Tour de Romandie
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| Race details | |
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| Date | Late-April |
| Region | Romandy, Switzerland |
| English name | Tour of Romandy |
| Local name(s) | Tour de Romandie (French) |
| Discipline | Road |
| Competition | UCI World Tour |
| Type | Stage-race |
| History | |
| First edition | 1947 |
| Editions | 69 (as of 2015) |
| First winner |  Désiré Keteleer (BEL) |
| Most wins |  Stephen Roche (IRL) (3 wins) |
| Most recent |  Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) |
The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs in the Romandie region, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling.
The race traditionally starts with an individual time trial prologue in Geneva and ends with another individual time-trial in the hilly terrains in Lausanne. The final time-trial traditionally starts in the stadium north of Lausanne, goes downhill southwards to Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), and makes its way back uphill to the stadium again. Not surprisingly, the winner and several of the top-ten finishers are usually excellent time trialists. Prior to the 2014 edition, four winners of the Tour de Romandie had gone on to win the Tour de France in the same year; Stephen Roche in 1987, then Cadel Evans, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome in 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.
The course of the race usually heads northwards towards the Jura mountains and Alpine mountain ranges of western Switzerland.
Contents
Winners
Multiple winners
| Wins | Rider | Editions |
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| 3 | Stephen Roche (IRL) |
1983 + 1984 + 1987 |
| 2 |  Ferdi Kübler (SUI) |
1948 + 1951 |
 Jean Forestier (FRA) |
1954 + 1957 | |
| Louis Rostollan (FRA) |
1960 + 1961 | |
 Vittorio Adorni (ITA) |
1965 + 1967 | |
| Gianni Motta (ITA) |
1966 + 1971 | |
| Tony Rominger (SUI) |
1991 + 1995 | |
| Pascal Richard (SUI) |
1993 + 1994 | |
| Dario Frigo (ITA) |
2001 + 2002 | |
 Tyler Hamilton (USA) |
2003 + 2004 | |
 Cadel Evans (AUS) |
2006 + 2011 | |
 Chris Froome (GBR) |
2013 + 2014 |
Wins per country
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Italy |
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 Switzerland |
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France |
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Belgium |
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 Netherlands |
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Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States |
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Russia,  Spain,  Sweden |
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 Colombia,  Czech Republic,  Germany,  Norway,  Slovenia |
Most stage wins
| # | Rider | Stage wins |
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| 1 | Mario Cipollini (ITA) |
12 |
| 2 | Hugo Koblet (SUI) |
8 |
| Ferdi Kübler (SUI) |
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| 4 | Vittorio Adorni (ITA) |
6 |
| Knut Knudsen (NOR) |
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| Gianni Motta (ITA) |
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| Tony Rominger (SUI) |
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| Johan van der Velde (NED) |
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| 9 | Michael Albasini (SUI) |
5 |
| Laurent Dufaux (SUI) |
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| Urs Freuler (SUI) |
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| Pascal Richard (SUI) |
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| Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) |
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| Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) |
See also
References
- ↑ Alejandro Valverde finished the 2010 edition as winner, but his results were expurgated as a consequence of a retroactive suspension.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tour de Romandie. |
- Official website (French)
- Tour de Romandie Palmares at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Official website not in Wikidata
- UCI ProTour races
- Cycle races in Switzerland
- Recurring sporting events established in 1947
- 1947 establishments in Switzerland
- Tour de Romandie
- UCI World Tour races
- Annual sporting events in Switzerland
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