Tour de Pologne, the Finish in Krakow

This year’s 66th Tour de Pologne will culminate with the finish on the streets of Krakow on Saturday, August 8th.

The 1253-kilometer, seven-stage cycling race starts in Warsaw on August 2nd. 

Poland’s Tour de Pologne is part of the main UCI Pro Tour professional cycling circuit alongside Tour de France, Italy’s Giro d’Italia, or Spain’s Vuelta a Espana. All top teams are expected to show up with their star cyclists. Poland’s national team of eight has been given a wild card. 

First stage of the 2009 Tour de Pologne is a 108-kilometer city circuit race in Warsaw. Next three stages run through the mostly flat eastern half of Poland with finishes in Bialystok, Lublin, and Rzeszow. Last three legs of the race take place in the country’s mountainous south. Most strenuous is the 162-kilometer stage between Kroscienko and Zakopane, in the Malopolska Province, that includes eleven mountain time bonuses, with a first-class uphill stretch ending 1140 meters above sea level. 

The first Tour de Pologne took place in 1928.