Rémi Cavagna goes all-out at the Tour de Romandie

Rémi Cavagna instigated the day’s main move, taking with him two riders what turned into a three-man breakaway that animated the stage starting and finishing in Valbroye, a small town in the canton of Vaud. The French Champion, who had tried his luck also two days ago, was the “engine” of this small group that pulled away after just ten kilometers, padding their lead to four minutes by the time they arrived at the bottom of Châbles, the second of the stage’s five classified climbs.
The gap remained stable until 60 kilometers to go, when it began to steadily come down and fluctuate around two minutes. Clicking off about five seconds per kilometer, the rampaging peloton managed to claw back Rémi and his companions just before tackling the Dompierre ascent (3.6km, 5%). Attacks didn’t happen there, but a couple of kilometers later, on the Sédeilles, where one rider put ten seconds between him and the field, a move that was soon nullified on the descent.
In what turned out to be another nervous final kilometer, Mauro Schmid clipped off the front and pushed hard to open a gap, but was pulled back in sight of the line on the finishing straight and the stage went to Patrick Bevin (Israel Start-Up Nation). Mikkel Honoré took a solid top 10 for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, while Schmid cemented his place at the top of the youth classification ahead of the race’s queen stage.
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Race details
1 |
Patrick Bevin Israel - Premier Tech |
3:53:27 |
2 |
Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers |
0:00 |
3 |
Rohan Dennis Jumbo-Visma |
0:00 |
4 |
Dion Smith Team BikeExchange - Jayco |
0:00 |
5 |
Quinten Hermans Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux |
0:00 |
6 |
Damiano Caruso Bahrain - Victorious |
0:00 |
7 |
Finn Fisher-Black UAE Team Emirates |
0:00 |
8 |
Felix Großschartner BORA - hansgrohe |
0:00 |
9 |
Nikias Arndt Team DSM |
0:00 |
10 |
Mikkel Frølich Honoré
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:00 |
16 |
Mauro Schmid
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:00 |
71 |
James Knox
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
1:49 |
87 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
6:52 |
95 |
Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
7:34 |
116 |
Ethan Vernon
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
10:14 |
127 |
Josef Černý
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
10:14 |
1 |
Rohan Dennis Jumbo-Visma |
12:28:06 |
2 |
Patrick Bevin Israel - Premier Tech |
0:14 |
3 |
Felix Großschartner BORA - hansgrohe |
0:18 |
4 |
Mauro Schmid
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:22 |
5 |
Dylan Teuns Bahrain - Victorious |
0:22 |
6 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
0:22 |
7 |
Mikkel Frølich Honoré
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:22 |
8 |
Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates |
0:25 |
9 |
Aleksandr Vlasov BORA - hansgrohe |
0:27 |
10 |
Marc Hirschi UAE Team Emirates |
0:28 |
66 |
Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
9:25 |
92 |
James Knox
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
16:46 |
100 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
19:02 |
110 |
Ethan Vernon
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
22:18 |
120 |
Josef Černý
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
30:25 |
1 |
Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers |
110 pt |
2 |
Rohan Dennis Jumbo-Visma |
75 pt |
3 |
Patrick Bevin Israel - Premier Tech |
55 pt |
4 |
Dylan Teuns Bahrain - Victorious |
50 pt |
5 |
Quinten Hermans Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux |
46 pt |
6 |
Aleksandr Vlasov BORA - hansgrohe |
41 pt |
7 |
Felix Großschartner BORA - hansgrohe |
40 pt |
8 |
Krists Neilands Israel - Premier Tech |
31 pt |
9 |
Toms Skujiņš Trek - Segafredo |
30 pt |
10 |
Jon Aberasturi Izaga Trek - Segafredo |
30 pt |
12 |
Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
25 pt |
18 |
Mikkel Frølich Honoré
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
19 pt |
22 |
Mauro Schmid
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
16 pt |
27 |
Ethan Vernon
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
13 pt |
1 |
Krists Neilands Israel - Premier Tech |
20 pt |
2 |
Thomas Champion Cofidis |
15 pt |
3 |
Antoine Debons Switzerland |
11 pt |
4 |
Andrey Amador Bikkazakova INEOS Grenadiers |
10 pt |
5 |
Nans Peters AG2R Citroën Team |
8 pt |
6 |
Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
7 pt |
7 |
Valère Thiébaud Switzerland |
7 pt |
8 |
Marc Hirschi UAE Team Emirates |
5 pt |
9 |
Nils Brun Switzerland |
5 pt |
10 |
Ben O'Connor AG2R Citroën Team |
3 pt |
1 |
Mauro Schmid
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
12:28:28 |
2 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
0:00 |
3 |
Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates |
0:03 |
4 |
Marc Hirschi UAE Team Emirates |
0:06 |
5 |
Andreas Leknessund Team DSM |
0:06 |
6 |
Luke Plapp INEOS Grenadiers |
0:08 |
7 |
Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes Movistar Team |
0:24 |
8 |
Sean Quinn EF Education-EasyPost |
0:25 |
9 |
Finn Fisher-Black UAE Team Emirates |
0:28 |
10 |
Abner González Rivera Movistar Team |
0:28 |
27 |
Ethan Vernon
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
21:56 |
1 | UAE Team Emirates | 37:25:35 |
2 | Movistar Team | 0:15 |
3 | Trek - Segafredo | 0:15 |
4 | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:16 |
5 | Bahrain - Victorious | 0:16 |
6 | Cofidis | 0:18 |
7 | Israel - Premier Tech | 0:24 |
8 | Jumbo-Visma | 0:32 |
9 | Groupama - FDJ | 0:34 |
10 | BORA - hansgrohe | 1:15 |