| 2019 UCI World Tour, race 29 of 38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 3–9 August 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,036.2 km (643.9 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 26h 20' 58" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2019 Tour de Pologne was the 76th running of the Tour de Pologne road cycling stage race. It started on 3 August in Kraków and ended on 9 August in Bukowina Tatrzańska, after seven stages. It was the twenty-ninth race of the 2019 UCI World Tour season.[1][2]
The race was won by 22-year old Team Ineos rider Pavel Sivakov of Russia, after a second place on the first mountain stage and a finish among the peloton on the final stage. Sivakov took the leader's jersey after the last stage, after previous leader Jonas Vingegaard suffered larger losses. Sivakov finished ahead of Jai Hindley of Team Sunweb on the sixth stage and overtook the Australian by 2 seconds, thanks to time bonuses. UAE Team Emirates' Diego Ulissi completed the podium, 10 seconds down on Hindley, and 12 in arrears of Sivakov.[3]
Among the race's other jerseys, the points classification went to Groupama-FDJ rider Marc Sarreau, who took three finishes in the top ten and remained in the race until the end whilst the other sprinters withdrew. Simon Geschke of CCC Team won the mountains classification, overtaking Tomasz Marczyński on the final day after an intense fight within the breakaway,[3] whilst Charles Planet of Team Novo Nordisk took the active rider classification, after entering the breakaway on four of six competitively raced stages and leading the classification for all but one day. By finishing ninth in the overall standings, Bora-Hansgrohe's Rafał Majka took the prize for the highest-placed Polish rider, while the teams classification was comfortably won by Team Ineos.[3]
The race was marred by the death of Lotto–Soudal rider Bjorg Lambrecht after he crashed during the third stage, hitting a concrete culvert and dying during surgery in a hospital, where he was transported by ambulance following resuscitation at the crash site.[4] The fourth stage was not competitively raced; instead, it was shortened and run as a cycling procession.[5]
- ^ "2019 Tour de Pologne". Cycling News. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Introduction to the 76th edition of the Tour de Pologne UCI World Tour". Tour de Pologne. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
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TDP7was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Bjorg Lambrecht dies at age 22". Cycling News. 5 August 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "2019 Tour de Pologne Stage 4 Neutralization". tourdepologne.pl. 5 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.