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.

Final standings

[General classification]

[Points classification]

Sprints classification

Stages

Prologue – 2007-05-01, [Fribourg], 3.5 km ITT">Individual time trial">ITT

Italian Paolo Savoldelli repeats his win in last year's prologue with a time of 4 minutes, 35 seconds over the 3.5 kilometer course at 45.82 km/h.
RiderCountryTeamTimeUCI ProTour
Points
1Paolo Savoldelli4' 35"3 pts.
2Roman Kreuziger+ 5"2 pts.
3Chris Horner+ 7"1 pt.

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

Germany's hope for the future Markus Fothen of took the win after he escaped in the finale together with Francisco Pérez. Fothen beat him in a classical sprint-a-deux. The peloton bunch sprint was just behind the two leaders.
RiderCountryTeamTimeUCI ProTour
points
1Markus Fothen4h 08' 58"3 pts.
2Francisco Pérezs.t.2 pts.
3Joaquim Rodríguezs.t.1 pt.

Stage 2 – 2007-05-03, La Chaux de Fonds – [Lucens], 167 km

The only real sprinter stage of this edition of the Tour de Romandie was an easy win for Australian rider Robbie McEwen. The rider held off Borut Božič with ease.
RiderCountryTeamTimeUCI ProTour
Points
1Robbie McEwen4h 01' 14"3 pts.
2Borut BožičTeam L.P.R.s.t.N/A
3Enrico Gasparottos.t.1 pt.

Stage 3 – 2007-05-04, [Moudon] – [Charmey], 163 km

Although the course was really difficult, the favourites did not feel like attacking today. And thus, the escapees got their shot at winning a stage. After a win in the Tirreno Adriatico cyclist Matteo Bono added another nice win to his palmares. He held of Japan's Beppu in the sprint. Beppu did score the first Pro Tour points ever for Japan though.
RiderCountryTeamTimeUCI ProTour
Points
1Matteo Bono4h 04' 15"3 pts.
2Fumiyuki Beppus.t.2 pts.
3Marco Pinotti+ 2"1 pt.

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

A long break by rider Gorazd Stangelj finished with 8 kilometers to go. By then, 's Eddy Mazzoleni upped the pace. He thinned out the group until there were about 15 riders left. Attacks followed by José Ángel Gómez Marchante and Sylwester Szmyd. But the only real successful attack was by Spaniard Igor Antón. Dutch rider Thomas Dekker saw the danger and took over from Mazzoleni. As a result, only five riders could follow. American 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.
RiderCountryTeamTimeUCI ProTour
points
1Igor Antón4h 36' 55"3 pts.
2Thomas Dekkers.t.2 pts.
3Chris Horners.t.1 pt.

Stage 5 – 2007-05-06, [Lausanne], 20 km ITT">Individual time trial">ITT

In the finishing time trial around Lausanne Thomas Dekker didn't allow his competitors to have any hopes of winning the Tour de Romandie. Only riders Paolo Savoldelli and Andrey Kashechkin stayed somewhat in the vicinity of Dekker. The young Dutch hope of winning the Tour de France in the future did a triple strike by winning the time trial, the final general classification and the points classification.
RiderCountryTeamTimeUCI ProTour
points
1Thomas Dekker26' 36"3 pts.
2Paolo Savoldelli+ 5"2 pts.
3Andrey Kashechkin+ 12"1 pt.

The following UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were named to the 2007 Tour de Romandie:
NationUCI
Code		Team Name
A2R
AST
BTL
COF
C.A
CSC
DSC
EUS
FDJ
GCE
GST
LAM
LIQ
LPRTeam L.P.R.
PRL
QSI
RAB
SDV
TMO
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Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race

As of May 6, 2007, after the Tour de Romandie
While the top 10 places remained the same, race winner Thomas Dekker scored his first UCI ProTour points and moved into 11th place. Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen gained three points to jump from 18th to 15th place. Paolo Savoldelli moves into 18th place thanks to the 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie.
RankPrevious
Rank		NameNationalityTeamPoints
11Davide Rebellin157
22Alejandro Valverde107
33Danilo Di Luca100
44Óscar Freire82
55Stuart O'Grady79
66Stefan Schumacher75
77Fränk Schleck63
88Juan José Cobo62
99Alberto Contador58
1010Tom Boonen57
11–Thomas Dekker55
1211Andreas Klöden53
1312Alessandro Ballan50
1413Matthias Kessler50
1518Robbie McEwen47