“A 24-Second Feslikan Lead Defended Across The Closing Antalya Circuits, A Spanish-Registered ProTeam Lifting Their First 2.Pro Overall Title Since 2019, And A Flanders-Baloise Closing-Day Uphill Sprint That Made It Three In A Week” — Sebastian Berwick Seals The 2026 Tour Of Türkiye Overall As Tom Crabbe Triples Up On The Antalya Finale
Thursday afternoon Antalya. Sebastian Berwick has sealed the 2026 Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye overall on the closing Antalya circuits, the 26-year-old Australian defending the 24-second margin he opened over Ivan Ramiro Sosa on the Feslikan summit finish on Wednesday. It is the first 2.Pro stage-race general-classification victory of Berwick's career, the first overall title Caja Rural-Seguros RGA have lifted at the Tour of Türkiye in the Spanish-registered ProTeam's history, and the cleanest closing-week GC defence the race has produced since the 2019 reset.
Berwick's path to the leader's turquoise jersey was built on a single decisive afternoon. The 21.4km Feslikan queen stage on Wednesday delivered the most dramatic GC reset of the spring stage-race calendar, the Australian dropping Sosa on the upper slopes to seize the leader's jersey at a stroke. Thursday's closing-day Antalya circuits never looked like reopening that book. Caja Rural-Seguros RGA delivered Berwick safely to the line through the four laps of the seafront finishing circuit, the closing-week chase-down brief executed without a single moment of GC pressure on the leader's jersey.
The closing stage itself went to Tom Crabbe, the 22-year-old Belgian sprinter from Flanders-Baloise taking a perfectly judged uphill sprint on the closing Antalya drag for a third stage win at the race. Crabbe had already taken Stage 1 in Konya and Stage 4 in Marmaris, the closing-day victory making it the most explicit single-race haul of the 22-year-old's career and the cleanest individual stage-treble a Pro Continental sprinter has produced at a 2.Pro race in the post-2022 era. Marceli Bogusławski (HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski) closed second on the line, Davide Ballerini (XDS Astana) third.
Behind Berwick on the final GC ledger, Sosa held second at 24 seconds, the Colombian's TotalEnergies rotation now closing a Tour of Türkiye that had opened with the 33-year-old as overall favourite at 9/4 across the public market. Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) closed the third step at 1:08 on the strength of his Feslikan ride, the first Tour of Türkiye podium of the 24-year-old Frenchman's career. The closing-day GC ledger held at the same nine-rider top-ten that the Wednesday-evening Feslikan reset had locked in, no closing-circuit time-bonus reshuffle, no late move from the GC tier.
Stage 6 winner Christian Bagatin (MBH Bank CSB Telecom Fort) finished the closing day inside the bunch, the 23-year-old Italian closing his maiden professional victory week with a top-fifteen overall and the mountains classification carried home from the Wednesday breakaway raid. Bagatin's Feslikan win was the first 2.Pro mountain-stage victory of his career and the second consecutive year a rider from a UCI ProTeam below the WorldTour level has taken the Feslikan summit finish from the early break.
For Berwick, the closing-day defence pivots his calendar onto a fortnight of the Tour de Hongrie and the Mercan2Tour rotation before the closing-summer Vuelta a España build window opens, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA still awaiting confirmation of their wildcard for the closing-Friday 22 August Jerez de la Frontera Grande Partenza. The 2026 Tour of Türkiye overall has tightened the squad's WorldTour-relegation-promotion ledger across the closing summer block, the Spanish-registered ProTeam now holding their highest UCI-points position at the calendar mid-point since the 2018 reference.
For Crabbe, the closing-day uphill sprint pulls the 22-year-old onto a closing-summer schedule that will now include the Baloise Belgium Tour and the closing-July Tour de Wallonie, the Belgian's stage-hunting profile sharpened by the cleanest individual stage-treble of his career. Flanders-Baloise close the closing-week Tour of Türkiye on three stage wins, two podium finishes from the closing-three sprint days, and a points-classification jersey carried back to Antalya airport on Crabbe's shoulders.
The closing GC ledger reads Berwick at 28h 14m 22s, Sosa at 0:24, Jegat at 1:08, the closing-week top-five then completed by Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS Astana) at 1:36 and Christopher Juul-Jensen (Q36.5 Pro Cycling) at 1:51. The 61st edition of the Tour of Türkiye closes on the cleanest single-rider closing-stage GC defence the race has produced since the 2019 Mareczko reset, Berwick's name now on a winners' list that runs from Sergei Honchar through Mark Cavendish to the Australian's signature on the leader's turquoise jersey.