Race Through Poland
2019
FINISHED
GALLERY 1
Adrian Crapciu
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GALLERY 2
Tadek Ciechanowski
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PHILOSOPHY
Imagine that one day you leave the house for a bike ride, and you say to your relatives “I’m going to ride around Poland, I’ll be back in a few days”. Imagine that at the same time, exactly a dozen or so dozens of people you know or not, do exactly the same. Imagine that you all start and finish your journey in the same place, and hundreds of people are watching you all from a bird’s eye, wondering “which one will reach the end first?” Imagine that you do it with passion for cycling, travel and adventure, passion for victory and overcoming your own boundaries.
Can you imagine it? That means that you can do it …
Race Through Poland is a long-distance cycling race that leads participants through Poland in a variety of configurations and order. The competitors independently overcome their route around 1200-1500 km, visiting the checkpoints specific for a given race edition.
We would like Race Through Poland to be a foretaste of the season of “great” long-distance bicycle races, from which we have long been inspired to develop our event.
RULES
SELF SUPPORTED
Bicycle riding without external support, which means no to transhipment or accommodation points organized before the start, no help from family and friends on the route, no hiding behind a car, tractor or other rider, etc. (so-called no drafting) , no service vehicle, no subway, public and national transport etc.
What counts is only what you can do yourself in the environment around you, using only commercially available services.
FREE ROUTE
That is total independence in choosing the route. You determine which way you are going to complete the next checkpoints of the race. This rule is unique, and the only thing you get from us are the starting/finishing points and four control points that you must place in the right order
SAFETY RULES
That is, we drive safely and in accordance with the law. There is no consent to breaking the rules, even if they are too radical. Helmets are mandatory all the time, and in the night vests, bands or any other form of glare. The bicycles must undergo technical inspection in terms of visibility and suitability for safe cycling.
STARTING LIST – RTP 2019
SOLO RIDERS
| CAP NUMBER | LAST NAME | FIRST NAME | COUNTRY | |
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| #39 | Afonso | Francisco |
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| #22 | Aleksy | Borys |
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| #2 | Baj | Jarosław |
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| #3 | Banasik | Sylwester |
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| #34 | Bilski | Radek |
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| #17 | Bińkowski | Bartłomiej |
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| #25 | Birecki | Mateusz |
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| #1 | Błaszczak | Krystian |
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| #38 | Chmielewski | Piotr |
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| #20 | Czerwiński | Miłosz |
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| #59 | Davies | Ben |
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| #9 | Dvorak | Tomas |
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| #12 | Dziemski | Mateusz |
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| #48 | Gubała | Wojtek J. |
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| #46 | Heine | Kamil |
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| #27 | Hubacek | Jarek |
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| #11 | Jakubek | Krystian |
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| #43 | Jańczak | Wiesław |
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| #24 | Jędrzejewski | Tomek |
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| #23 | Juraszek | Marcin |
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| #42 | Karpiński | Łukasz |
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| #31 | Kistowski | Mikołaj |
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| #7 | Kocoń | Rafał |
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| #40 | Kordas | Maciej |
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| #41 | Kotowski | Mateusz |
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| #58 | Krajewski | Piotr |
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| #18 | Krawczyk | Izabella |
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| #45 | Laszewski | Paweł |
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| #47 | Lenhard | Björn |
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| #53 | Lifson | Marten |
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| #50 | Löschke | Susanne |
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| #4 | Łuksza | Robert |
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| #26 | Maciejewska | Karolina |
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| #30 | Marek | Vladimir |
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| #36 | Mendyk | Konrad |
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| #29 | Nowak | Krzysztof |
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| #55 | Paterak | Maciej |
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| #8 | Pieczka | Paweł |
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| #54 | Piotrów | Łukasz |
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| #5 | Radczuk | Tomasz |
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| #21 | Rajda | Krzysztof |
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| #56 | Rogóż | Radosław |
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| #10 | Sarniak | Michał |
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| #19 | Sass | Gabor |
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| #6 | Sędkowski | Łukasz |
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| #15 | Sobczak | Mariusz |
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| #14 | Stefański | Tomasz |
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| #49 | Svantesson | Torbjörn |
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| #57 | Świderski | Bartosz |
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| #37 | Tucholski | Maciej |
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| #33 | Walerczyk | Paweł |
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| #35 | Wesoły | Krzysztof |
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| #28 | Wierzbicki | Grzegorz |
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| #32 | Wionczyk | Michał |
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| #16 | Wolański | Krzysztof |
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| #44 | Wolff | Michał |
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| #52 | Wysocki | Paweł |
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| #51 | Zychowicz | Roman |
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PAIR RIDERS
| CAP NUMBER | LAST NAME | FIRST NAME | COUNTRY | |
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| #103a | Bieleszuk | Filip |
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| #103b | Stawiarski | Mateusz |
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| #104a | Jelonek | Michał |
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| #104b | Kowalski | Bolesław |
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| #101a | Feherpataky | Agnieszka |
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| #101b | Szałacińska | Marta |
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| #106a | Jeż | Bartosz |
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| #106b | Sroka | Tomasz |
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| #105a | Cios | Anna |
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| #105b | Kilian | Alina |
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| #107a | Nowakowski | Marcin |
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| #107b | Rozmiarek | Tomasz |
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| #102a | Gałka | Piotr |
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| #102b | Szlachta | Oskar |
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CONTROL POINTS – RTP 2019
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START DFR
Dolnośląski Festiwal Rowerowy
Tor kolarski im. im. Wernera Józefa Grundmanna – Wrocław
May 11, 2019 16:00
Oncoming edition will start at the concrete slab of the Wroclaw Velodrome of Werner Jozef Grundmann. Designed by Clemens Schurman in the 1930s, the object is one of the shortest and most technically difficult velodromes in Europe. After a round on this iconic concrete, riders will follow to the south of Wroclaw in so-called honorary tempo. For the next several dozen kilometers, the competitors will perform the obligatory start round, which will lead them to the heart of the road cycling of the region, famous Tapadla pass. We can not imagine going on a bicycle ride to the south without completing this pass. GPX file. It is from here, that the participants will follow their own route, to the first control point.
01
CONTROL POINT
Mactronic
Stóg Izerski
First control point is located at the top of Jizera Mountains, in mountain lodge hotel at Stog Izerski at 1060m above the see level. Stog is mostly covered by spruce forest and road leading to the top is reaching more than 18% grade in some points. It is a challange for the best. Similar as with Hitchcock, we are starting from “climbing earthquake”, so reaching CP1 will be a great warm out for many. There is more than one way up to Stog, so riders will be required to follow the right way, just like the GPX file shows in the race documents.
02
CONTROL POINT
Bike Days
Praděd
Second control point is located at the highest mountain of Hrubý Jeseník mountains, Moravia, Czech Silesia and Upper Silesia and is fifth-highest mountain of Czech Republic, where the average annual temperature is about 1°C. Climb is about 10km long with average of 6% grade, but to get to the top You will be required to check a designated and obligatory route from one Polish border to the other. Why we go to Czech Republic? Because we love to and mostly because of last Year winner who inspired us to do so.
03
CONTROL POINT
Hultaj
Schronisko Trzy Korony
Third control point is located at the south gate to The Pieniny in little town Sromowce Nizne, where Dunajec River Gorge is starting. This place is magically surrounded by mountain ranges from every single side. The actual climb is not there. Maybe 50 meters of max 5% grade. But we wouldn’t allow You to get over here without taking a breathtaking view from the Carna Góra nearby, or without a lovely climb to Knurowska Pass, so here also You will be required to ride by designated segment. GPX file will be available with race document.
04
CONTROL POINT
Panato
Ojców
Fourth control point is located in Ojcow National Park, the smallest of all 23 national parks in Poland. But as the saying goes that “small is beautiful”, this part of Poland will welcome You with some extraordinary landscapes of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The climb to the control point has only 700 meters, but it can take a tired rider off saddle for a while with 15% grade in place. We want riders to take the most of this land, this is why they will be required to enter the Park from the north and follow the obligatory round. GPX file will be available with race documents.
05
FINISH
Szosa
Hala Stulecia – Wrocław
Second edition RTP finish line will be located exactly where we started, at main gate to Centennial Hall. Riders will be pleased to take an obligatory round following the most exiting parts of the famous road bike marathon Hornet Sting. The obligatory round will lead riders through beautiful Trzebnickie Hills witch are the mostly chosen place to train for local road riders. GPX file will follow south to the main gate of Centennial Hall.
00
START DFR
Dolnośląski Festiwal Rowerowy
Hala Stulecia – Wrocław
May 11, 2019 16:00
Oncoming edition will start at the concrete slab of the Wroclaw Velodrome of Werner Jozef Grundmann. Designed by Clemens Schurman in the 1930s, the object is one of the shortest and most technically difficult velodromes in Europe. After a round on this iconic concrete, riders will follow to the south of Wroclaw in so-called honorary tempo. For the next several dozen kilometers, the competitors will perform the obligatory start round, which will lead them to the heart of the road cycling of the region, famous Tapadla pass. We can not imagine going on a bicycle ride to the south without completing this pass. GPX file. It is from here, that the participants will follow their own route, to the first control point.
01
CONTROL POINT
Mactronic
Stóg Izerski
First control point is located at the top of Jizera Mountains, in mountain lodge hotel at Stog Izerski at 1060m above the see level. Stog is mostly covered by spruce forest and road leading to the top is reaching more than 18% grade in some points. It is a challange for the best.
Similar as with Hitchcock, we are starting from “climbing earthquake”, so reaching CP1 will be a great warm out for many.
There is more than one way up to Stog, so riders will be required to follow the right way, just like the GPX file shows in the race documents.
02
CONTROL POINT
Bike Days
Praděd
Second control point is located at the highest mountain of Hrubý Jeseník mountains, Moravia, Czech Silesia and Upper Silesia and is fifth-highest mountain of Czech Republic, where the average annual temperature is about 1°C.
Climb is about 10km long with average of 6% grade, but to get to the top You will be required to check a designated and obligatory route from one Polish border to the other.
Why we go to Czech Republic? Because we love to and mostly because of last Year winner who inspired us to do so.
03
CONTROL POINT
Hultaj
Schronisko Trzy Korony
Third control point is located at the south gate to The Pieniny in little town Sromowce Nizne, where Dunajec River Gorge is starting. This place is magically surrounded by mountain ranges from every single side.
The actual climb is not there. Maybe 50 meters of max 5% grade. But we wouldn’t allow You to get over here without taking a breathtaking view from the Carna Góra nearby, or without a lovely climb to Knurowska Pass, so here also You will be required to ride by designated segment. GPX file will be available with race document.
04
CONTROL POINT
Panato
Ojców
Fourth control point is located in Ojcow National Park, the smallest of all 23 national parks in Poland. But as the saying goes that “small is beautiful”, this part of Poland will welcome You with some extraordinary landscapes of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.
The climb to the control point has only 700 meters, but it can take a tired rider off saddle for a while with 15% grade in place.
We want riders to take the most of this land, this is why they will be required to enter the Park from the north and follow the obligatory round. GPX file will be available with race documents.
05
FINISH
Szosa
Hala Stulecia – Wrocław
Second edition RTP finish line will be located exactly where we started, at main gate to Centennial Hall.
Riders will be pleased to take an obligatory round following the most exiting parts of the famous road bike marathon Hornet Sting. The obligatory round will lead riders through beautiful Trzebnickie Hills witch are the mostly chosen place to train for local road riders. GPX file will follow south to the main gate of Centennial Hall.
RESULTS
Paweł Pieczka (no 8) Arrived first to the finish line – 3 days 2 hours 49 minutes
Krystian Jakubek (nr 11) Arrived second to the finish line – 3 days 6 hours 23 minutes
Ben Davies (no 59) Arrived third to the finish line – 4 days 2 hours 52 minutes
PARTNERS
