Danny Van Poppel (Team Sky) proved quickest in the bunch gallop at the end of stage five of the Tour of Poland on Wednesday, blazing home ahead of Luka Mezgec (Orica-Scott) and Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe).
Sagan keeps the race lead, ending the day 14 seconds clear of stage 3 winner Dylan Teuns (BMC). His own teammate Rafal Majka is a further six seconds back in third.
“That was the key point – the leadout. It was a really hard stage with a climb on the finishing circuit and I felt really good today so I was there, and I think the whole team was still there with me. The guys did a great job”, said Van Poppel.
“Obviously we’ve already done some leadouts so I trust the guys 100%. We took the lead early and even Wout did a great pull. Everyone was really impressive. Michal and Lukasz did a great job and all I had to do was my own sprint. That was enough.”
Tour of Poland 2017 – stage 5 results (Olimp Nagawczyna – Rzeszów):
| 1 | Danny Van Poppel (Team Sky) | 2:59:44 |
| 2 | Luka Mezgec (Orica-Scott) | ,, |
| 3 | Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) | ,, |
| 4 | Roberto Ferrari (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
| 5 | Enrico Battaglin (LottoNl-Jumbo) | ,, |
| 6 | Niccolo Bonifazio (Bahrain Merida) | ,, |
| 7 | Daniel Oss (BMC) | ,, |
| 8 | Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) | ,, |
| 9 | Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) | ,, |
| 10 | Lukasz Wisniowski (Team Sky) | ,, |
General classification after stage 5:
| 1 | Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) | 18:41:27 |
| 2 | Dylan Teuns (BMC) | +14” |
| 3 | Rafal Majka (Bora-hansgrohe) | +20” |
| 4 | Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb) | +24” |
| 5 | Odd Christian Eiking (FDJ) | +31” |
| 6 | Domenico Pozzovivo (AG2R) | +32” |
| 7 | Wout Poels (Team Sky) | +33” |
| 8 | Adam Yates (Orica-Scott) | ,, |
| 9 | Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain Merida) | +39” |
| 10 | Gorka Izagirre (Movistar) | ,, |
