Tour de Romandie 2018

Tour de Romandie 2018
General
output	72nd Tour de Romandie
Racing series	UCI WorldTour 2018 2nd UWT
Stages	6th
date	April 24-29, 2018
overall length	685.42 km
Host country	Switzerland
begin	Freiburg in Üechtland
target	Geneva
Teams	19th
Driver at the start	133
Driver at the finish	103
Average speed	39.966 km / h
Result
winner	Primož Roglič ( LottoNL-Jumbo )
Second	Egan Bernal ( Sky )
Third	Richie Porte ( BMC Racing Team )
Scoring	Thomas De Gendt ( Lotto-Soudal )
Mountain scoring	Thomas De Gendt ( Lotto-Soudal )
Young talent evaluation	Egan Bernal ( Sky )
Team evaluation	UAE Team Emirates
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The 72nd Tour de Romandie 2018 was a stage race in Switzerland in Romandie / Western Switzerland . The bike race took place from April 24th to 29th, 2018 and was also part of the UCI WorldTour 2018 . It was the 19th of a total of 37 races.

Overall winner was Primož Roglič , who was already third in the prologue , took second place in the mountain time trial of the third stage and took the lead in the overall standings, which he defended on the following queen stage against all attacks by the second overall Egan Bernal . Thomas De Gendt won on the second stage after an escape over 167 kilometers and won the points and mountain classification of the tour.

Participating teams

WorldTeams (18) AG2R La Mondiale Astana Pro Team Bahrain Merida BMC Racing Team Bora-Hansgrohe Dimension data EF Education First-Drapac p / b Cannondale Groupama-FDJ Katusha-Alpecin Team Lotto NL-Jumbo Lotto Soudal Mitchelton-Scott Movistar team Quick-Step Floors Sky Team Sunweb Trek-Segafredo UAE team Emirates Professional Continental Team Wanty-Groupe Gobert

Stage overview

stage	date	Stage locations	type	Length (km)	Stage winner	Overall leader
prolog	April 24	Freiburg im Üechtland - Freiburg im Üechtland		4.02	Michael Matthews	Michael Matthews
1st stage	April 25	Freiburg im Üechtland - Delsberg		166.6	Omar Fraile	Primož Roglič
2nd stage	26 Apr	Delémont - Yverdon-les-Bains		173.9	Thomas De Gendt	Primož Roglič
3rd stage	27 Apr	Ollon - Villars-sur-Ollon		9.9	Egan Bernal	Primož Roglič
4th stage	Apr 28	Manners - manners		149.2	Jakob Fuglsang	Primož Roglič
5th stage	29 Apr	Mont-sur-Rolle - Geneva		181.8	Pascal Ackermann	Primož Roglič

prolog

Stage result driver country team time 1. Michael Matthews Australia Sunweb 5 min 33 s 2. Tom Bohli Switzerland BMC Racing Team + 1 s 3. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo + 1 s 4th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 1 s 5. Victor Campenaerts Belgium Lotto Soudal + 5 s 6th Geraint Thomas United Kingdom Sky + 5 s 7th William Clarke Australia EF Education First-Drapac + 6 s 8th. Diego Rosa Italy Sky + 6 s 9. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 6 s 10. Gorka Izagirre Spain Bahrain Merida + 9 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Michael Matthews Australia Sunweb 5 min 33 s 2. Tom Bohli Switzerland BMC Racing Team + 1 s 3. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo + 1 s 4th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 1 s 5. Victor Campenaerts Belgium Lotto Soudal + 5 s 6th Geraint Thomas United Kingdom Sky + 5 s 7th William Clarke Australia EF Education First-Drapac + 6 s 8th. Diego Rosa Italy Sky + 6 s 9. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 6 s 10. Gorka Izagirre Spain Bahrain Merida + 9 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

1st stage

Stage result driver country team time 1. Omar Fraile Spain Astana 4 h 03 min 42 s 2. Sonny Colbrelli Italy Bahrain Merida + 0 s 3. Rui Costa Portugal UAE Team Emirates + 0 s 4th Rudy Molard France Groupama-FDJ + 0 s 5. Gorka Izagirre Spain Bahrain Merida + 0 s 6th Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 0 s 7th Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 0 s 8th. Xandro Meurisse Belgium Wanty-Groupe Gobert + 0 s 9. Merhawi kudu Eritrea Dimension data + 0 s 10. Eros Capecchi Italy Quick-Step Floors + 0 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo 4 h 09 min 16 s 2. Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 0 s 3. Geraint Thomas United Kingdom Sky + 4 s 4th Diego Rosa Italy Sky + 5 s 5. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 5 s 6th Gorka Izagirre Spain Bahrain Merida + 8 s 7th Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 10 s 8th. Jonathan Castroviejo Spain Sky + 10 s 9. Pierre Rolland France EF Education First-Drapac + 10 s 10. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 13 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

2nd stage

Stage result driver country team time 1. Thomas De Gendt Belgium Lotto Soudal 4 h 03 min 05 s 2. Sonny Colbrelli Italy Bahrain Merida + 2 min 04 s 3. Samuel Dumoulin France AG2R La Mondiale + 2 min 04 s 4th Michael Matthews Australia Sunweb + 2 min 04 s 5. Michael Mørkøv Denmark Quick-Step Floors + 2 min 04 s 6th Xandro Meurisse Belgium Wanty-Groupe Gobert + 2 min 04 s 7th Diego Rosa Italy Sky + 2 min 04 s 8th. Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 2 min 04 s 9. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 2 min 04 s 10. Antoine Duchesne Canada Groupama-FDJ + 2 min 04 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo 8 h 14 min 25 s 2. Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 0 s 3. Geraint Thomas United Kingdom Sky + 4 s 4th Diego Rosa Italy Sky + 5 s 5. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 5 s 6th Gorka Izagirre Spain Bahrain Merida + 8 s 7th Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 10 s 8th. Jonathan Castroviejo Spain Sky + 10 s 9. Pierre Rolland France EF Education First-Drapac + 10 s 10. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 13 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

3rd stage

Stage result driver country team time 1. Egan Bernal Colombia Sky 25 min 10 s 2. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo + 4 s 3. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 18 s 4th Steven Kruijswijk Netherlands LottoNL Jumbo + 48 s 5. Rui Costa Portugal UAE Team Emirates + 1 min 06 s 6th Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 1 min 21 s 7th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 1 min 26 s 8th. Daniel Martin Ireland UAE Team Emirates + 1 min 28 s 9. Emanuel Buchmann Germany Bora-Hansgrohe + 1 min 30 s 10. Simon Špilak Slovenia Katusha-Alpecin + 1 min 43 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo 8 h 39 min 39 s 2. Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 6 s 3. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 27 s 4th Steven Kruijswijk Netherlands LottoNL Jumbo + 1 min 02 s 5. Rui Costa Portugal UAE Team Emirates + 1 min 17 s 6th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 1 min 22 s 7th Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 1 min 22 s 8th. Daniel Martin Ireland UAE Team Emirates + 1 min 42 s 9. Emanuel Buchmann Germany Bora-Hansgrohe + 1 min 42 s 10. Ion Izagirre Spain Bahrain Merida + 1 min 55 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

4th stage

Stage result driver country team time 1. Jakob Fuglsang Denmark Astana 4 h 18 min 48 s 2. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo + 48 s 3. Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 48 s 4th Rui Costa Portugal UAE Team Emirates + 48 s 5. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 50 s 6th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 2 min 09 s 7th Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 2 min 09 s 8th. Jaime Rosón Spain Movistar + 2 min 09 s 9. Emanuel Buchmann Germany Bora-Hansgrohe + 2 min 09 s 10. Merhawi kudu Eritrea Dimension data + 2 min 09 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo 12 h 59 min 09 s 2. Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 8 s 3. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 35 s 4th Jakob Fuglsang Denmark Astana + 1 min 16 s 5. Rui Costa Portugal UAE Team Emirates + 1 min 23 s 6th Steven Kruijswijk Netherlands LottoNL Jumbo + 2 min 32 s 7th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 2 min 49 s 8th. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 2 min 49 s 9. Emanuel Buchmann Germany Bora-Hansgrohe + 3 min 09 s 10. Daniel Martin Ireland UAE Team Emirates + 3 min 12 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

5th stage

Stage result driver country team time 1. Pascal Ackermann Germany Bora-Hansgrohe 4 h 09 min 51 s 2. Michael Mørkøv Denmark Quick-Step Floors + 0 s 3. Roberto Ferrari Italy UAE Team Emirates + 0 s 4th Timothy Dupont Belgium Wanty-Groupe Gobert + 0 s 5. Rudiger Selig Germany Bora-Hansgrohe + 0 s 6th Sonny Colbrelli Italy Bahrain Merida + 0 s 7th Benjamin Thomas France Groupama-FDJ + 0 s 8th. Jens Keukeleire Belgium Lotto Soudal + 0 s 9. Michael Albasini Switzerland Mitchelton-Scott + 0 s 10. Samuel Dumoulin France AG2R La Mondiale + 0 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Overall rating

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Primož Roglič Slovenia LottoNL Jumbo 17 h 09 min 00 s 2. Egan Bernal Colombia Sky + 8 s 3. Richie Porte Australia BMC Racing Team + 35 s 4th Jakob Fuglsang Denmark Astana + 1 min 16 s 5. Rui Costa Portugal UAE Team Emirates + 1 min 23 s 6th Steven Kruijswijk Netherlands LottoNL Jumbo + 2 min 32 s 7th Rohan Dennis Australia BMC Racing Team + 2 min 49 s 8th. Pierre Latour France AG2R La Mondiale + 2 min 49 s 9. Emanuel Buchmann Germany Bora-Hansgrohe + 3 min 09 s 10. Daniel Martin Ireland UAE Team Emirates + 3 min 12 s

Source: ProCyclingStats

Drivers from Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland
14th	Hermann Pernsteiner	Bahrain Merida	+ 04 min 05 s
23.	Mathias Frank	Ag2r La Mondiale	+ 04 min 50 s
56.	Danilo Wyss	BMC Racing Team	+ 19 min 08 s
68.	Kilian Frankiny	BMC Racing Team	+ 27 min 44 s
75.	Silvan Dillier	Ag2r La Mondiale	+ 35 min 55 s
76.	Simon Geschke	Team Sunweb	+ 37 min 39 s
84.	Michael Albasini	Mitchelton-Scott	+ 43 min 04 s
91.	Nico Denz	Ag2r La Mondiale	+ 49 min 57 s
94.	Tom Bohli	BMC Racing Team	+ 55 min 51 s
99	Rudiger Selig	Bora-hansgrohe	+ 1 h 07 min 15 s
100.	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	+ 1 h 07 min 27 s
101.	Andreas Schillinger	Bora-hansgrohe	+ 1 h 07 min 28 s

Other classifications

In addition to the yellow jersey for the overall winner, other jerseys were awarded. The two more important ones were those for the points classification and the mountain classification.

Scoring
1.	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Soudal	112 P.
2.	Primož Roglič	Team Lotto NL-Jumbo	81 P.
3.	Egan Bernal	Team Sky	80 p.
4th	Sonny Colbrelli	Bahrain Merida	74 P.
5.	Pierre Latour	Ag2r La Mondiale	56 P.

Mountain scoring
1.	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Soudal	43 P.
2.	Egan Bernal	Team Sky	36 P.
3.	Hugh Carthy	EF Education First-Drapac powered by Cannondale	33 P.
4th	Primož Roglič	Team Lotto NL-Jumbo	27 P.
5.	Mikel Nieve	Mitchelton-Scott	21 p.

Other rankings were those for the best young professionals and the best teams.

Young talent evaluation
1.	Egan Bernal	Team Sky	17 h 09 min 09 s
2.	Daniel Martinez	EF Education First-Drapac powered by Cannondale	+ 03 min 26 s
3.	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	+ 04 min 28 s
4th	Merhawi kudu	Team Dimension Data	+ 05 min 13 s
5.	Lucas Hamilton	Mitchelton-Scott	+ 05 min 56 s

Team evaluation
1.	UAE Team Emirates	51 h 35 min 39 s
2.	Astana Pro Team	+ 01 min 17 s
3.	Team Sky	+ 02 min 12 s
4th	Bahrain Merida	+ 03 min 31 s
5.	EF Education First-Drapac powered by Cannondale	+ 06 min 17 s

Scoring jerseys

stage	Stage winner	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Young talent evaluation	Most combative driver	Team evaluation
prolog	Michael Matthews	Michael Matthews	Michael Matthews	not forgiven	Tom Bohli	not forgiven	CCC team
1	Omar Fraile	Primož Roglič	Omar Fraile	Marco Minnaard	Egan Bernal	Marco Minnaard
2	Thomas De Gendt		Thomas De Gendt			Thomas De Gendt
3	Egan Bernal					not forgiven
4th	Jakob Fuglsang			Thomas De Gendt		Egan Bernal	UAE Team Emirates
5	Pascal Ackermann					not forgiven
Valuation winner		Primož Roglič	Thomas De Gendt	Thomas De Gendt	Egan Bernal	not forgiven	UAE Team Emirates

Field of participants

Team BMC Racing number Surname rank 1  Richie Porte 3 2  Joey Rosskopf 58 3  Danilo Wyss 56 4th  Kilian Frankiny 68 5  Tom Bohli 94 6th  Rohan Dennis 7th 7th  Tejay van Garderen 45 Sports director Fabio Baldato

Team Quick-Step Floors number Surname rank 11  Elia Viviani - 12  Eros Capecchi 43 13  Fernando Gaviria - 14th James Knox - 15th  Davide Martinelli - 16  Michael Mørkøv 79 17th  Fabio Sabatini - Sports director Tom Steels

Team Mitchelton-Scott number Surname rank 21st  Michael Albasini 84 22nd  Lucas Hamilton 28 23  Damien Howson 44 24  Robert Power 32 25th  Svein Tuft - 26th  Carlos Verona 42 27  Mikel Nieve 16 Athletic Director Matthew Wilson

Team Bora-hansgrohe number Surname rank 31  Emanuel Buchmann 9 32  Pascal Ackermann 100 33  Erik Baska - 34  Peter Kennaugh 87 35  Paweł Poljański 55 36  Andreas Schillinger 101 37  Rudiger Selig 99 Sports director Steffen Radochla

Team Movistar Team number Surname rank 41  Andrey Amador 40 42  Winner Anacona 35 43  Carlos Betancur - 44  Dayer Quintana 59 45  José Joaquín Rojas - 46  Jaime Rosón 18th 47  Eduardo Sepulveda 17th Sporting director José Luis Arrieta

Team Bahrain-Merida number Surname rank 51  Ion Izagirre 11 52  Sonny Colbrelli 70 53  Enrico Gasparotto 61 54  Gorka Izagirre 22nd 55  Kristijan Koren 92 56  Ramūnas Navardauskas - 57  Hermann Pernsteiner 14th Sports director Harald Morscher

Team Lotto Soudal number Surname rank 61  Thomas De Gendt 49 62  Jens Keukeleire 60 63 James Shaw 71 64  Sander Armée 31 65  Enzo Wouters - 66  Victor Campenaerts - 67  Remy Mertz 64 Sports director Frederik Willems

Team Astana Pro Team number Surname rank 71  Jakob Fuglsang 4th 72  Dario Cataldo - 73  Omar Fraile - 74  Andrij Hrywko 69 75 Jesper Hansen 19th 76  Hugo Houle 54 77  Tanel Kangert 21st Sporting director Dmitri Fofonov

Team ag2r La Mondiale number Surname rank 81  Mathias Frank 23 82  Nico Denz 91 83  Silvan Dillier 75 84  Axel Domont 48 85  Samuel Dumoulin 97 86  Alexis Gougeard 78 87  Pierre Latour 8th Sports director Didier Jannel

Team Sky number Surname rank 91  Geraint Thomas 33 92  Egan Bernal 2 93  Jonathan Castroviejo 13 94  David López García - 95  Pavel Sivakov 53 96  Diego Rosa - 97  Luke Rowe 81 Sporting director Dario Cioni

Team Trek-Segafredo number Surname rank 101  Tsgabu Grmay 24 102  Fumiyuki Beppu - 103  Julien Bernard 46 104  Matthias Brändle - 105  Nicola Conci 67 106  Gregory Daniel 103 107  Boy van Poppel - Sporting director Alain Gallopin

Team EF Education First-Drapac number Surname rank 111  Hugh Carthy 47 112  Nathan Brown 39 113  Brendan Canty 72 114 William Clarke 83 115  Joe Dombrowski 57 116  Daniel Martínez 12 117  Pierre Rolland 25th Sporting director Charles Wegelius

Team Lotto NL-Jumbo number Surname rank 121  Primož Roglič 1 122  Lars Boom - 123  Stef Clement 63 124  Steven Kruijswijk 6th 125  Bram Tankink 88 126  Floris De Tier - 127 Robert Wagner - Sports director Jan Boven

Team Sunweb number Surname rank 131 Michael Matthews - 132  Simon Geschke 76 133  Chris Hamilton - 134  Tom Stamsnijder - 135  Michael Storer 77 136  Laurens ten Dam 36 137  Louis Vervaeke - Athletic Director Luke Roberts

Team UAE Team Emirates number Surname rank 141 Daniel Martin 10 142  Anass Aït El Abdia 41 143  Matteo Bono 89 144  Darwin Atapuma 38 145  Kristijan Đurasek 15th 146 Rui Costa 5 147  Roberto Ferrari 98 Sports director Simone Pedrazzini

Team Groupama-FDJ number Surname rank 151  Rudy Molard 29 152 Benjamin Thomas 80 153  Léo Vincent 74 154  Davide Cimolai - 155  Antoine Duchesne 73 156  David Gaudu 20th 157  Tobias Ludvigsson 62 Sporting director Yvon Madiot

Team Dimension Data number Surname rank 161  Steve Cummings - 162  Nicholas Dlamini 96 163  Nicolas Dougall - 164  Amanuel Gebrezgabihier 34 165  Merhawi kudu 26th 166  Johann van Zyl 102 167  Jacobus Venter 85 Sporting director Gino Van Oudenhove

Team Katusha Alpecin number Surname rank 171  Simon Špilak 30th 172  Maxim Igorevich Belkov 86 173  Alex Dowsett 82 174  Matteo Fabbro 51 175 José Gonçalves 65 176  Pavel Sergeyevich Kochetkov 52 177  Baptiste Planckaert 90 Sporting director Dmitri Borisovich Konyshev

Team Wanty-Groupe Gobert number Surname rank 181  Guillaume Martin 27 182  Thomas Degand 37 183  Fabien Doubey 66 184  Timothy Dupont 93 185  Odd Christian Eiking 95 186  Xandro Meurisse 50 187  Marco Minnaard - Sporting director Hilaire Van der Schueren

Individual evidence

1. ↑ French-speaking Switzerland winner Roglic wants to attack the GrandTours in the future. In: radsport-news.com. April 29, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ De Gendt: “That was a four hour time trial”. In: radsport-news.com. April 27, 2018, accessed May 12, 2018 . 

Web links

• Official website
• Tour de Romandie 2018 in the ProCyclingStats.com database