Włoski sprinter Elia Viviani zwyciężył w czwartym dniu Tour de Romandie.
Kolarz Team Sky na finiszu był szybszy od Sonny’ego Colbrelliego (Bahrain-Merida) i Michaela Schwarzmanna (Bora – hansgrohe). 34. w peletonie przyjechał Paweł Poljański (Bora-hansgrohe).
Pozycję lidera wyścigu obronił Włoch Fabio Felline (Trek-Segafredo).
Nim zapadło rozstrzygnięcie w Payerne ucieczkę zawiązali Davide Martinelli (Quick-Step Floors), Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-hansgrohe), Toms Skujins (Cannondale-Drapac), Victor Campenaerts (LottoNl-Jumbo), Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal), Hugo Houle (AG2R La Mondiale) i Nikita Stalnov (Astana).
Mocna grupa nie zdobyła znacznej przewagi, po wczorajszej porażce czujny peleton odpuścił akcję na 3 minuty (64 km). Główną grupę napędzali kolarze Bahrain-Merida, dociągając do śmiałków 37 kilometrów przed metą.
Na ostatnim podjeździe (kat. 2; 2,6 km; 5,9%), lezącym 29 kilometrów przed metą, skontrowali Simon Clarke (Cannondale) i Arnaud Courteille (FDJ), a następnie oderwał się Alex Dowsett.
Zawodnik Movistar zdobył 30 sekund, uciekając przez 20 kilometrów, ale za jego plecami twardo gonili Bahrain, Team Sky i Quick-Step Floors. Brytyjczyk został wchłonięty niespełna 5 kilometrów przed finiszem.
Tam rozprowadzanego Vivianiego spróbował zaskoczyć wczesnym atakiem Alexander Edmondson (Orica-Scott), jednak doświadczony sprinter zachował zimną krew, odnosząc pierwsze swoje zwycięstwo w sezonie.
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 4:27:42 2 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 3 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 4 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Orica-Scott 5 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 7 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors 8 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Lotto Soudal 9 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 10 Juan Jose Lobato (Spa) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 11 Dion Smith (NZl) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 12 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ 13 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 14 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale-Drapac 15 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb 16 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Sunweb 17 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 18 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 19 Ben Swift (GBr) UAE Team Emirates 20 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 21 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 22 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo 23 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 24 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 25 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale 26 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 27 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 28 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 29 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 30 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 31 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 32 Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 33 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team 34 Paweł Poljański (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 35 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 36 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors 37 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 38 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 39 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 40 Fabien Doubey (Fra) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 41 David De La Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 42 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 43 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data 44 Pierre Roger Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 45 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 46 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 47 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 48 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team 49 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Orica-Scott 50 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ 51 André Cardoso (Por) Trek-Segafredo 52 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 53 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 54 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 55 Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 56 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin 57 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ 58 Silvio Herklotz (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 59 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Dimension Data 60 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky 61 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Movistar Team 62 Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 63 Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eri) Dimension Data 64 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 65 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 66 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 67 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 68 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 69 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-Scott 70 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 71 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 72 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team 73 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 74 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 75 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team 76 Carlos Betancur (Col) Movistar Team 77 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 78 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 79 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 80 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates 81 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 82 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Bahrain-Merida 83 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 84 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 85 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 86 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 87 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 88 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 89 Rob Power (Aus) Orica-Scott 90 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 91 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 92 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 93 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Astana Pro Team 94 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott 95 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Team Sunweb 96 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 97 Annas Ait el Abdia (Mor) UAE Team Emirates 98 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 99 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 100 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ 101 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 102 Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team 103 David Gaudu (Fra) FDJ 104 Ondrej Cink (Cze) Bahrain-Merida 105 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 106 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 107 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 108 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 109 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Katusha-Alpecin 110 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 111 Alberto Losada (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin 112 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 113 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 114 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-Scott 115 Mekseb Debesay (Eri) Dimension Data 00:12 116 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 00:14 117 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida 118 David Lopez (Spa) Team Sky 00:33 119 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 00:37 120 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 121 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 00:42 122 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 00:55 123 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 01:34 124 Tim Declercq (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 02:06 125 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 03:33 126 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 05:47 127 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 07:42 128 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 08:43 129 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky 130 Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors 131 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo 132 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 133 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 134 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 135 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 136 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 137 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 138 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 139 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 140 William Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 141 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Sunweb 142 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Bahrain-Merida 143 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 08:43 144 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 145 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo 146 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 147 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-Scott 148 Adrien Niyonshuti (Rwa) Dimension Data 149 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal
1 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 12:40:24 2 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 00:08 3 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 4 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 00:09 5 Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 00:12 6 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors 7 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 00:13 8 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 9 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-Scott 00:14 10 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Movistar Team 11 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 12 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo 00:15 13 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-Scott 14 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 00:16 15 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 16 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 00:18 17 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott 00:19 18 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 00:20 19 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team 20 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 21 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb 22 David De La Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 23 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 24 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 00:21 25 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 26 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin 00:23 27 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team 28 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates 00:24 29 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 30 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 00:25 31 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Orica-Scott 00:26 32 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 00:27 33 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Bahrain-Merida 00:28 34 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ 35 Pierre Roger Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 36 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 00:29 37 Carlos Betancur (Col) Movistar Team 38 David Gaudu (Fra) FDJ 39 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 40 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 00:30 41 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 42 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 43 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 00:31 44 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data 45 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 00:33 46 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 47 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Astana Pro Team 00:34 48 Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 49 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 50 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Team Sunweb 00:36 51 Ondrej Cink (Cze) Bahrain-Merida 00:37 52 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 53 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 54 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 00:42 55 Annas Ait el Abdia (Mor) UAE Team Emirates 00:44 56 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 00:53 57 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 00:54 58 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 00:58 59 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Dimension Data 01:02 60 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 61 Paweł Poljański (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 01:04 62 Alberto Losada (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin 01:09 63 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 01:25 64 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Sunweb 01:37 65 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 01:42 66 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 01:53 67 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 02:03 68 Rob Power (Aus) Orica-Scott 69 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 70 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 02:04 71 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 02:07 72 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Katusha-Alpecin 02:14 73 André Cardoso (Por) Trek-Segafredo 02:21 74 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 03:03 75 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale 03:35 76 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 03:36 77 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ 04:34 78 Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eri) Dimension Data 04:47 79 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 04:50 80 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 05:24 81 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 05:42 82 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 06:09 83 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 06:42 84 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 85 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale-Drapac 06:48 86 Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team 07:56 87 David Lopez (Spa) Team Sky 08:06 88 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 08:08 89 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 08:32 90 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team 08:34 91 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 08:59 92 Fabien Doubey (Fra) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 09:17 93 Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 09:19 94 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ 09:23 95 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 09:26 96 Dion Smith (NZl) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 09:28 97 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Lotto Soudal 09:29 98 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 09:33 99 Ben Swift (GBr) UAE Team Emirates 09:34 100 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 09:35 101 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 09:38 102 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 09:44 103 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 09:54 104 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 10:10 105 Mekseb Debesay (Eri) Dimension Data 10:13 106 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 10:18 107 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida 11:31 108 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Orica-Scott 12:43 109 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team 12:46 110 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky 13:01 111 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 13:04 112 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 13:13 113 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 13:14 114 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ 13:15 115 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 13:34 116 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors 13:49 117 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 14:06 118 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 14:14 119 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 14:16 120 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 15:59 121 Silvio Herklotz (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 17:02 122 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 17:21 123 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 17:56 124 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert 19:03 125 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Sunweb 19:28 126 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 20:27 127 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 21:01 128 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 21:24 129 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 21:27 130 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 21:35 131 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-Scott 21:40 132 Tim Declercq (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 22:28 133 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 23:01 134 Juan Jose Lobato (Spa) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 23:15 135 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky 24:29 136 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 25:51 137 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 27:13 138 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 27:14 139 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Bahrain-Merida 28:54 140 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 29:07 141 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 30:19 142 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo 30:37 143 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 30:44 144 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 31:45 145 Adrien Niyonshuti (Rwa) Dimension Data 32:23 146 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 33:10 147 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo 36:23 148 William Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 36:30 149 Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors 36:46