sprint of Kazakh Valentin Iglinskiy, who also took the leader's jersey.

"I am very happy! Said the young Kazakh. I had the feeling I could do well, because I am in good condition actually. This victory is very gratifying, because here there are great sprinters and I managed to make a difference today. It's a great reward for the team because my team mates worked very well in the last kilometers to place me before the sprint. "

The sports director Alexandr Shefer explains, "Yesterday we saw that Valentin was in good shape and we could count on him to win a sprint. So today, the team has worked to position and he managed to beat big names like Pettachi, Farrar, Greipel ... We're all very happy!”

Valentin Iglinskiy won last year's Tour of Hainan, after a sprint victory in stage two, he had retained the leader's jersey until the end, "Here, our goal was to win a stage,"says Alexandr Shefer, now we’ll see day after day if we can keep the jersey or not, but already we are satisfied with this stage victory! "

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