2012 Tour de Pologne
| 2012 UCI World Tour, race 19 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Route of the 2012 Tour de Pologne.
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| Dates | 10–16 July 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,231.6 km (765.3 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 30h 15' 49" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Moreno Moser (Italy)
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(Liquigas–Cannondale) |
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| Second |
 Michał Kwiatkowski (Poland)
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(Omega Pharma–Quick-Step) | |
| Third |
 Sergio Henao (Colombia)
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Points |
 Ben Swift (Great Britain)
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(Team Sky) |
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Mountains |
Tomasz Marczyński (Poland)
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(Vacansoleil–DCM) |
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Sprints |
Adrian Kurek (Poland)
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(Utensilnord–Named) |
| Team | Team Sky | ||
The 2012 Tour de Pologne was the 69th running of the Tour de Pologne cycling stage race. It started on 10 July in Karpacz and ended on 16 July in Kraków, after seven stages. It was the 19th race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.
The race was won by Liquigas–Cannondale rider Moreno Moser, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey after winning the penultimate stage, and maintained the lead of the race until its conclusion; he also won the race's opening stage, his first wins at World Tour level. Moser's winning margin over runner-up Michał Kwiatkowski of Omega Pharma–Quick-Step – the highest-placed Polish rider – was five seconds, and Team Sky's Sergio Henao completed the podium, eleven seconds down on Kwiatkowski and sixteen behind Moser.
In the race's other classifications, Vacansoleil–DCM rider Tomasz Marczyński won the King of the Mountains classification, Team Sky's Ben Swift won the white jersey for the points classification after winning two stages during the event, and Adrian Kurek of Utensilnord–Named won the intermediate sprints classification, for the second year in succession. As well as their two stage victories, Team Sky finished at the head of the teams classification.
Aside from entering the Czech Republic during the third stage, the race stages started and ended in Polish locations.
As the Tour de Pologne was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Along with Team Poland BGŻ – the Polish national team – six other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 25-team peloton.
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