2007 Tour de Romandie

The 2007 Tour de Romandie served as the 59th edition of this event now held on the 2007 UCI ProTour. The stage race was held from May 1 through May 6, 2007 in the French speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. The race winner was | Thomas Dekker of Rabobank cycling team.

Final Standings:

General classification

Sprints classification

Stage 1 - 2007-05-02, Granges-Paccot - La Chaux de Fonds, 157 km

Germany's hope for the future Markus Fothen of Gerolsteiner took the win after he escaped in the finale together with Francisco Perez. Fothen beat him in a classical sprint-a-deux. The peloton bunch sprint was just behind the two leaders.

Stage 4 - 2007-05-05, Charmey - Pas de Morgins, 156 km

A long break by Lampre-Fondital rider Gorazd Stangelj finished with 8 kilometers to go. By then, Astana's Eddy Mazzoleni upped the pace. He thinned out the group until there were about 15 riders left. Attacks followed by Jose Angel Gomez Marchante and Sylvester Szmyd. But the only real successful attack was by Spaniard Igor Anton Hernandez. Dutch rider Thomas Dekker saw the danger and took over from Mazzoleni. As a result, only five riders could follow. American Predictor cyclist Chris Horner attacked with 4 kilometers to go. Dekker replied instantly and with much pain and suffering also Frenchman John Gadret managed to follow. The trio caught up with Anton, who was happy he could sit in last wheel and follow. Although Dekker made the strongest impression and tried to get away twice, it was Anton who took the win. Dekker disputed the win due to a seemingly irregular sprint by Anton. But his protest was denied.

Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race

As of May 6, 2007, after the Tour de Romandie [http://www.uciprotour.com/Modules/SUCI/RACES/RaceRanking.asp?MenuId=MjE5OA&RaceId=MTQ0&RankId=OTk&BackLink=%2Ftemplates%2FUCI%2FUCI2%2Flayout%2Easp%3FMenuId%3DMjE5OA Updated Rankings] 2007-05-06; UCI; Accessed 2007-05-06]

While the top 10 places remain the same, race winner Thomas Dekker scores his first UCI ProTour points and moves into 11th place. Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen gains three points and jumps from 18th to 15th place. Paolo Salvodelli jumps into 18th place with scores 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie.

* 93 riders (up from 82 riders) have scored at least one (1) point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.

External links

* [http://www.tourderomandie.ch/ Official site (French)]

References