39th Malopolski Wyscig Gorski (NE)Poland, August 8-12, 2001Stages
CommentaryBy Daniel Marszalek Malopolski Wyscig Gorski is a hilly profile race, held in the South-East part of Poland (Krakow region). This year was its 39th edition which consisted of five stages: a prologue criterium, three mountain stages and a 30km long ITT. The race is considered one of the country's toughest and is quite prestigious on Polish calendar — certainly it has more tradition than most of the 2.5 category races that are held on Polish soil at the moment, but strangely it has no UCI points. Nevertheless, this year's race attracted the best Polish teams to the start at Krakow Old Market; they treated MWG as an important step in their preparations for the Tour of Poland (cat. 2.3) in early September. This edition was won by Zbigniew Piatek, a 35 year-old rider from the Mroz-Supradyn team, who became the first cyclist to win it three times with his victories in 1989 (!) and 1998. ResultsProlog - August 8: "Zloty Pierscien Krakowa" Criterium, 57.8km1 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Mroz-Supradyn 62 pts 2 Grzegorz Gronkiewicz (Pol) Weltour Radio Katowice 27 3 Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk (Pol) Atlas Lukullus 11 Stage 1 - August 9: Myslenice - Myslenice, 148km1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 3.49.44 2 Oleksij Nakaznyj (Ukr) Mikomax Browar Staropolski 0.01 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 1.42 Leader: Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn Stage 2 - August 10: Zawoja - Zawoja, 167km1 Piotr Przydzia (Pol) CCC-Mat 4.31.07 2 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Mat (Next group at 1.51) Leader: Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn Stage 3 - August 11: Jordanów - Jordanów, 140km1 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 3.36.50 2 Tomasz Lesniak (Pol) Jelcz Laskowice 3 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn Leader: Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn Stage 4 - August 12: Mszana Dolna ITT, 30km1 Piotr Przydzia (Pol) CCC-Mat 39.22 2 Igor Bonczukow (Mol) Atlas-Lukullus 0.14 3 Eugen Wacker (Kir) Mroz-Supradyn 0.27 4 Aleksandr Klimenko (Ukr) Mikomax 5 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Mat 0.42 ... 10 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 1.26 Final general classification 1 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 12.39.48 (39.38 km/h) 2 Oleksij Nakaznyj (Ukr) Mikomax Browar Staropolski 0.32 3 Piotr Przydzia (Pol) CCC-Mat 0.53 4 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 1.16 5 Krzysztof Ciesielski (Pol) Servisco 3.55 6 Radosaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Mat 4.51 7 Igor Bonczukow (Mol) Atlas-Lukullus 6.48 8 Jarosaw Rebiewski (Pol) CCC-Mat 7.57 9 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Lit) Mroz-Supradyn 8.14 10 Tomasz Les´niak (Pol) Jelcz Laskowice 8.16 67 starters, 38 finishers Other classificationsBest climber: Radosaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Mat Points: Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn Under-23: Tomasz Les´niak (Pol) Jelcz Laskowice Teams: Mróz-Supradyn Witaminy Past Winners1995: Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Rotan Spiessens 1996 1 Andrzej Mierzejewski (Pol) Mroz 2 Tomasz Kloczko (Pol) Gornik Weltour 3 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) PZU Joko 1997 1 Dainis Ozols (Lat) Mroz 2 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES 3 Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz 1998 1 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES 2 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) PEKAES 1999 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Mroz 2 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Sprandi 3 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Servisco 2000 1 Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) Servisco 2 Pawel Niedzwiecki (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn Witaminy 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) MAT-Ceresit-CCC Past winners by Mario Stiehl and Daniel Marszalek |