Rafal Majka won the fifth stage of his home Tour de Pologne on Thursday in a sprint finish as Omega Parma-QuickStep’s Petr Vakoc of the Czech Republic held on to the overall leader’s golden jersey.
Tinkoff-Saxo rider Majka, who won two stages on last month’s Tour de France and claimed the polka dot jersey as the King of the Mountains, pipped Spanish Movistar duo Benat Intxausti and Ion Izaguirre at the end of the 190km ride through the mountains from the Polish ski resort of Zakopane to Strbske Pleso, across the border in Slovakia.
Yesterday’s sixth stage was a 174km run to Bukowina Tatrzanska, Poland.
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The seven-stage race concludes today with an individual time trial in Krakow.
TOUR OF UTAH
AP, EDEN, Utah
Defending champion Tom Danielson dropped Chris Horner in the final kilometers on Thursday and easily won the fourth stage of the Tour of Utah to take the overall race lead.
After his Garmin-Sharp team put him in position at the base of Powder Mountain, Danielson showed his climbing legs on the roughly 9km ascent to the finish.
He crossed the finish line with a 56 second lead over BMC Racing’s Ben Hermans of Belgium and another second over fellow American Horner of Lampre-Merida.
The three riders now lead the overall standings, in the same order and time gaps, with three stages remaining.
Yesterday’s fifth stage took the riders into Wyoming.
The 164km trek included a long stretch of dirt road near the finish in Kamas, with the winner likely to have been decided in a sprint.
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