Tour of Poland 2012

Tour of Poland 2012
Racing series	UCI WorldTour
Host country	Poland
Competition period	July 10 to July 16, 2012
Stages	7 stages
overall length	1231.6 km
Starting field	199 in 25 teams (154 of which arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Moreno Moser ( LIQ ) 30:15:49 h 2. Michał Kwiatkowski ( OPQ ) + 0:05 min 3. Sergio Henao ( SKY ) + 0:16 min
Team evaluation	(SKY) 90:49:30 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Moreno Moser (LIQ) 30:15:49 h
Scoring	Ben Swift (SKY)
Mountain scoring	Tomasz Marczyński ( VCD )
Intermediate sprint	Adrian Kurek ( UNA )
course
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The 69th Tour of Poland took place from July 10th to July 16th, 2012. The stage race was held over seven stages and was part of the UCI WorldTour 2012 . Due to the clash with the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the race was brought forward by a month and took place at the same time as the Tour de France .

Attendees

The 18 ProTeams were entitled to start . In addition, the organizer Lang Team gave seven wildcards to six Professional Continental Teams and a Polish national team.

ProTeams Ag2r (ALM) Astana Pro Team (AST) BMC Racing Team (BMC) Euskaltel-Euskadi (EUS) FDJ-Big Mat (FDJ) Garmin-Sharp (GRM) Orica GreenEdge (GEC) Katusha Team (KAT) Lampre ISD (LAM)	Liquigas-Cannondale (LIQ) Lotto Belisol Team (LTB) Movistar (MOV) Omega Pharma-Quick Step (OPQ) Rabobank Cycling Team (RAB) RadioShack Nissan (RNT) Sky ProCycling (SKY) Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank (SAX) Vacansoleil-DCM (VCD)
Professional Continental Teams Team Argos-Shimano (ARG) Caja Rural (CJR) Colnago-CSF Inox (CSF) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia (FAR)	Team Poland BGZ Team Type 1-Sanofi (TT1) Utensilnord Named (UNA)

Stage overview

On April 25, 2012, the organizer presented the final route and stages of the tour after the provisional route had met with much criticism.

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner
1.	10th of July	Karpacz - Jelenia Góra	179.5		Moreno Moser
2.	July 11th	Wałbrzych - Opole	239.4		Ben Swift
3.	July 12	Kędzierzyn-Koźle - Cieszyn	201.7		Zdeněk Štybar
4th	July 13th	Będzin - Katowice	127.8		Aidis Kruopis
5.	July 14th	Rabka-Zdrój - Zakopane	163.1		Ben Swift
6th	15th of July	Bukowina Terma - Bukowina Tatrzańska	191.8		Moreno Moser
7th	16th of July	Kraków - Kraków	131.4		John Degenkolb

Ratings in the course of the race

stage	total	Intermediate sprint	mountain	Points	team
1.	Moreno Moser (LIQ)	Sylvain Georges (ALM)	Daniel Teklehaimanot (OGE)	Moreno Moser (LIQ)	no winner 1
2.		Łukasz Bodnar		Fabian Wegmann (GRM)
3.				Moreno Moser (LIQ)
4th	Michał Kwiatkowski (OPQ)	Adrian Kurek (UNA)		Ben Swift (SKY)
5.
6th	Moreno Moser (OPQ)		Tomasz Marczyński (POL)	Michał Kwiatkowski (OPQ)
7th				Ben Swift (SKY)

¹ The first ten teams had the same time at the finish.

Web links

• Official website of the Tour de Pologne 2012 (English, Polish)
• Tour of Poland 2012 UCI website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 25 teams to start, over 200 cyclists. April 23, 2012, accessed April 27, 2012 . 
2. ^ Tour de Pologne presented in Warsaw. April 25, 2012, accessed April 27, 2012 .