2020 Tour de Pologne

2020 Tour de Pologne
2020 UCI World Tour, race 7 of 21
Race details
Dates5 – 9 August 2020
Stages5
Distance911.4 km (566.3 mi)
Winning time21h 29' 50"
Results
Winner  Remco Evenepoel (BEL) (Deceuninck–Quick-Step)
  Second  Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) (Astana)
  Third  Simon Yates (GBR) (Mitchelton–Scott)
Mountains  Patryk Stosz (POL) (Poland)
Sprints  Luka Mezgec (SLO) (Mitchelton–Scott)
Combativity  Maciej Paterski (POL) (Poland)
  Team Mitchelton–Scott
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The 2020 Tour de Pologne was the 77th running of the Tour de Pologne road cycling stage race. It started on 5 August in the Silesian Stadium, on the first anniversary of the death of Belgian rider Bjorg Lambrecht in the last edition of the race, and ended on 9 August in Kraków, after five stages.[1][2] The tour was initially due to run from 5 to 11 July, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In memory of Lambrecht, the dossard number 143, which he wore in 2019, was retired from the race beginning this year.[3]

After going solo on stage 4 and winning that stage by over a minute and a half, Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel of Deceuninck–Quick-Step held on to win the race comfortably over Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang of Astana and British rider Simon Yates of Mitchelton–Scott. Evenepoel dedicated his win to teammate Fabio Jakobsen, who had crashed on stage 1 and suffered several severe injuries. In winning the race at 20 years and 197 days old, Evenepoel became the third youngest winner, and second youngest distinct winner, of the Tour de Pologne after Dariusz Baranowski, who won the 1991 and 1992 editions of the race at 19 and 20 years of age, respectively.[4]

  1. ^ Gadzała, Paweł (2 July 2020). "Tour de Pologne 2020 route unveiled". CyclingNews. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  2. ^ "The Tour de Pologne unveils the 5 stages of 77th edition". Tour de Pologne. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Tour de Pologne retires number 143 in memory of Bjorg Lambrecht". CyclingNews. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  4. ^ Gadzała, Paweł (9 August 2020). "Remco Evenepoel wins Tour de Pologne". CyclingNews. Retrieved 9 August 2020.