Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe) took a second victory in 24 hours after he outsprinted in spectacular fashion Alvaro Hodeg (Quick-Step Floors) and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) to win stage two in Tour of Poland.
The second day of the race saw riders tackling a similarly undulating parcours to the first stage in Kraków, with two categorized climbs over its 156km length, both coming towards the end of the stage, where the route covered a 20km finishing circuit four times.
While there was a slight kick up to the finale, the stage has traditionally been earmarked for a sprint, and barring any upsets, it was likely this would be the case today.
In a hectic finale, Pascal Ackermann sprinted to his second consecutive stage win at the Tour of Poland extending his lead both the overall and sprint classifications.
“It was risky because I was going too fast in the end to find a perfect line and then I had to go to the right side,” Ackermann said. “It was critical but it was OK, I think.”
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Tour of Poland 2018 – stage 2 results (Tarnowskie Gory – Katowice):
| 1 | Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe) | 3:16:39 |
| 2 | Alvaro Hodeg (Quick-Step Floors) | ,, |
| 3 | Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) | ,, |
| 4 | Luka Mezgec (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 5 | Simone Consonni (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
| 6 | Niccolo Bonifazio (Bahrain-Merida) | ,, |
| 7 | Marc Sarreau (Groupama-FDJ) | ,, |
| 8 | Mike Teunissen (Team Sunweb) | ,, |
| 9 | Clement Venturini (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
| 10 | Kamil Zielinski (Poland) | ,, |
