Tour de Romandie 2016 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE](spanish)

May 01, 2016

Tour de Romandie 2016 – Ollon – Genève – 172 km

The 2016 Tour de Romandie is a road cycling stage race that will take place in the Romandie region of Switzerland between 26 April and 1 May 2016. It will be the 70th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race and the 14th event in the 2016 UCI World Tour. The defending champion is Team Katusha’s Ilnur Zakarin.

Nairo Quintana (Movistar) sealed final overall victory at the Tour de Romandie as he finished safely in the main peloton on the rain-soaked final leg to Geneva, while Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEdge) survived from the day’s early break to claim a thrilling stage win.

Albasini was part of the initial ten-man break that went clear in the opening hour of action and animated the day’s racing thereafter, and he was alive to the danger when Carlos Verona (Etixx-QuickStep) launched what proved to be the decisive attack with 16 kilometres remaining.

Verona and Albasini were joined by Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Andrey Amador (Movistar) and the quartet carried a lead of one minute into the final ten kilometres, as the few remaining sprinters’ teams began to give chase.

They still had 32 seconds in hand as they entered the final three kilometres and looked certain to decide the stage honours between them, though it would prove a closer-run thing than anyone anticipated.

The pace dropped once Verona swung over beneath the flamme rouge and manoeuvred Albasini onto the front, though the leaders seemed unaware that the peloton had closed to within touching distance.

600 metres from home, BMC’s Tom Bohli managed to bridge across from the bunch and then blow straight past the surprised leaders, but Albasini quickly collected himself. The Swiss opened his own sprint from distance and overhauled the plucky Bohli in the final 100 metres to land the win.

“I heard on the radio from the directeur sportif that the gap was 17 seconds so I didn’t expect that,” Albasini said of Bohli’s move. “The guy came flying past me but I thought his effort might die in the last 500 metres, so I launched my sprint a bit early with 400 metres to go and it was just about enough.”

Amador and Kelderman came through to claim second and third, respectively, with Niccolò Bonifazio (Trek-Segafredo) and the front of the main peloton – which was split by a crash in the final kilometre – finishing in the same time.

Quintana crossed the line unscathed to claim final overall victory, 19 seconds clear of Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), while his Movistar teammate Jon Izagirre finished third, a further four seconds back. Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha) and Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) retained fourth and fifth overall, respectively.

Froome’s attack

Chris Froome (Sky) was awarded the combativity prize for his part in the ten-man break that animated the day’s racing. The Briton was among the drivers of the move that went clear in the opening hour of action, and he was joined by Albasini, Verona, Kelderman, Amador, Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Moreno Moser (Cannondale), Jerome Coppel (IAM Cycling), Sander Armee (Lotto Soudal) and Tsgabu Grmay (Lampre-Merida).

With Amador policing the group, Movistar were content to allow the escapees maintain a lead in excess of two minutes for the bulk of the day, even if the sprinters’ teams began to organise the chase in earnest in the final 50 kilometres. With Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep) having abandoned ahead of the stage, however, Albasini was quietly confident the move could succeed. “Maybe the break had more of a chance today,” he said.

Froome shattered the unity of the break with an attack on the final climb with 36 kilometres remaining, but he was unable to forge clear, and instead it was Verona’s later move that proved decisive. Albasini tracked it carefully, however, and went on to claim the sixth Romandie stage win of his career.

“It’s always nice to win here, there’s no ranking for them. I’m just very happy. I wasn’t really convinced I could have a good day today, I didn’t feel fresh. But I was really active in the break and I started to feel better,” he said.

The day belonged to Nairo Quintana, however, who was cheered raucously by a group of Colombian supporters as he mounted the podium in Geneva. After victory at the Volta a Catalunya and second place finishes at the Tour de San Luis and Tour of the Basque Country, it masked the conclusion of a hugely successful early-season for Quintana.

Second overall at the Tour de France a year ago, Quintana will be aware, too, of the wider significance of his Tour de Romandie win – three of the previous five winners went on to claim yellow in July for good measure.

Results :

1 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-GreenEdge 4:13:17
2 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova (Crc) Movistar Team
3 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
4 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
5 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
6 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
7 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-GreenEdge
8 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team
9 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step
10 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) IAM Cycling
11 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Team Roth
12 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
13 Marco Marcato (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
14 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha
15 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team
16 Gaetan Bille (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
17 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Giant-Alpecin
18 Jos van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
19 William Bonnet (Fra) FDJ
20 Roland Thalman (Swi) Team Roth
21 Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
22 Marinus Cornelis Minnaard (Ned) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
23 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Lampre – Merida
24 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge
25 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team
26 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ
27 Steve Morabito (Swi) FDJ
28 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ
29 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling
30 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) IAM Cycling
31 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
32 Simon Špilak (Slo) Team Katusha
33 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
34 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Lotto Soudal
35 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Astana Pro Team
36 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Tinkoff Team
37 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Cannondale Pro Cycling
38 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Tinkoff Team
39 Mickaël Chérel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
40 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
41 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx – Quick-Step
42 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin
43 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
44 Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team
45 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
46 Dries Devenyns (Bel) IAM Cycling
47 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) IAM Cycling
48 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
49 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Team Katusha
50 Jan Polanc (Slo) Lampre – Merida
51 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ
52 Jérémy Maison (Fra) FDJ
53 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge
54 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team
55 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team
56 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step
57 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha
58 Steven Lammertink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
59 Marcel Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling
60 Nico Brüngger (Swi) Team Roth
61 Matthias Krizek (Aut) Team Roth
62 Martin Kohler (Swi) Team Roth
63 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge
64 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling
65 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
66 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
67 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
68 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin
69 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo
70 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling
71 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
72 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
73 Ji Cheng (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin
74 Christian Meier (Can) Orica-GreenEdge
75 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team
76 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team
77 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Cannondale Pro Cycling
78 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
79 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:02:47
80 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:02:49
81 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre – Merida
82 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre – Merida
83 Mario Jorge Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre – Merida
84 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
85 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:02:53
86 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 0:02:56
87 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling
88 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
89 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data
90 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:03:01
91 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Lampre – Merida 0:03:04
92 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
93 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:03:08
94 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
95 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ
96 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:03:13
97 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Astana Pro Team 0:03:20
98 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:24
99 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:03:33
100 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
101 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky
102 Winner Anacona Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 0:03:33
103 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team
104 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky
105 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:03:36
106 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:03:51
107 Sander Armée (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:04:00
108 Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin (Eri) Dimension Data
109 Tosh Van der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal
110 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
111 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step
112 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Dimension Data 0:11:49
113 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step
114 Dylan Page (Swi) Team Roth
115 Valentin Baillifard (Swi) Team Roth
116 Bruno Pires (Por) Team Roth
117 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step
118 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data
119 Alex Peters (GBr) Team Sky
120 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Team Katusha
121 Dennis van Winden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
122 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 0:15:44
123 Songezo Jim (RSA) Dimension Data 0:15:45
124 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team
DNF Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx – Quick-Step
DNF Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Tinkoff Team
DNF Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) IAM Cycling
DNF Miguel Ángel López (Col) Astana Pro Team
DNF Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff Team
DNS Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
DNS Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
DNS Rigoberto Urán (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling
DNS Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Team Sky
DNS Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team
DNS Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Team
DNS Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
DNS Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx – Quick-Step

Final General classification :

1 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 16:20:20
2 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 0:00:19
3 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:23
4 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:00:26
5 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:00:57
6 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre – Merida 0:01:12
7 Simon Špilak (Slo) Team Katusha 0:01:16
8 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling
9 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:24
10 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:01:27
11 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ 0:01:32
12 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:24
13 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:02:33
14 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Lotto Soudal 0:03:25
15 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:03:29
16 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:04:21
17 Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin (Eri) Dimension Data 0:05:13
18 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:05:25
19 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team
20 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Tinkoff Team 0:05:59
21 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:06:06
22 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Team Katusha 0:07:22
23 Jan Polanc (Slo) Lampre – Merida 0:09:06
24 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:10:21
25 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:10:32
26 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data 0:12:25
27 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:17:07
28 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Tinkoff Team 0:17:17
29 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:17:18
30 Steve Morabito (Swi) FDJ 0:17:33
31 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:17:38
32 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova (Crc) Movistar Team 0:17:46
33 Mickaël Chérel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:18:04
34 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 0:18:50
35 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:19:17
36 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:19:36
37 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:21:11
38 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:21:12
39 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:21:21
40 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ 0:23:28
41 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:23:50
42 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:24:16
43 Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 0:24:19
44 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:25:17
45 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:26:08
46 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:26:29
47 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data 0:27:35
48 Marinus Cornelis Minnaard (Ned) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:28:48
49 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:28:51
50 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale 0:28:57
51 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:29:42
52 Jérémy Maison (Fra) FDJ 0:29:52
53 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:30:27
54 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:31:00
55 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Lampre – Merida 0:31:48
56 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:32:32
57 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:33:09
58 Bruno Pires (Por) Team Roth 0:33:20
59 Marcel Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:34:45
60 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-GreenEdge 0:35:36
61 Christian Meier (Can) Orica-GreenEdge 0:36:22
62 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Lampre – Merida 0:37:15
63 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:37:18
64 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:37:22
65 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:37:31
66 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 0:38:28
67 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 0:38:37
68 Winner Anacona Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 0:40:28
69 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:40:39
70 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Team Roth 0:40:51
71 Sander Armée (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:41:55
72 Marco Marcato (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:42:28
73 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) IAM Cycling 0:42:32
74 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-GreenEdge 0:43:40
75 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:45:21
76 Valentin Baillifard (Swi) Team Roth 0:45:32
77 Mario Jorge Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre – Merida 0:45:57
78 William Bonnet (Fra) FDJ 0:46:13
79 Tosh Van der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:46:25
80 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ 0:47:26
81 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data 0:47:41
82 Gaetan Bille (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:48:12
83 Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team 0:48:36
84 Nico Brüngger (Swi) Team Roth 0:48:42
85 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:48:47
86 Dries Devenyns (Bel) IAM Cycling 0:49:15
87 Jos van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:49:34
88 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:49:41
89 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team
90 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:50:06
91 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:50:46
92 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:50:55
93 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:51:32
94 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:51:40
95 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Team Katusha 0:51:45
96 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:51:48
97 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:52:30
98 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:54:00
99 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:54:23
100 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale 0:54:54
101 Martin Kohler (Swi) Team Roth 0:55:20
102 Roland Thalman (Swi) Team Roth 0:56:05
103 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Astana Pro Team 0:56:06
104 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:56:15
105 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:56:19
106 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:56:34
107 Steven Lammertink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:56:41
108 Matthias Krizek (Aut) Team Roth 0:56:52
109 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:56:56
110 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky 0:56:57
111 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 0:58:07
112 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:58:55
113 Ji Cheng (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:59:43
114 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Astana Pro Team 1:00:05
115 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 1:01:28
116 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step 1:02:12
117 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Dimension Data 1:04:12
118 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 1:04:52
119 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 1:07:39
120 Dylan Page (Swi) Team Roth 1:08:42
121 Dennis van Winden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 1:11:26
122 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 1:16:18
123 Alex Peters (GBr) Team Sky 1:16:35
124 Songezo Jim (RSA) Dimension Data 1:18:18