"I said to my boyfriend this morning that I had nothing to lose. I've been waiting all year to kind of come fifth in the sprint. I wasn't going to wait around and just took the opportunity when I saw it."
Reusser had accelerated from the group of favourites on the steepest part of the climb with 4.4km to go, and only Kastelijn and Chabbey could stay with her. Chabbey had to let go a few hundred metres later, and Reusser kept pushing hard, finally cracking Kastelijn at the two-kilometre mark.
Harold MartÃn López of XDS-Astana clinched his team's second mountain stage victory at the Tour of Turkey, showcasing his tactical prowess by attacking from an elite group and catching solo attacker Giovanni Carboni.