First Belgian to conclude in the top five here in the last 34 years.

Ilan Van Wilder added another World Tour top-five to his growing palmares, after the ones at last year’s Tour de Pologne and this year’s UAE Tour. Now in his third season with Soudal Quick-Step, the 23-year-old from Jette showed again how much he has progressed since joining the Wolfpack in what was a demanding and wearing edition of the Tour de Romandie, which concluded in Vernier after a rain-soaked, full gas day.

A solid display across the six stages of the Swiss race and some strong climbing performances on the mountain top finishes of Les Marécottes and Leysin helped Ilan bring Belgium’s best GC result in more than three decades here and another notable result for our team in a World Tour race this season, after the runner-up places we got in Paris-Nice with Remco Evenepoel and the Volta a Catalunya, where Mikel Landa also concluded second.

“Top five in a World Tour race with such a strong field, just a couple of seconds off the podium, is a nice achievement and it makes me happy. It wasn’t easy, we had plenty of hard stages and inclement weather these past couple of days, but we did a great job as a team and I did my best every time. It’s my third result of this kind in a week-long World Tour event and it shows how much I improved. At the same time, it gives me a lot of motivation to keep working, become even better and continue fighting for strong results together with the team in this type of races, which suit me”, said Ilan after his second outing at the Tour de Romandie.

 

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Race details

1 Dorian Godon
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
3:22:00
2 Simone Consonni
Lidl - Trek
0:00
3 Dion Smith
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
4 Tim van Dijke
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:00
5 Alex Aranburu Deba
Movistar Team
0:00
6 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
0:00
7 Clément Venturini
0:00
8 Milan Menten
Lotto Dstny
0:00
9 Thibaud Gruel
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
10 Gianni Vermeersch
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
17 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
31 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
62 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
90 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
1:28
105 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
2:50
112 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
7:01
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
15:44:46
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
33 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
11:35
42 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
20:39
70 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
33:39
74 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
36:11
111 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
52:56
1 Dorian Godon
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
119 pt
2 Andrea Vendrame
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
111 pt
3 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
74 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 Gianni Vermeersch
Alpecin - Deceuninck
40 pt
8 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
39 pt
9 Alex Aranburu Deba
Movistar Team
37 pt
10 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
35 pt
19 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
22 pt
30 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
16 pt
61 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 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
10 Rémi Cavagna
Movistar Team
9 pt
16 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
15:44:46
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 Edoardo Zambanini
Bahrain - Victorious
16:55
10 Thibau Nys
Lidl - Trek
24:54
15 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
33:39
1 UAE Team Emirates 47:16:20
2 BORA - hansgrohe 0:45
3 INEOS Grenadiers 1:51
4 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 10:33
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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