Tour de Romandie 2016

Tour de Romandie 2016
General
output	70th Tour de Romandie
Racing series	UCI WorldTour 2016 2nd UWT
Stages	6th
date	April 26 - May 1, 2016
overall length	646.66 km
Host country	Switzerland
begin	La Chaux-de-Fonds
target	Geneva
Teams	20th
Driver at the start	160
Driver at the finish	124
Average speed	43,185 km / h
Result
winner	Nairo Quintana ( Movistar )
Second	Thibaut Pinot ( FDJ )
Third	Ion Izagirre ( Movistar )
Scoring	Michael Albasini ( Orica-GreenEDGE )
Mountain scoring	Sander Armée ( Lotto-Soudal )
Young talent evaluation	Pierre Latour ( AG2R La Mondiale )
Team evaluation	Movistar
◀ 2015	2017 ▶
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The 70th Tour de Romandie 2016 was a Swiss road bike race in Romandie / Western Switzerland . The stage race took place from April 26th to May 1st, 2016 and included a prologue and five stages. It was part of the 2016 UCI WorldTour cycle race and was the fourteenth of a total of 28 races in the series.

The first stage started in Mathod due to bad weather , but ended in Moudon anyway . This stage then had a length of 100.5 km .

Participating teams

The 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically entitled to start . In addition, two UCI Professional Continental teams were invited.

WorldTeams (18) AG2R La Mondiale Astana Katusha Movistar BMC Racing Tinkoff Cannondale FDJ Dimension data Lampre-Merida Trek-Segafredo Lotto Soudal Orica-GreenEDGE Etixx-Quick Step I AM Giant Alpecin Sky Lotto NL-Jumbo Professional Continental Teams (2) Roth Wanty-Groupe Gobert

Stage overview

stage	date	Stage locations	type	Length (km)	Stage winner	Overall leader
prolog	26 Apr	La Chaux-de-Fonds - La Chaux-de-Fonds		3.95	Ion Izagirre	Ion Izagirre
1st stage	27 Apr	Mathod - Moudon		100.5	Marcel Kittel	Ion Izagirre
2nd stage	Apr 28	Moudon - Morgins		177	Nairo Quintana	Nairo Quintana
3rd stage	29 Apr	Manners - manners		15.11	Thibaut Pinot	Nairo Quintana
4th stage	30 Apr	Conthey - Villars-sur-Ollon		172.7	Chris Froome	Nairo Quintana
5th stage	1st of May	Ollon - Geneva		177.4	Michael Albasini	Nairo Quintana

Stages

prolog

April 26, 2016 - La Chaux-de-Fonds - 3.95 km

Result of the prologue and overall ranking after the prologue driver team time 1 Ion Izagirre Movistar team 5:33 min 2 Tom Dumoulin Team Giant-Alpecin + 0:06 min 3 Michał Kwiatkowski Team Sky + 0:07 min 4th Geraint Thomas Team Sky + 0:07 min 5 Gorka Izagirre Movistar team + 0:08 min 6th Moreno Moser Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:09 min 7th Reto Hollenstein IAM Cycling + 0:11 min 8th Louis Vervaeke Lotto Soudal + 0:11 min 9 Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team + 0:11 min 10 Martijn Keizer Team Lotto NL-Jumbo + 0:12 min

1st stage

April 27, 2016 - La Chaux-de-Fonds - Moudon - 166.9 km

Result of the 1st stage driver team time 1 Marcel Kittel Etixx-Quick Step 2:27:46 h 2 Niccolò Bonifazio Trek-Segafredo + s. t. 3 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge + s. t. 4th Tosh Van der Sande Lotto Soudal + s. t. 5 Ramūnas Navardauskas Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + s. t. 6th Davide Cimolai Lampre-Merida + s. t. 7th Samuel Dumoulin Ag2r La Mondiale + s. t. 8th Enrico Gasparotto Wanty-Groupe Gobert + s. t. 9 Kristian Sbaragli Team Dimension Data + s. t. 10 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + s. t.

Overall ranking after the 1st stage driver team time 1 Ion Izagirre Movistar team 2:33:19 h 2 Tom Dumoulin Team Giant-Alpecin + 0:06 min 3 Geraint Thomas Team Sky + 0:07 min 4th Gorka Izagirre Movistar team + 0:08 min 5 Moreno Moser Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:09 min 6th Reto Hollenstein IAM Cycling + 0:11 min 7th Louis Vervaeke Lotto Soudal + 0:11 min 8th Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team + 0:11 min 9 Martijn Keizer Team Lotto NL-Jumbo + 0:12 min 10 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:12 min

2nd stage

April 28, 2016 - Moudon - Morgins - 173.9 km

Result of the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Nairo Quintana Movistar team 4:28:40 h 2 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + s. t. 3 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 0:26 min 4th Rigoberto Urán Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:26 min 5 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:26 min 6th Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:26 min 7th Rafał Majka Tinkoff + 0:26 min 8th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 0:26 min 9 Pierre Rolland Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:26 min 10 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:26 min

Overall ranking after the 2nd stage driver team time 1 Nairo Quintana Movistar team 7:02:05 h 2 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:18 min 3 Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:20 min 4th Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:32 min 5 Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 0:36 min 6th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 0:37 min 7th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:42 min 8th Pierre Rolland Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:43 min 9 Bauke Mollema Trek-Segafredo + 0:44 min 10 Rigoberto Urán Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:46 min

3rd stage

April 29, 2016 - Sion - Sion - 15.11 km

Result of the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Thibaut Pinot FDJ 20:21 min 2 Tom Dumoulin Team Giant-Alpecin + 0:02 min 3 Bob Jungels Etixx-Quick Step + 0:09 min 4th Chris Froome Team Sky + 0:09 min 5 Jérôme Coppel IAM Cycling + 0:09 min 6th Nairo Quintana Movistar team + 0:09 min 7th Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:17 min 8th Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:18 min 9 Steve Morabito FDJ + 0:22 min 10 Manuele Boaro Tinkoff + 0:25 min

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage driver team time 1 Nairo Quintana Movistar team 7:22:35 h 2 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:23 min 3 Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:26 min 4th Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:29 min 5 Tom Dumoulin Team Giant-Alpecin + 0:50 min 6th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 1:06 min 7th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 1:11 min 8th Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 1:12 min 9 Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team + 1:22 min 10 Rafał Majka Tinkoff + 1:23 min

4th stage

April 30, 2016 - Conthey - Villars-sur-Ollon - 172.7 km

Result of the 4th stage driver team time 1 Chris Froome Team Sky 4:44:24 h 2 Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:04 min 3 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:04 min 4th Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:04 min 5 Nairo Quintana Movistar team + 0:04 min 6th Bauke Mollema Trek-Segafredo + 0:04 min 7th Rui Costa Team Katusha + 0:04 min 8th Rigoberto Urán Cannondale Pro Cycling Team + 0:04 min 9 Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team + 0:09 min 10 Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 0:09 min

Overall ranking after the 4th stage driver team time 1 Nairo Quintana Movistar team 12:07:03 h 2 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:19 min 3 Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:23 min 4th Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:26 min 5 Tom Dumoulin Team Giant-Alpecin + 0:57 min 6th Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 1:12 min 7th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 1:16 min 8th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 1:16 min 9 Bauke Mollema Trek-Segafredo + 1:24 min 10 Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team + 1:27 min

5th stage

May 1, 2016 - Ollon - Geneva - 177.4 km

Result of the 5th stage driver team time 1 Michael Albasini Orica GreenEdge 4:13:17 h 2 Andrey Amador Movistar team + s. t. 3 Wilco Kelderman Team Lotto NL-Jumbo + s. t. 4th Niccolò Bonifazio Trek-Segafredo + s. t. 5 Moreno Hofland Team Lotto NL-Jumbo + s. t. 6th Kristian Sbaragli Team Dimension Data + s. t. 7th Daryl Impey Orica GreenEdge + s. t. 8th Tom Bohli BMC Racing Team + s. t. 9 Carlos Verona Etixx-Quick Step + s. t. 10 Jarlinson Pantano IAM Cycling + s. t.

Overall ranking after the 5th stage driver team time 1 Nairo Quintana Movistar team 16:20:20 h 2 Thibaut Pinot FDJ + 0:19 min 3 Ion Izagirre Movistar team + 0:23 min 4th Ilnur Sakarin Team Katusha + 0:26 min 5 Tom Dumoulin Team Giant-Alpecin + 0:57 min 6th Rui Costa Lampre-Merida + 1:12 min 7th Simon Špilak Team Katusha + 1:16 min 8th Mathias Frank IAM Cycling + 1:16 min 9 Bauke Mollema Trek-Segafredo + 1:24 min 10 Tejay van Garderen BMC Racing Team + 1:27 min

Scoring jerseys

stage	Stage winner	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team evaluation
P	Jon Izagirre	Jon Izagirre	Jon Izagirre	Louis Vervaeke	Louis Vervaeke	Movistar team
1	Marcel Kittel		Marcel Kittel	Sander Armée
2	Nairo Quintana	Nairo Quintana		Nairo Quintana	Davide Formolo	Cannondale
3	Thibaut Pinot		Jon Izagirre		Damien Howson	Movistar team
4th	Chris Froome				Pierre Latour
5	Michael Albasini		Michael Albasini	Sander Armée
Valuation winner		Nairo Quintana	Michael Albasini	Sander Armée	Pierre Latour	Movistar team

Web links

• Official website
• Tour de Romandie 2016 in the ProCyclingStats.com database