Tour of Poland 2017 – Stage 1 [LAST 15 KM]

July 29, 2017

Tour de Pologne 2017 – Stage 1 – Krakow – Krakow : 130 km

The 2017 Tour de Pologne is a road cycling stage race that is taking place between 29 July and 4 August in Poland. It is the 74th edition of the Tour de Pologne and is the twenty-seventh event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) took a powerful win in a fast and furious opening stage of the Tour of Pologne, on his first competitive outing since his exclusion from the 2017 Tour de France.

Sagan’s bunch sprint victory, his eight win of the season, came at the end of a short opening stage, starting off a lumpy initial 100 kilometres but then clearly coming down to a four—kilometre city centre circuit in Krakow that favoured the fastmen.

Second across the line was Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott), also making his return to WorldTour racing following his stage win in the Giro d’Italia, while Danny van Poppel (Team Sky) came home in third.

Sagan has said repeatedly during the build-up to the Tour de Pologne that the events of the Tour de France are forgotten and he is now moving forward. But for those out there with a lingering feeling that the Slovak had a point to prove following his disqualification, the world champion demonstrated that he knows how to bounce back in style.

Sagan seemed more than happy with his win, too, which was greeted with massive cheers and chants of his name from the sizeable Saturday afternoon crowd in Krakow. His wife, Katerina, was present at the line to congratulate him.

“It’s very nice to be here, and get a lot of support and energy from the people here. Slovakia is close by. The Slovakian and Polish fans have been amazing,” Sagan said afterwards. “I felt a lot of positive energy in the race.”

The 130 kilometre stage, run off in warm weather, had a distinctly patriotic feel to it, starting and finishing in Poland’s former capital, Krakow. There were also two local names, Maciej Paterski (CCC-Sprandi) and Pawel Bernas (Poland), among the four-man early break, which also included Martijn Keizer (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Charles Planet (Novo Nordisk).

A former King of the Mountains in the Tour de Pologne, Paterski’s best-known international claim to fame came when he won the opening stage of the Volta a Catalunya in 2015 from a massively long break. This time, on home soil, the 30-year-old could not stay away beyond 14 kilometres from the line, but every time his orange clad figure appeared on television, he still drew some big cheers and chants from the local crowd before the Orica-Scott, Bora-Hansgrohe and Team Sunweb squad pulled in the breakaway.

There were some gutsy late moves despite the extreme flatness of the 4 kilometre finishing circuit, tackled three times and with its only climb over a railway bridge. Daniel Oss (BMC) and Tomasz Marcynski (Lotto Soudal) tried to jump clear on the last lap, and Davide Martinelli (Quick Step Floors) made a cleverly timed move in the final kilometre, on a flat, broad boulevard they had already covered twice before, but the sprinters’ teams were able to bring their acceleration for the sprint to the boil in perfect time.

The only potential hitch for the sprint arose with a nasty crash in the middle of the peloton some 400 metres from the line. Amongst those affected was Kristian Sbaragli (Team Dimension Data) who both lost his chance of going for the sprint and gained a nasty looking gash in his right buttock as he hit the ground at speed.

Sagan, on the other hand, was in the front part of the bunch that missed the crash completely. Indeed, he later looked surprised when informed of the crash. Making his move early and with no room for his rivals to react, Sagan powered away out on the left-hand side of the road and won comfortably ahead of Ewan.

The win puts Sagan into the yellow jersey of race leader. With another bunch sprint in the offing in Katowice on Sunday, there is every chance he will keep it.

Results :
1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:56:16
2 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott
3 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky
4 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
5 Nicollo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
6 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data
7 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE-Emirates
8 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Poland
9 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
10 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
11 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb
12 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
13 Alan Banaszek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
14 Tom Van Asbroeck (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
15 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
16 Sondre Enger (Nor) AG2R La Mondiale
17 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data
18 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team
19 Aleksei Tcatevich (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
20 Jose Goncalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
21 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
22 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky
23 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team
24 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
25 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Astana Pro Team
26 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
27 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
28 Francois Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
29 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
30 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) UAE-Emirates
31 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal
32 Winner Andrew Anacona (Col) Movistar Team
33 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
34 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
35 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott
36 Dayer Uberney Quintana Royas (Col) Movistar Team
37 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team
38 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
39 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky
40 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
41 Gregor Muhlberger (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
42 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal
43 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
44 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
45 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
46 Ben O’connor (USA) Dimension Data
47 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE-Emirates
48 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
49 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team
50 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
51 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
52 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
53 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Poland
54 Michal Schlegel (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
55 Matej Mohoric (Slo) UAE-Emirates
56 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky
57 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
58 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
59 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
60 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
61 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin
62 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
63 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
64 Kamil Gradek (Pol) Poland
65 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
66 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
67 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
68 Alberto Losada (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
69 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale-Drapac
70 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
71 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
72 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
73 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
74 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar Team
75 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
76 Tom Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
77 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
78 Adam Stachowiak (Pol) Poland
79 David Lonzano Riba (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
80 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac
81 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
82 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) UAE-Emirates
83 Robert Power (Aus) Orica-Scott
84 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
85 Adrian Kurek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
86 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ
87 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
88 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data
89 Jeremy Maison (Fra) FDJ
90 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
91 Frantisek Sirs (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
92 Marc Fournier (Fra) FDJ
93 Javier Megias (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
94 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors
95 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk
96 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
97 Sebastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ
98 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
99 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE-Emirates
100 Lennard Kamna (Ger) Team Sunweb
101 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
102 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
103 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
104 Daniil Frominykh (Ukr) Astana Pro Team
105 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Sunweb
106 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb
107 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
108 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
109 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
110 Rory Sutherland (USA) Movistar Team
111 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Orica-Scott
112 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
113 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
114 Emanuel Piaskowy (Pol) Poland
115 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
116 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky
117 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team
118 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
119 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
120 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
121 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
122 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo
123 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
124 Oskar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
125 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
126 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
127 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
128 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ
129 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:01:00
130 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data
131 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-Scott 0:01:09
132 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:01:30
133 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
134 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:31
135 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
136 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data
137 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Poland
138 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:02:24
139 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-Scott
140 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk
141 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) FDJ
142 Anass Ait El Abdia (Mar) UAE-Emirates
143 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky
144 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
145 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:04:39
146 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:57
147 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
148 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:23
149 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
150 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
151 Pawel Bernas (Pol) Poland 0:05:24
152 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team
DNF Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo

General Classification after Stage 1 :
1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:56:06
2 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:00:04
3 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 0:00:06
4 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:09
5 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:10
6 Nicollo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
7 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE-Emirates
8 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Poland
9 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
10 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
11 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb
12 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
13 Alan Banaszek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
14 Tom Van Asbroeck (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
15 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
16 Sondre Enger (Nor) AG2R La Mondiale
17 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data
18 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team
19 Aleksei Tcatevich (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
20 Jose Goncalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
21 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
22 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky
23 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team
24 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
25 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Astana Pro Team
26 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
27 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
28 Francois Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
29 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
30 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) UAE-Emirates
31 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal
32 Winner Andrew Anacona (Col) Movistar Team
33 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
34 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
35 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott
36 Dayer Uberney Quintana Royas (Col) Movistar Team
37 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team
38 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
39 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky
40 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
41 Gregor Muhlberger (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
42 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal
43 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
44 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
45 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
46 Ben O’connor (USA) Dimension Data
47 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE-Emirates
48 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
49 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team
50 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
51 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
52 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
53 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Poland
54 Michal Schlegel (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
55 Matej Mohoric (Slo) UAE-Emirates
56 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky
57 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
58 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
59 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
60 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
61 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin
62 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
63 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
64 Kamil Gradek (Pol) Poland
65 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
66 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
67 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
68 Alberto Losada (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
69 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale-Drapac
70 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
71 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
72 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
73 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
74 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar Team
75 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
76 Tom Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
77 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
78 Adam Stachowiak (Pol) Poland
79 David Lonzano Riba (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
80 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac
81 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
82 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) UAE-Emirates
83 Robert Power (Aus) Orica-Scott
84 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
85 Adrian Kurek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
86 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ
87 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
88 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data
89 Jeremy Maison (Fra) FDJ
90 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
91 Frantisek Sirs (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
92 Marc Fournier (Fra) FDJ
93 Javier Megias (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
94 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors
95 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk
96 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
97 Sebastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ
98 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
99 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE-Emirates
100 Lennard Kamna (Ger) Team Sunweb
101 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
102 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
103 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
104 Daniil Frominykh (Ukr) Astana Pro Team
105 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Sunweb
106 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb
107 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
108 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
109 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
110 Rory Sutherland (USA) Movistar Team
111 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Orica-Scott
112 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
113 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
114 Emanuel Piaskowy (Pol) Poland
115 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
116 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky
117 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team
118 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
119 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
120 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
121 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
122 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo
123 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
124 Oskar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
125 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
126 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
127 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
128 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ
129 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data
130 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
131 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
132 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data
133 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Poland
134 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) FDJ
135 Anass Ait El Abdia (Mar) UAE-Emirates
136 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky
137 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
138 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team
139 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:01:10
140 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-Scott 0:01:19
141 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:01:40
142 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:41
143 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:02:34
144 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-Scott
145 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk
146 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:04:49
147 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:05:07
148 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
149 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:05:30
150 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:05:31
151 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:33
152 Pawel Bernas (Pol) Poland 0:05:34