Tour de Romandie

Stage 4: Sion - Thyon 2000

CH Switzerland Saturday 29 April 2023 161.6 km

Cerny features in bold Romandie breakaway

Cerny features in bold Romandie breakaway

The first rider to wear the yellow jersey at this edition, Josef Cerny was mong the most active men on Saturday’s queen stage, booking a place in the day-long breakaway after an intense first hour of racing. The eight men in the front worked well together, and despite not getting too much space from the peloton – who allowed them a maximum gap of just three minutes – they managed to remain in the lead until the last of the five classified climbs.

Cerny did a tremendous job in the breakaway on this queen stage which had over 4000 meters of elevation, and was among the last riders to get caught by a slowly dwindling bunch in the first part of the never-ending Thyon 2000 (20.8km, 7.6%), the climb where the general classification was decided. The win went to Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates), while Rémi Cavagna came home as the best Soudal Quick-Step rider.

The Tour de Romandie concludes Sunday, in Geneva, where the sprinters should take center stage, on a course containing two ranked ascents, the last of which will be topped around 50 kilometers from the finish.

 

Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images

Race details

1 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
4:40:41
2 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
0:07
3 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
0:19
4 Max Poole
Team DSM
0:21
5 Matteo Jorgenson
Movistar Team
0:21
6 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
0:23
7 Romain Bardet
Team DSM
0:45
8 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
0:54
9 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
0:54
10 Thomas Gloag
Jumbo-Visma
0:54
54 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
10:49
56 Fausto Masnada
Soudal - Quick Step
11:26
84 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
31:00
93 Casper Pedersen
Soudal - Quick Step
31:31
102 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
33:08
103 Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step
33:08
1 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
13:14:41
2 Matteo Jorgenson
Movistar Team
0:19
3 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
0:27
4 Max Poole
Team DSM
0:38
5 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
0:41
6 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
1:21
7 Romain Bardet
Team DSM
1:28
8 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
1:53
9 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
1:53
10 Rafał Majka
UAE Team Emirates
2:07
48 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
11:10
52 Fausto Masnada
Soudal - Quick Step
12:37
96 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
44:42
97 Casper Pedersen
Soudal - Quick Step
46:03
102 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
47:59
106 Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step
50:52
1 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
65 pt
2 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
64 pt
3 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
57 pt
4 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
52 pt
5 Romain Bardet
Team DSM
51 pt
6 Matteo Jorgenson
Movistar Team
48 pt
7 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
40 pt
8 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
30 pt
9 Thibau Nys
Trek - Segafredo
30 pt
10 Matteo Sobrero
Team Jayco AlUla
29 pt
15 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
22 pt
48 Casper Pedersen
Soudal - Quick Step
6 pt
1 Julien Bernard
Trek - Segafredo
64 pt
2 Christopher Juul-Jensen
Team Jayco AlUla
21 pt
3 Thomas De Gendt
Lotto Dstny
18 pt
4 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
17 pt
5 Gleb Brussenskiy
Astana Qazaqstan Team
15 pt
6 Ben Zwiehoff
BORA - hansgrohe
13 pt
7 Dario Lillo
Switzerland
12 pt
8 Tom Bohli
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
10 pt
9 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
8 pt
10 Matteo Jorgenson
Movistar Team
6 pt
23 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
2 pt
1 Matteo Jorgenson
Movistar Team
13:15:00
2 Max Poole
Team DSM
0:19
3 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
1:02
4 Thomas Gloag
Jumbo-Visma
1:55
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
2:49
6 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
2:52
7 Oscar Onley
Team DSM
3:23
8 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
5:07
9 Finn Fisher-Black
UAE Team Emirates
6:00
10 Asbjørn Hellemose
Trek - Segafredo
12:01
24 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
47:40
1 UAE Team Emirates 39:48:18
2 Team DSM 1:01
3 Bahrain - Victorious 1:22
4 Movistar Team 3:38
5 INEOS Grenadiers 3:55
6 Team Jayco AlUla 7:37
7 EF Education-EasyPost 8:00
8 Jumbo-Visma 12:47
9 AG2R Citroën Team 13:29
10 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 16:52

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