Cycling: Dutch rider Olav Kooij wins 1st stage of Tour de Pologne

Dutch cyclist Olav Kooij won the first stage of this year’s Tour de Pologne on Monday, sprinting to victory in the 199.7-kilometre leg from Wrocław to Legnica in southwestern Poland.

Dutch rider Olav Kooij wins stage one of the 2025 Tour de Pologne on Monday.

Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński

The 23-year-old Visma–Lease a Bike rider finished ahead of France’s Paul Magnier and Australia’s Jensen Plowright to claim his fifth career stage win in Poland’s biggest annual cycling race.

With the victory, Kooij took the leader’s yellow jersey.

Olav Kooij wygrywa 1. Etap i zakłada żółtą koszulkę lidera Klasyfikacji Generalnej ORLEN!
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Po finiszu w Legnicy Olav Kooij (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) po raz piąty w karierze wygrał etap TdP i został pierwszym liderem… pic.twitter.com/Pqo3zVQHWd

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Poland’s top finisher, Stanisław Aniołkowski, placed sixth.

The second leg of the 82nd Tour de Pologne will see cyclists cover a 150 km route starting and ending in the mountain resort of Karpacz.

Nearly 170 riders from 22 international teams are taking part in the seven-stage 1,076-kilometre race, which runs until Sunday.

Top Polish cyclists Rafał Majka and Michał Kwiatkowski are among this year’s competitors.

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard won last year's Tour de Pologne.

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Source: IAR, PAP