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Sunday, May 1: 5th and Final Stage, Ollon - Genève, 177.4 km

Stage 5 map and profile

Michael Albasini wins Tour de Romandie stage 5

The Race: Here's how stage winner Michael Albasini's Orica-GreenEdge team told the tale.

Swiss rider Michael Albasini has continued his excellent record of stage wins at the Tour de Romandie for ORICA-GreenEDGE by taking a stunning victory on stage five today after spending most of the day leading a ten-man breakaway.

Having won five stages in his home race over the past two years, today's final stage win made it three consecutive years of success and also saw Albasini walk home with the green jersey for the points classification.

After an agonisingly close second place at Liege-Bastogne-Liege and a third place on the first stage of Romandie, Albasini was happy to finally capitalise on his strong form.

“I heard on the race radio that the gap was 17seconds so I didn’t expect to see the BMC guy come flying past me but I thought his effort may die in the last 500metres," Albasini said. “I launched my sprint a bit early with around 400metres to go and thankfully it was just about enough.”

“It’s been a tough week but I’m really happy with today’s result and the team have ridden well throughout the race.”

Despite the difficult conditions throughout the week-long race the team achieved their objective of winning a stage and giving oppurtunities to young riders such as Damien Howson and Jack Haig.

Howson was the team’s best placed rider in the overall general classification in 16th position behind race winner Nairo Quintana (Movistar), rounding off an excellent week for the 23-year-old Australian who also spent a day in the best young rider's jersey.

Sport director Neil Stephens was proud of the team’s performance over the course of the race. “It was a fantastic day for us today, Michael (Albasini) really produced the goods," said Stephens. "He was out front all day long and we were actually preparing to put Daryl (Impey) into position for the sprint when Michael attacked again and held on for the win.”

“We started the day with the objective of maintaining Damien’s (Howson) position on the overall and we ended going one better and Damien moved up two places to finish 16th overall.”

“Obviously it’s a very difficult race,” continued Stephens. “The parcours and the weather combined to make the conditions quite brutal but we have performed superbly as a team. It’s a great feeling to be going away from the race with a stage win, the points jersey and a 23-year-old in the top twenty of the general classification keeping company with some of the best riders in the world.”

How it happened:

The fifth and final stage of the 2016 Tour de Romandie covered 172kilometres from Ollon to Geneva and the day began cold and fresh but thankfully without rain.

Ten riders, including Albasini for ORICA-GreenEDGE, escaped very early in the stage and quickly developed a lead of over three minutes on the peloton after 40kilometres of racing.

This early move proved to be very interesting as the group included Chris Froome (Team-Sky) who seemed to have rediscovered some form after winning yesterday’s Queen stage. Although quite far down on the general classification, this group of riders had the potential to stay away until the finish.

The ten leaders worked together well for the first two hours of racing over rolling roads. However it was Albasini who was hungry for the intermediate sprint points taking the full compliment at 85kilometres after beating Froome and Carlos Verona (Etixx-Quickstep) into submission.

With around 60kilometres remaining the breakaway still had two minutes over the peloton. Team Dimension-Data and Movistar were beginning to take turns at the front of the main bunch as the intensity of the chase began to increase slightly.

Movistar had race leader Quintana sitting comfortably in the peloton and they were also represented within the leaders' group with Andrey Amador.

Eighteen kilometres from the finish in Geneva and Verona attacked from the lead group and was followed by Albasini and Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo). The three began to push on ahead and had a one-minute advantage over the peloton with 15kilometres to go. The trio were joined by Amador just before the final ten kilometres.

Approaching the finish in Geneva the rain was falling and the group of four leaders were beginning to look tentatively at each other as the tension increased. The peloton were 50seconds behind with seven kilometres to go.

As the four leaders passed under the flamme rouge the chasing peloton were only a few seconds behind when a crash occurred at the front of the bunch. A BMC rider made a late attempt for the line but Albasini kicked again and claimed the victory by more than a bike length.

Complete Results:

177.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.024 km/hr

1	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	4hr 13min 17sec
2	Andrey Amador	Movistar	s.t.
3	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
4	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
5	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
6	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	s.t.
7	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
8	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
9	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
10	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	s.t.
11	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	s.t.
12	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	s.t.
13	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
14	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	s.t.
15	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	s.t.
16	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
17	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
18	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
19	William Bonnet	FDJ	s.t.
20	Roland Thalmann	Roth	s.t.
21	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
22	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
23	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
24	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
25	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	s.t.
26	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	s.t.
27	Steve Morabito	FDJ	s.t.
28	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	s.t.
29	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
30	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	s.t.
31	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
32	Simon Špilak	Katusha	s.t.
33	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
34	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
35	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
36	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	s.t.
37	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	s.t.
38	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	s.t.
39	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	s.t.
40	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	s.t.
41	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
42	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
43	Danilo Wyss	BMC	s.t.
44	Peter Velits	BMC	s.t.
45	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
46	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	s.t.
47	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	s.t.
48	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
49	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	s.t.
50	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
51	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	s.t.
52	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	s.t.
53	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
54	Damiano Caruso	BMC	s.t.
55	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	s.t.
56	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
57	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
58	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
59	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	s.t.
60	Nico Brüngger	Roth	s.t.
61	Matthias Krizek	Roth	s.t.
62	Martin Kohler	Roth	s.t.
63	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
64	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	s.t.
65	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
66	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	s.t.
67	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
68	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
69	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
70	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	s.t.
71	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	s.t.
72	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
73	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
74	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
75	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	s.t.
76	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
77	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	s.t.
78	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
79	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	@ 2min 47sec
80	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+2' 49''
81	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
82	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
83	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
84	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
85	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+2' 53''
86	Anthony Roux	FDJ	+2' 56''
87	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
88	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
89	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	s.t.
90	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	+3' 01''
91	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	+3' 04''
92	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	s.t.
93	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	+3' 08''
94	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	s.t.
95	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	s.t.
96	Egor Silin	Katusha	+3' 13''
97	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+3' 20''
98	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+3' 24''
99	Salvatore Puccio	Team Sky	+3' 33''
100	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
101	Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	s.t.
102	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
103	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.
104	Ben Swift	Team Sky	s.t.
105	Chris Froome	Team Sky	+3' 36''
106	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+3' 51''
107	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	+4' 00''
108	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	s.t.
109	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
110	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
111	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
112	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+11' 49''
113	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
114	Dylan Page	Roth	s.t.
115	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	s.t.
116	Bruno Pires	Roth	s.t.
117	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
118	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
119	Alex Peters	Team Sky	s.t.
120	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	s.t.
121	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
122	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+15' 44''
123	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+15' 45''
124	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.

Final GC after Stage 5:

• General classification winner: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Points classification winner: Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEdge)
• Mountains classification winnner: Sander Armée (Lotto-Soudal)
• Young rider classification winner: Pierre Latour (Ag2r)
• Team classification winner: Movistar

643.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.391 km/hr

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	16hr 20min 20sec
2	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	@ 19sec
3	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	+23''
4	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	+26''
5	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	+57''
6	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	+1' 12''
7	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+1' 16''
8	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
9	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 24''
10	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	+1' 27''
11	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	+1' 32''
12	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+2' 24''
13	Damiano Caruso	BMC	+2' 33''
14	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	+3' 25''
15	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	+3' 29''
16	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	+4' 21''
17	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	+5' 13''
18	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+5' 25''
19	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
20	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	+5' 59''
21	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+6' 06''
22	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+7' 22''
23	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	+9' 06''
24	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	+10' 21''
25	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	+10' 32''
26	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	+12' 25''
27	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+17' 07''
28	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	+17' 17''
29	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+17' 18''
30	Steve Morabito	FDJ	+17' 33''
31	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	+17' 38''
32	Andrey Amador	Movistar	+17' 46''
33	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+18' 04''
34	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	+18' 50''
35	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+19' 17''
36	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+19' 36''
37	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+21' 11''
38	Chris Froome	Team Sky	+21' 12''
39	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	+21' 21''
40	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	+23' 28''
41	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	+23' 50''
42	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+24' 16''
43	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	+24' 19''
44	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	+25' 17''
45	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	+26' 08''
46	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	+26' 29''
47	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+27' 35''
48	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+28' 48''
49	Danilo Wyss	BMC	+28' 51''
50	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	+28' 57''
51	Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	+29' 42''
52	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	+29' 52''
53	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+30' 27''
54	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	+31' 00''
55	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	+31' 48''
56	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+32' 32''
57	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+33' 09''
58	Bruno Pires	Roth	+33' 20''
59	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	+34' 45''
60	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	+35' 36''
61	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+36' 22''
62	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	+37' 15''
63	Egor Silin	Katusha	+37' 18''
64	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+37' 22''
65	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	+37' 31''
66	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	+38' 28''
67	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+38' 37''
68	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+40' 28''
69	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+40' 39''
70	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	+40' 51''
71	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	+41' 55''
72	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+42' 28''
73	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	+42' 32''
74	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+43' 40''
75	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	+45' 21''
76	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	+45' 32''
77	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	+45' 57''
78	William Bonnet	FDJ	+46' 13''
79	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	+46' 25''
80	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+47' 26''
81	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	+47' 41''
82	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+48' 12''
83	Peter Velits	BMC	+48' 36''
84	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+48' 42''
85	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+48' 47''
86	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	+49' 15''
87	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+49' 34''
88	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	+49' 41''
89	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
90	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	+50' 06''
91	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	+50' 46''
92	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	+50' 55''
93	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	+51' 32''
94	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	+51' 40''
95	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+51' 45''
96	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+51' 48''
97	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+52' 30''
98	Salvatore Puccio	Team Sky	+54' 00''
99	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+54' 23''
100	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+54' 54''
101	Martin Kohler	Roth	+55' 20''
102	Roland Thalmann	Roth	+56' 05''
103	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+56' 06''
104	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	+56' 15''
105	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	+56' 19''
106	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+56' 34''
107	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+56' 41''
108	Matthias Krizek	Roth	+56' 52''
109	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	+56' 56''
110	Ben Swift	Team Sky	+56' 57''
111	Anthony Roux	FDJ	+58' 07''
112	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+58' 55''
113	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+59' 43''
114	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+1h 00' 05''
115	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+1h 01' 28''
116	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	+1h 02' 12''
117	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+1h 04' 12''
118	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+1h 04' 52''
119	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	+1h 07' 39''
120	Dylan Page	Roth	+1h 08' 42''
121	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+1h 11' 26''
122	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+1h 16' 18''
123	Alex Peters	Team Sky	+1h 16' 35''
124	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+1h 18' 18''

Stage 5 map and profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

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Saturday, April 30: Stage 4, Conthey - Villars sur Ollon, 172.7 km

Stage 4 map and profile | Stage 4 photos

Chris Froome wins stage 4

The race: Here's the story from stage winner Chris Froome's Team Sky.

Chris Froome demonstrated his impressive form by powering to a resounding solo victory on stage four at the Tour de Romandie.

The Brit went into the day targeting stage victory and attacked early heading into the final 40 kilometres, opening out a decisive gap alongside Tejay van Garderen, before pushing on solo up to Villars-sur-Ollon.

Despite attacks firing in a reduced peloton behind, Froome was able to maintain a healthy advantage, measuring his efforts late on to win the queen stage by four seconds in soaking conditions.

The result was particularly sweet after the two-time winner saw his general classification ambitions deflated on Thursday due to an inopportune puncture.

"It's been a tough race so far," said Froome behind the podium, "so to come and win the queen stage today, especially attacking so far out, is a great feeling. It's nice as a team for us to get a victory here and not come away empty handed.

"It's a road I remember from two years ago, with similar conditions to today in the rain and cold. I thought if I'm going to get away it's going to have to be a long way from the finish. Tejay van Garderen came with me and the two of us worked together really well. He had the objective for the general classification and I had my sights set on winning the stage. I'm just really happy that it worked out in the end."

With regards to his current form, Froome reiterated that the big goal is to be ready for the upcoming Tour de France. "I'm not necessarily here to show anything - I'm here more for myself for preparations going forward," added. "Obviously my big goal is to be ready for July. I needed some good racing this week to set me up for that."

Froome and Van Garderen (BMC Racing) held an advantage of close to a minute as they negotiated two ascents of the Barboleusaz climb. The GC battle behind produced a barrage of attacks, with Jon Izagirre (Movistar) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) rounding out the podium positions.

Fifth over the line was enough to ensure Nairo Quintana (Movistar) retained his overall lead, taking a margin of 19 seconds into Sunday's final stage.

Mikel Nieve hung on well in a vastly reduced lead group and was the next Team Sky rider home in 24th.

Complete Results:

Stage 4 photos

172.7 kilometers raced at an average speed of 36.435 km/hr

1	Christopher Froome	Sky	4hr 44min 24sec
2	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	@ 4sec
3	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	s.t.
4	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	s.t.
5	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	s.t.
6	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
7	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
8	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	s.t.
9	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	+9''
10	Simon Špilak	Katusha	s.t.
11	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	+11''
12	Damiano Caruso	BMC	s.t.
13	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	s.t.
14	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	s.t.
15	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+14''
16	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
17	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	+1' 32''
18	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
19	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	+1' 49''
20	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	s.t.
21	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+2' 10''
22	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	s.t.
23	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
24	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+2' 21''
25	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	+2' 49''
26	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
27	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	s.t.
28	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
29	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	+2' 54''
30	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	+4' 04''
31	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+5' 00''
32	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	+5' 52''
33	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
34	Andrey Zeits	Astana	+9' 50''
35	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	s.t.
36	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
37	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+10' 23''
38	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+12' 11''
39	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+12' 32''
40	Steve Morabito	FDJ	+12' 35''
41	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	s.t.
42	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
43	Amaël Moinard	BMC	s.t.
44	Andrey Amador	Movistar	s.t.
45	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	+12' 45''
46	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+13' 16''
47	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	+13' 28''
48	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
49	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+13' 34''
50	Bruno Pires	Roth	+13' 35''
51	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+14' 28''
52	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	+14' 45''
53	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	+15' 37''
54	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
55	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
56	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	s.t.
57	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
58	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	s.t.
59	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
60	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	s.t.
61	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	s.t.
62	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
63	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
64	Egor Silin	Katusha	s.t.
65	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+19' 42''
66	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	s.t.
67	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
68	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
69	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	s.t.
70	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	s.t.
71	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+20' 40''
72	Marcel Wyss	Sky	s.t.
73	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
74	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
75	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
76	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	s.t.
77	Peter Velits	BMC	s.t.
78	Danilo Wyss	BMC	s.t.
79	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+21' 37''
80	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	+22' 32''
81	William Bonnet	FDJ	+23' 21''
82	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	+24' 06''
83	Martin Kohler	Roth	+24' 23''
84	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+24' 36''
85	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+24' 38''
86	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+24' 42''
87	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+27' 12''
88	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	+27' 44''
89	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
90	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
91	Roland Thalmann	Roth	s.t.
92	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	s.t.
93	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	+27' 47''
94	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
95	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
96	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
97	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
98	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
99	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
100	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	s.t.
101	Matthias Krizek	Roth	s.t.
102	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
103	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
104	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
105	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	s.t.
106	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
107	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
108	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
109	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
110	Dylan Page	Roth	s.t.
111	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	s.t.
112	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
113	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
114	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+27' 58''
115	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	s.t.
116	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
117	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
118	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	s.t.
119	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	s.t.
120	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	s.t.
121	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
122	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	s.t.
123	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
124	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
125	Geraint Thomas	Sky	s.t.
126	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
127	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	s.t.
128	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	s.t.
129	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+28' 03''
130	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+28' 09''
131	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+28' 15''
132	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+28' 55''
133	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+30' 01''
134	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+30' 17''
135	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+31' 59''
136	Alex Peters	Sky	s.t.
137	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+34' 53''

GC after Stage 4:

• GC leader: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Mountains classification leader: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Points classification leader: Jon Izagirre (Movistar)
• Young rider classification leader: Pierre Latour (Ag2r)
• Team classification leader: Movistar

466.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 38.473 km/hr

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	12hr 7min 3sec
2	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	@ 19sec
3	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	+23''
4	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	+26''
5	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	+57''
6	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	+1' 12''
7	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+1' 16''
8	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
9	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 24''
10	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	+1' 27''
11	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	+1' 32''
12	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	+2' 19''
13	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+2' 24''
14	Damiano Caruso	BMC	+2' 33''
15	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	+3' 08''
16	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	+3' 25''
17	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	+3' 29''
18	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	+4' 21''
19	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	+5' 13''
20	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+5' 25''
21	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
22	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	+5' 59''
23	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+6' 06''
24	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+7' 22''
25	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	+9' 06''
26	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	+9' 29''
27	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	+10' 21''
28	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	+10' 32''
29	Andrey Zeits	Astana	+13' 12''
30	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+13' 43''
31	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	+15' 38''
32	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+15' 46''
33	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	+15' 54''
34	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+16' 30''
35	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+16' 43''
36	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+17' 10''
37	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	+17' 17''
38	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+17' 18''
39	Steve Morabito	FDJ	+17' 33''
40	Christopher Froome	Sky	+17' 36''
41	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	+17' 42''
42	Andrey Amador	Movistar	+17' 52''
43	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	+18' 01''
44	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+18' 03''
45	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+18' 04''
46	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	+20' 20''
47	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+21' 19''
48	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+21' 20''
49	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	+21' 21''
50	Bruno Pires	Roth	+21' 31''
51	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	+23' 50''
52	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	+24' 19''
53	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	+25' 17''
54	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	+26' 08''
55	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	+26' 29''
56	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	+28' 44''
57	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+28' 48''
58	Danilo Wyss	BMC	+28' 51''
59	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	+28' 57''
60	Geraint Thomas	Sky	+29' 42''
61	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	+29' 52''
62	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+30' 27''
63	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+30' 50''
64	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	+31' 00''
65	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+32' 32''
66	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+33' 09''
67	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	+33' 43''
68	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	+33' 58''
69	Egor Silin	Katusha	+34' 05''
70	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	+34' 45''
71	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	+35' 46''
72	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+36' 22''
73	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+36' 55''
74	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	+37' 15''
75	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+37' 22''
76	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	+37' 55''
77	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	+38' 28''
78	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+38' 37''
79	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+39' 56''
80	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+40' 39''
81	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	+40' 51''
82	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	+42' 20''
83	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+42' 28''
84	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	+42' 32''
85	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+43' 40''
86	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+44' 56''
87	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	+45' 57''
88	William Bonnet	FDJ	+46' 13''
89	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	+46' 25''
90	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+47' 26''
91	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	+47' 41''
92	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+48' 12''
93	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	+48' 23''
94	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+48' 32''
95	Peter Velits	BMC	+48' 36''
96	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+48' 42''
97	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	+49' 15''
98	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+49' 34''
99	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	+49' 41''
100	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
101	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	+50' 05''
102	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	+50' 06''
103	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	+50' 23''
104	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	+50' 27''
105	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	+50' 46''
106	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	+50' 55''
107	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+51' 19''
108	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	+51' 32''
109	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	+51' 40''
110	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+51' 48''
111	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+52' 23''
112	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+52' 30''
113	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	+53' 11''
114	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+54' 54''
115	Anthony Roux	FDJ	+55' 11''
116	Martin Kohler	Roth	+55' 20''
117	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	+55' 43''
118	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	+55' 50''
119	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	+55' 51''
120	Roland Thalmann	Roth	+56' 05''
121	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+56' 06''
122	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
123	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	+56' 15''
124	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+56' 34''
125	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+56' 41''
126	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+56' 45''
127	Matthias Krizek	Roth	+56' 52''
128	Dylan Page	Roth	+56' 53''
129	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	+56' 56''
130	Ben Swift	Sky	+56' 57''
131	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+59' 37''
132	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+59' 43''
133	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+1h 00' 34''
134	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+1h 01' 19''
135	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+1h 01' 28''
136	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+1h 02' 33''
137	Alex Peters	Sky	+1h 04' 46''

Stage 4 map and profile:

2016 Tour de Romandie stage 4 map

2016 Tour de Romandie stage 4 profile

Stage 4 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Rigoberto Uran heads to the start

Nairo Quintana is ready to defend his lead.

Bauke Mollema

Chris Froome is ready to race

Peter Velits

A lovely scene...

Steve Morabito tries his luck

Chris Froome leads an attack

Chris Froome wins the stage alone

Bob Jungels shows the strain of the day's racing as he finishes

Damien Howson looks like he's had enough of the day

Stage winner Chris Froome

And Nairo Quintana is still the leader of the race

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Friday, April 29: Stage 3, Sion 15.11 km individual time trial

Stage 3 map and profile | Stage 3 photos

Thibaut Pinot turning in the stage-winning ride

The Race: Race leader Nairo Quintana's Movistar team had this to report.

Gone are the times when humble Colombians were left out of any fight overall when a TT was on the race schedule. At least, when it comes to Nairo Quintana. Stage three of the Tour de Romandie -a lumpy 15km course in and around Sion- brought an excellent Nairo Quintana in full contention with all his rivals, big or light. Ion Izagirre didn't disappoint either, the Basque offering a display quite similar to Tuesday's win in the prologue for a notably 8th place in the day, now sitting 4th overall at just 29" from his team-mate.

The route suited the Blues' two main references, with a gentle, opening 5km followed by a sharp 4-kilometer climb through the Route de Savièse, before a U-turn and a quick descent took the riders back into Sion. At the intermediate check, Nairo Quintana improved Ilnur Zakarin's (KAT) time by 5”, a gap against his biggest rival from yesterday he increased to 8" in the finale, managing perfectly through the tricky street furniture. Ahead of the two finished Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), who bested big specialist Tom Dumoulin (TGA) by 2" and put nine on Nairo, who now finds the Frenchman just after him in the standings, but 23" in arrears.

All in all, another day gone for the telephone squad with a good result, in the eve of the Swiss stagerace's showdown on Saturday: 173km towards a double loop around Villars-sur-Ollon, which includes two climbs of the Barboleusaz (Cat-1) just 4km away from the finish zone.

REACTION:

Nairo Quintana: "I'm really happy. I think we did a pretty good defense of this jersey and I hope we can continue to do so tomorrow. It was a beautiful time trial for me - this performance really makes me confident for what's to come in a few months, when our biggest goal looms. This test in Romandie will be surely helpful for July. We've got to keep in mind that today's TT was a particular one, with plenty of difficult climbing, but we remain satisfied about what I did on the road today.

"Pinot? His result didn't surprise me. He's been doing such good TTs for the last two years - I had him written down as my biggest rival today, and I knew I had to go full-gas so he didn't mean a threat to my GC leadership. Plus, he's got a really nice team, with lots of good climbers, and they might become the team to follow tomorrow - dangerous for my chances. We'll keep all attention to attacks from them, as well as Zakarin and his team; both will probably give it a try. My team is feeling well and all of them - Ion, too - will be giving their best so we can keep the jersey."

Complete Results:

Stage 3 photos

15.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.521 km/hr

1	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	20min 21sec
2	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	@ 2sec
3	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	+9''
4	Chris Froome	Sky	s.t.
5	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
6	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	s.t.
7	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	+17''
8	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	+18''
9	Steve Morabito	FDJ	+22''
10	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+25''
11	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	s.t.
12	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	+26''
13	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+30''
14	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	+33''
15	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	s.t.
16	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+36''
17	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+38''
18	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	s.t.
19	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
20	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	+39''
21	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+40''
22	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+44''
23	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	+45''
24	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
25	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	s.t.
26	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+46''
27	Damiano Caruso	BMC	+48''
28	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	s.t.
29	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	+49''
30	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+51''
31	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	+54''
32	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
33	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+56''
34	Andrey Amador	Movistar	s.t.
35	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+59''
36	Geraint Thomas	Sky	s.t.
37	Rafael Valls	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
38	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+1' 00''
39	Andrey Zeits	Astana	+1' 01''
40	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	s.t.
41	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+1' 02''
42	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 05''
43	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	+1' 10''
44	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
45	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+1' 11''
46	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
47	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	+1' 13''
48	Maxime Monfort	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
49	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	+1' 14''
50	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	+1' 15''
51	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	+1' 16''
52	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+1' 21''
53	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
54	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	s.t.
55	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+1' 22''
56	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+1' 23''
57	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto - Soudal	+1' 24''
58	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
59	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+1' 25''
60	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 26''
61	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
62	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	s.t.
63	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	+1' 27''
64	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+1' 29''
65	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	s.t.
66	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+1' 31''
67	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
68	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	+1' 32''
69	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	s.t.
70	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
71	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 33''
72	Danilo Wyss	BMC	s.t.
73	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	+1' 34''
74	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
75	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	s.t.
76	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
77	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	+1' 35''
78	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+1' 37''
79	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+1' 38''
80	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	+1' 39''
81	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
82	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+1' 41''
83	Bart De Clercq	Lotto - Soudal	+1' 42''
84	Sander Armée	Lotto - Soudal	+1' 47''
85	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	+1' 48''
86	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
87	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
88	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	+1' 49''
89	Bruno Pires	Roth	s.t.
90	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
91	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	+1' 50''
92	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	s.t.
93	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	s.t.
94	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+1' 52''
95	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 55''
96	William Bonnet	FDJ	+1' 58''
97	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
98	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+1' 59''
99	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+2' 01''
100	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
101	Peter Velits	BMC	+2' 02''
102	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	+2' 05''
103	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	+2' 06''
104	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	+2' 07''
105	Martin Kohler	Roth	+2' 09''
106	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
107	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	+2' 10''
108	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+2' 15''
109	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	+2' 16''
110	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+2' 18''
111	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+2' 19''
112	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
113	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+2' 20''
114	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto - Soudal	+2' 21''
115	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	+2' 24''
116	Michal Kwiatkowski	Sky	+2' 25''
117	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	+2' 26''
118	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	+2' 27''
119	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	+2' 29''
120	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
121	Egor Silin	Katusha	+2' 31''
122	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	+2' 33''
123	Roland Thalmann	Roth	s.t.
124	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	+2' 35''
125	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+2' 36''
126	Diego Rosa	Astana	+2' 37''
127	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+2' 41''
128	Alex Peters	Sky	+2' 42''
129	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+2' 46''
130	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+2' 52''
131	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	+2' 53''
132	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+2' 55''
133	Matthias Krizek	Roth	+3' 00''
134	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+3' 02''
135	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+3' 05''
136	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+3' 06''
137	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
138	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	+3' 08''
139	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
140	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+3' 13''
141	Dylan Page	Roth	+3' 14''
142	Isle of ManBen Swift	Sky	+3' 15''
143	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	s.t.
144	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	+3' 16''
145	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+3' 29''
146	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	+3' 31''
147	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+3' 43''
148	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	+3' 44''
149	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	+3' 48''

GC after Stage 3:

• GC leader: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Points classification leader: Jon Izagirre (Movistar)
• Mountains classification leader: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Young rider classification leader: Damien Howson (Orica-GreenEdge)
• Team classification leader: Movistar

293.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.789 km/hr

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	7hr 22min 35sec
2	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	@ 23sec
3	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	+26''
4	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	+29''
5	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	+50''
6	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	+1' 06''
7	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+1' 11''
8	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	+1' 12''
9	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	+1' 22''
10	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	+1' 23''
11	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	+1' 24''
12	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	+1' 25''
13	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	+1' 44''
14	Geraint Thomas	Sky	+1' 48''
15	Rafael Valls	Lotto - Soudal	+1' 57''
16	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	+2' 09''
17	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
18	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	+2' 15''
19	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+2' 17''
20	Damiano Caruso	BMC	+2' 26''
21	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	+2' 28''
22	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	+2' 40''
23	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	+3' 15''
24	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+3' 18''
25	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+3' 19''
26	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+3' 21''
27	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	+3' 23''
28	Andrey Zeits	Astana	+3' 26''
29	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	+3' 45''
30	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	+3' 53''
31	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+4' 02''
32	Maxime Monfort	Lotto - Soudal	+4' 33''
33	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+4' 37''
34	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	+4' 44''
35	Steve Morabito	FDJ	+5' 02''
36	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+5' 11''
37	Andrey Amador	Movistar	+5' 21''
38	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+5' 36''
39	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	+5' 44''
40	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
41	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	+5' 48''
42	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+6' 00''
43	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	+6' 21''
44	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	+6' 39''
45	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	+7' 31''
46	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	+7' 39''
47	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+7' 44''
48	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+7' 50''
49	Bruno Pires	Roth	+8' 00''
50	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	+8' 03''
51	Danilo Wyss	BMC	+8' 15''
52	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	+8' 17''
53	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	+8' 36''
54	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+8' 42''
55	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	+8' 57''
56	Bart De Clercq	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
57	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+9' 17''
58	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	+9' 44''
59	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+9' 51''
60	Diego Rosa	Astana	+9' 59''
61	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	+11' 22''
62	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	+11' 38''
63	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+11' 56''
64	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+12' 14''
65	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+12' 23''
66	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	+12' 44''
67	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+12' 45''
68	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	+13' 05''
69	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	+13' 11''
70	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	+13' 24''
71	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+13' 31''
72	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+13' 33''
73	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	+14' 09''
74	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+14' 24''
75	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+15' 57''
76	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+16' 37''
77	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+16' 46''
78	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+17' 02''
79	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	+17' 21''
80	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	+17' 37''
81	Chris Froome	Sky	+17' 50''
82	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto - Soudal	+17' 52''
83	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+17' 54''
84	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	+18' 17''
85	Sander Armée	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
86	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	+18' 18''
87	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	+18' 23''
88	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	+18' 25''
89	Egor Silin	Katusha	+18' 32''
90	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto - Soudal	+18' 42''
91	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+19' 02''
92	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	s.t.
93	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	+19' 58''
94	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+20' 18''
95	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	+21' 21''
96	Tom Bohli	BMC	+21' 47''
97	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+21' 51''
98	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	+21' 58''
99	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+22' 10''
100	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	+22' 22''
101	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	+22' 23''
102	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	+22' 29''
103	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto - Soudal	+22' 31''
104	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	+22' 33''
105	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+22' 48''
106	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	+22' 52''
107	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	+22' 54''
108	William Bonnet	FDJ	+22' 56''
109	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+23' 04''
110	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	+23' 12''
111	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+23' 25''
112	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	+23' 38''
113	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	+23' 46''
114	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	+23' 51''
115	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+24' 05''
116	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+24' 23''
117	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+24' 47''
118	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	+25' 17''
119	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	+26' 12''
120	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+26' 39''
121	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+26' 48''
122	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	+27' 00''
123	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+27' 14''
124	Anthony Roux	FDJ	+27' 28''
125	Michal Kwiatkowski	Sky	+27' 46''
126	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	+27' 47''
127	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+27' 55''
128	Peter Velits	BMC	+28' 00''
129	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
130	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	+28' 07''
131	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	+28' 11''
132	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	+28' 21''
133	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+28' 23''
134	Roland Thalmann	Roth	+28' 25''
135	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+28' 51''
136	Isle of ManBen Swift	Sky	+29' 03''
137	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+29' 04''
138	Matthias Krizek	Roth	+29' 09''
139	Dylan Page	Roth	+29' 10''
140	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	+29' 13''
141	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+29' 33''
142	Martin Kohler	Roth	+31' 01''
143	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	+31' 07''
144	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+31' 38''
145	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+31' 54''
146	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+32' 28''
147	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+32' 51''
148	Alex Peters	Sky	+32' 51''
149	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+34' 34''

Stage 3 map and profile:

Romandie stage 3 map

Romandie stage 3 profile

Stage 3 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Sander Armée

Jan Bakelants

Christopher Froome

Bob Jungels

Maxime Bouet

Jerome Coppel

Daryl Impey

Marcel Kittel

Stage winner Thibaut Pinot

GC leader Nairo Quintana

Stage winner Pinot enjoys his stage win

Nairo Quintana gets to enjoy yet more kisses from the beautiful ladies

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Thursday, April 28: Stage 2, Moudon - Morgins, 173.9 km

Stage 2 map and profile | Stage 2 photos

Ilnur Zakarin crosses the line first, ahead of Nairo Quintana, but is later relegated

The Race: Ilnur Zakarin crossed the line first, but was relegated for an irregular sprint.

Here's the stage story from winner Nairo Quintana's Movistar team:

A strong, confident attack awarded Nairo Quintana the success on stage two of the Tour de Romandie, 170km from Moudon to the Cat-1 Pas de Morgins. The 26-year-old Colombian knew his time was coming today, and at the final climb, 6.5km from the finishing line, he showed the courage he's proven to have so many times to claim a maiden win on Helvetic soil which allows the Movistar Team retaining the jersey worn by Ion Izagirre, race leader from Tuesday's prologue.

The hills, ups and downs of the Valais canton were the ideal terrain for an early, six-man breakaway opening more than four minutes over the field. However, the real racing started with the last 21km of climbing at the Col des Champs (Cat-2), where Silin (KAT), Impey (OGE) and Wyss (IAM) sticked to their chances as the FDJ and Movistar Team riders pulled from behind. Chris Froome (SKY), arguably Nairo's biggest threat for the Romandie GC, suffered a mechanical failure that avoided him keeping the pace of the main group.

Following fantastic teamwork from Amador, Anacona, Jesús Herrada, Gorka Izagirre, Pedrero and José Joaquín Rojas, only Nairo and Ion remained ahead into the final climb of Morgins. Nairo's time came with 6.5km to go, the Colombian leaving the group behind as only Ilnur Zakarin (KAT) could keep his pace. Looks of fatigue, swerving, pure psychology between the two climbers. As the steepest part of Morgins was covered, the two tackle the final sprint, where the Movistar Team rider eventually prevailed as the race jury considered Zakarin's move was irregular. Nairo obtains the Movistar Team's 15th victory of the 2016 season, the Blues always on top of the leaderboard since the action in Switzerland started two days ago.

REACTION:

Nairo Quintana: "It was a great result for us. The team spent the whole day at the front, just like they did yesterday - all of them were fabulous. Heading into the climbs everything felt OK for me; I knew I had a chance to attack and go for the win and some big gaps if I moved near the foot; the rivals here could scare anyone, but I still wanted to try it - and that move was a big success. Obviously, Zakarin proved to be strong, seeing how he reached me down into the ascent.

"We two kept taking turns to build the gap and keep strong before the sprint. There, he made a maneuver the judges considered it wasn't to be allowed, and they relegated him. Zakarin surely would have bested me otherwise, but that move made the jury to take action. I'll try to defend this jersey tomorrow with a good TT; depending on Friday's performance, we might as well try and profit from Saturday's climbs. Let's hope we can keep it up after this week's efforts. It won't be easy to win with such an amazing field of competitors; should we do it, it will be a great sign for the 'yellow dream' quest."

Complete Results:

Stage 2 photos

173.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.128 km/hr

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	4hr 26min 40sec
2	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	s.t.
3	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	@ 26sec
4	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	s.t.
5	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	s.t.
6	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
7	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	s.t.
8	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
9	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	s.t.
10	Simon Špilak	Katusha	s.t.
11	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
12	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	+34''
13	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	+37''
14	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+54''
15	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	+57''
16	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
17	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
18	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
19	Geraint Thomas	Sky	s.t.
20	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	@ 1min 1sec
21	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	+1' 34''
22	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
23	Damiano Caruso	BMC	s.t.
24	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
25	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	s.t.
26	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+1' 49''
27	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
28	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
29	Andrey Zeits	Astana	s.t.
30	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	+2' 08''
31	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+2' 09''
32	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+2' 29''
33	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+3' 05''
34	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
35	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	s.t.
36	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
37	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
38	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+3' 51''
39	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	+4' 27''
40	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
41	Steve Morabito	FDJ	s.t.
42	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
43	Andrey Amador	Movistar	s.t.
44	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	s.t.
45	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+5' 12''
46	Bruno Pires	Roth	+5' 47''
47	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	s.t.
48	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	s.t.
49	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	+6' 05''
50	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
51	Danilo Wyss	BMC	s.t.
52	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	+6' 12''
53	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+7' 12''
54	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
55	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	s.t.
56	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
57	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	s.t.
58	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	s.t.
59	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	s.t.
60	Diego Rosa	Astana	s.t.
61	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+9' 10''
62	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
63	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	+10' 29''
64	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	s.t.
65	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
66	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	s.t.
67	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+11' 20''
68	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
69	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
70	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
71	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	s.t.
72	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	s.t.
73	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
74	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
75	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	+11' 29''
76	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
77	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
78	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+14' 08''
79	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+15' 52''
80	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	s.t.
81	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
82	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	s.t.
83	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	s.t.
84	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	s.t.
85	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
86	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
87	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
88	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
89	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
90	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
91	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	s.t.
92	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
93	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	s.t.
94	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	s.t.
95	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	s.t.
96	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	s.t.
97	Egor Silin	Katusha	s.t.
98	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+17' 30''
99	Chris Froome	Sky	s.t.
100	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
101	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+18' 18''
102	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+20' 08''
103	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+20' 35''
104	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	s.t.
105	Dylan Page	Roth	s.t.
106	Roland Thalmann	Roth	s.t.
107	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	s.t.
108	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
109	Peter Velits	BMC	s.t.
110	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
111	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
112	Matthias Krizek	Roth	s.t.
113	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	s.t.
114	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
115	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	s.t.
116	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
117	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	s.t.
118	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
119	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
120	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
121	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
122	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
123	Martin Kohler	Roth	s.t.
124	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
125	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	s.t.
126	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
127	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
128	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
129	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
130	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	s.t.
131	William Bonnet	FDJ	s.t.
132	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
133	Michal Kwiatkowski	Sky	s.t.
134	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.
135	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	s.t.
136	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
137	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	s.t.
138	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
139	Nico Brüngger	Roth	s.t.
140	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
141	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
142	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
143	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
144	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
145	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
146	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	+23' 03''
147	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+25' 00''
148	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	s.t.
149	Alex Peters	Sky	s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

• GC leader: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Points classification leader: Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quick Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Nairo Quintana (Movistar)
• Young rider classification leader: Davide Formolo (Cannondale)
• Team classification leader: Cannondale

278.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.575 km/hr

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	7hr 2min 5sec
2	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	@ 18sec
3	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	+20''
4	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	+32''
5	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	+36''
6	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	+37''
7	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+42''
8	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	+43''
9	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	+44''
10	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	+46''
11	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	+47''
12	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	s.t.
13	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	+57''
14	Geraint Thomas	Sky	+58''
15	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	@ 1min 1sec
16	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	+1' 06''
17	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	+1' 07''
18	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	+1' 19''
19	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+1' 24''
20	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
21	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	+1' 36''
22	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	+1' 45''
23	Damiano Caruso	BMC	+1' 47''
24	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+1' 58''
25	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+2' 00''
26	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	+2' 04''
27	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick Step	+2' 07''
28	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	+2' 09''
29	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	+2' 33''
30	Andrey Zeits	Astana	+2' 34''
31	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+2' 41''
32	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+2' 48''
33	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	+3' 22''
34	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	+3' 23''
35	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	+3' 29''
36	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+3' 30''
37	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	+3' 42''
38	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+4' 28''
39	Andrey Amador	Movistar	+4' 34''
40	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	+4' 46''
41	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	+4' 48''
42	Steve Morabito	FDJ	+4' 49''
43	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	+4' 55''
44	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	+5' 00''
45	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+5' 50''
46	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	+6' 14''
47	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+6' 20''
48	Bruno Pires	Roth	s.t.
49	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	+6' 38''
50	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
51	Danilo Wyss	BMC	+6' 51''
52	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+7' 15''
53	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	+7' 21''
54	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	+7' 22''
55	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Soudal	+7' 24''
56	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+7' 25''
57	Joe Dombrowsk	Cannondale	+7' 29''
58	Diego Rosa	Astana	+7' 31''
59	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	+7' 32''
60	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+9' 16''
61	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+9' 27''
62	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	+10' 43''
63	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	+10' 47''
64	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+10' 54''
65	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+11' 25''
66	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	+11' 38''
67	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
68	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	+11' 39''
69	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+11' 41''
70	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	s.t.
71	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
72	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	+11' 48''
73	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+11' 55''
74	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	+11' 59''
75	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+15' 30''
76	Egor Silin	Katusha	+16' 10''
77	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+16' 11''
78	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	+16' 16''
79	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	s.t.
80	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+16' 20''
81	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+16' 21''
82	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	s.t.
83	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	+16' 22''
84	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+16' 25''
85	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	+16' 30''
86	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
87	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	+16' 38''
88	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	+16' 39''
89	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	+16' 45''
90	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	+16' 46''
91	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	+16' 52''
92	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+17' 49''
93	Chris Froome	Sky	+17' 50''
94	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+18' 50''
95	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick Step	+20' 42''
96	Tom Bohli	BMC	+20' 46''
97	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	+20' 47''
98	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+20' 49''
99	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	+20' 52''
100	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick Step	s.t.
101	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	+20' 54''
102	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+20' 55''
103	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	+20' 57''
104	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+20' 58''
105	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick Step	+20' 59''
106	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	+21' 05''
107	William Bonnet	FDJ	+21' 07''
108	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
109	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	+21' 08''
110	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	+21' 13''
111	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+21' 15''
112	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	+21' 16''
113	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	+21' 21''
114	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+21' 26''
115	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+21' 43''
116	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+21' 56''
117	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+22' 25''
118	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	+23' 05''
119	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	+24' 08''
120	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	+24' 25''
121	Michal Kwiatkowski	Sky	+25' 30''
122	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	+25' 43''
123	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+25' 52''
124	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	+25' 53''
125	Ben Swift	Sky	+25' 57''
126	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+25' 58''
127	Roland Thalmann	Roth	+26' 01''
128	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
129	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+26' 03''
130	Dylan Page	Roth	+26' 05''
131	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+26' 06''
132	Peter Velits	BMC	+26' 07''
133	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+26' 11''
134	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+26' 13''
135	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	+26' 14''
136	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick Step	+26' 15''
137	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick Step	+26' 16''
138	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
139	Matthias Krizek	Roth	+26' 18''
140	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+26' 19''
141	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	+28' 41''
142	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+28' 42''
143	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+28' 55''
144	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
145	Martin Kohler	Roth	+29' 01''
146	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+29' 08''
147	Alex Peters	Sky	+30' 18''
148	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+30' 40''
149	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+31' 00''

Stage 2 map and profile

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

Stage 2 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Jack Bobridge heads to the start

Tom Dumoulin

Maxime Monfort

Geraint Thomas

Here they come. Ilnur Zakarin has already gone by Nairo Quitnana and Quintana is sitting up

Quintana is starting to protest

Quintana's arm is up in protest

Zakarin celebrates, for now...

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Wednesday, April 27: Stage 1, La Chaux-de-Fonds Mathod - Moudon, 169 100.5 km

Stage 1 map and profile | Stage 1 photos

Marcel Kittel just beats Niccolo Bonifazio to win the stage

The Race: Snow on the first big climb at km 47, the Col d'Etroits, forced the shortening of the stage. The riders were bused to Mathod, km 68.5, for the race start.

Here's what stage winner Marcel Kittel's Etixx-Quick Step had to report:

Racing the Swiss event for the second time in his career, the German notched his eight victory of the season following a textbook lead-out.

After the day's lone escape was caught inside the final 14 kilometers, it became obvious that stage 1 will end up in a bunch sprint. As a result, Etixx – Quick-Step moved up in the peloton with two kilometers remaining and with the likes of Maxime Bouet and Bob Jungels pushed a very hard tempo, in order to bring Marcel Kittel in an excellent position and to make sure there wouldn't be any late attacks.

With 400 meters to go, Michael Albasini tried to anticipate the sprint, but Marcel didn't give the Swiss any chance and opened his trademark sprint, which helped him outpace both Albasini and Niccolo Bonifazio. For Kittel it was his first win in the Tour de Romandie and number 8th of the season, while for Etixx – Quick-Step it was the 23rd victory since the beginning of the year.

Complete Results:

Stage 1 photos

100.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.808 km/hr

1	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick-Step	2hr 27min 46sec
2	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
3	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
4	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
5	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	s.t.
6	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
7	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	s.t.
8	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
9	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	s.t.
10	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	s.t.
11	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
12	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
13	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	s.t.
14	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
15	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
16	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
17	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
18	William Bonnet	FDJ	s.t.
19	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	s.t.
20	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	s.t.
21	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
22	Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	s.t.
23	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	s.t.
24	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	s.t.
25	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	s.t.
26	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
27	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
28	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
29	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
30	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
31	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	s.t.
32	Danilo Wyss	BMC	s.t.
33	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
34	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	s.t.
35	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
36	Chris Froome	Team Sky	s.t.
37	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
38	Damiano Caruso	BMC	s.t.
39	Andrey Amador	Movistar	s.t.
40	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
41	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	s.t.
42	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	s.t.
43	Simon Gerrans	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
44	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
45	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
46	Bruno Pires	Roth	s.t.
47	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	s.t.
48	Richie Porte	BMC	s.t.
49	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
50	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	s.t.
51	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	s.t.
52	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	s.t.
53	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	s.t.
54	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	s.t.
55	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	s.t.
56	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	s.t.
57	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	s.t.
58	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
59	Salvatore Puccio	Team Sky	s.t.
60	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	s.t.
61	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	s.t.
62	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
63	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
64	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
65	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
66	Diego Rosa	Astana	s.t.
67	Andrey Zeits	Astana	s.t.
68	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	s.t.
69	Paolo Tiralongo	Astana	s.t.
70	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
71	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
72	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
73	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	s.t.
74	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
75	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
76	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
77	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
78	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
79	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	s.t.
80	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	s.t.
81	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	s.t.
82	Simon Špilak	Katusha	s.t.
83	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	s.t.
84	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	s.t.
85	Louis Vervaeke	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
86	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	s.t.
87	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
88	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
89	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	s.t.
90	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
91	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	s.t.
92	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
93	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	s.t.
94	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	s.t.
95	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	s.t.
96	Egor Silin	Katusha	s.t.
97	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	s.t.
98	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	s.t.
99	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
100	Mikel Nieve	Team Sky	s.t.
101	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
102	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	s.t.
103	Amaël Moinard	BMC	s.t.
104	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
105	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	s.t.
106	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
107	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	s.t.
108	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
109	Steve Morabito	FDJ	s.t.
110	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	@ 17sec
111	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+19''
112	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	+33''
113	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	s.t.
114	Julián Arredondo	Trek-Segafredo	@ 2min 10sec
115	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+4' 54''
116	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	s.t.
117	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
118	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	s.t.
119	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
120	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
121	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
122	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
123	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	s.t.
124	Dylan Page	Roth	s.t.
125	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
126	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
127	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
128	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
129	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
130	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
131	Peter Velits	BMC	s.t.
132	Roland Thalmann	Roth	s.t.
133	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
134	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
135	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
136	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
137	Matthias Krizek	Roth	s.t.
138	Nico Brüngger	Roth	s.t.
139	Isle of ManBen Swift	Team Sky	s.t.
140	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
141	Alex Peters	Team Sky	s.t.
142	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	s.t.
143	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	s.t.
144	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
145	Michal Kwiatkowski	Team Sky	s.t.
146	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	s.t.
147	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+7' 35''
148	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
149	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	s.t.
150	Mark McNally	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
151	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	s.t.
152	Adam Blythe	Tinkoff	s.t.
153	Martin Kohler	Roth	s.t.
154	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
155	Jens Keukeleire	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
156	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
157	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.

GC after Stage 1:

• GC leader: Jon Izagirre (Movistar)
• Points classification leader: Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quick Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Sander Armée (Lotto-Soudal)
• Young rider classification leader: Louis Vervaecke (Lotto-Soudal)
• Team classification leader: Movistar

104.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.896 km/hr

1	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	2hr 33min 19sec
2	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	@ 6sec
3	Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	+7''
4	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	+8''
5	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+9''
6	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+11''
7	Louis Verveke	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
8	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	s.t.
9	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+12''
10	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	s.t.
11	Andrey Amador	Movistar	+13''
12	Marcel Kittel	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
13	Diego Rosa	Astana	+15''
14	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
15	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
16	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	+16''
17	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	s.t.
18	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	s.t.
19	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
20	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	+17''
21	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
22	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	+17''
23	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+18''
24	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
25	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
26	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	s.t.
27	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+19''
28	Damiano Caruso	BMC	s.t.
29	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	+20''
30	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
31	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
32	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+21''
33	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+22''
34	Winner Anacona	Movistar	+23''
35	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	s.t.
36	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
37	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	s.t.
38	Simon Gerrans	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
39	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	s.t.
40	Davide Martinelli	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
41	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick-Step	+24''
42	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
43	Carlos Verona	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
44	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	s.t.
45	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
46	Egor Silin	Katusha	s.t.
47	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	+25''
48	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
49	Mikel Nieve	Team Sky	s.t.
50	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
51	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
52	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	s.t.
53	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	+26''
54	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	s.t.
55	Chris Froome	Team Sky	s.t.
56	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	s.t.
57	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
58	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+27''
59	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
60	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
61	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	s.t.
62	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	+28''
63	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	s.t.
64	Steve Morabito	FDJ	s.t.
65	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	+29''
66	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	+30''
67	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
68	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	s.t.
69	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	s.t.
70	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
71	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+31''
72	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	s.t.
73	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+32''
74	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
75	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	+33''
76	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	s.t.
77	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
78	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+34''
79	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
80	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+35''
81	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	s.t.
82	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+36''
83	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
84	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
85	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
86	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	s.t.
87	Richie Porte	BMC	+37''
88	William Bonnet	FDJ	+38''
89	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
90	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
91	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+39''
92	Salvatore Puccio	Team Sky	s.t.
93	Bruno Pires	Roth	s.t.
94	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	s.t.
95	Maxime Bouet	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
96	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+41''
97	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	+43''
98	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	s.t.
99	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	+44''
100	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
101	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
102	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	s.t.
103	Amaël Moinard	BMC	+45''
104	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	+46''
105	Andrey Zeits	Astana	+51''
106	Danilo Wyss	BMC	+52''
107	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	s.t.
108	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	s.t.
109	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	+53''
110	Paolo Tiralongo	Astana	+54''
111	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	+59''
112	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	@ 1min 13sec
113	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+1' 14''
114	Julián Arredondo	Trek-Segafredo	+2' 41''
115	Michal Kwiatkowski	Team Sky	+5' 01''
116	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+5' 07''
117	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	+5' 11''
118	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	+5' 14''
119	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+5' 23''
120	Alex Peters	Team Sky	+5' 24''
121	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	s.t.
122	Ben Swift	Team Sky	+5' 28''
123	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	+5' 29''
124	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	+5' 30''
125	Roland Thalmann	Roth	+5' 32''
126	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
127	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
128	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	+5' 34''
129	Dylan Page	Roth	+5' 36''
130	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+5' 37''
131	Peter Velits	BMC	+5' 38''
132	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+5' 39''
133	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	+5' 40''
134	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	+5' 41''
135	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+5' 42''
136	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	+5' 44''
137	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
138	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	+5' 45''
139	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+5' 46''
140	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx-Quick-Step	s.t.
141	Martin Velits	Etixx-Quick-Step	+5' 47''
142	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
143	Matthias Krizek	Roth	+5' 49''
144	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+5' 50''
145	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+6' 06''
146	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+6' 10''
147	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	+8' 13''
148	Jens Keukeleire	Orica-GreenEdge	+8' 15''
149	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	+8' 22''
150	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+8' 23''
151	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	+8' 26''
152	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
153	Adam Blythe	Tinkoff	+8' 27''
154	Mark McNally	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+8' 29''
155	Martin Kohler	Roth	+8' 32''
156	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	+8' 39''
157	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.

Original Stage 1 map and profile

The original, planned route for stage 1

Original planned stage 1 profile.

Stage 1 photos:

Nairo Quintana is bundled up for a cold start

Sander Armee gives getting away from the pack his best shot

But with a short stage minus its big climb, the fast men were going to own this stage. Kittel just wins.

And he celebrates his victory and shows the team colors

And there's team help waiting for him

Race leader Jon Izagirre safely finished the stage

Jon Izagirre keeps the leader's jersey

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Tuesday, April 26: Prologue, La Chaux-de-Fonds 3.95 km individual time trial

Prologue map | Prologue photos

Jon Izagirre riding to his stage win

The Race: Here's what stage winner Izagirre's Movistar team had to say.

Jon Izagirre has shown again why he's considered one of Spain's biggest talents in cycling by claiming a convincing win in the 2016 Tour de Romandie prologue, a 3.95km up-and-down course in La Chaux-de-Fonds with a tricky descent, some serious ramps and unmerciful weather. The 27-year-old Basque allrounder managed like no other into that situation, with a sensational descent following his 2nd quickest time through the intermediate point at the Côte de la Route de la Montagne -only beaten by Belgian youngster Louis Vervaeke (LTS)- that turned into an impressive 5'33", out of reach for all his rivals. Tom Dumoulin (TGA) was the nearest contender at 6", with Michael Kwiatkowski (SKY) rounding off the podium at 7”.

The fantastic opening day for the squad directed by José Luis Arrieta and José Luis Laguía was complete with four of its members into the day's top 20: Gorka Izagirre was 5º; Andrey Amador came in 13th spot at the beginning of his last pre-Giro contest and Nairo Quintana, 4th over the intermediate, still managed to claim the 18th place despite going as safe as he could through the wet downhill. The Blues' solidness will be at stake from tomorrow's 167km trek towards Moudon -three categorized climbs on the route-, in a race with almost no respite for the GC guys.

REACTION: Jon Izagirre: "I knew my condition was still great after the classics and this result is a happy confirmation of that. We checked the course at noon today and I really liked it, with that short, sharp climb followed by the technical descent, through the small houses before the finish. It all turned out well and we're so happy to get this win. I was doubtful about which bike should I bring into this course, the road race one or the TT one - but I saw Gorka doing great on the Speedmax and I took a last-minute change, when I was already set to start with the traditional one. To be honest, my brother played a big part in this victory, with those good time checks - he was fantastic. Now it's time to enjoy this victory; we don't know how the week will go. We've got a strong team, with Nairo always on good form, Andrey testing his legs before the Giro... Let's hope we can keep this jersey!"

Complete Results and GC:

Prologue photos

3.95 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.703 km/hr

1	Jon Izagirre	Movistar	5min 33sec
2	Tom Dumoulin	Giant-Alpecin	@ 6sec
3	Michal Kwiatkowski	Sky	+7''
4	Geraint Thomas	Sky	s.t.
5	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	+8''
6	Moreno Moser	Cannondale	+9''
7	Reto Hollenstein	IAM Cycling	+11''
8	Louis Vervaeke	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
9	Tejay van Garderen	BMC	s.t.
10	Martijn Keizer	LottoNL-Jumbo	+12''
11	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ	s.t.
12	Daryl Impey	Orica-GreenEdge	+13''
13	Andrey Amador	Movistar	s.t.
14	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana	+14''
15	Diego Rosa	Astana	+15''
16	Jan Bakelants	Ag2r	s.t.
17	Enrico Gasparotto	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
18	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	+16''
19	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	s.t.
20	Davide Formolo	Cannondale	s.t.
21	Rafael Valls	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
22	Mathias Frank	IAM Cycling	+17''
23	Damien Howson	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
24	Tom Bohli	BMC	s.t.
25	Tobias Ludvigsson	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
26	Brent Bookwalter	BMC	+18''
27	Romain Bardet	Ag2r	s.t.
28	Bart De Clercq	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
29	Christian Meier	Orica-GreenEdge	+19''
30	Damiano Caruso	BMC	s.t.
31	Rui Costa	Lampre-Merida	+20''
32	Jack Bobridge	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
33	Jesús Herrada	Movistar	s.t.
34	Jos van Emden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
35	Miguel Ángel López	Astana	+21''
36	Simon Špilak	Katusha	+22''
37	Pierre Rolland	Cannondale	+23''
38	Davide Martinelli	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
39	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
40	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
41	Joe Dombrowski	Cannondale	s.t.
42	Marcel Kittel	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Simon Gerrans	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
44	Ramunas Navardauskas	Cannondale	s.t.
45	Niccolò Bonifazio	Trek-Segafredo	+24''
46	Carlos Verona	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
47	Marcel Wyss	IAM Cycling	s.t.
48	Egor Silin	Katusha	s.t.
49	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
50	Bob Jungels	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
51	Jérôme Coppel	IAM Cycling	s.t.
52	Mikel Nieve	Sky	+25''
53	Jack Haig	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
54	Georg Preidler	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
55	Marco Marcato	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
56	Tsgabu Grmay	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
57	Christophe Riblon	Ag2r	s.t.
58	José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar	+26''
59	Robert Kišerlovski	Tinkoff	s.t.
60	Jérémy Roy	FDJ	s.t.
61	Rigoberto Urán	Cannondale	s.t.
62	Chris Froome	Sky	s.t.
63	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
64	Oliver Zaugg	IAM Cycling	+27''
65	Rafal Majka	Tinkoff	s.t.
66	Ryder Hesjedal	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
67	Peter Stetina	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
68	Matej Mohoric	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
69	Dries Devenyns	IAM Cycling	+28''
70	Louis Meintjes	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
71	Steve Morabito	FDJ	s.t.
72	Michael Hepburn	Orica-GreenEdge	+29''
73	Cameron Meyer	Dimension Data	s.t.
74	Alex Peters	Sky	+30''
75	Ilnur Zakarin	Katusha	s.t.
76	Vicente Reynés	IAM Cycling	s.t.
77	Lukasz Wisniowski	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
78	Andrea Pasqualon	Roth	s.t.
79	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
80	Mário Costa	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
81	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r	+31''
82	Julián Arredondo	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
83	Pawel Poljanski	Tinkoff	+31''
84	Rein Taaramäe	Katusha	+32''
85	Sébastien Reichenbach	FDJ	+33''
86	Yury Trofimov	Tinkoff	s.t.
87	Wilco Kelderman	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
88	Anton Vorobyev	Katusha	+34''
89	Ben Swift	Sky	s.t.
90	Jan Polanc	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
91	Manuele Boaro	Tinkoff	+35''
92	Patrick Gretsch	Ag2r	s.t.
93	Maxim Belkov	Katusha	s.t.
94	Pierre Latour	Ag2r	+36''
95	Tomasz Marczynski	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
96	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
97	Moreno Hofland	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
98	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r	s.t.
99	Merhawi Kudus	Dimension Data	s.t.
100	Michael Albasini	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
101	Richie Porte	BMC	+37''
102	Roland Thalmann	Roth	+38''
103	Alexey Vermeulen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
104	Davide Cimolai	Lampre-Merida	s.t.
105	Steven Lammertink	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
106	Tom Stamsnijder	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
107	William Bonnet	FDJ	s.t.
108	Gaetan Bille	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
109	Ivan Rovnyi	Tinkoff	+39''
110	Salvatore Puccio	Sky	s.t.
111	Bruno Pires	Roth	s.t.
112	Maxime Bouet	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
113	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Dimension Data	s.t.
114	Jaco Venter	Dimension Data	+40''
115	Lieuwe Westra	Astana	s.t.
116	Jens Keukeleire	Orica-GreenEdge	s.t.
117	Chad Haga	Giant-Alpecin	+41''
118	Dylan Page	Roth	+42''
119	Gatis Smukulis	Astana	+43''
120	Nathan Brown	Cannondale	s.t.
121	Natnael Berhane	Dimension Data	s.t.
122	Jarlinson Pantano	IAM Cycling	+44''
123	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
124	Guillaume Martin	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
125	Peter Velits	BMC	s.t.
126	Marco Minnaard	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+45''
127	Amaël Moinard	BMC	s.t.
128	Kristian Sbaragli	Dimension Data	+46''
129	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	s.t.
130	Fumiyuki Beppu	Trek-Segafredo	+47''
131	Jesús Hernández	Tinkoff	s.t.
132	Nico Brüngger	Roth	+48''
133	Dimitri Claeys	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
134	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+50''
135	Albert Timmer	Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
136	Cheng Ji	Giant-Alpecin	+51''
137	Dennis van Winden	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
138	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
139	Andrey Zeits	Astana	s.t.
140	Youcef Reguigui	Dimension Data	+52''
141	Danilo Wyss	BMC	s.t.
142	Adam Blythe	Tinkoff	s.t.
143	Fabio Sabatini	Etixx - Quick-Step	s.t.
144	Valentin Baillifard	Roth	s.t.
145	Samuel Dumoulin	Ag2r	s.t.
146	Martin Velits	Etixx - Quick-Step	+53''
147	Anthony Roux	FDJ	s.t.
148	Sander Armée	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
149	Mark McNally	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+54''
150	Paolo Tiralongo	Astana	s.t.
151	Matteo Bono	Lampre-Merida	+55''
152	Matthias Krizek	Roth	s.t.
153	Johannes Fröhlinger	Giant-Alpecin	+56''
154	Martin Kohler	Roth	+57''
155	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	+1' 04''
156	Andrew Talansky	Cannondale	s.t.
157	Ian Stannard	Sky	+1' 05''
158	Songezo Jim	Dimension Data	+1' 12''
159	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	+1' 16''

Prologue map:

Prologue photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Tsgabu Grmay

Jan Bakelants

Reto Hollenstein

Thibaut Pinot

Ben Swift

Geraint Thomas

Peter Stetina

Third-place Michal Kwiatkowski

Second-place Tom Dumoulin

Stage winner Jon Izagirre

Izagirre's reward for a terrific ride

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Start list, April 25, 2016:

	KATUSHA
1	SPILAK Simon
2	BELKOV Maxim
3	KOCHETKOV Pavel
4	LAGUTIN Sergey
5	SILIN Egor
6	TAARAMAE Rein
7	VOROBYEV Anton
8	ZAKARIN Ilnur
	TINKOFF
11	MAJKA Rafal
12	BLYTHE Adam
13	BOARO Manuele
14	HERNANDEZ Jesus
15	KISERLOVSKI Robert
16	POLJANSKI Pawel
17	ROVNY Ivan
18	TROFIMOV Yury
	SKY
21	FROOME Christopher
22	KWIATKOWSKI Michal
23	NIEVE Mikel
24	PETERS Alex
25	PUCCIO Salvatore
26	STANNARD Ian
27	SWIFT Ben
28	THOMAS Geraint
	BMC
31	PORTE Richie
32	BOHLI Tom
33	BOOKWALTER Brent
34	CARUSO Damiano
35	MOINARD Amaël
36	VAN GARDEREN Tejay
37	VELITS Peter
38	WYSS Danilo
	ETIXX-QUICK STEP
41	KITTEL Marcel
42	BOUET Maxime
43	JUNGELS Bob
44	MARTINELLI Davide
45	SABATINI Fabio
46	VELITS Martin
47	VERONA Carlos
48	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz
	MOVISTAR
51	QUINTANA Nairo Alexander
52	AMADOR Andrey
53	ANACONA Winner Anrew
54	HERRADA Jesús
55	IZAGUIRRE Gorka
56	IZAGUIRRE Jon
57	PEDRERO Antonio
58	ROJAS Jose Joaquin
	ORICA-GREENEDGE
61	ALBASINI Michael
62	GERRANS Simon
63	HAIG Jack
64	HEPBURN Michael
65	HOWSON Damien
66	IMPEY Daryl
67	KEUKELEIRE Jens
68	MEIER Christian
	FDJ
71	PINOT Thibaut
72	BONNET William
73	ELISSONDE Kenny
74	GENIEZ Alexandre
75	MORABITO Steve
76	REICHENBACH Sébastien
77	ROUX Anthony
78	ROY Jérémy
	TREK FACTORY RACING
81	MOLLEMA Bauke
82	ARREDONDO Julian
83	BEPPU Fumiyuki
84	BERNARD Julien
85	BOBRIDGE Jack
86	BONIFAZIO Niccolo
87	HESJEDAL Ryder
88	STETINA Peter
	LOTTO NL-JUMBO
91	KELDERMAN Wilco
92	CAMPENAERTS Victor
93	HOFLAND Moreno
94	KEIZER Martijn
95	LAMMERTINK Steven
96	VAN EMDEN Jos
97	VAN WINDEN Dennis
98	VERMEULEN Alexey
	LOTTO-SOUDAL
101	MONFORT Maxime
102	ARMEE Sander
103	DE CLERCQ Bart
104	DE GENDT Thomas
105	MARCZYNSKI Tomasz
106	VALLS Rafael
107	VAN DER SANDE Tosh
108	VERVAEKE Louis
	LAMPRE-MERIDA
111	FARIA Rui Alberto
112	BONO Matteo
113	CIMOLAI Davide
114	FARIA Mario Jorge
115	GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam
116	MEINTJES Louis
117	MOHORIC Matej
118	POLANC Jan
	CANNONDALE
121	URAN Rigoberto
122	BROWN Nathan
123	DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd
124	FORMOLO Davide
125	MOSER Moreno
126	NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
127	ROLLAND Pierre
128	TALANSKY Andrew
	IAM CYCLING
131	FRANK Mathias
132	COPPEL Jerome
133	DEVENYNS Dries
134	HOLLENSTEIN Reto
135	PANTANO Jarlinson
136	REYNES Vicente
137	WYSS Marcel
138	ZAUGG Oliver
	AG2R-LA MONDIALE
141	BARDET Romain
142	BAKELANTS Jan
143	CHEREL Mickaël
144	DUMOULIN Samuel
145	GASTAUER Ben
146	GRETSCH Patrick
147	LATOUR Pierre-Roger
148	RIBLON Christophe
	ASTANA
151	SANCHEZ Luis Leon
152	LÓPEZ Miguel Ángel
153	LUTSENKO Alexey
154	ROSA Diego
155	SMUKULIS Gatis
156	TIRALONGO Paolo
157	WESTRA Lieuwe
158	ZEITS Andrey
	DIMENSION DATA
161	SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
162	BERHANE TEWELDEMEDHIN Natnael
163	JIM Songezo
164	KUDUS GHEBREMEDHIN Merhawi
165	MEYER Cameron
166	REGUIGUI Youcef
167	SBARAGLI Kristian
168	VENTER Jacobus
	GIANT-ALPECIN
171	DUMOULIN Tom
172	FROHLINGER Johannes
173	HAGA Chad
174	CHENG Ji
175	LUDVIGSSON Tobias
176	PREIDLER Georg
177	STAMSNIJDER Tom
178	TIMMER Albert
	TEAM ROTH
181	KOHLER Martin
182	BAILLIFART Valentin
183	BRUNGGER Nico
184	KRIZEK Matthias
185	PAGE Dylan
186	PASQUALON Andrea
187	PIRES Bruno
188	THALMANN Roland
	WANTY–GROUPE GOBERT
191	GASPAROTTO Enrico
192	BILLE Gaetan
193	CLAEYS Dimitri
194	MARCATO Marco
195	MARTIN Guillaume
196	MCNALLY Mark
197	MINNAARD Marco
198	VEUCHELEN Frederik