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Tour de Pologne, here’s the 79th edition’s full route revealed

Seven stages from Kielce to Krakow with a lot of unreleased track

Warsaw, 27 Novembre 2021 – The 79th edition of the Tour de Pologne, UCI World Tour race, was officially presented today, during the live on TVP Sport. There, Czeslaw Lang explained in detail the seven stages of the Polish race that will take place from 30 July to 5 August 2022.

As in the previous edition, the riders will have to compete on a pretty varied and impressive route facing short, steep and decisive climbs, just like in the past but more than in the previous edition. The time trial will again be the key point of the race, although in 2022 it will be an uphill time trial. In addition there will be three stages for pure sprinters, two for climbers and one will suit the Classics specialists. A long and intense race is expected with a total of 1.226,7 kilometres across some of the most beautiful places in the country.

Route of the 79th Tour de Pologne UCI WorldTour

Stage 1 – KIELCE – LUBLIN / 220.9 KM  

Stage 2 – CHEŁM – ZAMOŚĆ / 203.9 KM

Stage 3 – KRAŚNIK, POWIAT KRAŚNICKI – PRZEMYŚL / 229.7 KM

Stage 4 – LESKO, POWIAT LESKI – SANOK / 176.8 KM

Stage 5 – ŁAŃCUT – RZESZÓW / 205 KM

Stage 6 – SZAFLARY – BUKOVINA RESORT / 15.4 KM  

Stage 7 – VALSIR, SKAWINA – KRAKÓW / 175 KM

PREVIEW | Tour de Pologne 2023 stage 7 - Merlier main favourite for final sprint as Mohoric and Almeida fight for GC win

Preview . Stage 7 of the Tour de Pologne will decide the overall classification as Matej Mohoric and João Almeida enter the final day of the race with the same, whilst the sprinters will take the reigns on the final day.

The final day of racing, the Tour de Pologne reaches Krakow for the traditional finale. It's a day for the sprinters, nothing too complicated or terrain that will split the field up. A pure sprint stage in the making with teams saving their bullets for the final circuit.

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Just outside the city center, the roads will be wide and not technical. Around a park, the riders will have a fast run-up to the finish, the final corner with 1.6 kilometers to go, and the final 800 meters completely straightforward.

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The Weather

The wind won't be felt today, different than the normal which the riders will like. No extra variables to take into consideration.

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The Favourites

Tim Merlier - The man to beat perhaps? On a regular day yes, but the Belgian is somehow not as sharp usually throughout a stage-race than comparing to a one-day race or the first day of a race. He can prove me wrong, but he will need the Quick-Step leadout to work perfectly because the competition has proved strong.

Fernando Gaviria - Without Olav Kooij and Sam Bennett who have left the race towards the World Championships, the main competition may be Fernando Gaviria. Third on the opening day he showed the speed. This seems like the kind of race where the Colombian can win, he will also be motivated to do so.

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The race has lost some of it's fast men but gives opportunity to others. Both Gerben Thijssen and Pascal Ackermann have been under the radar but have won in this race in the past previously, on a good day they have the speed to make it all fit. Then we can add Marijn van den Berg who was yesterday's winner and is clearly in great form.

Then we've got a nice array of second-line sprinters and rouleurs who can fight for a strong position and will look to take the opportunity. Both Arvid de Kleijn and Matteo Moschetti have taken nice wins this year and have proven to have the speed to win in this competition. Then we can add Max Walscheid, Stanislaw Aniolkowski, Paul Penhoët, Milan Menten, Dan McLay, Edward Theuns or perhaps the Polish national team's Maciej Paterski to try and surprise.

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Prediction Tour de Pologne 2023 stage 7:

*** Tim Merlier ** Fernando Gaviria, Matteo Moschetti * Marijn van den Berg, Max Walscheid, Jakub Mareczko, Arvid de Kleijn, Gerben Thijssen, Pascal Ackermann

Pick : Matteo Moschetti

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Sprint | Wilamowice (67.5 km)

Special sprint | budzyń (138.5 km), points at finish, kom sprint (3) witanowice (104.4 km), kom sprint (3) kaszów (129.4 km), team day classification, race information.

• Date: 04 August 2023
• Start time: 14:45
• Avg. speed winner: 47.889 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 166.6 km
• Points scale: 2.WT.Stage
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• ProfileScore: 13
• Vert. meters: 974
• Departure: Zabrze
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Matej Mohoric secures overall victory at Tour de Pologne

Tim Merlier bookends seven-day race with sprint victories in Poznan and Kraków

Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) has captured the overall classification of the Tour de Pologne by a single second’s advantage over João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates), while Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) claimed the final stage in Krakow in a bunch sprint.

Tied on time with Almeida after Thursday’s time trial in Katowice but still in yellow, Mohorič inched ahead on the overall on Friday by winning an intermediate sprint with a time bonus midway through the stage.

Neither Mohorič nor Almeida, second in the intermediate sprint, took part in the final dash for the line, with Merlier repeating his stage 1 victory ahead of Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor) and Fernando Gaviria (Movistar).

Defeated by Almeida in the 2021 Tour de Pologne, this time round the Slovenian has clinched the overall victory ahead of his Portuguese rival. Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) finished third despite a late crash.

“It was really a team effort, I would never have been able to do this without them,” Mohorič said afterwards. “Cvery single teammate contributed a lot and even today the race was decided on that bonus sprint.

“If I had been a single bike length slower, then I would have lost the race, so I can only thank them for this, they’ve been working hard all week and tonight we will celebrate.”

Mohorič also announced that he would donate all his share of the prize money to charities working with the victims of the torrential floods that devastated northern Slovenia on Friday.

How it unfolded

After a start outside Zabrze football stadium the first hour of racing across the plains of southern Poland was run off at such high speed that, as Almeida and UAE had obviously planned, there was no opportunity for a breakaway. Instead, the early part of the race culminated in a drawn-out duel after 67 kilometres between Almeida and Mohorič for the intermediate sprint and bonus seconds in the town of Wilamowice.

Almeida did his utmost to get round a string of two Bahrain Victorious riders and ahead of Mohorič.

However, the UAE leader’s final burst of speed proved insufficient to get past the Slovenian, who took the sprint by nearly a bike length after a long lead-out by Andrea Pasqualon. The battle for the GC was effectively over, 100 kilometres from the official finish in Krakow.

Transition stage business as usual then resumed, with a flurry of attacks instantly following Almeida’s last challenge for GC. Eventually 2023 Brabantse Pijl winner Dorion Godon (AG2R-Citroën), Cristian Scaroni (Astana Qazaqstan) and Marcin Budinski (Poland) managed to edge clear.

The trio worked well ahead, tackling one of the few hilly obstacles of the day, the cat. 3 Witanowice, with around a minute’s advantage. But the sprinters teams were clearly planning to maintain the fast men’s traditional dominance of Pologne’s Krakow finish for at least another year, and their gap did not rise any further.

A last ditch-effort from the three saw them make it to the outskirts of Katowice a handful of seconds ahead, while UAE and Movistar took command of the peloton. Although Budinski and Godon had a few metres gap as they crossed the line on the first of three finishing laps, the Pole and Frenchman were swept up almost immediately afterwards, prior to Soudal-QuickStep laying down an ever more insistent pace at the front of the bunch.

A mid-bunch crash with eight kilometres to go left a dozen riders down, with sprinter Pascal Ackermann (UAE Team Emirates) one notable victim, just as he had been in a late spill in the first day at Poznan. Mohorič was visibly active on the front in the finale as he fought both to stay out of trouble and to ensure Almeida did not make a last-minute attack. But with the sprinters’ teams still in control of the last laps, the GC battle was no longer an issue.

An Alpecin-Deceuninck rider tried hard to surprise the sprinters with a late jump away just before the final corner, and it briefly seemed as if the peloton would not come up to enough speed to bring him back. However, stage winner Merlier and Soudal-Quick Step were determined to bookend their participation in Pologne with a second stage win.

“With 800 metres to go, Bert [Van Lerberghe] started his leadout and that’s really early,” Merlier recounted to Cyclingnews afterwards, “so 600, 500, 400 metres went by and at 300 he was, like, shaking…

“So I saw Gaviria coming up and Bert lost speed, which was normal, because he had gone so early. It was difficult for me to get the 56 gear going today but once I did I could get Gaviria back, and in the end, for me, it was a good sprint.”

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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews , he has also written for The Independent ,  The Guardian ,  ProCycling , The Express and Reuters .

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