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62nd Tour of Poland - ProT
Poland, September 12-18, 2005
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Stage 8 - September 18: Jelenia Góra – Karpacz time trial, 19 km
Kirchen in tight finish
Dekker powers to win final stage
By Daniel Marszalek in Karpacz
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Kim Kirchen from Fassa Bortolo became the first ever rider from Luxembourg to win the Tour de Pologne overall. The last stage of the 62nd edition of the race was won by 21-year old Dutchman Thomas Dekker (Rabobank), who was the only rider to go under 31 minutes over the tough 19 kilometre course from Jelenia Góra to Karpacz Orlinek with a time of 30:54 (just 25 seconds slower than the record set in 2003 by Spaniard Alberto Contador). Kirchen clocked time of 31'25, which in the overall standings gave him a precious victory with a slender margin over Pieter Weening (Rabobank) and Dekker.
How it unfolded
The fastest early time was set by a specialist in this discipline, Hungarian Laszlo Bodrogi (Credit Agricole), who finished in 31'34. Bartosz Huzarski (Intel-Action), who this season was second in the time trial at the Polish Championships, was close to Bodrogi with a time of 31'41. Both times were smashed by last year's under-23 world champion, Slovenian Janez Brajkovic (Discovery Channel), who clocked an impressive 31'09. Russian Vladimir Gussev (CSC), who set the fastest time at halfway point after the flatter part of the course (11'50), eventually wasn't able to better the Slovenian's time with just 31'43 by the finish.
The top men on GC began to appear at the halfway check with no-one able to better Gussev's time at this point. Young Swede Thomas Lövkvist (Francaise des Jeux) had a time of just 12'07, Pro Tour leader Italian Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) was marginally better with 12'05. Soon after, both Rabobank's youngsters Dekker and Weening were able to go under 12 minutes with times of 11'52 and 11'56 respectively. Kirchen had a useful time of 11'59. Meanwhile at the finish, American Bobby Julich (Team CSC), who had a somewhat disappointing weekend in Karpacz, arrived in Orlinek with the best time of 31'01. But eventually it was not good enough to give him the stage victory or even a top-10 place overall.
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Another good time was set by the best Polish rider in the race, 24-year old TdP specialist Marek Rutkiewicz (Intel-Action), who clocked a time of 31'34, which allowed him to pass three riders on GC (among them French TT champion Sylvain Chavanel of Cofidis) and finish eighth overall. Czech Jan Hruska (Liberty Seguros) was just a little bit quicker with his final result of 31'33, which gave him seventh place in the general standings. Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) was a having a very good ride with a time of 31'29, which secured his sixth spot on GC.
Lövkvist had a very fast second part of this time trial and with a very strong finish, he crossed the line in a time of 31'03, just two seconds short of Julich's result. This gave him a clear lead in the overall standings, at least for the moment. Di Luca wasn't able to better that and finished in 31'26 which pushed him from third to fifth place overall. Soon after the Italian, Lövkvist's peer Thomas Dekker clocked a winning time of 30'54 and became the new provisional leader of the race. There were still two men on the road: Weening and Kirchen. The Dutchman had to go under 31'25 to beat his teammate and he was able to do so with a time of 31'20. Still, Kirchen saved some reserve for the final effort on the steepest ramps to Orlinek in the final kilometre. He had to ride faster than 31'31 and was able to do it with a time of 31'25.
This gave the Luxembourgois a fine overall win in a truly thrilling final. After seven days of racing and nearly 1221 kilometres of the course covered, he beat Weening by 5, Dekker by 11, Lövkvist by 18 and fifth overall Di Luca by just 34 seconds. Rabobank's team leader Boogerd finished sixth on GC at 1'04, giving great support to his younger teammates over the final weekend, for which effort he was awarded the Fair Play prize by the organizers. Rabobank with three men in the top 6 on the GC easily won the teams competition ahead of Intel-Action and Liberty Seguros. With a strong ride in the last three stage around Karpacz, Kim Kirchen added the points competition to his overall title, while Bartosz Huzarski won the climber's competition and German Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner) the intermediate sprints.
Finally, Danilo Di Luca, thanks to his fifth place overall, earned 25 valuable points to the individual ProTour ranking and now leads with 209 points in total, which gives him a very safe margin of nearly 70 points on the second placed German Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) with just four one-day events to the end of the season.
Photography
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Images by Luczycki Maciej/bikeworld.pl
- Peter Luttenberger (CSC) waits for his turn
- Some riders didn't bother with aero stuff
- The final stage was a tough 19 km time trial
- Mads Kaggestad (Credit Agricole) during his ride
- The Tour of Poland finished in Karpacz
- Thomas Dekker (Rabobank) winner of the final stage
- The final podium (L to R): Pieter Weening (2nd), Kim Kirchen (1st), and Thomas Dekker (3rd)
- Przemys?aw Niemiec (Miche) gets the prize for the most unlucky rider at the Tour de Pologne
Results
1 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 30.54.44 2 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.07.52 3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.08.36 4 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 0.15.27 5 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 0.25.37 6 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 0.30.69 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.31.61 8 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 0.34.14 9 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.38.41 10 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 0.39.88 11 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 0.39.94 12 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 0.42.35 13 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 0.46.64 14 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 0.48.72 15 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 0.52.52 16 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.22.80 17 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 1.25.61 18 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1.26.24 19 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 1.26.58 20 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 1.27.90 21 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.28.15 22 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1.29.35 23 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.33.43 24 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.35.00 25 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.37.10 26 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 1.38.86 27 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.57.04 28 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 2.18.90 29 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.19.49 30 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2.32.17 31 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 2.34.64 32 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 2.35.38 33 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2.35.56 34 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 2.48.05 35 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.49.22 36 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.57.66 37 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.03.14 38 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.04.07 39 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.05.09 40 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.11.91 41 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3.13.34 42 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3.17.43 43 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 3.21.97 44 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 3.22.47 45 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 3.30.67 46 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3.33.35 47 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.39.45 48 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3.41.23 49 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 3.43.11 50 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 3.52.20 51 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.04.71 52 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.07.97 53 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.10.94 54 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 4.18.07 55 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4.19.41 56 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.19.81 57 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 4.23.33 58 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 4.24.47 59 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 4.28.81 60 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.45.22 61 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 4.48.16 62 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Illes Balears 4.53.65 63 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 5.12.31 64 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.15.41 65 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5.20.20 66 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5.22.08 67 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5.23.42 68 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 6.17.45 69 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 6.33.89 70 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6.35.71 71 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française Des Jeux 8.31.13 72 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 8.31.23 73 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 9.07.83 Final General classification 1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 32.11.58 2 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 0.05 3 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.11 4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.18 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.34 6 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 1.04 7 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2.14 8 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 2.43 9 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2.52 10 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 3.03 11 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3.54 12 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 4.19 13 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 4.33 14 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6.03 15 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 6.39 16 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6.54 17 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 7.51 18 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.01 20 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8.11 21 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 8.40 22 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 9.22 23 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.32 24 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 9.34 25 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 12.14 26 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 16.37 27 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16.49 28 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 18.02 29 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18.16 30 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 18.46 31 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 19.23 32 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 20.59 33 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 22.52 34 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 23.07 35 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 23.14 36 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 25.43 37 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 25.44 38 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 26.42 39 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 27.01 40 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 27.23 41 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 27.41 42 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 27.56 43 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 29.42 44 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 31.32 45 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 32.09 46 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 33.27 47 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 33.29 48 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Illes Balears 34.00 49 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 35.40 50 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 36.16 51 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 40.15 52 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 41.10 53 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 41.13 54 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 42.45 55 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 42.59 56 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 47.00 57 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 47.09 58 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 47.43 59 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 47.57 60 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 48.56 61 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 52.44 62 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 52.59 63 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 56.11 64 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 58.50 65 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.02.26 66 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.02.31 67 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.02.51 68 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.15.15 69 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.16.47 70 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1.17.40 71 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française Des Jeux 1.21.27 72 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 1.22.21 73 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.25.32 Points classification 1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 70 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 67 3 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 65 4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 53 5 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 51 6 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 51 7 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 47 8 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 41 9 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 40 10 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 39 11 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36 12 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 33 13 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 14 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 31 15 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 27 16 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 23 17 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 22 18 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 21 19 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 18 20 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 17 21 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 17 22 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 17 23 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 24 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 16 25 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 26 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 14 27 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 14 28 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 13 29 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 30 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 12 31 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 10 32 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 33 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7 34 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 7 35 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 6 36 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 5 37 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 4 Mountains classification 1 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 34 pts 2 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26 3 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 4 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 11 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 6 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 8 7 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 8 8 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 9 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 7 10 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 11 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 7 12 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 6 13 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 6 14 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 15 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 16 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 6 17 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5 18 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 19 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 3 20 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 3 21 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3 22 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 23 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 2 24 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 25 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 26 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 1 27 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Sprints classification 1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 pts 2 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 4 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3 4 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 5 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3 6 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 7 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 8 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 1 9 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 10 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1 11 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1 12 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 13 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 14 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1
