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Thursday, August 7: Stage 5, Zakopane - Strbskie Pleso (SK), 190 km

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Rafal Majka wins stage 5. Photo ©Sirotti

The Race: Another wet, rainy day of racing in Poland. A good-sized break was allowed to roll away, but since this was the first day day in the hills, a stage for the GC men to gain time, the day was going to be decided by the riders who can climb.

The last survivor of the day's break was Orica's Christian Meier and he was reeled in by the Tinkoff-Saxo-led pack with 11 km to go. Working for Tinkoff-Saxo GC man Rafal Majka, Rory Sutherland set a fierce pace up the final climb to Strbskie Pleso, but none of the GC men were put in trouble. Ryder Hesjedal tried at least twice to get away, but it was a compact group that dashed for the line.

Rafal Majka started from several riders back, but came around everyone to win the stage and the 10-second stage winner's time bonus. At first it was thought Majka had also taken over the race lead.

But no, Peter Vakoc had gone very deep and preserved his GC lead by a single second.

Complete Results: photos coming...

Winner's average speed: 42.123 km/hr

1	Rafał Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	4hr 30min 38sec
2	Beant Intxausti	Movistar
3	Jon Izaguirre	Movistar
4	Gianluca Brambilla	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
5	Warren Barguil	Giant-Shimano
6	Sanchez Samuel	BMC
7	Davide Formolo	Cannondale
8	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Belkin
9	Andrey Amador	Movistar
10	Przemysław Niemiec	Lampre-Merida
11	Sergey Firsanov	RusVelo
12	Wouter Poels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
13	Julian David Arredondo	Trek Factory Racing
14	Pieter Weening	Orica-GreenEdge
15	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar
16	Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin-Sharp
17	Peter Velits	BMC
18	Maxime Bouet	Ag2r
19	Giampaolo Caruso	Katusha
20	Marek Rutkiewicz	CCC Polsat Polkowice
21	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r
22	Robert Gesink	Belkin
23	Lawrence Warbasse	BMC	@ 9 seconds
24	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Belisol
25	Mattia Cattaneo	Lampre-Merida
26	Davide Rebellin	CCC Polsat Polkowice	00' 12''
27	Georg Preidler	Giant-Shimano	00' 13''
28	Dario Cataldo	SKY	00' 15''
29	Davide Villella	Cannondale	00' 17''
30	Damiano Cunego	Lampre-Merida
31	Philip Deignan	SKY
32	Kamil Zieliński	Poland
33	Enrico Gasparotto	Astana
34	Steve Morabito	BMC
35	Ilnur Zakarin	RusVelo
36	Eros Capecchi	Movistar	00' 24''
37	Dominik Nerz	BMC	00' 26''
38	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Shimano
39	Christophe Kern	Europcar
40	Petr Vakoc	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
41	Michael Matthews	Orica-GreenEdge
42	Sylwester Szmyd	Movistar	00' 31''
43	Tomasz Marczyński	CCC Polsat Polkowice	00' 38''
44	Jose Cayetano Sarmiento	Cannondale
45	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Polsat Polkowice	00' 48''
46	Sergey Lagutin	RusVelo	00' 54''
47	Alexis Vuillermoz	Ag2r
48	Nikias Arndt	Giant-Shimano	01' 00''
49	Francesco Gavazzi	Astana	01' 04''
50	Kristof Vandewalle	Trek Factory Racing	01' 07''
51	Joshua Edmondson	SKY	01' 09''
52	Sebastian Henao	SKY
53	Paweł Cieślik	Poland
54	Fabio Aru	Astana
55	Pim Ligthart	Lotto-Belisol	01' 19''
56	Bjorn Thurau	Europcar	01' 21''
57	Manuele Mori	Lampre-Merida	01' 31''
58	Pawel Poljański	Tinkoff-Saxo	01' 34''
59	vald Boasson Hagen Ed	SKY
60	Johan Le Bon	FDJ
61	Ivan Santaromita	Orica-GreenEdge	02' 12''
62	Artem Ovechkin	RusVelo	02' 29''
63	Kanstantsin Siutsou	SKY	02' 42''
64	Eduard Vorganov	Katusha
65	Sergei Chernetski	Katusha	03' 09''
66	Rory Sutherland	Tinkoff-Saxo	03' 28''
67	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Belisol
68	Maxime Mederel	Europcar
69	Salvatore Puccio	SKY	04' 18''
70	Oliver Zaugg	Tinkoff-Saxo
71	Evgeny Petrov	Tinkoff-Saxo
72	Johannes Frohlinger	Giant-Shimano	04' 59''
73	Thomas De Gendt	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
74	Jerome Cousin	Europcar
75	Caleb Fairly	Garmin-Sharp	07' 13''
76	Cameron Meyer	Orica-GreenEdge	07' 53''
77	Samuel Bewley	Orica-GreenEdge
78	Bob Jungels	Trek Factory Racing
79	Stephen Cummings	BMC
80	Vegard Breen	Lotto-Belisol	08' 55''
81	Manuel Silva Pires	Tinkoff-Saxo	09' 26''
82	Jesus Hernandez	Tinkoff-Saxo
83	Fabio Felline	Trek Factory Racing
84	Nicki Sorensen	Tinkoff-Saxo
85	Sebastian Lander	BMC
86	Boris Vallee	Lotto-Belisol
87	Lasse Hansen	Garmin-Sharp
88	Martin Velitis	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
89	Andrey Zeits	Astana
90	Petr Ignatenko	Katusha
91	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge
92	Arman Kamyshev	Astana
93	Serge Pauwels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
94	Koldo Fernandez	Garmin-Sharp
95	Maciej Paterski	CCC Polsat Polkowice
96	Hugo Houle	Ag2r
97	Kevin De Weert	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
98	Adriano Malori	Movistar
99	Damiano Caruso	Cannondale
100	Davide Malacarne	Europcar
101	Oscar Gatto	Cannondale
102	Moreno Moser	Cannondale
103	Thor Hushovd	BMC
104	Nathan Brown	Garmin-Sharp	09' 37''
105	Przemysław Kasperkiewicz	Poland	12' 44''
106	Paul Martens	Belkin
107	Guillaume Bonnafond	Ag2r
108	Gediminas Bagdonas	Ag2r
109	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ
110	Guillaume Boivin	Cannondale	16' 28''
111	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek Factory Racing
112	Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier	FDJ	16' 30''
113	David Tanner	Belkin	16' 32''
114	Paweł Franczak	Poland
115	Bartosz Warchoł	Poland
116	Marco Haller	Katusha
117	Matthias Krizek	Cannondale
118	Grzegorz Stępniak	CCC Polsat Polkowice
119	Sebastien Chavanel	FDJ
120	Bartłomiej Matysiak	CCC Polsat Polkowice
121	Andrey Solomennikov	RusVelo
122	Jimmy Engoulvent	Europcar
123	Giovanni Bernaudeau	Europcar
124	Fabio Silvestre	Trek Factory Racing
125	Angelo Tulik	Europcar
126	Timofey Kritskiy	RusVelo
127	Ivan Balykin	RusVelo
128	Laurent Mangel	FDJ
129	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha
130	Yauheni Hutarovich	Ag2r
131	Steele Von Hoff	Garmin-Sharp
132	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida
133	Raymond Kreder	Garmin-Sharp
134	Tyler Farrar	Garmin-Sharp
135	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar
136	Yaroslav Popovuch	Trek Factory Racing
137	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida
138	Jacopo Guarnieri	Astana
139	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida
140	Maxim Belkov	Katusha
141	Mitchell Docker	Orica-GreenEdge
142	Murilo Fischer	FDJ
143	Brett Lancaster	Orica-GreenEdge
144	Paweł Bernas	Poland
145	Kamil Gradek	Poland
146	Rick Flens	Belkin	25' 48''
147	Ramon Sinkeldam	Giant-Shimano
148	Nikolas Maes	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	30' 05''
149	Kenny Dehaes	Lotto-Belisol
150	Thierry Hupond	Giant-Shimano
151	Konrad Dąbkowski	Poland	31' 08''
152	Jonas Van Genechten	Lotto-Belisol
153	Mateusz Taciak	CCC Polsat Polkowice
154	Davide Appollonio	Ag2r
155	Jack Bobridge	Belkin
156	Bos Theo	Belkin

GC after Stage 5:

1	Petr Vakoc	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	25h5 5min 28sec
2	Rafał Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	@ 1 seconds
3	Beant Intxausti	Movistar	00' 05''
4	Jon Izaguirre	Movistar	00' 07''
5	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	00' 11''
6	Giampaolo Caruso	Katusha
7	Marek Rutkiewicz	CCC Polsat Polkowice
8	Peter Velits	BMC
9	Andrey Amador	Movistar
10	Robert Gesink	Belkin
11	Pieter Weening	Orica-GreenEdge
12	Warren Barguil	Giant-Shimano
13	Sanchez Samuel	BMC
14	Gianluca Brambilla	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
15	Przemysław Niemiec	Lampre-Merida
16	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r
17	Sergey Firsanov	RusVelo
18	Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin-Sharp
19	Maxime Bouet	Ag2r
20	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Belisol	00' 20''
21	Mattia Cattaneo	Lampre-Merida
22	Davide Rebellin	CCC Polsat Polkowice	00' 23''
23	Georg Preidler	Giant-Shimano	00' 24''
24	Enrico Gasparotto	Astana	00' 28''
25	Kamil Zieliński	Poland
26	Steve Morabito	BMC
27	Damiano Cunego	Lampre-Merida
28	Davide Villella	Cannondale
29	Philip Deignan	SKY
30	Ilnur Zakarin	RusVelo
31	Eros Capecchi	Movistar	00' 35''
32	Dominik Nerz	BMC	00' 37''
33	Wouter Poels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
34	Sylwester Szmyd	Movistar	00' 42''
35	Gorka Izaguirre	Movistar	00' 46''
36	Tomasz Marczyński	CCC Polsat Polkowice	00' 49''
37	Jose Cayetano Sarmiento	Cannondale
38	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Polsat Polkowice	00' 59''
39	Christophe Kern	Europcar	01' 03''
40	Alexis Vuillermoz	Ag2r	01' 05''
41	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Shimano	01' 12''
42	Kristof Vandewalle	Trek Factory Racing	01' 18''
43	Sebastian Henao	SKY	01' 20''
44	Paweł Cieślik	Poland
45	Lawrence Warbasse	BMC	01' 28''
46	Dario Cataldo	SKY	01' 34''
47	Manuele Mori	Lampre-Merida	01' 38''
48	Sergey Lagutin	RusVelo	01' 40''
49	Pawel Poljański	Tinkoff-Saxo	01' 45''
50	Pim Ligthart	Lotto-Belisol	01' 56''
51	Edvald Boasson Hagen	SKY	02' 11''
52	Artem Ovechkin	RusVelo	02' 40''
53	Ivan Santaromita	Orica-GreenEdge	03' 03''
54	Eduard Vorganov	Katusha	03' 28''
55	Rory Sutherland	Tinkoff-Saxo	03' 39''
56	Maxime Mederel	Europcar
57	Oliver Zaugg	Tinkoff-Saxo	04' 29''
58	Evgeny Petrov	Tinkoff-Saxo
59	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Belisol	05' 01''
60	Nikias Arndt	Giant-Shimano	05' 09''
61	Johannes Frohlinger	Giant-Shimano	06' 58''
62	Michael Matthews	Orica-GreenEdge	08' 14''
63	Bjorn Thurau	Europcar	08' 24''
64	Stephen Cummings	BMC	08' 30''
65	Kanstantsin Siutsou	SKY	08' 38''
66	Vegard Breen	Lotto-Belisol	09' 06''
67	Bob Jungels	Trek Factory Racing	09' 12''
68	Maciej Paterski	CCC Polsat Polkowice	09' 32''
69	Boris Vallee	Lotto-Belisol	09' 33''
70	Sebastian Lander	BMC	09' 35''
71	Damiano Caruso	Cannondale	09' 37''
72	Kevin De Weert	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
73	Martin Velitis	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
74	Manuel Silva Pires	Tinkoff-Saxo
75	Serge Pauwels	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
76	Francesco Gavazzi	Astana	09' 38''
77	Sergei Chernetski	Katusha	10' 01''
78	Fabio Felline	Trek Factory Racing	10' 03''
79	Salvatore Puccio	SKY	10' 12''
80	Julian David Arredondo	Trek Factory Racing	10' 20''
81	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	10' 33''
82	Adriano Malori	Movistar	10' 48''
83	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Belkin	11' 00''
84	Thomas De Gendt	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	11' 01''
85	Fabio Aru	Astana	11' 45''
86	Andrey Zeits	Astana	12' 08''
87	Nicki Sorensen	Tinkoff-Saxo	12' 33''
88	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	12' 55''
89	Johan Le Bon	FDJ	13' 17''
90	Paul Martens	Belkin	13' 46''
91	Hugo Houle	Ag2r	14' 36''
92	Samuel Bewley	Orica-GreenEdge	15' 15''
93	Thor Hushovd	BMC	15' 40''
94	Jesus Hernandez	Tinkoff-Saxo	16' 36''
95	Guillaume Boivin	Cannondale	16' 39''
96	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	17' 55''
97	Matthias Krizek	Cannondale	18' 32''
98	Yauheni Hutarovich	Ag2r	18' 33''
99	Guillaume Bonnafond	Ag2r	18' 39''
100	Marco Haller	Katusha	18' 42''
101	Grzegorz Stępniak	CCC Polsat Polkowice	18' 43''
102	Timofey Kritskiy	RusVelo
103	Caleb Fairly	Garmin-Sharp	18' 56''
104	Giovanni Bernaudeau	Europcar	19' 09''
105	Gediminas Bagdonas	Ag2r	19' 31''
106	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	19' 37''
107	Bartosz Warchoł	Poland	19' 39''
108	Arman Kamyshev	Astana	19' 59''
109	Paweł Bernas	Poland
110	Ivan Balykin	RusVelo	20' 10''
111	Jimmy Engoulvent	Europcar	20' 15''
112	Raymond Kreder	Garmin-Sharp	20' 26''
113	Roberto Ferrari	Lampre-Merida	20' 45''
114	Murilo Fischer	FDJ	20' 50''
115	Petr Ignatenko	Katusha	20' 55''
116	Angelo Tulik	Europcar	21' 08''
117	Davide Malacarne	Europcar	21' 09''
118	Andrey Solomennikov	RusVelo	21' 15''
119	Cameron Meyer	Orica-GreenEdge	21' 29''
120	Brett Lancaster	Orica-GreenEdge	21' 37''
121	Przemysław Kasperkiewicz	Poland	21' 43''
122	Koldo Fernandez	Garmin-Sharp	22' 10''
123	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	22' 11''
124	Yaroslav Popovuch	Trek Factory Racing	22' 19''
125	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	22' 59''
126	Bartłomiej Matysiak	CCC Polsat Polkowice	23' 12''
127	David Tanner	Belkin	23' 21''
128	Steele Von Hoff	Garmin-Sharp	23' 40''
129	Oscar Gatto	Cannondale	23' 40''
130	Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier	FDJ	23' 59''
131	Jerome Cousin	Europcar	24' 23''
132	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	24' 54''
133	Paweł Franczak	Poland	25' 49''
134	Ramon Sinkeldam	Giant-Shimano	25' 59''
135	Jacopo Guarnieri	Astana	26' 13''
136	Kamil Gradek	Poland	26' 26''
137	Tyler Farrar	Garmin-Sharp	26' 30''
138	Laurent Mangel	FDJ	27' 33''
139	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek Factory Racing	28' 00''
140	Mitchell Docker	Orica-GreenEdge	28' 03''
141	Joshua Edmondson	SKY	28' 53''
142	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	29' 05''
143	Lasse Hansen	Garmin-Sharp	29' 16''
144	Fabio Silvestre	Trek Factory Racing	30' 15''
145	Sebastien Chavanel	FDJ	30' 15''
146	Nikolas Maes	Omega Pharma-Quick Step	30' 16''
147	Nathan Brown	Garmin-Sharp	30' 43''
148	Bos Theo	Belkin	31' 09''
149	Jonas Van Genechten	Lotto-Belisol
150	Konrad Dąbkowski	Poland	31' 19''
151	Rick Flens	Belkin	39' 26''
152	Davide Appollonio	Ag2r	42' 03''
153	Mateusz Taciak	CCC Polsat Polkowice	42' 59''
154	Kenny Dehaes	Lotto-Belisol	44' 35''
155	Thierry Hupond	Giant-Shimano	01h 05' 10''
156	Jack Bobridge	Belkin	01h 12' 56''

Stage 5 photos:

Rafal Majka timed it perfectly to win stage 5, but didn't put race leader Petr Vakoc to the sword. Photo ©Sirotti

Benat Intxausti is clearly displeased with Majka's stage win.Photo ©Sirotti

Samuel Sanchez finishes the stage. Photo ©Sirotti

Stage winner Rafal Majka. Photo ©Sirotti

Petr Vakoc will start tomorrow's stage in yellow. Photo ©Sirotti

Stage 5 Live Updates:

32 km to go: There is a break 56 seconds up the road. Don't have names yet. Roads are wet, course is hilly.

30 km to go: Christian Meier (Orica-GreenEdge) is alone, off the front. Garmin-Sharp is leading the peloton.

29 km to go: Ryder Hesjedal has attacked the peloton and is going like a motorcycle. I know Rory Sutherland is between Meier and the pack and two other riders. They are on the penultimate climb.

The Sutherland trio has been caught and Meier's gap is shrinking. Don't see Hesjedal off the front any more.

26 km to go: Meier was first over the crest and is descending alone. Sergio Henao led the pack over. They are going 77 km down a wet mountain road.

20 km to go: Meier is descending crazy fast. He's 16 seconds ahead of the pack.

16 km to go: Tinkoff-Saxo, working for Rafal Majka is leading the chase. The peloton is lined out as they approach the final climb. Meier still has 12 seconds. Rafal Majka has taken off his arm warmers and hands them off to a teammate. Stuff is going to happen.

13 km to go: The road has started to tilt upward for the final climb to Strbskie Pleso. Meier is all over his bike, thrashing it, keeping it going and still staying about 12 seconds ahead of the peloton.

11 km to go: Meier has been caught. BMC has joined Tinkoff-Saxo in leading the pack. Majka is near the front.

7 km to go: Rory Sutherland is tapping out a hard pace for Tinkoff-Saxo at the front of affairs. Things are still together.

5 km to go: Sutherland pulls off. Majka still has two teammates in front of him.

4 km to go: Siutsiu (Sky) is off the front. He isn't drawing a counter. Siutsiu is caught by the pack led by Robert Gesink (Belkin).

3 km to go: Ilnur Zakarin (RusVelo) dangled a bit off the front, but Fabio Aru led the field back up to him.

2 km to go: Hesjedal tries again, but doesn't get a gap. Pieter Weening is on his wheel.

Final Kilometer: Hesjedal pounds away. Now goes Pieter Weening. Weening has a gap!

The finish: Weening is caught. And now Amador goes. And then, from several riders back Rafal Majka goes by everyone and wns the stage. Petr Vakoc is digging deep and may have kept his lead.

Majka takes over the lead. Vakoc is at the same time, in second place. Now they are showing Vakoc in the lead. I'll shut up until there are official results.

Official results are in. Vakoc remains the leader by a single second.

Results:

GC after Stage 5:

Stage 5 map and profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

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