TV Wisla Tour, Cat 2.5

Poland, August 13-17, 1997

The Stages

  • Prologue - August 13th, 1.4 kms in Cracow
  • Stage 1 - August 14th, Myslenice-Myslenice 144 kms
  • Stage 2 - August 15th, Wieliczka-Nowy Sacz 143 kms
  • Stage 3 - August 16th, Krynica-Krynica 150 kms
  • Stage 4 - August 17th, ITT Nowy Sacz-Krynica 42 kms

Preview

TV Wisla Tour is a new name for 35th edition of Malopolski Wyscig Gorski (Malopolska Mountain Race). TV Wisla is a private tv station in Cracow which sponsors the race this year.

100 riders on start from Poland, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia. Team Mroz with Uwe Ampler (Ger), Jacek Mickiewicz, Piotr Wadecki, Andrzej Sypytkowski and Grzegorz Piwowarczyk (all Pol)

Prologue, Cracow, ITT 1.4 kms:

 1. Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) PEKAES     		2.52
 2. Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES     		0.05
 3. Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Mroz       		0.08
 4. Siergiej Siewierin (Blr) Mikomax     	0.08
 5. Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES         	0.09
 6. Pawel Sosik (Pol) Team under 23      	0.10
 7. Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol) Mroz          	0.10
 8. Marek Kaminski (Pol) Krakus          	0.11
 9. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz       	0.11
10. Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team under 23  	0.11

Stage 1, Myslenice-Myslenice 144 kms:

 1. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz   3.26.25
 2. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz            s.t.
 3. Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Mroz            0.59
 4. Artur Adamczyk (Pol) Joko
 5. Artur Szreder (Pol) Team under 23
 6. J. Prokopenko (Ukraine)             s.t.

GC after Stage 1:

 1. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz   3.29.18 
 2. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz            0.03
 3. Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES      1.01
 3. Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES      1.01
 4. Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Mroz            1.02
 5. Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES        1.07
 6. Pawel Sosik (Pol) Team under 23     1.08

Stage 2, Wieliczka-Nowy Sacz 143 kms:

 1. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz         3.47.34
 2. Kiril Pospejew (Ukraine)            0.27
 3. Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES        0.27

GC after Stage 2:

 1. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz         7.13.59
 2. Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES        1.41
 3. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz      2.43

Stage 3, Krynica-Krynica 150 kms:

32 years old Uwe Ampler won the most difficult stage of this mountain race and took his first victory after two years long pause in the proffesional cycling. In 1995 he left Telekom team and accused some of his teammates of using doping. This year he decided to make a comeback. Being discredited in his homeland Germany two weeks ago he signed one-year contract with the Polish team Mroz. 

 1. Uwe Ampler (Ger) Mroz           4.11.04
 2. Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Weltour    0.44
 3. Kiril Pospejew (Ukraine)           0.47

GC after Stage 3:

 1. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz       11.39.32
 2. Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES       1.41
 3. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz     2.42

Stage 4, Nowy Sacz-Krynica, ITT 42 kms:

 1. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz          59.13
 2. Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES     0.53
 3. Artur Krasinski (Pol) PEKAES       1.27
 4. Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Mroz           1.28
 5. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz     1.56
 6. Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Weltour    2.38

Final GC:

 1. Dainis Ozols (Latv) Mroz       12.38.44
 2. Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) PEKAES     4.37
 3. Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz     4.40
 4. Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) PEKAES       4.51
 5. Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Mroz           5.13
 6. Artur Krasinski (Pol) PEKAES       5.23
 7. Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Weltour        6.39
 8. Jurij Prokopenko (Ukraine)             8.14
 9. Arkadiusz Wojtas  (Pol) team under 23  8.54
10. Artur Szreder (Pol) team under 23     8.57

Mountain jersey:

 1. Ozols
 2. Ampler
 3. Pospejew

Teams:

 1. Mroz
 2. PEKAES
 3. Poland - team under 23