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Roglic wins final time trial, Porte wears the 2017 Tour de Romandie crown

Yates and Roglic round out the podium

April 30, 2017
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It was another time trial triumph for Slovenian Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo) in Sunday’s concluding chrono of the 71st Tour de Romandie, but the title went to Richie Porte (Australia/BMC), his second WorldTour stage race win after taking his first Tour Down Under in January. Porte had to come back from a disappointing opening prologue in which he was 108th.


After a flat kilometre, the riders would climb a 4% grade for 7.5-km, and after a bit of downhill, there was then 3-km of 5.7%. A longer downhill ended with 4-km flat kilometres for a total of 18.3-km.


Race leader Simon Yates had not only Porte at +0:19 to hold off, but also Roglic, Ion Izagirre and Bob Jungels, 53-56-seconds back, as well. Could Tejay van Garderen, +1:09, who crashed in the opening prologue, mount a fabulous comeback?

Martin Velits (Slovakia/Quick Step) was the first rider to sally forth. After about 20-riders, LottoNL-Jumbo’s Belgian Victor Campenaerts had the fast time with 26:16.

The hot seat was usurped time and time again. Costa Rican Andrey Amador (Movistar) stopped the clock at 25:33. Neither Ilnur Zakarin nor Chris Froome could replace him in the hot seat, both with 25:44.


Van Garderen was on fine form Sunday, making up for the prologue disappointment with 25:32, one second faster than Amador. The Tour de Romandie has turned out to be a good Giro d’Italia warm up for the American. He would end up 6th on final GC.
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But Roglic is always a threat in both chronos and stage races. The former ski jumper set the new fast mark of 24:58. Izagirre was 25:32 and even though Porte was the fastest at the top of the time, he was eight seconds slower than the Slovenian. Roglic held onto the win, his second time trial victory of the season.

Porte was in the driver’s seat. Only Yates could beat him for the title. It was a good result for the Brit, only two-seconds slower than compatriot Froome, but he couldn’t keep the yellow jersey. He finished runner-up, with Roglic rounding out the podium.

Roglic has now earned a first, fourth, fifth and third in his last four stage races. Like Porte, Yates and Izagirre, he is heading to the Tour de France.


Hugo Houle’s 32nd fastest time bumped him up to 76th on the final GC.


2017 Tour de Romandie Stage 5
1) Primoz Roglic (Slovenia/LottoNL-Jumbo) 24:58
2) Richie Porte (Australia/BMC) +0:08
3) Tejay van Garderen (USA/BMC) +0:34
32) Hugo Houle (Canada/AG2R) +1:31

2017 Tour de Romandie Final GC
1) Richie Porte (Australia/BMC) 17:16:00
2) Simon Yates (Great Britain/Orica-Scott) +0:21
3) Primoz Roglic (Slovenia/LottoNL-Jumbo) +0:26
4) Fabio Felline (Italy/Trek-Segafredo) +0:51
5) Ion Izagirre (Spain/Bahrain-Merida) +1:03
76) Hugo Houle (Canada/AG2R) +19:14