2014 Tour de Pologne
| 2014 UCI World Tour, race 20 of 29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 3 August – 9 August 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,251 km (777.3 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 30h 16' 18" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Rafał Majka (Poland)
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(Tinkoff–Saxo) |
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| Second |
 Jon Izagirre (Spain)
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(Movistar Team) | |
| Third |
Beñat Intxausti (Spain)
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Points |
 Yauheni Hutarovich (Belarus)
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(Ag2r–La Mondiale) |
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Mountains |
Maciej Paterski (Poland)
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(CCC–Polsat–Polkowice) |
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Sprints |
 Matthias Krizek (Austria)
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(Cannondale) |
| Team | Movistar Team | ||
The 2014 Tour de Pologne was the 71st running of the Tour de Pologne cycling stage race. It started on 3 August in Gdańsk and ended on 9 August in Kraków, after seven stages. It was the twentieth race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season.
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 – the Polish national team – two other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 21-team peloton.
The twenty-one teams that competed in the race were:
In line with the 25th anniversary of Poland moving from a communist to a democratic country and being freed from Soviet grasp, the 71st Tour de Pologne started in Gdańsk, a city famous for being the home of the Solidarność union, largely responsible for the political changes. The first stage was predominantly flat, featuring just one categorised climb, a third category ascent in Bydgoszcz, on the second of three 7.2 km loops ending the stage. During the stage, there were also special sprints in Pruszcz Gdański and Malbork, as well as two intermediate sprints offering points for the intermediate sprints classification in Kwidzyn and Unisław. It was largely expected that this stage would be won by a sprinter, who would take the first yellow jersey.
Immediately after the start, a breakaway was initiated by Matthias Krizek of Cannondale, and he was shortly joined by Jimmy Engoulvent of Team Europcar and Anton Vorobyev of Team Katusha, as well as two home riders - Maciej Paterski of CCC Polsat Polkowice and Kamil Gradek riding for a selective Polish national team. The five riders built up an advantage that reached 15 minutes over the peloton. The riders faced extreme temperatures at the start, the mercury reaching 35 °C (95 °F). Gradek took maximum points at the intermediate sprint in Kwidzyn, whilst Engoulvent won at the Unisław sprint. With both riders having four points on their tally, the battle for the first navy blue jersey in the intermediate sprints classification would continue until the line.
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