2014 Tour de Pologne-Tour of Poland (WT)
71st edition: August 3 - August 9
Stage 4 results
Wednesday, August 6: Stage 4, Tarnów Gemini Park - Katowice, 236 km
Stage 4 photos | Stage 4 map and profile |
Jonas Van Genechten wins stage four. Photo ©Sirotti
The Race: If the stage didn't end with a winning breakaway, it wasn't because no one tried to escape. Three times small groups clawed their way up the road, only to be rounded up by a peloton intent upon a sprint finish. The final break of three riders was caught with about four kilometers to go. Even then riders tried fliers, to no avail.
Stage winner Jonas Van Genechten came from a ways back to take his first-ever World Tour victory.
Petr Vakoc finished in the front group to preserve his GC lead.
Giant-Shimano sprinter Luka Mezgec, who crashed in stage one, will not start the hilly stage five on Thursday. He's going home to heal up from his injuries rather than suffer in the mountains. He may start the Eneco Tour on Monday.
Complete Results:
Winner's average speed: 41.225 km/hr
1 | Jonas Van Genechten | Lotto-Belisol | 5hr 43min 29sec |
2 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Astana | |
3 | Luka Mezgec | Giant-Shimano | |
4 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre-Merida | |
5 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Ag2r | |
6 | Davide Appollonio | Ag2r | |
7 | Raymond Kreder | Garmin-Sharp | |
8 | Nikias Arndt | Giant-Shimano | |
9 | Nikolas Maes | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
10 | Steele Von Hoff | Garmin-Sharp | |
11 | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEdge | |
12 | Timofey Kritskiy | RusVelo | |
13 | Roman Maikin | RusVelo | |
14 | Oscar Gatto | Cannondale | |
15 | Sebastian Lander | BMC | |
16 | Jose Lobato Juan | Movistar | |
17 | Bos Theo | Belkin | |
18 | Ivan Balykin | RusVelo | |
19 | Grzegorz Stępniak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
20 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | SKY | |
21 | Wouter Poels | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
22 | Enrico Gasparotto | Astana | |
23 | Sebastien Chavanel | FDJ | |
24 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Giant-Shimano | |
25 | Fumiyuki Beppu | Trek Factory Racing | |
26 | Johan Le Bon | FDJ | |
27 | Guillaume Boivin | Cannondale | |
28 | Sergey Lagutin | RusVelo | |
29 | Kamil Zieliński | Poland | |
30 | Bartłomiej Matysiak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
31 | Yaroslav Popovuch | Trek Factory Racing | |
32 | Davide Formolo | Cannondale | |
33 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
34 | Murilo Fischer | FDJ | |
35 | Roberto Ferrari | Lampre-Merida | |
36 | Damiano Caruso | Cannondale | |
37 | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana | |
38 | Petr Vakoc | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
39 | Pawel Poljański | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
40 | Kevin De Weert | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
41 | Rafał Majka | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
42 | Oliver Zaugg | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
43 | Dominik Nerz | BMC | |
44 | Manuele Mori | Lampre-Merida | |
45 | Giampaolo Caruso | Katusha | |
46 | Eduard Vorganov | Katusha | |
47 | Konrad Dąbkowski | Poland | |
48 | Koldo Fernandez | Garmin-Sharp | |
49 | Davide Malacarne | Europcar | |
50 | Fabio Aru | Astana | |
51 | Marco Haller | Katusha | |
52 | Mitchell Docker | Orica-GreenEdge | |
53 | Peter Velits | BMC | |
54 | Stephen Cummings | BMC | |
55 | Christian Meier | Orica-GreenEdge | |
56 | Boris Vallee | Lotto-Belisol | |
57 | Matthias Krizek | Cannondale | |
58 | Sanchez Samuel | BMC | |
59 | Fabio Silvestre | Trek Factory Racing | |
60 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ | |
61 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | |
62 | Steve Morabito | BMC | |
63 | Nicki Sorensen | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
64 | Georg Preidler | Giant-Shimano | |
65 | Maxime Monfort | Lotto-Belisol | |
66 | Pieter Weening | Orica-GreenEdge | |
67 | Robert Gesink | Belkin | |
68 | Gianluca Brambilla | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
69 | Gediminas Bagdonas | Ag2r | |
70 | Warren Barguil | Giant-Shimano | |
71 | Serge Pauwels | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
72 | Ivan Santaromita | Orica-GreenEdge | |
73 | Pim Ligthart | Lotto-Belisol | |
74 | Paul Martens | Belkin | |
75 | Jose Cayetano Sarmiento | Cannondale | |
76 | Martin Velitis | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
77 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Giant-Shimano | |
78 | Johannes Frohlinger | Giant-Shimano | |
79 | Vegard Breen | Lotto-Belisol | |
80 | Tomasz Marczyński | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
81 | Manuel Silva Pires | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
82 | Andrey Solomennikov | RusVelo | |
83 | Artem Ovechkin | RusVelo | |
84 | Jimmy Engoulvent | Europcar | |
85 | Philip Deignan | SKY | |
86 | Kristof Vandewalle | Trek Factory Racing | |
87 | Beant Intxausti | Movistar | |
88 | Caleb Fairly | Garmin-Sharp | |
89 | Thor Hushovd | BMC | |
90 | Mattia Cattaneo | Lampre-Merida | |
91 | Andrey Amador | Movistar | |
92 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | |
93 | Alexis Vuillermoz | Ag2r | |
94 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar | |
95 | Sylwester Szmyd | Movistar | |
96 | Christophe Riblon | Ag2r | |
97 | Sebastian Henao | SKY | |
98 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre-Merida | |
99 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin-Sharp | |
100 | Dario Cataldo | SKY | |
101 | Maxime Bouet | Ag2r | |
102 | Davide Rebellin | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
103 | Giovanni Bernaudeau | Europcar | |
104 | Brett Lancaster | Orica-GreenEdge | |
105 | Lawrence Warbasse | BMC | |
106 | Branislau Samoilau | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
107 | Christophe Kern | Europcar | |
108 | Salvatore Puccio | SKY | |
109 | Sergey Firsanov | RusVelo | |
110 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
111 | Przemysław Niemiec | Lampre-Merida | |
112 | Davide Villella | Cannondale | |
113 | Jon Izaguirre | Movistar | |
114 | Evgeny Petrov | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
115 | Adriano Malori | Movistar | |
116 | Maxime Mederel | Europcar | |
117 | Paweł Cieślik | Poland | |
118 | Rory Sutherland | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
119 | Kanstantsin Siutsou | SKY | |
120 | Ilnur Zakarin | RusVelo | |
121 | Bob Jungels | Trek Factory Racing | |
122 | Bjorn Thurau | Europcar | |
123 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | |
124 | Moreno Moser | Cannondale | |
125 | Gorka Izaguirre | Movistar | |
126 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin-Sharp | |
127 | Sergei Chernetski | Katusha | |
128 | Nathan Brown | Garmin-Sharp | |
129 | Hugo Houle | Ag2r | |
130 | Paweł Bernas | Poland | |
131 | Anton Vorobyev | Katusha | |
132 | Paweł Franczak | Poland | |
133 | Jesus Hernandez | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
134 | Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier | FDJ | |
135 | Bart De Clercq | Lotto-Belisol | |
136 | Alexander Rybakov | Katusha | |
137 | Petr Ignatenko | Katusha | |
138 | Guillaume Bonnafond | Ag2r | |
139 | Bartosz Warchoł | Poland | |
140 | Kamil Gradek | Poland | |
141 | Anthony Roux | FDJ | |
142 | Andrey Zeits | Astana | @ 27 seconds |
143 | Maxim Belkov | Katusha | 00' 39'' |
144 | Samuel Bewley | Orica-GreenEdge | 00' 49'' |
145 | David Tanner | Belkin | 00' 52'' |
146 | Cameron Meyer | Orica-GreenEdge | 00' 56'' |
147 | Matteo Bono | Lampre-Merida | 01' 02'' |
148 | Laurent Mangel | FDJ | 01' 03'' |
149 | Jussi Veikkanen | FDJ | 01' 03'' |
150 | Thomas De Gendt | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 01' 11'' |
151 | Przemysław Kasperkiewicz | Poland | 01' 13'' |
152 | Barry Markus | Belkin | |
153 | Rick Flens | Belkin | |
154 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto-Belisol | 01' 28'' |
155 | Julian David Arredondo | Trek Factory Racing | 01' 30'' |
156 | Angelo Tulik | Europcar | 02' 25'' |
157 | Ben Swift | SKY | 02' 43'' |
158 | Petter Nordhaug Lars | Belkin | 02' 55'' |
159 | Lasse Hansen | Garmin-Sharp | 04' 18'' |
160 | Jerome Cousin | Europcar | |
161 | Mateusz Taciak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | 04' 39'' |
162 | Joshua Edmondson | SKY | 05' 09'' |
163 | Jack Bobridge | Belkin | 07' 10'' |
164 | Thierry Hupond | Giant-Shimano |
GC after Stage 4:
1 | Petr Vakoc | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 20hr 34min 24sec |
2 | Matthias Krizek | Cannondale | @ 26 seconds |
3 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Ag2r | 00' 27'' |
4 | Bos Theo | Belkin | |
5 | Luka Mezgec | Giant-Shimano | |
6 | Jonas Van Genechten | Lotto-Belisol | |
7 | Roman Maikin | RusVelo | 00' 31'' |
8 | Boris Vallee | Lotto-Belisol | 00' 33'' |
9 | Manuele Mori | Lampre-Merida | |
10 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Polsat Polkowice | 00' 35'' |
11 | Grzegorz Stępniak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | 00' 37'' |
12 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Giant-Shimano | |
13 | Nikolas Maes | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
14 | Enrico Gasparotto | Astana | |
15 | Marco Haller | Katusha | |
16 | Davide Formolo | Cannondale | |
17 | Damiano Caruso | Cannondale | |
18 | Dominik Nerz | BMC | |
19 | Timofey Kritskiy | RusVelo | |
20 | Giampaolo Caruso | Katusha | |
21 | Kamil Zieliński | Poland | |
22 | Pawel Poljański | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
23 | Georg Preidler | Giant-Shimano | |
24 | Rafał Majka | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
25 | Steve Morabito | BMC | |
26 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
27 | Oliver Zaugg | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
28 | Peter Velits | BMC | |
29 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ | |
30 | Kevin De Weert | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
31 | Guillaume Boivin | Cannondale | |
32 | Konrad Dąbkowski | Poland | |
33 | Maxime Monfort | Lotto-Belisol | |
34 | Martin Velitis | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
35 | Alexis Vuillermoz | Ag2r | |
36 | Robert Gesink | Belkin | |
37 | Sebastian Lander | BMC | |
38 | Andrey Amador | Movistar | |
39 | Pieter Weening | Orica-GreenEdge | |
40 | Jose Cayetano Sarmiento | Cannondale | |
41 | Tomasz Marczyński | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
42 | Sanchez Samuel | BMC | |
43 | Artem Ovechkin | RusVelo | |
44 | Warren Barguil | Giant-Shimano | |
45 | Jon Izaguirre | Movistar | |
46 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre-Merida | |
47 | Gianluca Brambilla | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
48 | Davide Villella | Cannondale | |
49 | Przemysław Niemiec | Lampre-Merida | |
50 | Christophe Riblon | Ag2r | |
51 | Manuel Silva Pires | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
52 | Sebastian Henao | SKY | |
53 | Philip Deignan | SKY | |
54 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar | |
55 | Sergey Firsanov | RusVelo | |
56 | Vegard Breen | Lotto-Belisol | |
57 | Serge Pauwels | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
58 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin-Sharp | |
59 | Maxime Bouet | Ag2r | |
60 | Paweł Cieślik | Poland | |
61 | Mattia Cattaneo | Lampre-Merida | |
62 | Kristof Vandewalle | Trek Factory Racing | |
63 | Branislau Samoilau | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
64 | Sylwester Szmyd | Movistar | |
65 | Rory Sutherland | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
66 | Davide Rebellin | CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
67 | Evgeny Petrov | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
68 | Ilnur Zakarin | RusVelo | |
69 | Maxime Mederel | Europcar | |
70 | Beant Intxausti | Movistar | |
71 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | SKY | 01' 03'' |
72 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | |
73 | Wouter Poels | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
74 | Pim Ligthart | Lotto-Belisol | |
75 | Giovanni Bernaudeau | Europcar | |
76 | Stephen Cummings | BMC | |
77 | Christophe Kern | Europcar | |
78 | Eduard Vorganov | Katusha | 01' 12'' |
79 | Sergey Lagutin | RusVelo | |
80 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Giant-Shimano | |
81 | Gorka Izaguirre | Movistar | |
82 | Ivan Santaromita | Orica-GreenEdge | 01' 17'' |
83 | Paul Martens | Belkin | 01' 28'' |
84 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre-Merida | 01' 31'' |
85 | Christian Meier | Orica-GreenEdge | 01' 33'' |
86 | Bartosz Warchoł | Poland | |
87 | Lawrence Warbasse | BMC | 01' 45'' |
88 | Dario Cataldo | SKY | |
89 | Bob Jungels | Trek Factory Racing | |
90 | Adriano Malori | Movistar | 01' 48'' |
91 | Barry Markus | Belkin | 01' 50'' |
92 | Paweł Bernas | Poland | 01' 59'' |
93 | Bart De Clercq | Lotto-Belisol | |
94 | Ivan Balykin | RusVelo | 02' 04'' |
95 | Jimmy Engoulvent | Europcar | 02' 09'' |
96 | Raymond Kreder | Garmin-Sharp | 02' 20'' |
97 | Johannes Frohlinger | Giant-Shimano | 02' 25'' |
98 | Roberto Ferrari | Lampre-Merida | 02' 39'' |
99 | Murilo Fischer | FDJ | 02' 44'' |
100 | Angelo Tulik | Europcar | 03' 02'' |
101 | Andrey Zeits | Astana | 03' 08'' |
102 | Andrey Solomennikov | RusVelo | 03' 09'' |
103 | Brett Lancaster | Orica-GreenEdge | 03' 31'' |
104 | Nicki Sorensen | Tinkoff-Saxo | 03' 33'' |
105 | Anton Vorobyev | Katusha | 04' 05'' |
106 | Yaroslav Popovuch | Trek Factory Racing | 04' 13'' |
107 | Nikias Arndt | Giant-Shimano | 04' 35'' |
108 | Maxim Belkov | Katusha | 04' 53'' |
109 | Bartłomiej Matysiak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | 05' 06'' |
110 | Alexander Rybakov | Katusha | 05' 11'' |
111 | Steele Von Hoff | Garmin-Sharp | 05' 34'' |
112 | Hugo Houle | Ag2r | 05' 36'' |
113 | Salvatore Puccio | SKY | 06' 20'' |
114 | Guillaume Bonnafond | Ag2r | 06' 21'' |
115 | Kanstantsin Siutsou | SKY | 06' 22'' |
116 | Thomas De Gendt | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 06' 28'' |
117 | Thor Hushovd | BMC | 06' 40'' |
118 | Matteo Bono | Lampre-Merida | 06' 48'' |
119 | Anthony Roux | FDJ | 07' 08'' |
120 | Gediminas Bagdonas | Ag2r | 07' 13'' |
121 | David Tanner | Belkin | 07' 15'' |
122 | Sergei Chernetski | Katusha | 07' 18'' |
123 | Bjorn Thurau | Europcar | 07' 29'' |
124 | Jesus Hernandez | Tinkoff-Saxo | 07' 36'' |
125 | Paweł Franczak | Poland | 07' 43'' |
126 | Samuel Bewley | Orica-GreenEdge | 07' 48'' |
127 | Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier | FDJ | 07' 55'' |
128 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Astana | 08' 07'' |
129 | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEdge | 08' 14'' |
130 | Kamil Gradek | Poland | 08' 20'' |
131 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin-Sharp | 08' 24'' |
132 | Moreno Moser | Cannondale | 08' 55'' |
133 | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana | 09' 00'' |
134 | Przemysław Kasperkiewicz | Poland | 09' 25'' |
135 | Laurent Mangel | FDJ | 09' 27'' |
136 | Mitchell Docker | Orica-GreenEdge | 09' 57'' |
137 | Julian David Arredondo | Trek Factory Racing | 10' 46'' |
138 | Juan Jose Lobato | Movistar | 10' 59'' |
139 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | 10' 59'' |
140 | Fabio Aru | Astana | 11' 02'' |
141 | Davide Appollonio | Ag2r | 11' 21'' |
142 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Belkin | 11' 26'' |
143 | Petr Ignatenko | Katusha | 11' 55'' |
144 | Fumiyuki Beppu | Trek Factory Racing | 11' 58'' |
145 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | |
146 | Fabio Silvestre | Trek Factory Racing | 12' 09'' |
147 | Sebastien Chavanel | FDJ | |
148 | Johan Le Bon | FDJ | |
149 | Davide Malacarne | Europcar | |
150 | Caleb Fairly | Garmin-Sharp | |
151 | Mateusz Taciak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | 12' 17'' |
152 | Koldo Fernandez | Garmin-Sharp | 13' 10'' |
153 | Cameron Meyer | Orica-GreenEdge | 14' 02'' |
154 | Rick Flens | Belkin | 14' 04'' |
155 | Jussi Veikkanen | FDJ | 14' 39'' |
156 | Oscar Gatto | Cannondale | 14' 40'' |
157 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto-Belisol | 14' 56'' |
158 | Ben Swift | SKY | 18' 09'' |
159 | Jerome Cousin | Europcar | 19' 50'' |
160 | Lasse Hansen | Garmin-Sharp | 20' 16'' |
161 | Nathan Brown | Garmin-Sharp | 21' 32'' |
162 | Joshua Edmondson | SKY | 28' 10'' |
163 | Thierry Hupond | Giant-Shimano | 35' 31'' |
164 | Jack Bobridge | Belkin | 42' 14'' |
The peloton rides through Katowice. Photo ©Sirotti
Race leader Petr Vakoc surrounded by teammates. Photo ©Sirotti
Damiano Cunego crashed in stage one and needed four stitches in one knee, but he seems to be thriving. Photo ©Sirotti
Jerome Cousin trying to get away. Photo ©Sirotti
Thor Hushovd. Photo ©Sirotti
Stage winner Jonas Van Genechten. Photo ©Sirotti
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