Tour of Poland - Stage 2 Results: Kittel kills 'em

Skil-Shimano

Marcel Kittel has won Stage 2 of the Tour of Poland - the second success for the German rider in the race since he also won yesterday and the second UCI Pro Tour victory for his Skil-Shimano team.

A multi-bike pile-up 2km from the finish line took down several riders and forced BMC's Alessandro Ballan to abandon.

Stage 2 results:

1  Marcel Kittel, Skil - Shimano, 3h 38' 35"
2  Heinrich Haussler, Garmin-Cervelo      
3  Graeme Brown, Rabobank 
4  Caleb Fairly, HTC-Highroad      
5  John Degenkolb, HTC-Highroad      
6  Peter Sagan, Liquigas-Cannondale      
7  Juan José Haedo, Saxo Bank Sungard      
8  Leigh Howard, HTC-Highroad      
9  Adam Blythe, Omega Pharma-Lotto      
10 Francesco Chicchi,QuickStep (all same time)

Britain's Adam Blythe was 10th
in Stage 1, 9th in Stage 2.

Overall General Classification results following Stage 2:

1 KITTEL Marcel, 05h 45' 41''  
2 KUREK Adrian, + 00' 07''
3 HAUSSLER Heinrich, + 00' 14''
4 KRISTOFF Alexander, + 00' 14''
5 MATYSIAK Bartłomiej, + 00' 15''
6 CAZAUX Pierre, + 00' 15''
7 CHICCHI Francesco, + 00' 16''
8 BROWN Graeme, + 00' 16''
9 PISCOPIELLO Fabio, + 00' 16''
10 BAILETTI Paolo, + 00' 18''


Climber: MATYSIAK Bartłomiej (6pts); Sprinter: KUREK Adrian (13pts); Points: KITTEL Marcel (40pts).