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Sergio Higuita wins stage four of the Tour de Romandie with powerful finishing kick

Bora-Hansgrohe recorded an impressive one-two on the Tour de Romandie's queen stage with Aleksandr Vlasov finishing in second place

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Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe) outkicked a select group of climbers to win stage four of the Tour de Romandie. 

The Colombian was almost beaten by his team mate Alaksandr Vlasov on the line, but held on to secure his fourth win of the season. 

Jumbo Visma dominated the queen stage of the Tour de Romandie and their leader Rohan Dennis will take a 15 second lead into the final stage tomorrow.

HOW IT HAPPENED 

The queen stage of the Tour de Romandie packed a whopping 4100 metres of elevation into a 180km route which had five out of six of its climbs in the second half of the race. 

It took a while for the breakaway to form as a combination of flat valley roads and a tailwind allowed the peloton to set a ferocious average speed of 51kph over the first hour.

14 riders eventually escaped but the challenging parcours created a lead group made up of Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Harm Vanhouke (Lotto Soudal), Nils Bruns (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Óscar Rodríguez (Movistar), Toms Skujinš (Trek – Segafredo) and James Knox (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) the latter two in search of mountain points.

None of the riders were in a threatening position on GC apart from Quintan Hermans (Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux) who started the day 37 seconds down, but he was stuck between the peloton and the break.

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For the first half of the stage the yellow and black jerseys of Jumbo Visma hogged the front of the peloton as it snaked its way through the pine trees of the Swiss Alps.

Jumbo held the break at around three minutes but the gap began to fall once they hit the climb of Les Pontis for the second time in the rain. 

With race radio reporting sleet at the finish, some of the break riders went back to their team cars for coats, perhaps because they could see the peloton closing in several hairpins below. 

Ion Izagirre drove the pace in the break dropping Toms Skujinš and Harm Vanhouke in quick succession. 

However, Ineos Grandiers, Groupama-FDJ and Bahrain Victorius threw riders to the front of the peloton as they knew this was perhaps their last chance to unseat race leader Rohan Dennis (Jumbo Visma). 

The breakaway's gap stood at 1min40secs over the summit of Les Pontis, leaving just the category one climb of the Grimentz, and an uncategorised 4.5km climb, between them and the finish. 

Having already secured the mountains jersey, James Knox was dropped leaving just Ion Izagirre and Óscar Rodríguez up the road. 

Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R Citrëon Team), Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) and Sep Kuss (Jumbo Visma) splintered the peloton with powerful turns on the front, bringing the gap down to 26secs with 10km to go.

Just one kilometre later the break was caught. Einer Rubio (Movistar) launched an attack which whittled the peloton down to a select group of 23 riders, without Geraint Thomas (Ineos Granadiers). 

No one had the strength to attack off Steven Kruijswijk's (Jumbo Visma) pace as he held Rubio at around 12secs. 

Luke Plapp (Ineos Grenadiers) tried two attacks, but was hampered by a headwind and ended up dragging the bunch across to Rubio's wheel 300 metres from the line. 

Sergio Higuita, who had been quiet all day, launched a huge attack on the right of the road to go clear. 

His team mate Aleksandr Vlasov couldn't quite pip him on the line, raising his arms in celebration of the one-two instead. 

It was a good day for Jumbo Visma who consolidated their leader Rohan Dennis' grip on the race. With only a 15km time trial left to complete, Dennis will surely be fancied to take the overall win. 

1. Sergio Higuita (Col) Bora-Hansgrohe, in 5-58-52 2. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Bora-Hansgrohe, all same time 3. Juan Ayuso (Esp) UAE Team Emirates 4. Ben O'Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroen Team 5. Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama FDJ 6. Michael Woods (Can) Israel Premier Tech 7. Gino Mäder (Swi) Bahrain Victorius 8. Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama FDJ 9. Simon Geschke (Ger) Cofidis 10. Carlos Verona (Esp) Movistar

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE FOUR

1. Rohan Dennis (Aus) Jumbo Visma, 17-27-01 2. Juan Ayuso (Esp) UAE Team Emirates, at 15secs 3. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Bora-Hansgrohe, at 18secs 4. Ben O'Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroen Team, at 25secs 5. Lucas Plapp (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers, at 30secs 6. Gino Mäder (Swi) Bahrain Victorius, at 32secs 7. Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama FDJ, at 37secs 8. Neilson Powless (Usa) EF Education-EasyPost, at 41secs 9. Simon Geschke (Ger) Cofidis, at 42secs 10. Steff Cras (Bel) Lotto-Soudal, at 45secs

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Tour de Romandie

Participants list.

• Nelson Oliveira
• Matteo Jorgenson
• Sergio Samitier
• Gregor Mühlberger
• Fernando Gaviria

All six stages will be broadcast live on  Eurosport and  GCN . The ones from Tuesday to Friday will start at 1530 CEST; the ones in the weekend should be live at 1400 CEST.

The prologue and the opening three stages will end around 1730 CEST; the final two stages should reach the line just before 4pm.

There will be  10-6-4″  at the finish of all four road stages. No bonuses will be awarded at intermediate sprints.

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The organisers’ official Instagram account is  @tourderomandie ; the hashtag is  #TDR2023 .

• 01 Josef Cerny Soudal – Quick Step 7'25"
• 02 Tobias Foss Jumbo – Visma +1"
• 03 Rémi Cavagna Soudal – Quick Step "
• 12 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +10"
• 21 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +14"
• 33 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team +19"
• 60 Gregor Mühlberger Movistar Team +25"
• 77 Will Barta Movistar Team +27"
• 111 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team +36"
• 143 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +50"
• 01 Ethan Vernon Soudal – Quick Step 4h05'34"
• 02 Thibau Nys Trek-Segafredo "
• 03 Milan Menten Lotto – Dstny "
• 38 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
• 57 Will Barta Movistar Team "
• 59 Gregor Mühlberger Movistar Team "
• 63 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team "
• 105 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team "
• 123 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +10'50"
• 133 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team "
• 01 Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers 3h55'20"
• 02 Juan Ayuso UAE Team Emirates "
• 03 Romain Bardet Team DSM "
• 11 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
• 15 Gregor Mühlberger Movistar Team "
• 17 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team "
• 20 Will Barta Movistar Team "
• 80 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +3'08"
• 136 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +13'27"
• 137 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team "
• 01 Juan Ayuso UAE Team Emirates 25'15"
• 02 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team +5"
• 03 Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates +17"
• 04 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +18"
• 05 Will Barta Movistar Team +19"
• 38 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +1'02"
• 83 Gregor Mühlberger Movistar Team +2'17"
• 91 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +2'34"
• 119 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team +3'19"
• 01 Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates 4h40'41"
• 02 Thibaut Pinot Groupama-FDJ +7"
• 03 Damiano Caruso Bahrain Victorious +19"
• 05 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team +21"
• 18 Will Barta Movistar Team +2'20"
• 33 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team +5'05"
• 38 Gregor Mühlberger Movistar Team +6'05"
• 60 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +12'29"
• 86 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +31'00"
• 120 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team +34'00"
• 01 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team 3h58'01"
• 02 Nikias Arndt Bahrain Victorious "
• 03 Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers "
• 20 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
• 39 Will Barta Movistar Team "
• 65 Nelson Oliveira Movistar Team "
• 82 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team "
• 91 Gregor Mühlberger Movistar Team +2'19"
• 102 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +3'54"

Following a brilliant Northern Classics campaign, Matteo Jorgenson returns to racing  as what he’s already been for quite some time: the Movistar Team’s biggest value at the start of the Tour de Romandie, one whose 76th edition suits really well in terms of route.

Two time trials are into the program for the 2023 event: a prologue on Tuesday 25th, completely flat, of almost 7km in Le Bouveret; and a quite hilly route, up and down, of almost 19km on Friday 28th, in and around Châtel-Saint-Denis . Those will be the decisive stages, together with the  long final climb to  Thyon 2000 (almost 21km at 7.6%) on day four (Saturday 29th) , also including four other rated ascents and a total 4,300m elevation gain.

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Official Programme

The official programme of the Tour de Romandie is a complete guide to the event in which you will find the following information, among other things:

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• Times for the stages
• Presentation of participating teams
• Presentation of stage towns

More than 6,000 copies of the programme are distributed throughout French-speaking Switzerland, mainly in the stage towns, to the Tour de Romandie sponsors and also during the six days of the event.

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Tour de Romandie 2023: The Route

The Tour de Romandie opens with a pan flat prologue of 7.2 kilometres long before stage 1 serves a route with a lumpy first part and a flat finale.

The finale of the 2nd stage looks promising for the punchy sprinters in the peloton. Two short climbs inside the last 13 kilometres make way for a flat finale.

It’s back to the chrono specialist on the fourth day of action. Stage 3 is a 19 kilometres ITT featuring a 6 kilometres climb at roughly 5%.

The Queen Stage is played out on a 161.3 kilometres route with an elevation gain of 4,157 metres. The finish climb adds up to 20.7 kilometres and the average gradient sits at 7.7%.

The last stage of the Tour de Romandie is a lumpy endeavour from Vufflens-la-Ville to Geneva. A bunch sprint or a successful are to be expected.

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Tour de Romandie 2023

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Tour de Romandie 2023 overview

The 76th edition of the Tour de Romandie takes place April 25-30, 2023. The event brings together all the cantons of French-speaking Switzerland, Romandie, for a celebrated six days of racing, which also serves to promote tourism and culture in the region. 

When the event launched in 1947, there were four days of racing. It was elevated to the WorldTour in 2011 and now provides six days of racing, which serve as a premier test leading up to the first Grand Tour of the season, the Giro d’Italia. Last year, organisers launched the Tour de Romandie Féminin which continues on the Women's WorldTour. 

Irishman Stephen Roche holds the current record for most GC victories, taking the title in 1983, 1984 and 1987. There are 12 other riders who have a pair of overall titles, with Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) reaching that achievement most recently with wins in 2018 and 2019.

Across the years the Tour de Romandie was only cancelled one time, and that was in 2020 due to the coronavirus global pandemic. The race returned in 2021 with Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) winning the overall, and then Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) unseated Rohan Dennis (Jumbo-Visma) on the final day of racing to secure the title with a climactic performance in the uphill time trial. 

As in past years, the Tour de Romandie route begins with a short time trial. The Prologue in 2023 will take place in Le Bouveret, a section of Port-Valais along the southern shores of Lake Geneva. New for this year is a mid-race individual time trial rather than placing it on the final day. The route hold a giant mountain contest from Sion to Thyon 2000 before the conclusion on May 30 with stage 5 in Geneva.

Tour de Romandie race history

The Tour de Romandie was founded in 1947 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Cycling Union. That first edition brought together 10 teams and a total of 40 riders for four stages of racing, Belgium's Désiré Keteleer securing the overall victory. 

• Tour de Romandie past winners

Between 1983-1987, Irishman Stephen Roche won the Tour de Romandie three times and still holds that record. Twelve riders have won the race twice, Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) last taking a pair of GC titles in 2018 and 2019.

Eight Swiss riders have won the Tour de Romandie, Tony Rominger securing the crown on home soil in 1991 and 1995, while Pascal Richard went back-to-back in 1993 and 1994.

The race was elevated to ProTour level in 2006, then five years later to WorldTour status. It traditionally starts with a prologue and winds through the high alpine mountains of Switzerland for the middle stages, then concludes with a hilly time trial.

The mix of races against the clock and across the mountains makes this race the perfect tuneup for the Giro d’Italia, the first Grand Tour of the season which arrives the following week.  

Tour de Romandie 2023 start list

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TV Guide - Where and When to watch Tour de Romandie 2023

From the 25th to 30th April 2023 the peloton will tackle the Swiss roads at the Tour de Romandie , on the French-speaking portion of the central European nation. It is a race that features opportunities for the time-trialists, sprinters, puncheurs and climbers, positioned between the spring classics and the Giro d'Italia. Here's where and when to watch it.

You will be able to follow the race within the traditional channels, online via the GCN+, Discovery+ and Eurosport Player subscriptions. This also includes Eurosport on TV.

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Profiles & route tour de romandie 2023.

Estimated start and finish times for Tour de Romandie stages:

Prologue: 14:50 - 17:30CET

Stage 1: 13:20 - 17:30CET

Stage 2: 13:25 - 17:25CET

Stage 3: 14:10 - 17:30CET

Stage 4: 10:55 - 15:50CET

Stage 5: 11:55 - 15:55CET

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