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65th Tour de Pologne - ProT
Poland, September 14-20, 2008
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Stage 2 - September 15: Plock - Olsztyn, 231.2km
Davis sprints to win in Poland
By Daniel Marszalek in Olsztyn
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Australian sprinter Allan Davis from Team Quick Step has won second stage of the Tour de Pologne over Brazilian Murilo Fischer (Liquigas) and Italian Mirco Lorenzetto (Lampre). Fischer became new race leader since his team was four seconds faster on yesterday's time trial.
"There was a three-man break in front of the pack but in the final Team CSC and Team Liquigas picked up the pace, and with 20km to go, my team went into action," said Davis.
"The final was three laps around a circuit. The team did a great job and in the last kilometre Steven De Jongh, as always, guided me perfectly towards the finish-line."
This is first victory for the Australian rider while in Quick Step colors - he brought his new team its 47th win of the season. Davis recently finished third in the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg.
"It was fantastic to win for the first time wearing this jersey," said Davis, who previously won a stage at the Tour de Pologne in 2004. "The organization of this team in the stage finals is amazing."
Second stage of the race began from early breakaway of three riders: Basque Andoni Lafuente (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Italian Roberto Longo (Lampre) and Polish time trial champion Lukasz Bodnar (Polska BGZ). One year ago Longo was first leader of the race, while Bodnar winner of intermediate sprints competition after he made series of solo breakaways in the flatter part of the race.
They quickly gained substantial lead over a sleepy bunch. In the feed zone, with some 113 kilometres to the line, they had a margin of 12:30 on the peloton. With the occasional headwind, the race was behind it slowest time schedule.
The real chase began only after some fours hours of racing. Lafuente won all three intermediate sprints.
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Their lead though was shrinking fast as the race was coming ever closer to Olsztyn. Just before riders reached finishing laps on streets of Warmia's capital, Bodnar managed to win the only category three mountain premium of the day and secure an early lead in this competition. Soon after they were all caught by the fast moving bunch led by CSC-Saxo Bank.
In Olsztyn there were three crucifix-like shaped laps, each with four 180 degrees turns and counting 5700 metres. Spaniard Iván Gutiérrez made longest standing solo effort from Caisse d'Epargne, recent winner of the Eneco Tour. However, even Gutiérrez, such strong time trialist, was soon caught.
In the final lap it was down to one team. Quick Step gave a great lead-out from Dutchman Steven De Jongh, which prepared the way for Davis to win. Four years earlier he won Tour de Pologne stage to Bydgoszcz, plus was the best in points and combined competitions.
David is a new man in the Quick Step roster, signing for them just couple of weeks ago. With just one day in the mountains and with plenty of bonus-seconds to gain, riders like Davis or Fischer, who can sprint and also climb in the medium size hills, might win the race.
Photography
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- Riders on the road in stage two.
- Allan Davis takes his first for Team Quick Step.
- Allan Davis (Quick Step) wins stage two of the Tour de Pologne.
- Australian Allan Davis (Quick Step) wins the seconds stage of the Tour de Pologne.
- Allan Davis (Quick Step) takes to the podium as stage winner.
- Andoni Lafuente (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
- Lukasz Bodnar (Polska BGZ)
- Brazilian Murilo Fischer (Liquigas) takes the lead after stage two of the Tour de Pologne.
Results
1 Allan Davis (Aus) Quick Step 6.10.53 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 3 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 4 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 6 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 7 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 8 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 9 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team 10 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 11 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team 15 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 16 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 17 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team 19 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 20 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 21 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre 22 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 23 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 24 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 25 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 26 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 27 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 28 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 29 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 30 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 32 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 33 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 34 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 35 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 36 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 37 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 38 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 39 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 40 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 41 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 42 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 43 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 44 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Polish National Team 45 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 46 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 47 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team 48 Manuele Mori (Ita) Scott - American Beef 49 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 50 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 51 Chris Horner (USA) Astana 52 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 53 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 54 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 55 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 56 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 57 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 58 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 59 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 60 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 61 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 62 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 63 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 65 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 66 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 67 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 68 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 69 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 70 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 71 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef 72 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 73 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 74 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 75 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 76 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 77 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 79 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quick Step 80 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 81 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 82 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 83 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 84 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 85 Marcin Sapa (Pol) Polish National Team 86 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 87 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 88 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 89 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 90 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 91 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 92 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 93 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 94 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) Polish National Team 95 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 96 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia 97 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 98 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step 99 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 100 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 101 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 102 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 103 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 104 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 105 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 106 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 107 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 108 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 109 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 110 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 111 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 112 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 113 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 114 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 115 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 116 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 117 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 118 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Scott - American Beef 119 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 120 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 121 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 122 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 123 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 124 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 125 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 126 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 127 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 128 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 129 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 130 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 1.12 131 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 1.18 132 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 133 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 134 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.14 135 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 3.27 136 René Mandri (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 4.15 137 Javier Megías Leal (Spa) Scott - American Beef 138 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.21 139 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 140 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 141 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) Polish National Team 142 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne General classification after stage 2 1 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 6.14.55 2 Allan Davis (Aus) Quick Step 3 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.03 4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 5 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 8 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 9 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 0.05 10 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 0.06 11 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 12 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 13 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 14 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.07 15 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 18 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 20 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 21 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 0.08 22 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 0.09 23 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre 24 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 25 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 26 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 27 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 28 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 29 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 30 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 31 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 32 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 33 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 34 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 0.10 35 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 36 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 37 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 38 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 39 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 40 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 41 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 42 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 43 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 44 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 45 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quick Step 46 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 47 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia 48 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step 49 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 50 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 51 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 52 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 53 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 0.11 54 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 55 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 56 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team 57 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 58 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.12 59 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 60 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 61 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 62 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 63 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 65 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.13 66 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 67 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 68 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 69 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 70 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 71 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 0.14 72 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 73 Chris Horner (USA) Astana 74 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 75 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 76 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.15 77 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 78 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 79 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 80 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 81 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 82 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 83 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 84 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 85 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 86 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 87 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 88 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 0.16 89 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 90 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 91 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 92 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 93 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 94 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 95 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 96 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 97 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team 0.17 98 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team 99 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team 100 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Polish National Team 101 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) Polish National Team 102 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 0.18 103 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 104 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 105 Manuele Mori (Ita) Scott - American Beef 106 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef 107 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 108 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.20 109 Marcin Sapa (Pol) Polish National Team 0.21 110 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 111 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 112 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) Polish National Team 113 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 0.23 114 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 115 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 0.24 116 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 117 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 118 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 119 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 120 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 0.29 121 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.30 122 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.33 123 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 0.35 124 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.36 125 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 126 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 127 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 128 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 129 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 130 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 131 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 132 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 0.42 133 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.46 134 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 1.23 135 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 2.03 136 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.27 137 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 3.37 138 Javier Megías Leal (Spa) Scott - American Beef 5.01 139 René Mandri (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 5.15 140 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.27 141 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.36 142 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 8.07 Points classification 1 Allan Davis (Aus) Quick Step 20 pts 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 19 3 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 18 4 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17 5 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 16 6 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 15 7 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 14 8 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 13 9 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team 12 10 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 11 11 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10 12 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 13 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8 14 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team 7 15 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 16 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 5 17 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 18 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team 3 19 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 2 20 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 1 Mountains classification 1 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team 3 pts 2 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 2 3 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1
