Tour de Romandie 2012

66th Tour de Romandie 2012
Racing series	UCI WorldTour
Host country	Switzerland
Competition period	April 24 - April 29, 2012
Stages	5 + prolog
overall length	695.08 km
Starting field	159 from 32 nations in 20 teams
winner
course
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The 66th Tour de Romandie took place from April 24th to April 29th, 2012. A prologue was followed by five stages; the distance was 695.08 kilometers. The race was part of the UCI WorldTour 2012 .

Attendees

ProTeams Ag2r (ALM) Astana Pro Team (AST) BMC Racing Team (BMC) Euskaltel-Euskadi (EUS) FDJ-Big Mat (FDJ) Garmin Barracuda (GRM) GreenEdge Cycling Team (GEC) Katusha Team (KAT) Lampre ISD (LAM)	Liquigas-Cannondale (LIQ) Lotto Belisol Team (LTB) Movistar (MOV) Omega Pharma-Quick Step (OPQ) Rabobank Cycling Team (RAB) RadioShack Nissan (RNT) Sky ProCycling (SKY) Team Saxo Bank (SAX) Vacansoleil-DCM (VCD)
Professional Continental Teams Team Europcar (EUC)	Saur Soy Sun (SAU)

The 18 ProTeams are entitled to start . In addition, the organizer gave two wildcards to the Professional Continental Teams (EUC) and (SAU).

Stage overview

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner
prolog	April 24th	Lausanne	003.34		Geraint Thomas (SKY)
1.	April 25	Morges - La Chaux-de-Fonds	184.50		Bradley Wiggins (SKY)
2.	26th of April	Montbéliard (FRA) - Moutier	149.10		Jonathan Hivert (SAU)
3.	April 27	La Neuveville - Charmey	157.60		Luis León Sánchez (RAB)
4th	April 28	Bull - Sion	184.00		Luis León Sánchez (RAB)
5.	April 29	Montana-Village - Crans-Montana ( EZF )	16.24		Bradley Wiggins (SKY)

Stages

prolog

April 24, 2012 - Lausanne - 3.340 km

Result of the prologue driver team time 1 Geraint Thomas (SKY) 3:29 min 2 Giacomo Nizzolo (RNT) + 0:05 min 3 Mark Cavendish (SKY) + 0:06 min 4th Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:06 min 5 Christian Vande Velde (GRM) + 0:06 min 6th Julien Vermote (OPQ) + 0:08 min 7th Bauke Mollema (RAB) + 0:08 min 8th Stef Clement (RAB) + 0:08 min 9 Manuele Boaro (SAX) + 0:09 min 10 Alex Rasmussen (GRM) + 0:09 min

Overall ranking after the prologue driver team time 1 Geraint Thomas (SKY) 3:29 min 2 Giacomo Nizzolo (RNT) + 0:05 min 3 Mark Cavendish (SKY) + 0:06 min 4th Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:06 min 5 Christian Vande Velde (GRM) + 0:06 min 6th Julien Vermote (OPQ) + 0:08 min 7th Bauke Mollema (RAB) + 0:08 min 8th Stef Clement (RAB) + 0:08 min 9 Manuele Boaro (SAX) + 0:09 min 10 Alex Rasmussen (GRM) + 0:09 min

Stage 1

April 25, 2012 - Morges - La Chaux-de-Fonds - 184,500 km

Result of the 1st stage driver team time 1 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) 4:50:23 h 2 Lieuwe Westra (VCD) s. t. 3 Paolo Tiralongo (AST) s. t. 4th Tejay van Garderen (BMC) s. t. 5 Maciej Paterski (LIQ) s. t. 6th Vasil Kiryenka (MOV) s. t. 7th Serge Pauwels (OPQ) s. t. 8th Daniele Pietropolli (LAM) s. t. 9 Ryder Hesjedal (GRM) s. t. 10 Pieter Weening (GEC) s. t.

Overall ranking after the 1st stage driver team time 1 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) 4:53:51 h 2 Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:07 min 3 Bauke Mollema (RAB) + 0:09 min 4th Stef Clement (RAB) + 0:09 min 5 Andrew Talansky (GRM) + 0:11 min 6th Wilco Kelderman (RAB) + 0:11 min 7th David Zabriskie (GRM) + 0:12 min 8th Simon Špilak (KAT) + 0:12 min 9 Rubén Plaza (MOV) + 0:12 min 10 Tiago Machado (RNT) + 0:13 min

Stage 2

April 26, 2012 - Montbeliard (F) - Moutier - 149.100 km

Result of the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Jonathan Hivert (SOW) 3:48:11 h 2 Rui Costa (MOV) s. t. 3 Luis León Sánchez (RAB) s. t. 4th Gianni Meersman (LTB) s. t. 5 Ryder Hesjedal (GRM) s. t. 6th Giacomo Nizzolo (RNT) s. t. 7th Daniele Pietropolli (LAM) s. t. 8th Eduard Worganow (KAT) s. t. 9 Allan Davis (GEC) s. t. 10 Roman Kreuziger (AST) s. t.

Overall ranking after the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) 8:42:02 h 2 Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:07 min 3 Bauke Mollema (RAB) + 0:09 min 4th Stef Clement (RAB) + 0:09 min 5 Andrew Talansky (GRM) + 0:11 min 6th Luis León Sánchez (RAB) + 0:11 min 7th Wilco Kelderman (RAB) + 0:11 min 8th David Zabriskie (GRM) + 0:12 min 9 Simon Špilak (KAT) + 0:12 min 10 Rubén Plaza (MOV) + 0:12 min

Stage 3

April 27, 2012 - La Neuveville - Charmey - 157,600 km

Result of the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Luis León Sánchez (RAB) 3:58:29 h 2 Gianni Meersman (LTB) s. t. 3 Paolo Tiralongo (AST) s. t. 4th Andrew Talansky (GRM) s. t. 5 Bauke Mollema (RAB) s. t. 6th Rinaldo Nocentini (ALM) s. t. 7th Maciej Paterski (LIQ) s. t. 8th Giampaolo Caruso (KAT) s. t. 9 Gorka Verdugo (EUS) s. t. 10 Fabrice Jeandesboz (SOW) s. t.

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) 8:42:02 h 2 Luis León Sánchez (RAB) + 0:01 min 3 Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:07 min 4th Bauke Mollema (RAB) + 0:09 min 5 Stef Clement (RAB) + 0:09 min 6th Andrew Talansky (GRM) + 0:11 min 6th Wilco Kelderman (RAB) + 0:11 min 8th David Zabriskie (GRM) + 0:12 min 9 Simon Špilak (KAT) + 0:12 min 10 Rubén Plaza (MOV) + 0:12 min

Stage 4

April 28, 2012 - Bulle - Sion - 184,000 km

Result of the 4th stage driver team time 1 Luis León Sánchez (RAB) 4:56:13 h 2 Rinaldo Nocentini (A2R) s. t. 3 Branislau Samoilau (MOV) s. t. 4th Gorka Verdugo (EUS) s. t. 5 Paolo Tiralongo (AST) s. t. 6th Pierre Rolland (EUC) s. t. 7th Andreas Klöden (RNT) s. t. 8th Cadel Evans (BMC) s. t. 9 Roman Kreuziger (AST) s. t. 10 Fabrice Jeandesboz (SOW) s. t.

Overall ranking after the 4th stage driver team time 1 Luis León Sánchez (RAB) 17:36:35 h 2 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) + 0:09 min 3 Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:16 min 4th Bauke Mollema (RAB) + 0:18 min 5 Stef Clement (RAB) + 0:18 min 6th Andrew Talansky (GRM) + 0:20 min 7th Wilco Kelderman (RAB) + 0:20 min 8th Simon Špilak (KAT) + 0:21 min 9 Rui Costa (MOV) + 0:22 min 10 Tiago Machado (RNT) + 0:22 min

Stage 5

April 29, 2012 - Montana-Village - Crans-Montana (EZF) - 16.240 km

Result of the 5th stage driver team time 1 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) 28:56 min 2 Andrew Talansky (GRM) + 0:01 min 3 Richie Porte (SKY) + 0:17 min 4th Rui Costa (MOV) + 0:23 min 5 Roman Kreuziger (AST) + 0:40 min 6th Sylwester Szmyd (LIQ) + 0:42 min 7th Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:43 min 8th Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) + 0:52 min 9 Thomas De Gendt (VCD) + 0:54 min 10 Janez Brajkovič (AST) + 0:55 min

Overall ranking after the 5th stage driver team time 1 Bradley Wiggins (SKY) 18:05:40 h 2 Andrew Talansky (GRM) + 0:12 min 3 Rui Costa (MOV) + 0:36 min 4th Richie Porte (SKY) + 0:45 min 5 Michael Rogers (SKY) + 0:50 min 6th Roman Kreuziger (AST) + 0:59 min 7th Sylwester Szmyd (LIQ) + 1:03 min 8th Simon Špilak (KAT) + 1:13 min 9 Janez Brajkovič (AST) + 1:14 min 10 Luis Leon Sanchez (RAB) + 1:15 min

Jerseys in the course of the race

The table shows the leaders after each stage.

stage	Overall rating	Mountain scoring	Sprint scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team ranking
prolog	Geraint Thomas (SKY)	not forgiven	not forgiven	Giacomo Nizzolo (RNT)	(SKY)
1.	Bradley Wiggins (SKY)	Fabrice Jeandesboz (SAU)	Stef Clement (RAB)	Andrew Talansky (GRM)
2.		Lars Bak (LTB)
3.			Gatis Smukulis (KAT)
4th	Luis León Sánchez (RAB)	Pyotr Ignatenko (KAT)	Pyotr Ignatenko (KAT)
5.	Bradley Wiggins (SKY)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Saur-Sojasun et Europcar invitées. Retrieved on April 24, 2012 (French). 

Web links

Commons : Tour de Romandie 2012  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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