Preview - Tour de Pologne 2022 stage 5

The fifth day of the Tour de Pologne will be a tricky one. The start of the stage will have three small ascents which may be very favourable for the formation of a breakaway, and the whole day has a difficult situation where the sprinters can definitely survive the day’s climbs if they’ve got good form, but at the same time the GC riders can blow up the race.

There is space for classics-style racing, with several hilltops throughout the day. The main three will come with 42, 32 and 10 kilometers to go with 1.2Km at 6.8%, 2.2Km at 5.7% and 2.2Km at 4.2% respectively. It’s an open day, where the riders will decide the rhythm and the contenders for the day will depend on that.

CyclingUpToDate prediction:

**** Pascal Ackermann

*** Quinten Hermans, Ethan Hayter

** Kaden Groves, Zdenek Stybar, Jordi Meeus

* Mike Teunissen, Sean Quinn, Jhonatan Narváez, Sergio Higuita

The finale in Rzeszow will be flat however, and not technical unlike some of the past days. There will be difficulties before reacing the city, however if a sprint is to happen it will have appropriate and very wide roads to take it in.