2009 Tour de Pologne

The 2009 Tour de Pologne was the 66th running of the Tour de Pologne, in the 81st year since the first edition. The event was part of both the 2009 UCI ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar, and ran from 28 August, starting in Warsaw and finishing in Kraków. After four stages that were dominated by sprint finishes, World champion Alessandro Ballan's participation in successful breaks in stages five and six, and bonus time for being first and second respectively in those stages, brought him overall victory.

2009 Tour de Pologne
2009 UCI World Ranking, race 19 of 24
Race details
Dates2 8 August
Stages7
Distance1,158.1 km (719.6 mi)
Winning time28:46:13
Results
Winner  Alessandro Ballan (ITA) (Lampre–NGC)
  Second  Daniel Moreno (ESP) (Caisse d'Epargne)
  Third  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) (Team Columbia–HTC)

Points  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) (Silence–Lotto)
Mountains  Marek Rutkiewicz (POL) (Team Poland Bank BGŻ)
Sprints  David Loosli (SUI) (Lampre–NGC)


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