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Kraków, Poland, 8th August 2009 - Columbia-HTC's Andre Greipel has clocked his fifteenth win of the 2009 season after storming to victory in the final stage of the Tour of Poland and the 64th win for the Team.


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Greipel finished ahead of Australia's Chris Sutton and Belgium's Wouter Weylandt to claim the win - Columbia-HTC's third stage victory in four days in the Tour of Poland. The German sprint star crossed the finish line in Krakow pointing at his Columbia-HTC jersey as a gesture of thanks to his team-mates. 


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"This was a very important win for me," Greipel said afterwards. "It was my last chance here and I really didn't want to miss it. I've made mistakes during the previous stages here in Poland so I was in a bit of a rut, but now I've come through. "It wasn't an easy finish. Three of my team-mates got blocked when there was a crash with three and a half kilometres to go so I lost my lead-out train. The crash happened just in front of me but I got through it and then I linked up Marcel Sieberg with about 1500 metres left to race and he guided me through to the finish. 


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On stage 6, the toughest stage of the Tour of Poland saw Columbia-HTC's Edvald Boasson Hagen sprinted to the team's second victory in three days. "Having Michael Albasini in the break in the first part of the stage made a big difference," Boasson Hagen said. "Once I got in a late move I could take advantage of all his good work from before. The final sprint was just the kind I like, as well - slightly uphill. I just waited for [race leader] Alessandro Ballan to go for it, then went past him." 


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Before that, on stage 4, Edvald did it for the first time for his Team Columbia-HTC, won in front of Juergen Roelandts and Danilo Napolitano and launched the successful Tour of Poland for the Team. 


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Results overall:
1 Allesandro Ballan (Lampre-N.G.C) 28:46:13
2 Daniel Moreno (Caisse d'Epargne) 00:00:10
3 Edvald Boasson-Hagen (Team Columbia-HTC) 00:00:11