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Tour de Romandie 2022
The Tour de Romandie 2022 is a stage race that will take place in the Romandie region or the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The race will compete from April 26 to May 1 with 5 extreme stage races. The race is the 75th edition of Tour de Romandie and will be played as part of the UCI World Tour.
Traditionally, the Tour de Romandie begins with an individual time trial prologue and finishes with an individual time trial on mountainous terrain. The winner, as well as several of the top 10 finishers, are often strong time-trialists.
The race is also considered a warm-up race for the Giro d'Italia, which often begins one week later. The race normally takes riders northwards towards the Jura and Alpine mountain regions of western Switzerland.
The Route
The route usually consists of 5 stages plus 1 Prologue and often offers a bunch of sprints. The prologue showcases a competitive individual time trial that’s really extreme and it will compete from Lausanne to Lausanne. This year, the 1st stage will be started from La Grande Bérocheand will proceed to finish at Romont. In the second stage, the route goes through Echallens. The route is planned with hilly tracks and will be finished at the same location.
Stage 3 also presents hilly surfaced roads of Valbroye that can be a bit tricky to the riders. But, the puncheurs find the race masterful. Then it will turn to Aigle in the 4th stage and proceed to reach Zinal. The final stage comes in the 5th stage that will take place at Aigle repeatedly but will be finished at Villars with the race’s second ITT.
Competitors and Teams
It's good news that most of the top ten finishers of the race are time trialists. Most players participate in the race from around the globe. The race becomes often competitive and riders possess good stamina to fight in the hilly terrains as the route usually goes through mountainous regions. However, here are top competitors and competing teams are shown below:
Top competitors: Aleksandr Vlasov, Damiano Caruso, Sergio Higuita, Brandon Mcnulty, Ion Izagirre, Rigoberto Urán, Marc Hirschi, Geraint Thomas, Sepp Kuss, Geoffrey Bouchard.
Competing Teams: INEOS Grenadiers, UAE Team Emirates, Lotto Soudal, Movistar Team, Team DSM, Jumbo-Visma, BORA - hansgrohe, Cofidis, AG2R Citroën Team, Astana Qazaqstan Team, Bahrain - Victorious, Israel - Premier Tech, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama - FDJ, Trek - Segafredo, Equipo Kern Pharma, Switzerland and many more.
Current Winners
Welsh professional racing cyclist Geraint Thomas is the titleholder of the Tour de Romandie 2021 on behalf of the team Ineos Grenadiers. He excellently took the first finisher’s position in the race ahead of Richie Porte (Ineos Grenadiers) and Fausto Masnada (Deceuninck–Quick-Step).
There are other winners are Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) 2021, Primož Roglič (Team Jumbo–Visma) 2019, Primož Roglič (LottoNL–Jumbo) 2018, Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team) 2017, Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) 2016, Ilnur Zakarin (Team Katusha) 2015.