Tour de Romandie 2014

68th Tour de Romandie 2014
Racing series	UCI WorldTour
Host country	Switzerland Italy
Competition period	April 29 - May 4, 2014
Stages	5 + prolog
overall length	632.77 km
Starting field	152 in 19 teams (of which 122 arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Chris Froome 16:18:46 h 2. Simon Špilak +0: ​​28 min 3. Rui Costa +2: 32 min
Team evaluation	Movistar Team (MOV) 49:02:34 h
Scoring jerseys
Mountain scoring	Johann Tschopp
Scoring	Martin Kohler
Young talent evaluation	Jesús Herrada
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The 68th Tour de Romandie took place from April 29 to May 4, 2014. The race was part of the UCI WorldTour 2014 . A prologue was followed by five stages. The distance was originally supposed to be 745.07 kilometers, but the 1st stage had to be shortened to 87 km due to snowfall on the Simplon Pass and the start moved from Ascona to Brigerbad .

Attendees

ProTeams Ag2r La Mondiale Astana Pro Team BMC Racing Team Belkin-Pro Cycling Team Cannondale Team Europcar	FDJ.fr Garmin Sharp Team Giant-Shimano Team Katusha Lampre-Merida Lotto Belisol	Movistar team Omega Pharma-Quick Step Orica GreenEdge Team Sky Tinkoff-Saxo Trek Factory Racing
Professional Continental Team	IAM Cycling

The 18 ProTeams were entitled to start . The organizer also gave the Professional Continental Team IAM Cycling a wildcard .

Stage overview

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner
prolog	April 29	Ascona	005.57		Michał Kwiatkowski
1.	April, 30th	Ascona - Sion	200.9		Michael Albasini
2.	1st of May	Sion - Montreux	166.5		Michael Albasini
3.	2.May	Le Bouveret - Aigle	180.5		Simon Špilak
4th	May 3rd	Friborg - Friborg	173.1		Michael Albasini
5.	May 4th	Neuchâtel - Neuchâtel EZF	18.5		Chris Froome

Stages

prolog

April 29, 2014 - Ascona - 5.57 km

Result of the prologue driver team time 1 Michał Kwiatkowski Omega Pharma-Quick Step 6:23 min 2 Rohan Dennis Garmin Sharp + 0:04 min 3 Marcel Kittel Team Giant-Shimano + 0:04 min 4th Giacomo Nizzolo Trek Factory Racing + 0:04 min 5 Tony Martin Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:05 min 6th Brett Lancaster Orica GreenEdge + 0:05 min 7th Matthias Brändle IAM Cycling + 0:07 min 8th Jesse Sergent Trek Factory Racing + 0:08 min 9 Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp + 0:09 min 10 Martijn Keizer Belkin-Pro Cycling Team + 0:09 min

Overall ranking after the prologue driver team time 1 Michał Kwiatkowski Omega Pharma-Quick Step 6:23 min 2 Rohan Dennis Garmin Sharp + 0:04 min 3 Marcel Kittel Team Giant-Shimano + 0:04 min 4th Giacomo Nizzolo Trek Factory Racing + 0:04 min 5 Tony Martin Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:05 min 6th Brett Lancaster Orica GreenEdge + 0:05 min 7th Matthias Brändle IAM Cycling + 0:07 min 8th Jesse Sergent Trek Factory Racing + 0:08 min 9 Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp + 0:09 min 10 Martijn Keizer Belkin-Pro Cycling Team + 0:09 min

Stage 1

April 30, 2014 - Brigerbad - Sion - 88.6 km

Result of the 1st stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 2:11:11 h 2 Jesus Herrada Lopez Movistar team s. t. 3 Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp s. t. 4th Maxim Iglinskiy Astana Pro Team s. t. 5 Andrew Talansky Team Giant-Shimano s. t. 6th Matthias Brändle IAM Cycling s. t. 7th Rui Costa Lampre-Merida s. t. 8th Jonathan Hivert Belkin-Pro Cycling Team s. t. 9 Bjorn Thurau Team Europcar s. t. 10 Thomas Voeckler Team Europcar s. t.

Overall ranking after the 1st stage driver team time 1 Michał Kwiatkowski Omega Pharma-Quick Step 2:17:33 h 2 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge + 0:05 min 3 Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp + 0:05 min 4th Jesús Herrada Movistar team + 0:06 min 5 Matthias Brändle IAM Cycling + 0:07 min 6th Rohan Dennis Garmin Sharp + 0:08 min 7th Tony Martin Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:09 min 8th Martijn Keizer Belkin-Pro Cycling Team + 0:13 min 9 Alexandre Geniez FDJ.fr + 0:13 min 10 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:14 min

Stage 2

May 1, 2014 - Sion - Montreux - 166.5 km

Result of the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 4:12:22 h 2 Tony Hurel Team Europcar s. t. 3 Giacomo Nizzolo Trek Factory Racing s. t. 4th Alexei Zatevich Astana Pro Team s. t. 5 Michał Kwiatkowski Omega Pharma-Quick Step s. t. 6th Maxim Iglinskiy Omega Pharma-Quick Step s. t. 7th Tosh Van der Sande Lotto Belisol s. t. 8th Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp s. t. 9 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team s. t. 10 Chris Froome Team Sky s. t.

Overall ranking after the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 6:29:50 h 2 Michał Kwiatkowski Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:05 min 3 Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp + 0:10 min 4th Jesús Herrada Movistar team + 0:11 min 5 Matthias Brändle IAM Cycling + 0:12 min 6th Rohan Dennis Garmin Sharp + 0:13 min 7th Tony Martin Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:14 min 8th Martijn Keizer Belkin-Pro Cycling Team + 0:18 min 9 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:19 min 10 Jon Izaguirre Movistar team + 0:21 min

Stage 3

May 2, 2014 - Le Bouveret - Aigle - 180.2 km

Result of the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Simon Špilak Team Katusha 5:09:23 h 2 Chris Froome Team Sky s. t. 3 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 0:57 min 4th Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team s. t. 5 Beñat Intxausti Movistar team s. t. 6th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling s. t. 7th Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team s. t. 8th Jesús Herrada Movistar team + 1:41 min 9 Thibaut Pinot FDJ.fr s. t. 10 Andrew Talansky Garmin Sharp s. t.

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Simon Špilak Team Katusha 11:39:25 h 2 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:01 min 3 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 1:02 min 4th Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team + 1:06 min 5 Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 1:10 min 6th Beñat Intxausti Movistar team + 1:13 min 7th Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team + 1:14 min 8th Jesús Herrada Movistar team + 1:40 min 9 Jon Izaguirre Movistar team + 1:48 min 10 Andrew Talansky Garmin Sharp + 1:50 min

Stage 4

May 3, 2014 - Friborg - Friborg - 174 km

Result of the 4th stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 4:14:21 h 2 Thomas Voeckler Team Europcar s. t. 3 Jan Bakelants Omega Pharma-Quick Step s. t. 4th Davide Appollonio Ag2r La Mondiale + 0:09 min 5 Anthony Roux FDJ.fr s. t. 6th Oscar Gatto Cannondale s. t. 7th Ramūnas Navardauskas Garmin Sharp s. t. 8th Luka Mezgec Team Giant-Shimano s. t. 9 Roberto Ferrari Lampre-Merida s. t. 10 Tony Hurel Team Europcar s. t.

Overall ranking after the 4th stage driver team time 1 Simon Špilak Team Katusha 15:53:55 h 2 Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:01 min 3 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 1:02 min 4th Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team + 1:06 min 5 Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 1:10 min 6th Beñat Intxausti Movistar team + 1:13 min 7th Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team + 1:14 min 8th Jesús Herrada Movistar team + 1:40 min 9 Jon Izaguirre Movistar team + 1:48 min 10 Andrew Talansky Garmin Sharp + 1:50 min

Stage 5

May 4, 2014 - Neuchâtel - Neuchâtel - 18.5 km

Result of the 5th stage driver team time 1 Chris Froome Team Sky 24:50 min 2 Tony Martin Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:01 min 3 Jesse Sergent Trek Factory Racing + 0:08 min 4th Rigoberto Urán Omega Pharma-Quick Step + 0:15 min 5 Jon Izaguirre Movistar team + 0:20 min 6th Riccardo Zoidl Trek Factory Racing + 0:29 min 7th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:29 min 8th Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 0:31 min 9 Thibaut Pinot FDJ.fr + 0:35 min 10 Mathias Frank IAM Cycling s. t.

Overall ranking after the 5th stage driver team time 1 Chris Froome Team Sky 16:18:46 h 2 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:28 min 3 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 1:32 min 4th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 1:44 min 5 Vincenzo Nibali Astana Pro Team + 1:48 min 6th Beñat Intxausti Movistar team + 1:52 min 7th Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team + 1:56 min 8th Jon Izaguirre Movistar team + 2:07 min 9 Jesús Herrada Movistar team + 2:15 min 10 Thibaut Pinot FDJ.fr + 2:31 min

Jerseys in the course of the race

The table shows the leaders after each stage.

stage	Overall rating	Mountain scoring	Scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team ranking
prolog	Michał Kwiatkowski	not forgiven	not forgiven	Michał Kwiatkowski	Omega Pharma-Quick Step
1.		Johann Tschopp	Vincenzo Nibali
2.	Michael Albasini		Martin Kohler
3.	Simon Špilak			Jesús Herrada	Movistar team
4th
5.	Chris Froome

Web links

• Official website
• Regulations of the Tour de Romandie 2014 (PDF, French)