Evenepoel blasts to victory in Romandie ITT

Race report | Sunday 04 May 2025 - 17:03

The World and Olympic Champion had no rivals in Genève.

Remco Evenepoel concluded the Tour de Romandie by taking his 18th career win in the individual time trial, a result that elevated him four places on the general classification of the World Tour race, where this year he returned for the first time since 2019, his neo-pro season.

The 25-year-old started the day in ninth place overall, but produced another impressive ride that saw him go fastest through the intermediate checkpoint before setting the best time also at the finish – 20:33, thanks to an average speed close to 50km/h. Victorious in Genève, Evenepoel moved up to fifth on the general classification and became the first reigning World ITT Champion since Tony Martin, in 2013, to win a stage against the clock at the Tour de Romandie.

“I’m happy with this win. We were lucky with the weather, as we didn’t have the rain that was initially predicted. The first four kilometers of the race were rather technical, then everything was pretty straightforward until the finish line. I am delighted with my performance, and especially with the feeling I had in my shoulder, in the corners and on the straight lines.”

“I can look back on these last couple of weeks with satisfaction. I took two wins since returning to competition and found the rhythm again. Not everything went as I had wanted and hoped in some of the races, but it’s only normal after so much time off the bike. I will now recover a bit and then continue my preparations for the summer”, said Remco after his 55th success in the Soudal Quick-Step jersey.

The double Olympic Champion was joined in the top ten of the Tour de Romandie by teammate Junior Lecerf, who finished the Swiss race in a solid eighth place, the same result he got earlier this season in another World Tour event, the UAE Tour.

 

Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images

Race details

1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
20:33
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:12
3 Alberto Bettiol
XDS Astana Team
0:18
4 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:24
5 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:27
6 Raúl García Pierna
0:32
7 Thibault Guernalec
0:33
8 Johan Price-Pejtersen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:38
9 Rémi Cavagna
Groupama - FDJ
0:39
10 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:39
19 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
0:54
54 Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:37
57 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
1:40
73 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:55
82 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
2:08
98 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
2:41
1 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
16:50:44
2 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
0:26
3 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:41
4 Lorenzo Fortunato
XDS Astana Team
1:22
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
1:26
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:31
7 Juan Pedro López Pérez
Lidl - Trek
2:05
8 Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
2:16
9 Mathys Rondel
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
2:43
10 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
2:58
52 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
25:46
64 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
31:06
85 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
51:07
89 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
52:40
95 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
57:52
1 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
97 pt
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
81 pt
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
73 pt
4 Lorenzo Fortunato
XDS Astana Team
72 pt
5 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
68 pt
6 Matthew Brennan
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
58 pt
7 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
52 pt
8 Julien Bernard
Lidl - Trek
45 pt
9 Alex Baudin
EF Education - EasyPost
45 pt
10 Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
42 pt
1 Ben Zwiehoff
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
87 pt
2 Julien Bernard
Lidl - Trek
35 pt
3 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
25 pt
4 Hugh Carthy
EF Education - EasyPost
23 pt
5 Gerben Kuypers
Intermarché - Wanty
20 pt
6 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
20 pt
7 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
19 pt
8 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
10 pt
9 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Lidl - Trek
8 pt
10 Enzo Paleni
Groupama - FDJ
7 pt
12 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
1 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
16:51:10
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
1:00
3 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:05
4 Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:50
5 Mathys Rondel
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
2:17
6 Johannes Staune-Mittet
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
2:50
7 Jørgen Nordhagen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:15
8 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto
3:32
9 Oscar Onley
Team Picnic PostNL
3:38
10 Pablo Torres Arias
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
6:11
1 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 50:39:18
2 XDS Astana Team 0:13
3 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 10:38
4 Lidl - Trek 13:54
5 INEOS Grenadiers 14:52
6 Lotto 16:54
7 Team Jayco AlUla 19:46
8 Bahrain - Victorious 20:01
9 Soudal Quick-Step 20:59
10 EF Education - EasyPost 23:50

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