Our rider put in a good effort in the mountains.

Ilan Van Wilder cemented his place in the top five of the Swiss race at the end of Saturday’s 151.7km queen stage, which featured five classified climbs – including the hard Leysin summit finish (13.8km, 6%) – and more than 3500 vertical meters, that poured led in the riders’ legs long before the final showdown.

Sporting the white jersey on his shoulders following his solid display in Friday’s time trial, Ilan was delivered by his Soudal Quick-Step teammates in a good position at the bottom of the last ascent, where the peloton counted only some 40-odd riders. The status quo continued until five kilometers to go, when some of the riders began showing their intentions. Van Wilder was briefly distanced, but he made it back soon after thanks to a fantastic effort, glueing himself to the wheel of the yellow jersey, which he then dropped when the big attacks came on the steepest part of the climb, pulverising the favourites’ group.

Not panicking on the gruelling gradients of Leysin, which ended up having a major impact on the rankings, Ilan decided instead to pace his effort very smartly, and this paid off nicely at the end of the stage won by Richard Carapaz (Ef Education-EasyPost). The 23-year-old concluded in seventh place for his third consecutive top ten of the week, and will now go into the final day of the race in fourth overall, the same result he got in the beginning of the season at another World Tour race, the UAE Tour.

“It was a brutal day with a hard pace from the first climb. I was lucky to have the support of the team, and especially Julian’s, who was with me almost the entire day. It was difficult for everyone on the last ascent and I missed a bit there to follow the best guys, but I quickly found my tempo and kept it until the finish. Overall, I am satisfied with this result, because it shows that I’m improving in World Tour races”, Ilan explained after the stage.

 

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Race details

1 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
4:06:03
2 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
3 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:10
4 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
0:14
5 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:14
6 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
0:27
7 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:31
8 Tao Geoghegan Hart
Lidl - Trek
0:40
9 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
0:41
10 Cristián Rodríguez Martín
0:44
32 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
4:04
59 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
18:03
90 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
24:21
96 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
24:38
105 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
27:39
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
12:22:46
2 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:07
3 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:09
4 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:21
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:27
6 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
0:38
7 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
0:49
8 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:52
9 Tao Geoghegan Hart
Lidl - Trek
1:02
10 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
1:23
27 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
4:34
48 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
20:39
77 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
32:11
86 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
36:11
122 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
50:06
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 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
43 pt
5 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
42 pt
6 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
41 pt
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
39 pt
8 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
35 pt
9 Gianni Vermeersch
Alpecin - Deceuninck
33 pt
10 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
30 pt
16 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
22 pt
27 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
16 pt
57 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
3 pt
1 Juri Hollmann
Alpecin - Deceuninck
35 pt
2 Bart Lemmen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
24 pt
3 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
23 pt
4 Nelson Oliveira
Movistar Team
18 pt
5 Andrea Vendrame
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
16 pt
6 Raúl García Pierna
16 pt
7 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
15 pt
8 Clément Berthet
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
15 pt
9 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
10 pt
10 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
12:22:46
2 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
0:09
3 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:21
4 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:27
5 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:52
6 Johannes Staune-Mittet
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:43
7 Darren Rafferty
EF Education - EasyPost
3:59
8 Jan Christen
UAE Team Emirates
9:00
9 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
13:45
10 Edoardo Zambanini
Bahrain - Victorious
15:27
16 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
32:11
1 UAE Team Emirates 37:10:20
2 BORA - hansgrohe 0:45
3 INEOS Grenadiers 1:51
4 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 9:05
5 Groupama - FDJ 12:11
6 Lidl - Trek 15:57
7 Movistar Team 16:32
8 Team Jayco AlUla 18:17
9 EF Education - EasyPost 19:23
10 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 22:16

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