2018 Tour de Pologne

The sixth stage was initially scheduled to run between Zakopane and Poprad in Slovakia and be 180 km (112 mi) long, but due to financial difficulties two months before the stage was run, the finish was changed to Bukowina Tatrzańska and the stage rescheduled to run over 130 km (81 mi).

Stage characteristics and winners

Stage	Date	Route	Distance	Type		Winner	Leader of the GC
1	4 August	Main Square, Kraków to Kraków	134 km (83 mi)		Flat stage	Pascal Ackermann (GER)	Pascal Ackermann
2	5 August	Tarnowskie Góry to Katowice	156 km (97 mi) 144 km (89 mi)		Flat stage	Pascal Ackermann (GER)
3	6 August	Silesian Stadium, Chorzów to Zabrze	139 km (86 mi)		Flat stage	Álvaro José Hodeg (COL)	Álvaro José Hodeg
4	7 August	Jaworzno to Szczyrk	179 km (111 mi)		Mountain stage	Michał Kwiatkowski (POL)	Michał Kwiatkowski
5	8 August	Wieliczka Salt Mine to Bielsko-Biała	152 km (94 mi)		Medium-mountain stage	Michał Kwiatkowski (POL)
6	9 August	Zakopane to Terma Bukowina Tatrzańska	130 km (81 mi)		Mountain stage	Georg Preidler (AUT)
7	10 August	Terma Bukowina Tatrzańska to Bukowina Tatrzańska	136 km (85 mi)		Mountain stage	Simon Yates (GBR)
Total		1,026 km (637.5 mi) 1,014 km (630.1 mi)

As the 2018 Tour de Pologne was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team into the race. Along with a Polish national team, three other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 22-team peloton.

In the 2018 Tour de Pologne, four different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.[11] The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey;[12] it was considered the most important of the Tour de Pologne, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.

There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a purple jersey.[12] In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, third, or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. Double points were also awarded for the premier first-category climb on the final stage.[11]

Additionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a white jersey.[13] In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 20 in a stage.[11] For winning a stage, a rider earned 20 points, with a point fewer per place down to 1 point for 20th place.[11] The fourth and final jersey represented the active rider classification, marked by a blue jersey.[13] This was decided at the race's intermediate sprints, awarding points on a 3–2–1 scale.[11]

There was also a classification for Polish riders,[14] with the highest-placed rider appearing on the podium each day. As well as this, a teams classification was also calculated,[14] in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.

Stage	Winner	General classification (Polish: Żółta koszulka)	Sprints classification (Polish: Klasyfikacja sprinterska)	Mountains classification (Polish: Klasyfikacja górska)	Active rider classification (Polish: Klasyfikacja najaktywniejszych)	Polish rider classification (Polish: Najlepszy Polak)	Teams classification (Polish: Klasyfikacja drużynowa)
1	Pascal Ackermann	Pascal Ackermann	Pascal Ackermann	Michał Paluta	Alessandro De Marchi	Michał Paluta	Trek–Segafredo
2	Pascal Ackermann				Jenthe Biermans
3	Álvaro José Hodeg	Álvaro José Hodeg	Álvaro José Hodeg
4	Michał Kwiatkowski	Michał Kwiatkowski		Jan Tratnik		Michał Kwiatkowski	BMC Racing Team
5	Michał Kwiatkowski		Pascal Ackermann
6	Georg Preidler			Łukasz Owsian			Astana
7	Simon Yates		Michał Kwiatkowski	Patrick Konrad			AG2R La Mondiale
Final		Michał Kwiatkowski	Michał Kwiatkowski	Patrick Konrad	Jenthe Biermans	Michał Kwiatkowski	AG2R La Mondiale

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