Category: Tour de Pologne

With the Tour de France over and a couple of weeks before the Vuelta Espana, many pro riders, who may or may not participate in the last grand tour of the season, ride in other, lesser-known or well-publicized races, such as the Tour de Pologne.

This race consists of either seven or eight stages and covers a distance of 1,200 kilometers (approximately 750 miles), which is half the distance of the Tour de France. The Tour de Pologne is considered the oldest and most important bicycle race in Poland, which began in 1928.

But the race has only been part of the UCI tour since 2005, and then became a part of the UCI World Tour in 2009. There is also a women’s race called Tour de Pologne Kobiet and it lasts one week. It starts after the end of the men’s race.