Tour of Poland 2020 – Stage 1 [FULL STAGE]

August 5, 2020

Tour of Poland 2020 – Stage 1 – Chorzów – Katowice : 195,8 km

The 2020 Tour de Pologne will pit the likes of on-song Deceuninck-QuickStep star Remco Evenepoel, Wout Poels (Bahrain McLaren), Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott), Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) and 2019 Giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz (Team Ineos) against each other, with two mountain stages expected to decide the overall winner of the Polish five-day race, which starts in Chorzów on Wednesday. While the WorldTour race has retained its usual early August calendar slot, it has nevertheless been reduced from seven stages to five, running from August 5-9. This year’s race will remember Lotto Soudal rider Bjorg Lambrecht, who died after crashing on stage 3 of last year’s race between Chorzów and Zabrze, despite desperate attempts to save him in the hospital in nearby Rybnik.

The first stage of Tour de Pologne concluded with a high-speed crash as Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) and Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) battled in the final meters of a downhill finish in Katowice.

The two were contesting a close sprint on the finishing straight when Groenewegen swung right and Jakobsen crashed into and through the barriers. The Dutch sprinter subsequently crossed the line in first before falling down himself and taking more riders with him.

Jakobsen was immediately attended to by medical services on site.

Groenewegen was disqualified by the race jury. The official results of the stage are currently unknown.

How it unfolded

The dry sound of a starting pistol followed a minute’s silence at an empty Silesian Stadium in Chorzów. A year after the tragic death of Bjorg Lambrecht, the professional peloton gathered in southern Poland for the first stage race of the WorldTour series after the shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

Racing began in uncommon silence, with no spectators allowed in the start zone and with the peloton following measures such as mandatory tests before joining the ‘race bubble’, daily health checks, and protective measures in hotels.

The opening stage offered a slightly undulating route leading through Silesian Voivodeship. With a well-known, 16.3km local lap in Katowice city centre and a downhill straight in the final, a sprinters’ showdown was widely expected after 196 kilometres of racing.

The day’s breakaway got sorted fairly swiftly, just 13 kilometres into the stage, as Polish riders Kamil Małecki (CCC Team) and Maciej Paterski (Polish National Team) enlisted Samuel Brand (Team Novo Nordisk) and Julius van der Berg (EF Pro Cycling) to join them in a day-long effort.

The quartet quickly built a gap of 4:30 over the peloton but was unable to hold it at that level for long. Riders from Jumbo-Visma, Bora-Hansgrohe and Deceuninck-Quick-Step shared the pacing duties, slowly settling into the routine of a stage race.

Paterski took points at the first intermediate sprint and kept imposing himself three more times over his breakaway companions: twice at intermediate sprints and once at a special premie. The bunch kept the escapees on a short leash as Bora-Hansgrohe’s Maciej Bodnar was seen setting the pace throughout the day. The gap kept dropping slowly, even falling below two minutes with 100 kilometres to go.

Paterski emerged victorious from a sprint battle with Małecki at the third intermediate sprint and the leaders entered the first of three local laps two minutes ahead of the bunch. Unfazed by the small hill marked as a categorized climb, Bodnar upped the pace, ensuring his teammates’ position at head of the peloton.

Staying attentive paid dividends as a crash with 30 kilometres to go hampered John Degenkolb’s ambitions. The German fell together with a number of other riders in an incident that also stopped Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) and Christoph Pfingsten (Jumbo-Visma), among others.

Małecki and Van den Berg, meanwhile, gathered mountain classification points but their adventure quickly came to an end with one lap remaining. Team Ineos, Bahrain-McLaren and Polish National Team were among those lining up at the front while another two crashes held up more riders.

In the final kilometre, UAE Team Emirates and Trek-Segafredo attempted to take control of things as Groenewegen and Ackermann kept to the middle of the road.

The German was unable to hold his effort to the line, while the Dutch sprinter took the lead and in the final meters appeared to move right towards the advancing Jakobsen, who was challenging him for the victory. The Dutch champion crashed heavily into the barriers, while Groenewegen crossed the line first and then fell down, taking down more riders with him as the barriers collapsed into the road.

Results :
1 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-Quickstep 4:31:50
2 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
3 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott
4 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates
5 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
6 Szymon Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team
7 Damien Touze (Fra) Cofidis
8 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
9 Moreno Hofland (Ned) EF Pro Cycling
10 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
11 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
12 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain McLaren
13 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Movistar Team
14 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Bahrain McLaren
15 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis
17 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Pro Cycling
18 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb
19 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
20 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
21 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep
22 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
23 Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Movistar Team
24 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain McLaren
25 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team
26 Berna_ Pawel (Pol) Polish National Team
27 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott
28 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
29 Casper Phillip Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb
30 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
31 Ivo Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
32 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
33 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Movistar Team
34 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
35 Florian Senechal (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep
36 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
37 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
38 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Team Ineos
39 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
40 Rui Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
41 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal
42 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Team Jumbo-Visma
43 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
44 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
45 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
46 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain McLaren
47 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
48 Cristian Scaroni (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo
49 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
50 Tobias Foss (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma
51 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
52 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis
53 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
54 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
55 Mikel Nieve Iturralde (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott
56 Quinn Simmons (USA) Trek-Segafredo
57 Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation
58 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep
59 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
60 Enrico Gasparotto (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling
61 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates
62 Kamil Malecki (Pol) CCC Team
63 Nikolai Cherkasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
64 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep
65 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
66 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
67 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team
68 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
69 Jonas Rutsch (Ger) EF Pro Cycling
70 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
71 Petr Rikunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
72 Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team
73 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
74 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
75 Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
76 Patrick Bevin (NZl) CCC Team
77 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain McLaren
78 Steff Cras (Bel) Lotto Soudal
79 Piotr Bro_yna (Pol) Polish National Team
80 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
81 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep
82 Attila Valter (Hun) CCC Team
83 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep
84 Samuele Battistella (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
85 Stefan De Bod (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
86 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Team Ineos
87 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation
88 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team
89 James Piccoli (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation
90 Julien Vermote (Bel) Cofidis
91 Gino Mäder (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling
92 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
93 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
94 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb
95 Rudy Barbier (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00:24
96 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos
97 Péter Kusztor (Hun) Team Novo Nordisk
98 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Lotto Soudal
99 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
100 Adrian Banaszek (Pol) Polish National Team
101 James Whelan (Aus) EF Pro Cycling
102 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
103 Przemys_aw Kasperkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team
104 Patryk Stosz (Pol) Polish National Team 0:00:42
105 Denis Nekrasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
106 Barnabás Peák (Hun) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:50
107 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Team
108 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
109 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:01:01
110 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:11
111 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain McLaren
112 John Degenkolb (Ger) Lotto Soudal
113 Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:21
114 Tom Scully (NZl) EF Pro Cycling
115 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Ineos
116 David Lozano Riba (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
117 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R la Mondiale
118 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team Sunweb
119 Benjamin King (USA) NTT Pro Cycling 0:01:33
120 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos
121 Taco Van der Hoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
122 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
123 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Pro Cycling
124 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Cofidis
125 Harry Tanfield (GBr) AG2R la Mondiale 0:01:51
126 Yuriy Natarov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
127 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
128 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team
129 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain McLaren
130 Norman Vahtra (Est) Israel Start-Up Nation
131 Brian Kamstra (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:02:20
132 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
133 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Trek-Segafredo
134 Mickael Delage (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
135 Maciej Paterski (Pol) Polish National Team
136 Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spa) Movistar Team
137 Fabian Lienhard (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
138 Julius Van den Berg (Ned) EF Pro Cycling
139 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Israel Start-Up Nation
140 Samuel Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
141 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Ineos
142 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spa) Movistar Team
143 Chris Harper (Aus) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:03:41
144 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:25
145 Emils Liepins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:51
146 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:05:11
147 Alan Banaszek (Pol) Polish National Team 0:05:30
148 Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:37
149 Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:41
150 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis
151 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:06:26
152 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling
153 Alexis Renard (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:08:21
DSQ Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma

General Classification after Stage 1 :
1 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-Quickstep 4:31:40
2 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:04
3 Kamil Malecki (Pol) CCC Team
4 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:06
5 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:10
6 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
7 Szymon Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team
8 Damien Touze (Fra) Cofidis
9 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
10 Moreno Hofland (Ned) EF Pro Cycling
11 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
12 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain McLaren
13 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Movistar Team
14 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Bahrain McLaren
15 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis
17 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Pro Cycling
18 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb
19 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
20 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
21 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep
22 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
23 Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Movistar Team
24 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain McLaren
25 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team
26 Berna_ Pawel (Pol) Polish National Team
27 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott
28 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
29 Casper Phillip Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb
30 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
31 Ivo Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
32 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
33 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Movistar Team
34 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
35 Florian Senechal (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep
36 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
37 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
38 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Team Ineos
39 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
40 Rui Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
41 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal
42 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Team Jumbo-Visma
43 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
44 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
45 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
46 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain McLaren
47 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
48 Cristian Scaroni (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo
49 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
50 Tobias Foss (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma
51 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
52 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis
53 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
54 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
55 Mikel Nieve Iturralde (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott
56 Quinn Simmons (USA) Trek-Segafredo
57 Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation
58 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep
59 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
60 Enrico Gasparotto (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling
61 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates
62 Nikolai Cherkasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
63 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep
64 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
65 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
66 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team
67 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
68 Jonas Rutsch (Ger) EF Pro Cycling
69 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
70 Petr Rikunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
71 Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team
72 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
73 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
74 Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
75 Patrick Bevin (NZl) CCC Team
76 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain McLaren
77 Steff Cras (Bel) Lotto Soudal
78 Piotr Bro_yna (Pol) Polish National Team
79 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
80 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep
81 Attila Valter (Hun) CCC Team
82 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep
83 Samuele Battistella (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
84 Stefan De Bod (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
85 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Team Ineos
86 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation
87 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team
88 James Piccoli (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation
89 Julien Vermote (Bel) Cofidis
90 Gino Mäder (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling
91 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
92 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
93 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb
94 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:30
95 Rudy Barbier (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00:34
96 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos
97 Péter Kusztor (Hun) Team Novo Nordisk
98 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Lotto Soudal
99 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
100 Adrian Banaszek (Pol) Polish National Team
101 James Whelan (Aus) EF Pro Cycling
102 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
103 Przemys_aw Kasperkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team
104 Patryk Stosz (Pol) Polish National Team 0:00:52
105 Denis Nekrasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
106 Barnabás Peák (Hun) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:00
107 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Team
108 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
109 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:01:11
110 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:21
111 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain McLaren
112 John Degenkolb (Ger) Lotto Soudal
113 Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:31
114 Tom Scully (NZl) EF Pro Cycling
115 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Ineos
116 David Lozano Riba (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
117 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R la Mondiale
118 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team Sunweb
119 Benjamin King (USA) NTT Pro Cycling 0:01:43
120 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos
121 Taco Van der Hoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
122 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
123 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Pro Cycling
124 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Cofidis
125 Harry Tanfield (GBr) AG2R la Mondiale 0:02:01
126 Yuriy Natarov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
127 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
128 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team
129 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain McLaren
130 Norman Vahtra (Est) Israel Start-Up Nation
131 Maciej Paterski (Pol) Polish National Team 0:02:21
132 Julius Van den Berg (Ned) EF Pro Cycling 0:02:27
133 Brian Kamstra (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:02:30
134 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
135 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Trek-Segafredo
136 Mickael Delage (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
137 Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spa) Movistar Team
138 Fabian Lienhard (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
139 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Israel Start-Up Nation
140 Samuel Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
141 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Ineos
142 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spa) Movistar Team
143 Chris Harper (Aus) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:03:51
144 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:35
145 Emils Liepins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:01
146 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:05:21
147 Alan Banaszek (Pol) Polish National Team 0:05:40
148 Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:47
149 Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:51
150 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis
151 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:06:36
152 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling
153 Alexis Renard (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:08:31