Tour de Romandie
Stage 1: Basel - Fribourg
Switzerland
Wednesday 30 April 2025
182.4 km
Tour de Romandie: A quiet day to Fribourg

One of Europe’s most beautiful medieval cities, founded almost 900 years ago and ruled by the Habsburgs for more than five centuries, Freiburg hosted a stage finish at the Tour de Romandie for the fourth time in the last decade. The peloton arrived there after a 194km journey that saw them take on four classified ascents before, the last of which was summited with more than 70 kilometers to go.
A five-man breakaway, from where two riders attacked in the final two hours of the race, animated the day, but the bunch did their homework and easily reeled in the attackers around 25 kilometers from the finish. Things began heating up before a short but punchy climb that came just before the flamme rouge, as more teams made their way to the front.
Soudal Quick-Step made sure that Remco Evenepoel was at all times well positioned, and the Olympic Champion safely concluded in the peloton the stage won by Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) from a bunch sprint. In the general classification, where there were a couple of changes as a result of the finish line bonus seconds, Remco remained in the top ten.
Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images
Race details
1 |
Matthew Brennan Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
4:42:32 |
2 |
Aurélien Paret-Peintre Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
0:00 |
3 |
Artem Shmidt INEOS Grenadiers |
0:00 |
4 |
Huub Artz Intermarché - Wanty |
0:00 |
5 |
Clément Venturini |
0:00 |
6 |
Oscar Onley Team Picnic PostNL |
0:00 |
7 |
Clément Champoussin XDS Astana Team |
0:00 |
8 |
Milan Menten Lotto |
0:00 |
9 |
Ramses Debruyne Alpecin - Deceuninck |
0:00 |
10 |
Ben Swift INEOS Grenadiers |
0:00 |
24 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
48 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
51 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
58 |
Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
83 |
Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:08 |
84 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:08 |
105 |
Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:18 |
1 |
Matthew Brennan Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
4:47:02 |
2 |
Samuel Watson INEOS Grenadiers |
0:03 |
3 |
Ivo Oliveira UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:03 |
4 |
Artem Shmidt INEOS Grenadiers |
0:05 |
5 |
Iván Romeo Abad Movistar Team |
0:06 |
6 |
Stefan Küng Groupama - FDJ |
0:07 |
7 |
Thibault Guernalec |
0:07 |
8 |
Aurélien Paret-Peintre Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
0:07 |
9 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:07 |
10 |
Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:08 |
17 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:11 |
35 |
Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:18 |
67 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:31 |
83 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:21 |
89 |
Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:30 |
102 |
Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:38 |
1 |
Matthew Brennan Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
52 pt |
2 |
Samuel Watson INEOS Grenadiers |
30 pt |
3 |
Aurélien Paret-Peintre Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
30 pt |
4 |
Ivo Oliveira UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
28 pt |
5 |
Iván Romeo Abad Movistar Team |
28 pt |
6 |
Artem Shmidt INEOS Grenadiers |
24 pt |
7 |
Stefan Bissegger Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
19 pt |
8 |
Huub Artz Intermarché - Wanty |
18 pt |
9 |
Maikel Zijlaard Tudor Pro Cycling Team |
17 pt |
10 |
Clément Venturini |
16 pt |
18 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
11 pt |
1 |
Ben Zwiehoff Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
26 pt |
2 |
Gerben Kuypers Intermarché - Wanty |
20 pt |
3 |
Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka Lidl - Trek |
8 pt |
4 |
Enzo Paleni Groupama - FDJ |
6 pt |
5 |
Silvan Dillier Alpecin - Deceuninck |
3 pt |
6 |
Tijmen Graat Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
1 pt |
1 |
Matthew Brennan Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
4:47:02 |
2 |
Samuel Watson INEOS Grenadiers |
0:03 |
3 |
Artem Shmidt INEOS Grenadiers |
0:05 |
4 |
Iván Romeo Abad Movistar Team |
0:06 |
5 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:07 |
6 |
Jan Christen UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:08 |
7 |
Pavel Bittner Team Picnic PostNL |
0:09 |
8 |
Lenny Martinez Bahrain - Victorious |
0:11 |
9 |
Huub Artz Intermarché - Wanty |
0:12 |
10 |
Alexander Hajek Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
0:14 |
15 |
Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:18 |
1 | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | 14:21:25 |
2 | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:11 |
3 | Soudal Quick-Step | 0:11 |
4 | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 0:12 |
5 | Array | 0:13 |
6 | Groupama - FDJ | 0:15 |
7 | Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | 0:20 |
8 | Movistar Team | 0:20 |
9 | XDS Astana Team | 0:24 |
10 | Bahrain - Victorious | 0:27 |