Puchar Tatr - Zakopane/Liptowski Mikulas - 1.5

Poland, August 23, 2000

1999 Results

Wadecki keeps on building

Last year's Puchar Tatr (Tatra's Cup) was held over a course between Poprad [Slovakia] and Zakopane [Poland]. The 2000 edition started in Poland (Zakopane) and ended in Slovakia, although the finish was in Liptowski Mikulas, which ment that race went through western side of the Tatra mountain range. The first 40 kilometres of it were in Poland, the next 98 in Slovakia.

Early on, a group of 40 went to the front, and on the Huty ascent in Slovakia, 14 of them got away. Later just six remained, with three Mroz riders successfully attacking in the final kilometres. Mroz leader and dual Polish champion Piotr Wadecki won his 16th(?) race of the season in this fashion (14 if you just count UCI races).

The list of his palmares this year is as follows:

Tour of Egypt (2.5) - 3 stages
Szlakiem Grodow Piastowskich (2.5) - 3 stages + overall
Peace Race (2.4) - Overall
Tour of Japan (2.4) - 1 stage
Wilmington Classic (1.3)
Polish Titles - ITT & RR
Baltyk - Karkonosze (2.5) - 1 stage
Puchar Tatr (1.5)

A pretty impresive list, meaning that Wadecki should be one of the favourites for Tour de Pologne (in early September) as well as a valuable rider for DOMO next year.

Results- 138 km

1 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn	     3.00.15 (45.94 km/h)
2 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn
3 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn
4 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn		0.05
5 Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) Servisco
6 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Amore e Vita
7 Cezary Zamana (Pol) MAT Ceresit CCC		1.37
8 Milan Dvorscik (Svk) Dukla Trencin
9 Jan Valach (Svk) Dukla Trencin
10 Zbigniew Wyrzykowski (Pol) Servisco

Courtesy of Daniel Marszalek

Past Winners

1999:

1. Zbigniew Piatek (Poland) Mroz  167 kms in 4.00.17
2. Tomasz Brozyna (Poland) Mroz
3. Cezary Zamana (Poland) Mroz