2011 Tour de Pologne explained

2011 Tour de Pologne
Series:	2011 UCI World Tour
Race No:	19
Season No:	27
Date:	31 July – 6 August
Stages:	7^[1]
Distance:	1113.3
Unit:	km
Time:	26h 40' 01"
Speed:	41.749
First:	Peter Sagan
First Nat:	Slovakia
First Color:	yellow
Second:	Dan Martin
Second Nat:	Republic of Ireland
Third:	Marco Marcato
Third Nat:	Italy
Points:	Peter Sagan
Points Nat:	Slovakia
Points Color:	green
Sprints:	Adrian Kurek
Sprints Nat:	Poland
Sprints Team:	Team Poland BGŻ
Sprints Color:	red
Mountains:	Michał Gołaś
Mountains Nat:	Poland
Mountains Color:	violet
Previous:	2010
Next:	2012

The 2011 Tour de Pologne was the 68th running of the Tour de Pologne cycling stage race. It started on 31 July in Pruszków and finished on 6 August in Kraków. It was the 19th race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.

The lead of the race changed hands in the final stage of the event. rider, and defending race winner, Dan Martin, who took the overall lead after a stage victory on the penultimate stage, had an advantage of three seconds to his nearest challengers Peter Sagan of and 's Marco Marcato. Sagan had held the lead prior to Martin, having won the fourth and fifth stages, but lost his advantage after losing time in the closing metres of stage six, after an attack by Martin and Wout Poels, another rider.

On the final stage, Sagan and Marcato moved closer to Martin at the intermediate sprint – offering time bonuses to the top three riders – by taking second and third behind Martin's team-mate Heinrich Haussler, with the winner of the Tour to be decided at the finish in Kraków. Despite missing out on the stage victory – taken by 's Marcel Kittel,^[2] who took his fourth stage victory of the week – Sagan finished just behind in second place, and with a time bonus of six seconds, he overhauled Martin by five seconds.^[2] Marcato finished fifth on the stage to seal his third place in the general classification, two seconds behind Martin and seven behind Sagan.^[3]

In the race's other classifications, rider Michał Gołaś won the King of the Mountains classification, Sagan won the points classification, Adrian Kurek of Team Poland BGŻ finished clear at the top of the sprints classification, with also finishing at the head of the teams classification.

Schedule

Aside from entering the Czech Republic (to the city of Český Těšín on the border with Poland) during the fourth stage, the race stages started and ended in Polish locations.

Stage	Date	Route	Distance
1	31 July	Pruszków to Warsaw	101.5 km^[4]	Flat stage
2	1 August	Częstochowa to Dąbrowa Górnicza	162 km^[5]	Flat stage
3	2 August	Będzin to Katowice	135.7 km^[6]	Flat stage
4	3 August	Oświęcim to Cieszyn	176.9 km^[7]	Medium-mountain stage
5	4 August	Zakopane to Zakopane	201.5 km^[8]	Mountain stage
6	5 August	Terma Bukowina Tatrzańska to Bukowina Tatrzańska	207.7 km^[9]	Mountain stage
7	6 August	Kraków to Kraków	128 km^[10]	Flat stage

Teams

The 18 teams from the UCI World Tour were automatically invited to this edition of the Tour de Pologne.^[11]

4 teams were also awarded a wildcard place into the event:^[11]

- - Team Poland BGŻ

Stages

Stage 1

31 July 2011 – Pruszków to Warsaw, 101.5km (63.1miles)

Stage 1 Result

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.
6			s.t.
7			s.t.
8			s.t.
9			s.t.
10			s.t.

General Classification after Stage 1

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 4"
3	Team Poland BGŻ	+ 5"
4		+ 6"
5		+ 6"
6		+ 8"
7		+ 9"
8		+ 10"
9		+ 10"
10		+ 10"

Stage 2

1 August 2011 – Częstochowa to Dąbrowa Górnicza, 162km (101miles)

Stage 2 Result

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.
6			s.t.
7			s.t.
8			s.t.
9			s.t.
10			s.t.

General Classification after Stage 2

	Team	Time
1
2	Team Poland BGŻ	+ 7"
3		+ 14"
4		+ 14"
5		+ 15"
6		+ 15"
7		+ 16"
8		+ 16"
9		+ 16"
10		+ 18"

Stage 3

2 August 2011 – Będzin to Katowice, 135.7km (84.3miles)

Stage 3 Result

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.
6			s.t.
7			s.t.
8			s.t.
9			s.t.
10			s.t.

General Classification after Stage 3

	Team	Time
1
2	Team Poland BGŻ	+ 17"
3		+ 22"
4		+ 24"
5		+ 24"
6		+ 24"
7		+ 25"
8		+ 26"
9		+ 26"
10		+ 26"

Stage 4

3 August 2011 – Oświęcim to Cieszyn, 176.9km (109.9miles)

Stage 4 Result

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			+ 3"
3			+ 3"
4			+ 3"
5			+ 3"
6			+ 3"
7			+ 3"
8			+ 3"
9			+ 3"
10			+ 3"

General Classification after Stage 4

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			+ 5"
3			+ 7"
4			+ 7"
5			+ 13"
6			+ 13"
7			+ 13"
8			+ 13"
9			+ 13"
10			+ 13"

Stage 5

4 August 2011 – Zakopane to Zakopane, 201.5km (125.2miles)

Stage 5 Result

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.
6			s.t.
7			s.t.
8			s.t.
9			s.t.
10			+ 3"

General Classification after Stage 5

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			+ 15"
3			+ 17"
4			+ 20"
5			+ 23"
6			+ 23"
7			+ 26"
8			+ 26"
9			+ 26"
10			+ 26"

Stage 6

5 August 2011 – Terma Bukowina Tatrzańska to Bukowina Tatrzańska, 207.7km (129.1miles)

Stage 6 Result

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 1"
3		+ 4"
4		+ 4"
5		+ 6"
6		+ 6"
7		+ 6"
8	Team Poland BGŻ	+ 6"
9		+ 6"
10		+ 6"

General Classification after Stage 6

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 3"
3		+ 3"
4		+ 17"
5		+ 19"
6		+ 22"
7	Team Poland BGŻ	+ 22"
8		+ 22"
9		+ 22"
10		+ 26"

Stage 7

6 August 2011 – Kraków to Kraków, 128km (80miles)

Stage 7 Result

	Rider	Team	Time
1
2			s.t.
3			s.t.
4			s.t.
5			s.t.
6			s.t.
7			s.t.
8			s.t.
9			s.t.
10			s.t.

Final General Classification

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 5"
3		+ 7"
4		+ 22"
5		+ 24"
6		+ 27"
7	Team Poland BGŻ	+ 27"
8		+ 27"
9		+ 27"
10		+ 31"

Category leadership table

Stage	Winner	General classification Żółta koszulka	Mountains classification Klasyfikacja górska	Intermediate Sprints Classification Klasyfikacja najaktywniejszych	Points classification Klasyfikacja punktowa
1	Marcel Kittel	Marcel Kittel	Michał Gołaś	Adrian Kurek	Marcel Kittel
2		Bartłomiej Matysiak
3
4	Peter Sagan	Peter Sagan	Romain Feillu
5	Peter Sagan	Ruslan Pidgornyy
6	Dan Martin	Dan Martin	Michał Gołaś	Peter Sagan
7	Marcel Kittel	Peter Sagan
Final		Peter Sagan	Michał Gołaś	Adrian Kurek	Peter Sagan

Notes and References

Web site: 06.08.2011 Kraków-Kraków 128 km: Komunikat Numer 8. 6 August 2011. 6 August 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
News: Sagan claims Polish victory. 6 August 2011. 6 August 2011. Sky Sports. British Sky Broadcasting.
News: Sagan denies Martin to win Tour of Poland. 6 August 2011. 6 August 2011. Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group.
Web site: 1 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
Web site: 2 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
Web site: 3 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
Web site: 4 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
Web site: 5 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
Web site: 6 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
Web site: 7 STAGE MAP. 21 July 2011. Tour de Pologne. Polskiego Związku Kolarskiego.
News: 22 teams announced for the 2011 Tour de Pologne. 5 July 2011. 21 July 2011. BikeWorldNews. WordPress. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403120647/http://bikeworldnews.com/2011/07/05/22-teams-announced-2011-tour-de-pologne/. 3 April 2015. dead.