Tour of Poland 2017 – Stage 4 [FULL STAGE]

August 01, 2017

Tour de Pologne 2017 – Stage 4 – Zawiercie – Zabrze : 238 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.

After a frustrating loss to Peter Sagan in the opening stage, Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) got his revenge on stage 4 of the Tour de Pologne, muscling his way past the world champion to take out the victory in Zabrze. The Australian came off the lead-out from teammate Luka Mezgec and despite a nudge from Sagan’s right elbow, Ewan was able to blast past and take the win. Sagan finished third on the bike throw by runner-up Danny Van Poppel (Team Sky).

The result was enough for Sagan to get into the time bonuses, and add another four seconds to his lead over stage 3 winner Dylan Teuns (BMC), extending it to 10 seconds. Sagan’s Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Rafal Majka remains in third at 16 seconds.

The longest stage of the race, 238 kilometres from Zawiercie to Zabrze on a scorching hot day, was marked by a day-long escape from Remi Cavagna (Quick-Step Floors), Bert-Jan Lindeman (LottoNL-Jumbo), Tom Skujins (Cannondale-Drapac), Nick Dougall (Dimension Data), Jan Tratnik (CCC Sprandi) and Pawel Bernas (Poland).

Lindeman was the first to let go of the breakaway, with more than 50km still left to race, but it wasn’t until the leaders hit the three closing circuits that the cooperation began to dissolve.

Tratnik was the first rider to attack but the move didn’t last long. Cavagna countered, jettisoning Bernas out the back.

Cavagna, twice the U23 French time trial champion, gamely soloed out front for 10 full kilometers as the sprinters’ trains fought for position, but it was always an ill-fated attack. He was finally reeled in with five kilometres to go.

There was no one team who could exert full control over the peloton, although Bora-Hansgrohe led into the final kilometer, it was Trek-Segafredo who led out of the final turn for Boy Van Poppel. Team Sky took over with the younger Van Poppel in second wheel, but they were no match for the Mezgec-led Orica-Scott train. At the front too early, Danny Van Poppel wisely waited on the wheel of Ewan, but waited too late to make his push for the line, and although he pipped Sagan he could not get past Ewan.

Results :
1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott 5:38:49
2 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky
3 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
4 Boy van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
6 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
7 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac
8 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
9 Alan Banaszek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
10 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
11 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo
12 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team
13 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
14 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb
15 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
16 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
17 Jose Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
18 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Poland
19 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data
20 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
21 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data
22 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
23 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
24 Sondre Holst Enger (Nor) AG2R La Mondiale
25 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
26 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
27 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-Scott
28 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky
29 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo
30 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
31 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
32 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
33 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Poland
34 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky
35 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Bora-Hansgrohe
36 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
37 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott
38 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
39 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
40 Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
41 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
42 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
43 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky
44 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team
45 Dayer Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
46 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal
47 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
48 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
49 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
50 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
51 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
52 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
53 Adrian Kurek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
54 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
55 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky
56 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
57 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
58 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
59 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
60 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
61 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
62 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ
63 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
64 Jérémy Maison (Fra) FDJ
65 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
66 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
67 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
68 Aleksei Tcatevich (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo
69 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
70 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
71 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
72 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
73 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team
74 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo
75 Michal Schlegel (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
76 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team
77 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
78 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data
79 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
80 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
81 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk
82 Javier Megias (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
83 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
84 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Orica-Scott
85 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
86 Matej Mohoric (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
87 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
88 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
89 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
90 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
91 David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
92 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
93 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
94 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
95 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
96 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
97 Emanuel Piaskowy (Pol) Poland
98 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb
99 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
100 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team
101 Alberto Losada (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
102 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Sunweb
103 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
104 Anass Ait El Abdia (Mor) UAE Team Emirates
105 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
106 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo
107 Frantisek Sisr (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
108 Adam Stachowiak (Pol) Poland
109 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team
110 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:00:21
111 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team
112 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:25
113 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:00:27
114 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
115 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:30
116 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Poland
117 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal
118 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
119 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:33
120 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:36
121 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal 0:00:38
122 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:00:45
123 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky 0:00:48
124 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:57
125 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:00:58
126 Rob Power (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:01:19
127 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:32
128 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
129 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data
130 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:40
131 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
132 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk 0:01:41
133 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 0:01:43
134 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
135 Marc Fournier (Fra) FDJ 0:01:54
136 Kamil Gradek (Pol) Poland 0:02:42
137 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ
138 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ
139 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data
140 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
141 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
142 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:49
143 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 0:05:05
144 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky
145 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:05:51
146 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
147 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:08:06
148 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin
149 Pawel Bernas (Pol) Poland 0:08:08
DNF Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) FDJ

General Classification after Stage 4 :
1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 15:41:47
2 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:10
3 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:16
4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:20
5 Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:25
6 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 0:00:27
7 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:28
8 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0:00:29
9 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
10 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:34
11 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
12 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:35
13 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team
14 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:38
15 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:40
16 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:43
17 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
18 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
19 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
20 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 0:00:58
21 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 0:01:01
22 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:06
23 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:10
24 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky
25 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:01:31
26 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Poland 0:01:37
27 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:01:41
28 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:01:54
29 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:18
30 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:02:39
31 Dayer Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:02:48
32 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
33 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
34 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
35 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team
36 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
37 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:02:58
38 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:03:14
39 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:17
40 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team 0:03:19
41 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:03:46
42 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team 0:04:05
43 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
44 Jérémy Maison (Fra) FDJ
45 Emanuel Piaskowy (Pol) Poland
46 Javier Megias (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk 0:04:08
47 Jose Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:18
48 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:04:32
49 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Orica-Scott
50 David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk 0:04:38
51 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) UAE Team Emirates 0:04:43
52 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:05:46
53 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:59
54 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data
55 Michal Schlegel (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:06:04
56 Matej Mohoric (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:06:09
57 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Poland 0:06:20
58 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:06:26
59 Rob Power (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:06:29
60 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal 0:06:55
61 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08:33
62 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:08:57
63 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:09:10
64 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 0:09:49
65 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:10:29
66 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 0:10:30
67 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
68 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
69 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin 0:10:48
70 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:10:49
71 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:10:51
72 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:10:58
73 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky 0:11:18
74 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:11:20
75 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:11:36
76 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:12:41
77 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 0:13:03
78 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-Scott 0:13:16
79 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:13:30
80 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:13:33
81 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:13:36
82 Boy van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:13:45
83 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:14:00
84 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
85 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb
86 Adam Stachowiak (Pol) Poland 0:14:16
87 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac 0:14:17
88 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
89 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
90 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:14:24
91 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky
92 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Sunweb
93 Alberto Losada (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
94 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
95 Frantisek Sisr (Cze) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:14:33
96 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
97 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:14:42
98 Adrian Kurek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:14:54
99 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:15:03
100 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:15:21
101 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:15:26
102 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
103 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:15:29
104 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 0:15:32
105 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:15:58
106 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale-Drapac 0:16:04
107 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 0:16:20
108 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott
109 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:16:22
110 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:16:37
111 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:16:48
112 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors 0:16:50
113 Kamil Gradek (Pol) Poland 0:17:03
114 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ 0:17:45
115 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 0:17:53
116 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:18:05
117 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:18:43
118 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:18:48
119 Anass Ait El Abdia (Mor) UAE Team Emirates 0:19:19
120 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:19:42
121 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:19:47
122 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:19:51
123 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ 0:20:26
124 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data 0:20:35
125 Sondre Holst Enger (Nor) AG2R La Mondiale 0:21:12
126 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:21:14
127 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:22:02
128 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:22:19
129 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:24:11
130 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
131 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:24:15
132 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Poland
133 Aleksei Tcatevich (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo
134 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
135 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom – Rusvelo 0:25:09
136 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk 0:25:15
137 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:25:47
138 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:25:56
139 Alan Banaszek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:26:12
140 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:27:18
141 Marc Fournier (Fra) FDJ 0:29:06
142 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:29:39
143 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ 0:30:08
144 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk 0:31:13
145 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:33:03
146 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 0:34:39
147 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:34:41
148 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky
149 Pawel Bernas (Pol) Poland 0:45:49