Soudal Quick-Step’s 23-year-old Belgian is in a good position going into the mountains.

Ilan Van Wilder continued to move up in the general classification of the Tour de Romandie, this time after a great ride in the 15.5km individual time trial held around Oron. Fourth overall at the start of the day, Ilan was among the last to roll down the ramp and had to face challenging conditions due to the rain that appeared in the final hour of the stage, complicating things and slowing down the GC contenders.

Despite the slippery roads and tricky corners and descents, Van Wilder managed to put together a good time trial, averaging over 45km/h and stopping the clock in 30:20, a result that helped him take top ten on the stage won by Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates). The ITT, despite being relatively short, gave the general classification a meaningful shake-up, and Ilan was among those who benefitted from this, moving to second with two stages remaining.

“The parcours was nice, but unfortunately the rain made it difficult out there, so I couldn’t go full gas in the corners. I tried to keep the speed as high as possible in between, but with the wind picking up, it wasn’t easy at all. In the end, I did a good ride, which is a nice confidence-boost ahead of Saturday’s hard mountain stage”, Ilan said after the finish.

 

Photo credit: ©Luc Claessen / Getty Images

Race details

1 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
20:06
2 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
0:13
3 Felix Großschartner
UAE Team Emirates
0:15
4 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:21
5 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:23
6 Johan Price-Pejtersen
Bahrain - Victorious
0:24
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:28
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:30
9 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:30
10 Benjamin Thomas
Cofidis
0:32
22 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
0:53
34 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
1:03
45 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
1:21
47 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
1:22
48 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
1:22
1 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
8:16:26
2 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:07
3 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:10
4 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:11
5 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:23
6 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:32
7 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
0:33
8 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:36
9 Yannis Voisard
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:36
10 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
0:36
13 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
0:47
49 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
2:53
71 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
8:07
86 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
11:50
124 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
22:44
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 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
35 pt
5 Gianni Vermeersch
Alpecin - Deceuninck
33 pt
6 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
30 pt
7 Joey Rosskopf
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
30 pt
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
25 pt
9 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
25 pt
10 Cameron Scott
Bahrain - Victorious
25 pt
11 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
22 pt
12 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
22 pt
23 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
16 pt
50 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 Raúl García Pierna
5 pt
8 Patrick Gamper
BORA - hansgrohe
5 pt
9 Xandro Meurisse
Alpecin - Deceuninck
4 pt
10 Joey Rosskopf
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
3 pt
1 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
8:16:26
2 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:07
3 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:11
4 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:23
5 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:32
6 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
0:33
7 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
0:50
8 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:55
9 Jan Christen
UAE Team Emirates
1:16
10 Johannes Staune-Mittet
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:20
18 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
8:07
1 UAE Team Emirates 24:49:02
2 INEOS Grenadiers 1:31
3 BORA - hansgrohe 2:00
4 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 2:33
5 Lidl - Trek 3:09
6 Team Jayco AlUla 3:21
7 Soudal Quick-Step 3:30
8 Bahrain - Victorious 3:32
9 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 4:01
10 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 4:05

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