Soudal Quick-Step’s rider remains in contention for a good result at the World Tour race.

The first of the week’s two summit finishes took the riders to Les Marécottes, a quite steep 7.3km climb which – at least, on paper – should have brought some significant changes to the overall standings and create wider gaps between the favourites ahead of Friday’s individual time trial.

But the presence of that important stage against the clock and the strong headwind on the final ascent completely flipped the script and only a few attacks happened in the closing kilometers of the stage. Even in these conditions, a selection was made and the general classification was reshuffled, Ilan Van Wilder being among the ones who gained a couple of positions thanks to a solid display on Les Marécottes.

The 23-year-old Belgian – who earlier this season finished fourth overall at the UAE Tour – started the day in eighth place and now sits just three seconds off the podium of the Tour de Romandie, having the chance of moving up in the rankings in Oron, where the third stage will take place.

“The team did a great work and made sure we keep our energy for the climb. The guys were there for me and I think we all did a good job which puts us in a nice position going into the time trial”, said Ilan at the end of stage two.

 

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Race details

1 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
4:02:44
2 Andrea Vendrame
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:00
3 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
0:04
4 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:14
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:16
6 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:16
7 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
0:16
8 Guillaume Martin Guyonnet
Cofidis
0:16
9 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
10 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:16
30 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
0:35
56 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
1:55
94 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
7:19
128 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
11:18
130 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
11:18
1 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
7:55:32
2 Andrea Vendrame
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:04
3 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
0:22
4 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:25
5 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
0:26
6 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:27
7 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:27
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:28
9 Yannis Voisard
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:29
10 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
0:29
27 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
0:42
49 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
2:19
73 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
7:33
87 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
11:35
126 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
22:11
1 Andrea Vendrame
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
90 pt
2 Dorian Godon
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
69 pt
3 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
60 pt
4 Gianni Vermeersch
Alpecin - Deceuninck
33 pt
5 Joey Rosskopf
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
30 pt
6 Cameron Scott
Bahrain - Victorious
25 pt
7 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
22 pt
8 Alex Aranburu Deba
Movistar Team
21 pt
9 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
20 pt
10 Rune Herregodts
Intermarché - Wanty
20 pt
16 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
16 pt
20 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
13 pt
40 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
3 pt
1 Juri Hollmann
Alpecin - Deceuninck
31 pt
2 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
23 pt
3 Andrea Vendrame
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
16 pt
4 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
10 pt
5 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
8 pt
6 Roger Adrià Oliveras
BORA - hansgrohe
6 pt
7 Patrick Gamper
BORA - hansgrohe
5 pt
8 Raúl García Pierna
5 pt
9 Xandro Meurisse
Alpecin - Deceuninck
4 pt
10 Joey Rosskopf
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
3 pt
1 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
7:55:32
2 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
0:22
3 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:25
4 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:27
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:27
6 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:30
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:31
8 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:31
9 Jan Christen
UAE Team Emirates
0:41
10 Darren Rafferty
EF Education - EasyPost
0:50
19 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
7:33
1 BORA - hansgrohe 23:48:07
2 UAE Team Emirates 0:01
3 Lidl - Trek 0:06
4 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 0:10
5 Team Jayco AlUla 0:37
6 INEOS Grenadiers 0:50
7 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 0:55
8 EF Education - EasyPost 1:08
9 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 1:25
10 Soudal Quick-Step 1:41

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