2026 Tour de Romandie (World Tour), Switzerland

79th Edition: April 28 - May 3, 2026

Tour de Romandie podium history | 2025 edition | Start list
Prologue | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5

2026 Tour de Romandie map

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Sunday, May 3: 5th & Final Stage, Lucens - Leysin, 178.2 km

Stage 5 map & profile | Stage 5 photos

The stage and the 2026 Tour de Romandie are Tadej Pogacar's

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Weather at the finish city of Leysin at 2:40 PM, local time: 13C (55F), rain showers, with the wind from the west at 18 km/hr (11 mph). There is a 37% chance of the rain continuing through 6:00 PM.

The race: Here's the report from stage & GC winner Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

On the final day of racing in Switzerland, Tadej Pogačar won stage 5 at the Tour de Romandie and sealed the overall title. Winning the general classification on debut, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG man ends the race with a remarkable tally of four stage victories.

In claiming the yellow jersey on Sunday afternoon, the world champion has now added the fifth of cycling’s big seven’ week-long stage races to his palmarès. All that remains for Pogačar to take are Itzulia Basque Country and the Tour de Suisse.

It was in a two-up sprint at the summit of Leysin (14.3km at 5.9%) that Pogačar crossed the line to take another victory in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, pipping Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) to the finish. On his way to the overall title, Pogačar has won stages 1, 2, 4 and 5 this week.

With victories in the stage and the general classification on Sunday, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider has moved to 117 career wins, with the Emirati squad sitting on 27 victories in 2026.

Heading into stage 5 with a 35-second lead on Lipowitz in the general classification, Pogačar knew that he would have to remain consistent on the only summit finish of the week. An eight-man breakaway went clear early in the day, but Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad, along with the help of Bahrain Victorious, kept the group on a tight leash.

At the foot of the final climb, Domen Novak paced the peloton for UAE Team Emirates-XRG, with the breakaway just a minute up the road. The pack ultimately swallowed the group, as both Antonio Tiberi and Damiano Caruso came to the front for Bahrain Victorious. The Italian pair were looking to set up an attack from the third-placed Lenny Martinez.

However, with 3.7km of the day to go, no attack had come, and it was Pogačar’s teammate Felix Grossschartner who took up the pace-setting duties. The Austrian’s presence drew attention from Pogačar’s rivals, and some 400m later, both Lipowitz and Jørdan Nordhagen (Visma-Lease a Bike) traded attacks off the front of the group.

Responding to these moves with relative ease, Pogačar bridged up to Lipowitz and with 2.9km to go, the Slovenian made his own acceleration at the front. To this attack, the Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe rider was able to follow the wheel, and the pair were soon in sight of the finish.

Despite Primož Roglič (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) coming close to their back wheels, Lipowitz and Pogačar contested the day’s honours in a sprint to the line.

Lipowitz began his acceleration some 500m from the top, but it was Pogačar who snapped the elastic with 300m to go. As the German was distanced, the world champion and yellow jersey wearer could sit up and celebrate his fourth stage success of the week. It was the perfect way to seal the overall title for Pogačar, who claimed the Tour de Romandie on debut.

Pogačar: “It was a tough day, Bahrain came to help us, they wanted to go for the stage as well, and fight for the GC. It was good for us, a hard pace all day and then on the climb, Florian attacked first and he did a really good job, but luckily I could survive on his wheel and he launched really early, and then it was a fight to the finish line.

“I knew I needed to go all out to the finish line, but actually, when I attacked and then Florian counter-attacked, it was really impressive. It was a pain in the legs, I must admit. Then we worked a little bit together, I didn’t want to work too much in the final because I knew I needed to have a good kick in the end. Florian started his sprint; it felt like 600m to the finish line, and I just committed and passed. I had to commit to the finish line, but it was really long.

“It is a WorldTour stage race, it is what suits me, and I have always admired this race since I was young, seeing Primož [Roglič] win many times. It was always beautiful to see it on the TV, so I wanted to come here to race, to experience it, and to win.

“It was an amazing week, especially all the kids coming through the week out of school, this was super nice to see. And now in the weekend also, all the families with the kids, they were really nice fans. There was a lot of signs with my name so it was a real pleasure to ride this week in Romandie.”

Complete results:

Photos

178.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.303 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 18min 52sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 3sec
3	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:07
4	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	0:11
5	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
6	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
7	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	0:14
8	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:17
9	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
10	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
11	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	0:19
12	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:28
13	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
14	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	0:42
15	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:55
16	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
17	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	1:00
18	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	1:12
19	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:20
20	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	1:21
21	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	1:26
22	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
23	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	1:37
24	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	1:39
25	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	1:58
26	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
27	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	2:00
28	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	2:02
29	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:17
30	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	2:29
31	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	3:27
32	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
33	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
34	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
35	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
36	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	3:53
37	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:55
38	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	4:05
39	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:40
40	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
41	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
42	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	4:48
43	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	5:06
44	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:35
45	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
46	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:25
47	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	6:42
48	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	7:13
49	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
50	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	7:46
51	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	8:10
52	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
53	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
54	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	8:49
55	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	10:16
56	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	10:26
57	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
58	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
59	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	s.t.
60	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
61	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
62	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
63	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
64	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
65	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
66	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
67	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
68	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	s.t.
69	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	10:31
70	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	12:45
71	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	13:11
72	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	15:03
73	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
74	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
75	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15:44
77	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
78	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
79	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
80	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
81	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
82	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
83	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	15:47
84	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	17:14
85	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	19:34
86	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.

 

Final GC after stage 5:

• GC winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification winner: Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling)
• Points classification winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)
• Teams classification winner: Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

851.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.394 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	20hr 5min 42sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 42sec
3	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	2:44
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:51
5	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:15
6	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	3:16
7	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	3:18
8	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	3:20
9	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	3:24
10	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	3:32
11	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	4:12
12	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	4:36
13	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:39
14	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	4:46
15	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	4:51
16	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	4:55
17	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	7:47
18	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	8:19
19	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	8:25
20	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	9:37
21	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	10:19
22	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	11:54
23	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	12:02
24	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	13:00
25	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	13:01
26	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	13:11
27	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	14:56
28	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15:26
29	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	15:41
30	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	16:23
31	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	17:55
32	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	19:18
33	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	19:48
34	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	20:10
35	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	21:12
36	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	21:54
37	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	23:39
38	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	24:22
39	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	26:16
40	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	26:20
41	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	28:11
42	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	28:12
43	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	28:45
44	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	28:46
45	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	32:14
46	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	32:16
47	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	32:36
48	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	33:23
49	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	33:37
50	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	33:49
51	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	33:57
52	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	37:29
53	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	38:18
54	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	38:51
55	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	39:08
56	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	40:16
57	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	41:32
58	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	42:19
59	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	46:36
60	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	47:36
61	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	47:46
62	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	51:29
63	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	52:26
64	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	54:03
65	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	54:43
66	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	56:52
67	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	57:20
68	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	59:34
69	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:02:30
70	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	1:03:34
71	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
72	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	1:04:41
73	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	1:04:46
74	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	1:05:20
75	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	1:05:24
76	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	1:05:33
77	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:06:01
78	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:09:29
79	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:09:43
80	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	1:10:20
81	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:11:51
82	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:15:27
83	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	1:15:48
84	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:17:50
85	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	1:19:44
86	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	1:25:38

 

Stage 5 map & profile

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

Stage 5 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Heading for the finsih line Tadej Pogacar looks back at Florian Lipowitz.

What an athlete! Tadej Pogacar sails across the finish line to take the stage and final GC.

Florian Lipowitz was second in both the stage & final GC.

Primoz Roglic was third in the stage.

Lenny Martinez finished sixth in the stage, third in the final GC as well as winning the Best Young Rider classification.

Here's Jørgen Nordhagen finishing fifth in the stage and fourth in the GC.

Ninth-place Luke Tuckwell. He finished sixth in the GC.

Lucas Plapp finishes tenth in the stage and fifth in the GC.

Race winner Tadej Pogacar just after the stage finished.

Lenny Martinez was the Best Young Rider

Roland Thalmann was King of the Mountains.

Team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe won the Teams classification

Tadej Pogacar is the winner of the 2025 Tour de Romandie.

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Saturday, May 2: Stage 4, Broc - Charmey, 149.6 km

Stage 4 map & profile | Stage 4 photos

GC leader Tadej Pogacar solos across the finish line for an impressive stage win. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the finish city of Charmey at 2:50 PM, local time: 21C (70F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the west-northwest at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is a 24% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner & GC leader Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

For the third time in a week, Tadej Pogačar emerged the stage winner at the Tour de Romandie, with the Slovenian extending his race lead.

On Saturday’s Queen stage, Pogačar further asserted his authority over the race, winning alone in Charmey. It was on the final mountain pass that the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider had gone away from his rivals.

After a tremendous job by his teammates all afternoon to keep a dangerous breakaway, including Primož Roglič (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), on a tight leash, Pogačar set Pavel Sivakov to work on the final ascent of the Jaunpass.

Stretching out for 8.1km at 8.3%, this was no easy climb, and always had the potential to sort out a natural pecking order. Recognizing this opportunity, Pogačar mounted his attack with more than 3km to the summit.

After blistering past the remnants of the breakaway, Pogačar was joined by Roglič’s teammate, Florian Lipowitz. The German started the day in second overall and had plenty of motivation to try and match the Slovenian’s attack.

Regardless, Pogačar kept his pace and with a little over a kilometer to the top of the climb, Lipowitz was distanced for good.

Over the top of the climb, Pogačar did not relent, and instead extended his advantage as he dropped down to the finish in Charmey. By the line, his gap was 14 seconds over Lipowitz, and more than 90 seconds to anyone else.

With his third stage victory of the race, Pogačar stretched his lead in the yellow jersey to 35 seconds. Only Sunday’s stage remains at the 79th Tour de Romandie.

Pogačar: “It was pure teamwork. We planned to come over the first two climbs still with seven riders, and then we could go for the stage. Chapeau to everybody in the team. The first hour of racing was so hard, and then to bring the breakaway back, all the teammates were fantastic. I am so happy I could finish it off.

“The competition today was really good and really strong. It was really hard to drop Florian in the end, he was so strong. Also on the downhill he gave me a really hard time to keep the time gap the same, so it was not easy. It was a super hard day and I am happy with the performance today.”

Complete results:

Photos

149.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.726 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3hr 40min 24sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 14sec
3	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	1:42
4	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
5	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	1:47
6	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
7	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
8	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
9	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
10	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
11	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
12	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
13	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
14	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
15	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:00
17	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	2:05
18	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
19	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
20	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
21	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
22	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
23	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
24	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	3:34
26	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
27	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
28	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
29	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
30	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
31	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	3:42
32	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	5:00
33	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
34	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	5:58
35	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
36	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
38	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	6:47
40	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
41	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
42	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
43	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
44	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	9:33
45	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
46	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
47	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
48	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
49	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	s.t.
50	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
51	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
52	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
53	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
54	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
55	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
56	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
57	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	12:35
58	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:46
59	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
60	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	15:05
61	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
62	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
63	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
64	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
65	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	16:23
66	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
67	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
68	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	s.t.
69	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
70	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
71	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
72	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	21:27
73	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	s.t.
74	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
75	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
77	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
78	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
79	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
80	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
81	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
82	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
83	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	24:16
84	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	24:18
85	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
86	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
87	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
88	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.

 

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)
• Teams classification leader: Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

673.7 kilometers raced so far at an average speedof 42.684 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15hr 47min 0sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 35sec
3	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	2:23
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:30
5	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:48
6	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:49
7	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	2:49
8	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	2:54
9	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	2:56
10	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	3:03
11	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	3:06
12	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	3:07
14	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	3:15
15	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:12
16	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	4:13
17	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	4:41
18	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	6:00
19	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	7:03
20	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	8:01
21	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	8:06
22	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	8:09
23	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	8:17
24	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	9:23
25	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	10:06
26	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	11:03
27	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	11:10
28	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11:50
29	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	12:57
30	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	13:33
31	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	14:21
32	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	15:13
33	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	16:51
34	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	17:35
35	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	17:36
36	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	17:49
37	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	18:09
38	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	18:10
39	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	18:53
40	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
41	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	19:24
42	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	21:30
43	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	22:46
44	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	23:22
45	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	23:43
46	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	24:08
47	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	25:37
48	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	26:26
49	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	26:53
50	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	27:20
51	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	27:38
52	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	27:42
53	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	27:52
54	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	28:32
55	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	28:39
56	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	30:56
57	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	32:16
58	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	33:41
59	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	37:00
60	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	37:10
61	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	37:37
62	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	38:42
63	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	38:46:
64	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	38:50
65	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
66	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	40:53
67	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	41:50
68	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	47:17
69	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	48:21
70	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	s.t.
71	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	48:56
72	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	50:07
73	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	52:58
74	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	53:35
75	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	53:49:
76	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	54:20
77	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	54:43
78	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	54:44
79	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	54:57
80	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	55:07
81	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	55:57
82	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	57:49
83	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	58:06
84	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	58:24
85	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	58:34
86	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	59:33
87	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	1:01:13
88	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	1:03:50
89	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	1:09:44

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

Stage 4 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

The riding photos were taken on the Jaunpass, the day's final climb.

GC second-place Florian Lipowitz before the stage start.

Soudal Quick-Step riders get their bikes before the stage start.

The front group still together on the Jaunpass.

NSN rider Rotem Tene

Patrick Konrad

Prologue & stage three winner Dorian Godon

Primoz Roglic

GC leader Tadej Pogacar

Second-place Florian Lipowitz heads for home.

The stage is Tadej Pogacar's.

Fourth-place Sergio Higuita (far right) leads in a group.

Pablo Castrillo finishes twentieth.

Best Young Rider Lenny Martinez just after finishing the stage.

Tadej Pogacar will start the final stage on Sunday in yellow.

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Friday, May 1: Stage 3, Orbe - Orbe, 176.6 km

Stage 3 map & profile | Stage 3 photos

Dorian Godon is the day's fastest rider. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the start/finish city of Orbe at 2:25 PM, local time: 20C (68F), sunny, with the wind from the south-southeast at 6 km/hr (4 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Dorian Godon's Team INEOS Grenadiers.

Dorian Godon dug deep and rewarded the team with a second stage victory at the Tour de Romandie.

The French champion was paced over the final climb on stage three, setting his own tempo over the Col du Mollendruz with the help of teammate Bob Jungels.

Regaining contact on the descent with the help of AJ August and Laurens De Plus, the pair then helped drive the pace to haul back the remaining trio of riders from the day's breakaway.

As a select peloton contested the finish in Orbe, Carlos Rodriguez then turned leadout man to help Dorian in the closing metres.

Godon opened up his sprint early like 24 hours earlier, but would not be denied at the finish to claim a rousing victory.

For Rodriguez, finishing in the GC group ensured he remained well positioned overall, jumping up a spot to sixth overall on the leaderboard.

Complete results:

Photos

176.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.465 km/hr

1	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	3hr 58min 18sec
2	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
4	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
5	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
6	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
7	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
8	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
9	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
10	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
11	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
12	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
13	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
14	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
15	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
16	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
17	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
18	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
19	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
20	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
21	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
22	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
23	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
24	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
26	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
27	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
28	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
29	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
30	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
31	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
32	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
33	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
34	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	@ 38sec
35	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	1:21
36	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	1:25
37	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	3:07
38	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
39	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
40	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
41	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
42	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
43	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
44	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
45	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
46	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
47	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
48	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	s.t.
49	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
50	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
51	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
52	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
53	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
54	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
55	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
56	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
57	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
58	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
59	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
60	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	6:00
61	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
62	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	7:48
63	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
64	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
65	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
66	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
67	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	12:16
68	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	12:50
69	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
70	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
71	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
72	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
73	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
74	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
75	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
76	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
77	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	s.t.
78	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
79	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
80	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
81	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	s.t.
82	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
83	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
84	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
85	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
86	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
87	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
88	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
90	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
91	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
92	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
93	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.

 

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)
• Teams classification leader: Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

524.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.268 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	12hr 6min 46sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 17sec
3	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	0:26
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:33
5	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	0:41
6	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:51
7	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
8	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:52
9	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
10	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	0:57
11	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
12	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	1:00
13	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	1:09
14	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	1:10
15	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	1:11
16	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:15
17	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	2:20
18	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	2:25
19	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	3:45
20	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	3:58
21	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	4:14
22	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	4:55
23	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	5:06
24	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:39
25	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:42
26	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:46
27	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:56
28	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	6:00
29	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	6:02
30	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	6:12
31	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	6:49
32	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	7:02
33	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	7:10
34	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	8:53
35	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	9:41
36	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	9:49
37	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	9:54
38	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	10:38
39	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11:41
40	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	11:56
41	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	11:59
42	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	12:06
43	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	12:26
44	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	12:58
45	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	13:41
46	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	14:25
47	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	15:54
48	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	16:25
49	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	17:10
50	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	17:37
51	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	17:46
52	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	17:55
53	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	17:59
54	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	18:09
55	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	18:13
56	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	18:26
57	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	18:54
58	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	21:13
59	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	23:27
60	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	23:31
61	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	25:17:00
62	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	25:19
63	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	25:32
64	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	26:44
65	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	26:57
66	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	27:17
67	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	27:27
68	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	28:30
69	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	28:36
70	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	29:07
71	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
72	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	29:52
73	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	30:16
74	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	31:48
75	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	32:02
76	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	33:06
77	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	33:20
78	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	33:30
79	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	33:34
80	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	33:53
81	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	35:05
82	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	36:12
83	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	36:29
84	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	36:47
85	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	36:57
87	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	37:16
88	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	39:13
89	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	41:50
90	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	42:13
91	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	45:16
92	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	45:27
93	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	46:14

 

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

Stage 3 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Before the race: Primoz Roglic gets his bike.

GC leader Tadej Pogacar before the start.

Best Young Rider Lenny Martinez

David Gaudu

Racing across the beautiful Swiss countryside.

Another panorama shot.

Another shot of the peloton

Here they come...

Dorian Godon wins the stage.

GC leader Tadej Pogacar just after the stage.

Stage winner Dorian Godon

Tadej Pogacar will start stage four in yellow.

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Thursday, April 30: Stage 2, Rue - Vucherens, 173.1 km

Stage 2 map & profile | Stage 2 photos

Tadej Pogacar wins stage two. Sirotti photo.

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Weather at the finish city of Vucherons at 2:45 PM, local time: 17C (63F), sunny, with the wind from the north-northeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Sean Quinn (EF Education-EasyPost) did not start and early on Mattia Gaffuri (Team Picnic PostNL) abandoned.

Here's the report from stage winner and GC leader Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG:

Tadej Pogačar made it two wins in two days for UAE Team Emirates-XRG at the Tour de Romandie, with the race leader picking the spoils from a reduced bunch sprint on stage 2.

It was a remarkable victory from the world champion, who reminded everybody just how fast his acceleration can be at the finish line. In winning from a 32-man front group, Pogačar extended his lead in the yellow jersey by 10 bonus seconds, and doubled up on his success from stage 1.

GC leader Tadej Pogacar signs autographs before the stage start.

Thursday’s victory was no straightforward task for Pogačar, who was attacked on multiple fronts on the final climb of the day. Seeing one attack after another go off the front of the reduced peloton, the yellow jersey sought to defend his lead and extinguished each one. This was after his UAE Team Emirates-XRG teammates had done a fine job of placing their leader towards the front at the bottom of the 3.1km-long ascent to Vuillens.

With the attacks closed down, it was Pogačar who drove the pace over the top of the climb, in an effort to dissuade any further moves. As the group barrelled down to the finish in Vucherens, it was natural to assume the likes of Dorian Godon (Ineos Grenadiers), the prologue winner, would battle it out for the day’s honours.

However, fancying his chances once more, Pogačar waited until the last moment in the 32-man sprint to make his move. Darting over the right-hand shoulder of Godon, the race leader ultimately won by more than a wheel, and picked up his second win in as many days.

Behind Pogačar, Godon continued his good run of form to take second place, whilst third went to former UAE Team Emirates rider, Finn Fisher-Black (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe).

Pogačar: “We knew the final lap, because we did it three times, and I knew the sprint was going to be tough because of the climbs before. It was indeed a super fast climb with a tailwind, but then for the sprint it was a super headwind, and quite downhill. So I knew you couldn’t be too much in front, but I was for the last corner, I was too much in front. Then suddenly some guys came, they were too early, and it was advantage for me.

“To make the difference in time gaps, the final climb was not tough enough. But it made a difference in the legs, if you go over the limit then for sure it is harder to do a good sprint. Luckily for me it was still all under control and I could do a good sprint for me.

Complete results:

Photos

173.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.848 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 8min 11sec
2	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
3	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
4	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
5	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
6	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
7	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
8	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
9	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
10	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
11	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
12	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
13	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
14	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
15	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
17	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
18	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
19	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
20	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
21	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
22	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
23	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
24	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
25	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
27	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
28	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
29	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
30	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
31	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
32	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
33	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	@ 37sec
34	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
35	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
36	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
38	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
39	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
40	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
41	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
42	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	1:22
43	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
44	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
45	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
46	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:07
47	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
48	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:13
49	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
50	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
51	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
52	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
53	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	s.t.
54	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
55	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
56	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
57	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	2:35
58	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
59	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
60	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
61	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:00
62	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	3:14
63	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	3:17
64	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
65	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
66	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
67	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
68	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	3:24
69	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	4:26
70	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
71	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	5:11
72	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:35
73	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	5:50
74	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:13
75	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
76	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
77	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
78	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
79	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
80	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
81	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	s.t.
82	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
83	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	s.t.
84	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
86	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
87	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
88	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	9:56
89	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	11:44
90	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	14:49
91	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
92	Dillon Corkery	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
93	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
94	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
95	Itamar Einhorn	NSN Cycling Team	15:21
96	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

 

GC after stage 2:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)
• Teams classification leader: Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

347.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.685 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	8hr 8min 28sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 17sec
3	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	0:26
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:33
5	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	0:41
6	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	0:51
7	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
8	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
9	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:52
10	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
11	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	0:57
12	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
13	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	1:00
14	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	1:09
15	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	1:10
16	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	1:11
17	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:15
18	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	2:20
19	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	2:25
20	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:35
21	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:39
22	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:49
23	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	2:53
24	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	3:45
25	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	3:55
26	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	4:14
27	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	4:55
28	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	5:06
29	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:45
30	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	6:02
31	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	6:04
32	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
33	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	6:12
34	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	6:34
35	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	6:47
36	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	6:49
37	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	7:10
38	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	8:24
39	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	8:34
40	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	8:49
41	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	8:52
42	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	10:38
43	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	11:42
44	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	12:06
45	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	12:20
46	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	12:26
47	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	12:47
48	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:18
49	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	13:51
50	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	13:54
51	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	14:03
52	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	14:07
53	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	14:25
54	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	14:30
55	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	14:37
56	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	14:39
57	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	14:48
58	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	14:52
59	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	15:02
60	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15:06
61	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	15:19
62	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	15:46
63	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	16:17
64	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	17:02
65	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	17:26
66	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	17:29
67	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	17:31
68	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	18:06
69	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	18:58
70	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:29
71	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	20:16
72	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	20:30
73	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	20:40
74	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	20:42
75	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	20:44
76	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	21:03
77	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	21:19
78	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	22:06
79	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	22:12
80	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	22:15
81	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	22:25
82	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	23:39
83	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	23:56
84	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	23:57
85	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
86	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	24:07
87	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	24:14
88	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	24:26
89	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	26:23
90	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	29:00
91	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	29:23
92	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	32:26
93	Dillon Corkery	Team Picnic PostNL	32:34
94	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	32:37
95	Itamar Einhorn	NSN Cycling Team	33:15
96	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	33:24

 

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

Stage 2 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Sam Oomen heads to the start.

Damiano Caruso before the stage.

A nice day for a bike race across the Swiss countryside.

Another shot of the peloton.

More riders and flowers.

Dorian Godon takes the point as the peloton closes in on the finish.

Here they come...

Tadej Pogacar just beats Dorian Godon & Finn Fisher-Black for the stage win.

Tadej Pogacar wins stage two.

Adrien Boichis and Primoz Roglic finish 2min 7sec later.

Tadej Pogacar just after the stage finish.

Tadej Pogacar will start stage three in yellow.

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Wednesday, April 29: Stage 1, Martigny - Martigny, 171.2 km

Stage 1 map & profile | Stage 1 photos

Tadej Pogacar wins stage one and becomes the new GC leader. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the start/finish city of Martigny at 2:30 PM, local time: 21C (69F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the west-southwest at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 23% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner & new GC leader Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

On stage 1 of the Tour de Romandie, Tadej Pogačar took the day’s honours and in doing so, became the new race leader.

Just 24 hours on from the opening prologue, Pogačar stamped his authority on the race for UAE Team Emirates-XRG. For the world champion, it was his first road stage of the season, and his first stage victory of 2026.

The win moves Pogačar to five victories for the campaign, and puts him and his Emirati squad into control of the race leader’s yellow jersey.

Just three days on from his Liège-Bastogne-Liège triumph, Pogačar eyed up his opportunity to put his general classification rivals under pressure. Right from the off, it was UAE Team Emirates-XRG who put the squeeze on the peloton, as the day’s breakaway was handily reeled in.

It was then, on the major climb of the day (8.9km at 9.8%), that Pogačar’s teammate Pavel Sivakov produced a vicious lead-out for the Slovenian. With Sivakov opening up the show, Pogačar soon delivered a trademark acceleration, some 39km from the finish line in Martigny.

Initially, it was only Lenny Martinez of Bahrain Victorious that could follow the 27-year-old’s wheel, but the pair were later joined by Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) and Jefferson Cepeda (Movistar). Further up the climb, Cepeda could not stand the pace, and his place in the leading group was taken by Jørgen Nordhagen of Visma-Lease a Bike.

Once this front four was decided, the quartet held their advantage through the descent of the climb. Into the final 30km, it soon became clear that Lipowitz would not contribute to the pace-setting, with his teammate Primož Roglič sitting in a group behind.

Nevertheless, Nordhagen, Martinez and Pogačar relayed and ensured that the front group of four would sprint for the honours at the finish line. In this four-up sprint, it was Pogačar who packed the biggest punch, and took the stage 1 victory.

Speaking after the finish, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider heaped praise both on his breakaway companions, and his fellow teammates.

Pogačar: “I did not plan anything but it was nice to take the win against the youngsters. It was a really nice race, a very quick day and happy with the win in the sprint against the three guys.

“Of course, the last 22km was headwind and to try to do something would be very stupid. So I was happy to have two young eager guys to pull with me. They did a super good job and they are super strong, so we managed to stay in front, which was still difficult with only three pulling and one guy sitting in the wheel. That is always harder to stay in front against a group behind, so we can be proud, all of us who were in front.

“I think every win is important but to win today, my first stage in a stage race this season, and to do it here in Romandie on a nice parcours, in a nice country, I really enjoyed it.

“We saw today it was all on us all day, the team did a super good job, so also for this reason I am super happy to take the yellow jersey. Now we will try to defend it every stage, and the best defence is to attack, so we will see how we approach the next days. It was a super job from the team today, and we have a tough week ahead of us, but I think we have a strong team to defend the yellow.”

Complete results:

Photos

171.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.357 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3hr 56min 55sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
5	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	@ 21sec
6	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
7	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
8	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
9	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
10	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
11	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
12	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
13	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
15	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
16	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
17	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
18	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	1:51
19	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
20	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
21	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
22	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
24	Mattia Gaffuri	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
25	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
26	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
27	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	3:44
28	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
29	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
30	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	5:28
31	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
32	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
33	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
34	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
35	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
36	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
38	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
39	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
40	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
41	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
42	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
43	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	8:22
44	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
45	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
46	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
47	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	10:06
48	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
49	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
50	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
51	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11:52
52	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
53	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
54	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
55	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
56	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
57	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
58	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
59	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
60	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
61	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	s.t.
62	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	s.t.
63	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
64	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
65	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
66	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	13:44
67	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
68	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
69	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
70	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
71	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
72	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
73	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
74	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
75	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
76	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
77	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	s.t.
78	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
79	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
80	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
81	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
82	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
83	Dillon Corkery	Team Picnic PostNL	17:07
84	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
85	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
87	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
88	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
89	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
90	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
91	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
92	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
93	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
94	Itamar Einhorn	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
95	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
96	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
97	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
98	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
99	Joel Suter	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
100	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

 

GC after stage 1:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)
• Team classification leader: Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

174.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.514 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 0min 27sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 7sec
3	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	0:16
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:23
5	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	0:31
6	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:32
7	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	0:41
8	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
9	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
10	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:42
11	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
12	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	0:47
13	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
14	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	0:50
15	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	0:59
16	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	1:00
17	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	1:01
18	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:05
19	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	2:06
20	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	2:10
21	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	2:13
22	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	2:15
23	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	2:23
24	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:25
25	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:29
26	Mattia Gaffuri	Team Picnic PostNL	2:32
27	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	4:04
28	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	4:08
29	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	4:19
30	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:39
31	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:43
32	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	5:47
33	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	5:52
34	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	5:54
35	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
36	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	6:00
37	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	6:01
38	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	6:02
39	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
40	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:04
41	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	6:11
42	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	6:23
43	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	8:42
44	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	8:53
45	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	8:54
46	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	8:57
47	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	10:24
48	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	10:28
49	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	10:36
50	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	10:40
51	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	12:02
52	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	12:08
53	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	12:14
54	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	12:16
55	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	12:19
56	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	12:22
57	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	12:25
58	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	12:29
59	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	12:31
60	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
61	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	12:35
62	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	12:39
63	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	12:43
64	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	12:45
65	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	13:06
66	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	13:47
67	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	13:54
68	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	14:01
69	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	14:02
70	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	14:04
71	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	14:07
72	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	14:14
73	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	14:16
74	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	14:17
75	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	14:19
76	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	14:20
77	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	14:24
78	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	14:29
79	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	14:32
80	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	14:41
81	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	14:56
82	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	15:49
83	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	17:16
84	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
85	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	17:27
86	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	17:29
87	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	17:30
88	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	17:33
89	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	17:34
90	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
91	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
92	Dillon Corkery	Team Picnic PostNL	17:35
93	Joel Suter	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	17:36
94	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	17:38
95	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	17:39
96	Itamar Einhorn	NSN Cycling Team	17:44
97	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
98	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	17:51
99	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	17:53
100	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	18:03

 

Stage 1 map & profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile

Stage 1 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Oscar Onley leads his INEOS Grenadiers teammates to the start.

David Gaudu before the start.

Here comes the front group to the finish.

The stage is Tadej Pogacar's

5th-place Albert Withen Philipsen leads in the first chase group 21 seconds later.

18th-place Maxime Decomble leads in a group @ 1min 51sec

Overnight GC leader Dorian Godon (in yellow) finsihed 67th, @ 13min 44sec

Tadej Pogacar just after finishing the stage.

Lenny Martinez is both the Best Young Rider & King of the Mountains

Back in yellow. Tadej Pogacar will start stage two in the yellow GC leader's jersey.

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Tuesday, April 28: Prologue, Villars-sur-Gläne 3.2 km individual time trial

Prologue map & profile | Photos

Dorian Godon was the day's fastest rider. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the race city of Villars-sur-Gläne at 2:40 PM, local time: 17C (62F), raining, with the wind from the northwest at 6 km/hr (4 mph). At 4:00 PM, the chance of rain drops to 62% and is forecast to stop for an hour at 5:00 PM.

The race: First rider to start was Davide Formolo (Movistar) at 3:45 PM.

Here's the report from stage winner and GC leader Dorian Godon's Team INEOS Grenadiers.

Dorian Godon took a powerful prologue win on the first day of the Tour of Romandie.

The Frenchman sailed into the hot seat after an impressive performance, clocking a time of three minutes and 35 seconds over the flat 3.2-kilometre course in Villars-sur-Glane.

Godon held onto the top spot unchallenged, with Ivo Olivera (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) his closest competitor, over six seconds behind.

Carlos Rodriguez was the next rider home from the team, 17 seconds back on his teammate, while Oscar Onley also got his GC challenge under way in Switzerland.

Speaking after his win, Godon said:
“I was fourth a couple of years ago in the prologue at this race, so it’s really nice to take the win this time. It was a big effort today but I really enjoyed it, and took some risks to get the win. Obviously Sam Watson got the win here last year so the team is really happy that we’re able to take the win here again.

“I wanted to win at least one stage at this race, so it’s nice to get it in early and be able to wear the yellow jersey tomorrow. To have had wins at Paris-Nice and Catalunya, and now here, I just want to win at every race.

“It’s not easy to beat [Tadej] Pogacar, and I think he took less risks than me, so I’m really happy with how I performed. I’m proud of myself for that ride. Everyone had similar conditions today really so just had to hold on and wait, so it’s super nice to get the win after that.”

Tomorrow’s stage will see Godon in the yellow jersey, with the riders tackling the category three climb La Rasse three times, before taking on the category one Ovronnaz climb.

Complete results & GC:

• GC leader: Dorian Godon (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Mountains classification leader: Dorian Godon (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Points classification leader: Dorian Godon (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Best young rider: Jakob Söderqvist (Lidl-Trek)
• Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates-XRG

Prologue photos

3.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 53.581 km/hr

1	Dorian Godon	INEOS Grenadiers	3min 35sec
2	Jakob Söderqvist	Lidl-Trek	@ 6sec
3	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
4	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:07
5	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
6	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
7	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
8	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:08
9	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
10	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:10
11	Yannis Voisard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:11
12	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:12
13	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
14	Adrien Boichis	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:13
15	Marco Brenner	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:14
16	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ United	0:15
17	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
18	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:16
19	Robbe Dhondt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
20	Rotem Tene	NSN Cycling Team	0:17
21	Antonio Tiberi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
22	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Marco Schrettl	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
24	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
25	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
26	Luke Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
27	Josh Kench	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
28	Luke Tuckwell	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:18
29	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
30	Michael Leonard	EF Education-EasyPost	0:19
31	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
32	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
33	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
34	Steff Cras	Soudal Quick-Step	0:20
35	Jørgen Nordhagen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
36	Filip Maciejuk	Movistar Team	s.t.
37	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:21
38	Marco Frigo	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
39	AJ August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
40	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
41	Clément Berthet	Groupama-FDJ United	0:23
42	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ United	s.t.
44	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
45	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
46	Marius Mayrhofer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:24
47	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
48	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
49	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
50	Dillon Corkery	Team Picnic PostNL	0:25
51	Joel Suter	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:26
52	George Bennett	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
53	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	0:27
54	Davide De Pretto	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
55	Nadav Raisberg	NSN Cycling Team	s.t.
56	Floris Van Tricht	NSN Cycling Team	0:28
57	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
58	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:29
59	Attila Valter	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
60	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
61	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
62	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
63	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	0:30
64	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
65	Henri-Francois Haquin	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
66	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	0:31
67	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
68	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
69	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
70	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	0:32
71	Cristian Rodriguez	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
72	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
73	Davide Toneatti	XDS Astana Team	0:33
74	Filippo Conca	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
75	Itamar Einhorn	NSN Cycling Team	0:34
76	Samuele Battistella	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
77	Pavel Novak	Movistar Team	s.t.
78	Anton Schiffer	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:35
79	Oscar Onley	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
80	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
81	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	0:36
82	Robin Donzé	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
83	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
84	Oliver Peace	Team Picnic PostNL	0:37
85	Lorenzo Fortunato	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
86	Mattia Gaffuri	Team Picnic PostNL	0:38
87	Davide Formolo	Movistar Team	0:40
88	Hamish McKenzie	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
89	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
90	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:41
91	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	0:42
92	Pietro Mattio	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:43
93	Tao Geoghegan Hart	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
94	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:44
95	Alexy Faure-Prost	Team Picnic PostNL	0:45
96	Kevin Vermaerke	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:48
97	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ United	0:50
98	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	0:52
99	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:53
100	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	0:54
101	Jan Tratnik	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:09
102	Patrick Gamper	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:11
103	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:02

 

Prologue time trial map & profile

Prologue time trial map

Prologue time trial profile

Prologue photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Yannis Voisard was eleventh.

Florian Lipowitz riding to tenth place.

Finn Fisher-Black was ninth.

Primoz Roglic was eighth.

Albert Withen Philipsen riding to seventh place.

Tadej Pogacar was sixth

Fifth place Axel Zingle

Fourth-place Mauro Schmid

Ivo Oliveira was third.

Jakob Soderqvist speeding to second place.

Dorian Godon riding to first place.

Prologue winner Dorian Godon will start stage one in yellow.

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Start list with back numbers, April 27, 2026:

	UAE Team Emirates-XRG
1	Tadej Pogacar
2	Felix Grossschartner
3	Vegard Stake Laengen
4	Domen Novak
5	Ivo Oliveira
6	Pavel Sivakov
7	Kevin Vermaerke
	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
11	Jørgen Nordhagen
12	Tijmen Graat
13	Menno Huising
14	Steven Kruijswijk
15	Pietro Mattio
16	Anton Schiffer
17	Axel Zingle
	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe
21	Florian Lipowitz
22	Adrien Boichis
23	Finn Fisher-Black
24	Daniel Martinez
25	Primoz Roglic
26	Jan Tratnik
27	Luke Tuckwell
	Lidl-Trek
31	Bauke Mollema
32	Tao Geoghegan Hart
33	Patrick Konrad
34	Jacopo Mosca
35	Sam Oomen
36	Albert Withen Philipsen
37	Jakob Söderqvist
	EF Education-EasyPost
41	Georg Steinhauser
42	Samuele Battistella
43	Alexander Cepeda
44	Michael Leonard
45	Lukas Nerurkar
46	Sean Quinn
	INEOS Grenadiers
51	Oscar Onley
52	AJ August
53	Laurens De Plus
54	Dorian Godon
55	Bob Jungels
56	Carlos Rodriguez
57	Ben Swift
	XDS Astana Team
61	Clément Champoussin
62	Lorenzo Fortunato
63	Sergio Higuita
64	Florian Kajamini
65	Cristian Rodriguez
66	Marco Schrettl
67	Davide Toneatti
	Bahrain Victorious
71	Lenny Martinez
72	Damiano Caruso
73	Kamil Gradek
74	Robert Stannard
75	Antonio Tiberi
76	Attila Valter
77	Vlad Van Mechelen
	Groupama-FDJ United
81	Maxime Decomble
82	Clément Berthet
83	Remi Cavagna
84	David Gaudu
85	Lorenzo Germani
86	Josh Kench
87	Rémy Rochas
	Team Jayco-AlUla
91	Luke Plapp
92	Filippo Conca
93	Davide De Pretto
94	Patrick Gamper
95	Asbjørn Hellemose
96	Hamish McKenzie
97	Mauro Schmid
	Soudal Quick-Step
101	Valentin Paret-Peintre
102	Steff Cras
103	Gil Gelders
104	Junior Lecerf
105	Casper Pedersen
106	Max Schachmann
107	Louis Vervaeke
	NSN Cycling Team
111	George Bennett
112	Itamar Einhorn
113	Marco Frigo
114	Nadav Raisberg
115	Rotem Tene
116	Floris Van Tricht
	Tudor Pro Cycling Team
121	Yannis Voisard
122	Marco Brenner
123	Robin Donzé
124	Jacob Eriksson
125	Marius Mayrhofer
126	Joel Suter
127	Roland Thalmann
	Team Picnic PostNL
131	Warren Barguil
132	Dillon Corkery
133	Robbe Dhondt
134	Alexy Faure-Prost
135	Mattia Gaffuri
136	Oliver Peace
137	Henri-Francois Haquin
	Movistar Team
141	Pablo Castrillo
142	Jorge Arcas
143	Jefferson Cepeda
144	Davide Formolo
145	Filip Maciejuk
146	Pavel Novak
147	Nairo Quintana