The 2011 Tour de Pologne was the 68th running of the Tour de Pologne cycling stage race. It started on 31 July in Pruszków and finished on 6 August in Kraków. It was the 19th race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.

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2011 Tour de Pologne

2011 UCI World Tour, race 19 of 27
Race details
Dates	31 July – 6 August
Stages	7[1]
Distance	1,113.3 km (691.8 mi)
Winning time	26h 40' 01"
Results
Winner  Peter Sagan (Slovakia) (Liquigas–Cannondale)   Second  Dan Martin (Republic of Ireland) (Garmin–Cervélo)   Third  Marco Marcato (Italy) (Vacansoleil–DCM) Points  Peter Sagan (Slovakia) (Liquigas–Cannondale) Mountains  Michał Gołaś (Poland) (Vacansoleil–DCM) Sprints  Adrian Kurek (Poland) (Team Poland BGŻ)   Team Vacansoleil–DCM
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The lead of the race changed hands in the final stage of the event. Garmin–Cervélo rider, and defending race winner, Dan Martin, who took the overall lead after a stage victory on the penultimate stage, had an advantage of three seconds to his nearest challengers Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale and Vacansoleil–DCM's Marco Marcato. Sagan had held the lead prior to Martin, having won the fourth and fifth stages, but lost his advantage after losing time in the closing metres of stage six, after an attack by Martin and Wout Poels, another Vacansoleil–DCM rider.

On the final stage, Sagan and Marcato moved closer to Martin at the intermediate sprint – offering time bonuses to the top three riders – by taking second and third behind Martin's team-mate Heinrich Haussler, with the winner of the Tour to be decided at the finish in Kraków. Despite missing out on the stage victory – taken by Skil–Shimano's Marcel Kittel,^[2] who took his fourth stage victory of the week – Sagan finished just behind in second place, and with a time bonus of six seconds, he overhauled Martin by five seconds.^[2] Marcato finished fifth on the stage to seal his third place in the general classification, two seconds behind Martin and seven behind Sagan.^[3]

In the race's other classifications, Vacansoleil–DCM rider Michał Gołaś won the King of the Mountains classification, Sagan won the points classification, Adrian Kurek of Team Poland BGŻ finished clear at the top of the sprints classification, with Vacansoleil–DCM also finishing at the head of the teams classification.

Aside from entering the Czech Republic (to the city of Český Těšín on the border with Poland) during the fourth stage, the race stages started and ended in Polish locations.

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Stage	Date	Route	Distance	Type		Winner
1	31 July	Pruszków to Warsaw	101.5 km[4]		Flat stage	Marcel Kittel (GER)
2	1 August	Częstochowa to Dąbrowa Górnicza	162 km[5]		Flat stage	Marcel Kittel (GER)
3	2 August	Będzin to Katowice	135.7 km[6]		Flat stage	Marcel Kittel (GER)
4	3 August	Oświęcim to Cieszyn	176.9 km[7]		Medium-mountain stage	Peter Sagan (SVK)
5	4 August	Zakopane to Zakopane	201.5 km[8]		Mountain stage	Peter Sagan (SVK)
6	5 August	Terma Bukowina Tatrzańska to Bukowina Tatrzańska	207.7 km[9]		Mountain stage	Dan Martin (IRL)
7	6 August	Kraków to Kraków	128 km[10]		Flat stage	Marcel Kittel (GER)

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The 18 teams from the UCI World Tour were automatically invited to this edition of the Tour de Pologne.^[11]

4 teams were also awarded a wildcard place into the event:^[11]

• CCC–Polsat–Polkowice
• De Rosa–Ceramica Flaminia
• Team Poland BGŻ
• Skil–Shimano