Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) was part of a breakaway sprint just 300 metres from the finish line, beating out both Pavel Sivakov (Team Ineos) and Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) to claim stage 6 in Tour of Poland.
It had seemed that Hindley was in control as he took pole position in the breakaway into the urban roads of Koscielisko, and he was favourite with halff a kilometre to go. However Vingegaard unleashed a suprise sprint of his own and relegated the other two rivals to the final two podium places.
The win for the 22-year-old rider took the leader’s jersey from Bora-hansgrohe’s Pascal Ackermann, who had led from the fist stage, and he now has a four second advantage over Sivakov.
Sergio Higuita (EF Education First) crossed the line eight seconds in arrears, while a third group that included some of the main GC contenders crossed the line another two seconds back.
??Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen of ??@JumboVismaRoad wins stage 6 of ??@Tour_de_Pologne #TDP19 #TDP2019 (?@sport_tvppl) pic.twitter.com/vVT4nxSMBW
— World Cycling Stats (@wcsbike) August 8, 2019
Tour of Poland 2019 – stage 6 results (Zakopane – Kościelisko):
| 1 | Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) | 4:07:13 |
| 2 | Pavel Sivakov (Team Ineos) | ,, |
| 3 | Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) | ,, |
| 4 | Sergio Higuita (EF Education First) | +08” |
| 5 | Rafal Majka (Bora-hansgrohe) | +10” |
| 6 | Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
| 7 | Davide Formolo (Bora-hansgrohe) | ,, |
| 8 | Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Ineos) | ,, |
| 9 | Christopher Hamilton (Team Sunweb) | ,, |
| 10 | Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
Tour of Poland 2019 – general classification after stage 6:
| 1 | Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) | 22:13:57 |
| 2 | Pavel Sivakov (Team Ineos) | +04” |
| 3 | Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) | +06” |
| 4 | Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) | +17” |
| 5 | Sergio Higuita (EF Education First) | +18” |
| 6 | Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale) | +19” |
| 7 | Davide Formolo (Bora-hansgrohe) | +20” |
| 8 | Christopher Hamilton (Team Sunweb) | ,, |
| 9 | Rafal Majka (Bora-hansgrohe) | ,, |
| 10 | James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | ,, |
