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Sunday, June 23: 9th & final stage, Ulrichen - Ulrichen, 101.5 km

Stage 9 map & profile | Stage 9 photos

Hugh Carthy wins stage nine. Sirotti photo

Weather at the start/finish city of Ulrichen at 1:40 PM, local time: 21C (70F), partly cloudy, with the from the Southwest at 8 km/hr (5 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: 132 riders began the stage at about 1:15.

Here's the report from GC winner Egan Bernal's Team INEOS.

Egan Bernal put in an assured ride on the final day of the Tour de Suisse to confirm overall victory. The Colombian was comfortably able to follow a late attack from chief rival Rohan Dennis (Bahrain Merida) on the Furkapass and remained glued to the Australian’s wheel to cross the line third in Goms – securing a 19-second GC win.

Once again Team INEOS put up a staunch defence of the yellow jersey, with Luke Rowe and Ben Swift riding hard to keep the race together as attacks began on the first climb of the day. Swift put in a tireless performance as the GC group wore down, with Jonathan Castroviejo and Kenny Elissonde hanging on to provide support on the second ascent of the Gotthard Pass in three days.

Bernal negotiated the final descent without issue and chalked up another major result in his young career. The win also marked the team’s first overall success at the Tour de Suisse, while Bernal picked up the young rider jersey for good measure.

Hugh Carthy (EF Education First) was the first man to attack on the opening climb and spent the entire day solo off the front to secure a hugely impressive long-range victory.

Egan Bernal:
“It’s one of the biggest races that I’ve won. I’m really happy and it gives me a lot of confidence for the next races.

“Just before the race I had a big crash and I could not go to the Giro. So to come here and to win is really nice for me and the team.”

Complete results:

Stage 9 photos

101.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 33.495 km/hr

1	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	3hr 1min 49sec
2	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain Merida	@ 1min 2sec
3	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	s.t.
4	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:52
5	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
6	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	2:15
7	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
8	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
9	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
10	HIRT Jan	Astana	s.t.
11	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	3:07
12	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	s.t.
13	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	s.t.
14	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	s.t.
15	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
16	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
17	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	4:52
18	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
19	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	5:25
20	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
21	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
22	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	s.t.
23	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	s.t.
24	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	5:29
25	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
26	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
27	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	s.t.
28	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:34
29	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	7:05
30	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	s.t.
31	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	s.t.
32	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
33	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
34	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
35	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	7:15
36	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	10:20
37	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	10:31
38	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
39	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	10:53
40	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	12:02
41	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
42	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
43	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
44	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
45	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	12:58
46	KING Ben	Dimension Data	13:31
47	MAS Lluís	Movistar	s.t.
48	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	s.t.
49	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	14:57
50	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	15:26
51	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
52	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
53	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
54	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
55	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	s.t.
56	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
57	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
58	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
59	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
60	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
61	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
62	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
63	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	s.t.
64	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
65	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	s.t.
66	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	s.t.
67	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
68	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	18:05
69	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
70	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
71	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
72	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	19:08
73	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	s.t.
74	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
75	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
76	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
77	BYSTRØM Sven	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
78	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
79	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	s.t.
80	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
81	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	s.t.
82	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	20:21
83	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
84	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	s.t.
85	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	21:47
86	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
87	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	s.t.
88	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	s.t.
89	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
90	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
91	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
92	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	s.t.
93	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
94	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
95	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	s.t.
96	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
97	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
98	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	s.t.
99	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
100	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
101	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
102	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	21:53
104	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	24:13
105	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	24:58
106	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	s.t.
107	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	25:59
108	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	s.t.
109	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
110	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	27:17
111	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
112	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
113	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	s.t.
114	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
115	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.

Final GC after stage 9:

• GC winner: Egan Bernal (Team INEOS)
• Mountains classification winner: Hugh Carthy (EF Education First)
• Points classification winner: Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe)
• Best young rider: Egan Bernal (Team INEOS)
• Team classification winner: Movistar

1,129.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.762 km/hr

1	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	27hr 43min 10sec
2	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain Merida	@ 19sec
3	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	3:04
4	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	3:12
5	HIRT Jan	Astana	3:13
6	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	3:48
7	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain Merida	4:14
8	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	4:35
9	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:53
10	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	5:27
11	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	5:38
12	SOLER Marc	Movistar	6:27
13	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	8:17
14	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	9:06
15	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	9:15
16	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:39
17	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	9:42
18	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	11:03
19	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	11:18
20	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	12:11
21	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	13:18
22	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	13:32
23	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	17:02
24	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	17:06
25	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	18:11
26	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	19:53
27	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	20:23
28	MAS Lluís	Movistar	20:36
29	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	20:46
30	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	21:30
31	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	21:35
32	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	22:06
33	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	22:16
34	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	22:25
35	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	24:26
36	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	24:46
37	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	25:09
38	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	26:36
39	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	27:29
40	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	28:23
41	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	29:17
42	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	30:19
43	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	31:59
44	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	32:58
45	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	33:08
46	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	34:16
47	KING Ben	Dimension Data	35:04
48	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	35:05
49	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	35:31
50	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	35:49
51	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	36:11
52	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	36:54
53	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	37:43
54	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	38:48
55	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	39:45
56	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	40:38
57	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	41:16
58	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	43:00
59	BYSTRØM Sven	UAE-Team Emirates	43:28
60	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	43:29
61	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	45:02
62	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain Merida	45:03
63	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	45:13
64	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	46:15
65	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	46:21
66	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	46:40
67	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	47:04
68	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	47:22
69	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	47:46
70	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	47:58
71	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	49:49
72	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	50:41
73	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	53:42
74	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	54:13
75	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	54:14
76	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	55:25
77	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	56:07
78	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
79	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	56:09
80	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	56:21
81	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	1:01:36
82	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	1:01:40
83	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	1:02:25
84	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	1:04:15
85	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	1:04:46
86	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	1:04:47
87	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:05:01
88	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	1:05:22
89	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	1:08:13
90	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	1:08:23
91	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	1:09:11
92	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	1:10:31
93	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain Merida	1:10:53
94	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	1:10:58
95	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	1:11:04
96	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	1:11:36
97	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	1:11:56
98	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	1:14:55
99	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	1:15:01
100	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	1:16:17
101	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	1:16:19
102	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	1:17:12
103	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	1:17:15
104	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	1:20:10
105	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	1:20:40
106	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	1:21:13
107	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain Merida	1:21:20
108	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	1:22:14
109	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	1:23:24
110	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:24:10
111	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:25:55
112	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	1:26:27
113	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	1:26:56
114	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	1:28:21
115	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:33:22

Stage 9 map & profile:

Stage 9 map

Stage 9 profile

Stage 9 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

GC leader Egan Bernal grabs his bike to start the stage. Note that he's packing some real gears for a day in the high mountains.

Fabio Aru ascends the Nufenenpass

Sergio Henao and Simon Geschke on the Nufenenpass.

Hugh Carthy on his long, winning solo ride.

A beautiful day for racing in Switzerland

Egan Bernal has no intentions of letting Rohan Dennis get away.

Here Rohan Dennis leads Egan Bernal.

Hugh Carthy wins stage nine.

Stage winner Hugh Carthy

The final GC podium, from left: Rohan Dennis (2nd), Egan Bernal & Patrick Konrad (3rd). And on the far right is racing great Fabian Cancellara.

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Saturday, June 22: Stage 8, Goms 19.2 km individual time trial

Stage 8 map & profile | Stage 8 photos

Egan Bernal rode an excellent ITT, saving his race lead for another day. Sirotti photo

Weather at Goms at 1:50 PM, local time: 19C (66F), light rain, with the wind from the northeast at 10 km/hr (6 mph).

The race: There were still 138 riders in the race, though Marcus Burghardt and Alexander Kristoff did not start the stage. The first racer to leave the starthouse was Enzo Wouters (Lotto-Soudal), who is last in the general classification.

Here's the organizer's race summary:

Egan Bernal (COL / INS) enters Sunday’s final stage as the overall race leader. The massive talent from South America easily held onto the yellow leader’s jersey in the individual time trial in Obergoms on Saturday.

Bernal will start the triple mountain pass test over Nufenen, Gotthard and Furka with a bonus of 22 seconds over Rohan Dennis (AUS / TBM). The time-trial world champion seemed to be paying for the efforts he made at Flumserbergen on Thursday and at Gotthard on Friday.

At the intermediate time check, Bernal was trailing Dennis by 19 seconds. At the finish, the difference was exactly the same. That might have been very different as Bernal narrowly avoided a crash when he overhit a sharp left turn by displaying acrobatic braking skills. "I was really lucky," Bernal sighed after his effort against the clock.

For almost one and a half hours, Yves Lampaert (BEL / DQT) had to wait in the hot seat until he was able to celebrate his time-trial victory in Obergoms. The Belgian road champion covered the 19.2 km distance with an impressive average speed of 52.422 km/h. "I can hardly believe it. I'm very surprised that I was able to distiguish myself in this field," said the Belgian after his triumph.

The race against the clock resulted in another disappointment for Stefan Küng (SUI / GFC). Last year, he was dominating the final time-trial in Bellinzona. This time around, the rider from Eastern Switzerland continuously lost time on the technically challenging track in Obergoms. Instead of a grabbing the victory, Küng had to settle for seventh place: "I have no explanation as to why it didn’t go any better. After 5km I felt that things were no longer going as planned."

Patrick Schelling (SUI / SUI) finished 44th place in the time-trial which means that the rider from Sankt Gallen enters the final stage on rank 11, being the best positioned Swiss rider of the race.

Complete results:

Stage 8 photos

19.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 52.443 km/hr

1	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	21min 58sec
2	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	@ 5sec
3	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	0:10
4	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	0:13
5	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	s.t.
6	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain Merida	0:19
7	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	0:20
8	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	0:32
9	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	0:34
10	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	0:36
11	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	0:38
12	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	0:39
13	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	0:41
14	SOLER Marc	Movistar	0:42
15	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	s.t.
16	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	0:49
17	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
18	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	0:55
19	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	0:56
20	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	0:58
21	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	0:59
22	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	1:00
23	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	1:01
24	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	1:02
25	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	1:03
26	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	1:04
27	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
28	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	1:05
29	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	1:11
30	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
31	MAS Lluís	Movistar	1:12
32	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
33	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	1:13
34	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:14
35	HIRT Jan	Astana	s.t.
36	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	1:15
37	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	1:16
38	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	1:17
39	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
40	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	1:18
41	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	1:19
42	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	1:20
43	KING Ben	Dimension Data	1:23
44	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	1:24
45	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	s.t.
46	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	s.t.
47	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	s.t.
48	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	1:25
49	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
50	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:28
51	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	s.t.
52	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
53	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	1:30
54	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	1:31
55	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	s.t.
56	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	1:32
57	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	1:33
58	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	1:35
59	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	1:36
60	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	s.t.
61	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:38
62	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	1:39
63	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	1:40
64	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	1:41
65	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	1:42
66	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
67	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	1:43
68	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
69	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	s.t.
70	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	1:44
71	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
72	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	1:45
73	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	1:46
74	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
75	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	1:48
76	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	1:51
77	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	1:53
78	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	1:54
79	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:56
80	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	1:57
81	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	1:59
82	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	s.t.
83	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	2:00
84	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	s.t.
85	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain Merida	2:02
86	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
87	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	2:03
88	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	2:04
89	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	2:05
90	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
91	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
92	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	2:06
93	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	2:07
94	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
95	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	2:11
96	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:12
97	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	2:15
98	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	2:17
99	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
100	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	2:18
101	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	2:19
102	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	2:21
103	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	2:22
104	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
105	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	2:25
106	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	2:27
107	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
108	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
109	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	s.t.
110	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	2:29
111	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	2:33
112	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
113	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	2:35
114	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	2:39
115	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
116	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:44
117	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain Merida	2:48
118	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain Merida	s.t.
119	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	2:49
120	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:50
121	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:51
122	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	2:52
123	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	2:53
124	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	2:59
125	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	3:01
126	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	3:02
127	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	s.t.
128	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
129	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	3:03
130	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	3:08
131	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
132	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	3:21
133	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	3:25
134	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain Merida	3:30
135	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	3:31
136	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	3:56

GC after stage 8:

1,028.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.681 km/hr

1	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	24hr 40min 24sec
2	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain Merida	@ 22sec
3	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	1:46
4	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	1:54
5	HIRT Jan	Astana	1:55
6	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:43
7	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	2:53
8	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain Merida	2:56
9	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	3:17
10	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	s.t.
11	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	3:28
12	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	3:36
13	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	3:44
14	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	3:45
15	SOLER Marc	Movistar	4:18
16	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	4:38
17	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	4:55
18	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	5:10
19	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	5:11
20	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	5:39
21	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	6:10
22	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	6:39
23	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	7:05
24	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	7:24
25	MAS Lluís	Movistar	8:02
26	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	8:48
27	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	10:15
28	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	11:01
29	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	11:11
30	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	11:16
31	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	11:47
32	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	12:38
33	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	13:07
34	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	16:05
35	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	16:07
36	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	16:43
37	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	16:51
38	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	17:03
39	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	18:23
40	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	18:29
41	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	19:58
42	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	20:09
43	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	20:36
44	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	20:37
45	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
46	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	21:34
47	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	21:36
48	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	21:42
49	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	22:08
50	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	22:15
51	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	22:25
52	KING Ben	Dimension Data	22:30
53	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	23:05
54	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	23:14
55	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	23:45
56	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	24:01
57	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	24:12
58	BYSTRØM Sven	UAE-Team Emirates	25:17
59	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	25:53
60	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	26:31
61	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	26:56
62	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	27:22
63	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	28:31
64	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	29:00
65	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain Merida	30:34
66	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	30:50
67	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	31:04
68	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	31:46
69	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	31:52
70	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	32:35
71	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	32:40
72	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	32:53
73	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	33:23
74	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	34:08
75	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	34:15
76	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	34:50
77	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	35:17
78	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	35:20
79	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	36:12
80	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	37:58
81	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	38:10
82	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	38:17
83	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	38:24
84	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	41:38
85	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain Merida	43:13
86	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	43:20
87	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	43:25
88	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	43:57
89	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	44:32
90	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	44:47
91	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	44:48
92	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	45:22
93	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	45:29
94	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	45:36
95	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	45:37
96	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	47:11
97	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain Merida	47:32
98	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	47:33
99	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	48:21
100	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	50:08
101	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
102	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	50:46
103	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	50:53
104	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain Merida	52:42
105	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	54:05
106	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	54:10
107	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	55:27
108	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	55:29
109	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	56:22
110	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	56:25
111	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	56:39
112	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	56:43
113	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	57:50
114	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	57:57
115	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	58:10
116	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	58:22
117	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	59:04
118	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	59:16
119	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	59:26
120	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	59:35
121	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	1:00:32
122	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	1:01:24
123	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	1:01:52
124	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	1:01:54
125	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	1:01:59
126	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	1:03:41
127	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	1:05:37
128	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	1:06:01
129	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	1:06:19
130	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain Merida	1:06:51
131	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:07:02
132	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	1:09:02
133	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	1:09:33
134	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	1:10:10
135	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	1:11:30
136	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	1:30:03

Stage 8 map & profile:

Stage 8 map

 

Stage 8 profile

Stage 8 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

1st place rider Egan Bernal takes off.

Nicolas Roche about to start his ride.

Peter Sagan

Tsgabu Grmay

Fabio Aru

World time trial champion Rohan Dennis was 6th, keeping him in second place in the GC.

11th place was good enough for Egan Bernal to keep his race lead.

Kasper Asgreen was second.

Yves Lampaert was the day's fastest rider.

Stage winner Yves Lampaert

Egan Bernal goes into the final stage with the yellow jersey. That's racing great Fabian Cancellara on his left.

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Friday, June 21: Stage 7, Unterterzen - San Gottardo, 216.6 km

Stage 7 map & profile

Egan Bernal takes a brilliant solo win and extends hs GC lead. Photo: Getty Images

Weather at the city of Ambri, just before the beginning of the final climb to San Gottardo at 1:25 PM, local time: 19C (66F), cloudy, with the wind from the south at 5 km/hr (3 mph). Scattered thunderstorms are likely as the afternoon progresses.

The race: 139 riders began stage seven at 11:21. Michael Hepburn (Mitchelton-Scott) did not start the stage.

The organizer described the stage thus: The 7th stage of this Tour of Switzerland, with it's 216,6 kms, is the longest one this week. The riders start in Unterterzen, head westwards to Flims and Disentis and tackle than the Lukmanier-Pass. Down in the Ticino Valley in Biasca, the route turns in direction north to Airolo and the final climb to the Gotthard-Pass. This uphill finish is 13 kms long and is the old road to the hospiz, which means soma asphalt, but cobble-stones. The total climb is 4080 meters, and the riders are climbing in total for about 60 kms

Here's the report from stage winner Eagn Bernal's Team INEOS:

Egan Bernal launched a late attack to claim an emphatic stage victory and extend his overall lead at the Tour de Suisse.

The Colombian was able to watch as he Team INEOS team-mates set a searing pace up to and onto the slopes of the famed Gotthard Pass, before timing his launch to perfection on the cobbled finale to stage seven.

Winning the stage by 23 seconds, Bernal extended his grip on the yellow jersey to 41 seconds ahead of a decisive final weekend of racing.

Chief rival Rohan Dennis (Bahrain Merida) held on well to finish third ahead of Saturday’s time trial.

Team INEOS put in a superb team performance, with Luke Rowe and Owain Doull getting through a huge amount of work on the flat, keeping the pace high in the valley up to the final climb. Ben Swift then upped the pace, wrestling back control from Movistar, before Kenny Elissonde and Jonathan Castroviejo took it up.

With the break caught Bernal put in a stinging acceleration, overhauling the attack of Enric Mas (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), with victory also ensuring he pulls on the mountain and young rider jerseys.

Reaction from Egan Bernal:
“I’m really happy for the win today. I won last year in the TT at the Tour of Romandie, so it’s nice to win again in Switzerland. It was difficult to know because you never know how well your opponents are going but I felt really good. I said to the guys and like always they did a fantastic job. I won the stage for them and it feels really nice.

“[My team-mates] were full gas and it was really hard to stay with them in the wheels. But I tried to stay calm and in the final it was the best decision. We made a good pace and at the end everyone went full gas.

“[Dennis] is the world champion in the TT. For sure tomorrow I will lose time to him. I hope to not lose too much time, but we have another mountain stage on Sunday. We will do our best and control what we can control.”
What’s Next?

Goms is the scene for a crucial pan-flat time trial in the valley. At 19.2 kilometres it is long enough for time gaps to open out, suiting the specialists and set to make an impact on the GC battle.

Complete results:

216.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.488 km/hr

1	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	5hr 37min 40sec
2	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	@ 23sec
3	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
4	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	0:34
5	HIRT Jan	Astana	s.t.
6	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
7	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:40
8	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	0:50
9	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	1:03
10	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
11	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
12	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
13	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	1:06
14	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	1:19
15	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	1:20
16	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	1:49
17	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:15
18	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	2:18
19	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
20	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	2:43
21	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	3:16
22	SOLER Marc	Movistar	3:23
23	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	3:32
24	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	3:59
25	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	s.t.
26	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	4:22
27	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	4:38
28	KING Ben	Dimension Data	4:47
29	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	5:15
30	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	5:24
31	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
32	MAS Lluís	Movistar	5:36
33	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	5:45
34	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	5:50
35	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	5:58
36	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	6:24
37	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	6:29
38	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	6:53
39	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	6:56
40	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	7:00
41	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	7:29
42	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	7:40
43	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	7:47
44	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	7:50
45	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	8:12
46	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	8:28
47	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	9:33
48	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	9:54
49	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
50	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	s.t.
51	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	9:59
52	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
53	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	11:19
54	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	11:21
55	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	11:23
56	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	12:02
57	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
58	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
59	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	12:41
60	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
61	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	12:52
62	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	s.t.
63	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	13:16
64	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	13:20
65	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	15:25
66	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	s.t.
67	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
68	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
69	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
70	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
71	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	15:44
72	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	15:52
73	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	16:03
74	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
75	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	s.t.
76	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	16:34
77	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	16:38
78	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	16:56
79	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	17:23
80	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	17:46
81	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	17:50
82	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	17:56
83	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
84	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	17:58
85	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
86	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	19:12
87	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	19:14
88	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	19:15
89	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	19:19
90	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
91	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	s.t.
92	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
93	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	19:32
94	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
95	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	19:48
96	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	19:52
97	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	19:54
98	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	19:56
99	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	19:57
100	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
101	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	20:03
102	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	s.t.
103	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	s.t.
104	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	s.t.
105	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	20:36
106	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	20:47
107	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	20:55
108	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
109	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
110	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	s.t.
111	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
112	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
113	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	s.t.
114	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	21:14
115	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	22:13
116	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
117	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
118	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	22:21
119	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	22:35
120	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	23:42
121	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	24:07
122	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
123	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	24:15
124	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	24:24
125	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	25:08
126	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
127	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	26:11
128	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	27:03
129	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	28:35
130	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	28:41
131	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
132	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
133	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	s.t.
134	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	28:42
135	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	28:44
136	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	s.t.
137	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	28:47
138	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	32:06

GC after stage 7:

1,009.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.532 km/hr

1	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	24hr 17min 48sec
2	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	@ 41sec
3	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	1:13
4	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	1:17
5	HIRT Jan	Astana	1:19
6	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
7	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:07
8	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	2:20
9	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	2:23
10	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	2:26
11	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	2:35
12	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	2:42
13	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	2:57
14	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:26
15	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	3:33
16	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	3:51
17	SOLER Marc	Movistar	4:14
18	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	4:17
19	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	4:21
20	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	4:23
21	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	s.t.
22	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	5:31
23	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	5:52
24	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	6:19
25	MAS Lluís	Movistar	7:28
26	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	7:42
27	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	8:46
28	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:04
29	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	9:56
30	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	10:37
31	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	10:56
32	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	11:46
33	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	12:14
34	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	12:49
35	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	13:44
36	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	15:36
37	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	15:57
38	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	16:17
39	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	17:13
40	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	18:25
41	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	18:53
42	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	19:09
43	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	19:21
44	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	19:43
45	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	20:23
46	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	20:26
47	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	20:36
48	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	21:02
49	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	21:14
50	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	21:25
51	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	21:34
52	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	21:40
53	KING Ben	Dimension Data	21:45
54	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	21:59
55	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	22:33
56	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	22:39
57	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	23:07
58	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	23:40
59	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	23:47
60	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	25:27
61	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	26:27
62	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	26:38
63	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	27:38
64	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	28:24
65	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	29:16
66	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	29:18
67	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	29:24
68	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	30:46
69	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	31:13
70	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	31:23
71	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	31:48
72	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	31:56
73	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	32:42
74	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	32:47
75	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	33:08
76	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	33:31
77	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	34:17
78	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	34:53
79	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	35:33
80	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	36:49
81	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	37:13
82	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	37:20
83	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	38:02
84	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	40:17
85	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	40:56
86	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	41:29
87	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	41:52
88	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	41:56
89	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	42:25
90	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	42:58
91	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	43:14
92	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	43:30
93	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	43:52
94	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	44:03
95	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	44:15
96	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	45:11
97	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	45:38
98	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	45:53
99	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	46:08
100	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	46:24
101	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	46:32
102	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	48:46
103	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	49:38
104	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	50:06
105	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	50:14
106	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	50:32
107	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	52:04
108	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	53:24
109	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	54:20
110	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	54:31
111	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	54:41
112	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	55:33
113	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	55:43
114	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	56:26
115	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	56:28
116	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	56:41
117	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	56:55
118	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	57:00
119	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	57:46
120	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	57:49
121	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	58:36
122	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	58:59
123	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	59:27
124	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	59:29
125	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	59:55
126	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	1:00:16
127	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	1:00:53
128	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	1:01:50
129	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	1:03:54
130	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	1:03:59
131	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	1:04:55
132	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	1:05:35
133	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:05:56
134	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	1:07:41
135	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	1:07:47
136	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	1:09:06
137	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	1:09:10
138	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	1:27:20

Stage 7 map & profile:

Stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

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Thursday, June 20: Stage 6, Ensiedeln - Flumserberg, 120.2 km

Antwan Tolhoek wins stage six. Sirotti photo

Stage 6 map & profile

Weather at the finish city of Flumserberg at 1:20 PM, local time: 19C (67F), rain showers in the area. The wind is from the northwest at 10 km/hr (6 mph).

The race: Here's the organizer's stage 6 summary.

With a late attack and a second place in the stage to Flumserberg / Tannenheim, Egon Bernal (COL / INS) took over the leader’s jersey from Peter Sagan (SVK / BOR). The 22-year-old Colombian is considered to be one of the greatest talents in professional cycling.

"I waited for the best moment for my attack in the peloton. My legs were hurting, but I knew I had to grab my chance, "said Bernal, who is only the third Colombian rider in the history of the Tour de Suisse to wear the leader's jersey. Bernal's compatriot Miguel Angel Lopez was the overall winner in 2016. Back in 2011, Juan Mauricio Soler wore the yellow jersey for one day.

For Bernal, this performance was also about seizing another opportunity. Due to the crash of Geraint Thomas in stage 4, Bernal is Team Ineos’ sole leader for the general classification. "There are still some tough stages to cover until Sunday. My teammates and I will work hard to defend my leader’s jersey," said Bernal. Back in March, he won the stage race Paris-Nice but he still completed only 29 days of racing this season.

With Antwan Tolhoek (NED / TJV) stepping into the spotlight at the first mountain-top finish of the Tour de Suisse, the stage winner was clearly an outsider among the bookmakers. The mountain’s classification winner of the 2016 Tour de Suisse was part of a large breakaway group of 25 riders that gapped the peloton on the climb to Ricken. On the 8.5 km long final climb to the finish in Tannenheim, the Dutchman set a fierce pace and charged forward at the right moment.

Egan Bernal finishes 17 seconds after Antwan Tolhoek. Sirotti photo

In the final kilometre, however, the tide seemed to turn, because Bernal was closing in on Tolhoek at high speed. "Bernal had beaten me at the end of a similar stage in last year’s Tour of California. This time, I’m glad that I could celebrate my first professional victory," said Tolhoek. Within his Jumbo-Visma team the plan was that the son of former professional rider Patrick Tolhoek - explaining his climbing abilities - should grab every opportunity to hunt down a stage win - mission accomplished! 

Complete results:

120.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.092 km/hr

1	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	2hr 43min 34sec
2	Egan Bernal	Team INEOS	@ 17sec
3	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	0:24
4	Jan Hirt	Astana	0:29
5	Domenico Pozzovivo	Bahrain-Merida	0:31
6	Patrick Bevin	CCC Team	0:38
7	Rui Alberto Faria	UAE-Team Emirates	0:44
8	Tiesj Benoot	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
9	Patrick Schelling	Switzerland	0:46
10	Patrick Konrad	Bora-Hansgrohe	s.t.
11	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
12	Rohan Dennis	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
13	Lennard Kämna	Team Sunweb	0:52
14	Enric Mas	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:08
15	Fabio Aru	UAE-Team Emirates	1:11
16	Nicolas Roche	Team Sunweb	1:15
17	Sergio Henao	UAE-Team Emirates	1:20
18	Simon Spilak	Katusha-Alpecin	1:22
19	Aurélien Paret Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:25
20	Hugh John Carthy	EF Education First	1:26
21	Brandon McNulty	Rally UHC	1:38
22	Robert Stannard	Mitchelton-Scott	1:39
23	Merhawi Kudus	Astana	s.t.
24	Fabio Felline	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
25	Carlos Betancur	Movistar	1:45
26	Matteo Badilatti	Switzerland	1:49
27	Luis Mas Bonet	Movistar	s.t.
28	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	1:52
29	Roman Kreuziger	Dimension Data	1:55
30	Romain Sicard	Direct Energie	s.t.
31	Jonathan Castroviejo	Team INEOS	1:59
32	Matteo Fabbro	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
33	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
34	Lawson Craddock	EF Education First	2:11
35	Steve Morabito	Groupama-FDJ	2:16
36	Marc Hirschi	Team Sunweb	2:24
37	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	2:32
38	Roland Thalmann	Switzerland	2:39
39	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
40	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
41	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	3:09
42	Luis León Sanchez	Astana	s.t.
43	Nathan Haas	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
44	Mathias Frank	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:25
45	Winner Anacona	Movistar	3:37
46	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
47	Gino Mäder	Dimension Data	4:13
48	Simon Pellaud	Switzerland	s.t.
49	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
50	enny Elissonde	Team INEOS	4:53
51	Ben King	Dimension Data	4:57
52	Lilian Calmejane	Direct Energie	5:01
53	Pim Ligthart	Direct Energie	s.t.
54	Paul Ourselin	Direct Energie	5:34
55	Ben Swift	Team INEOS	6:05
56	Hector Carretero	Movistar	s.t.
57	Pierre-Roger LaTour	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
58	Nikias Arndt	Team Sunweb	s.t.
59	Valerio Agnoli	Bahrain-Merida	6:38
60	Greg Van Avermaet	CCC Team	s.t.
61	Andrea Garosio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
62	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
63	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	7:02
64	Michael Schär	CCC Team	7:32
65	Willem Jakobus Smit	Katusha-Alpecin	7:40
66	Simon Geschke	CCC Team	7:42
67	Tosh Van Der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	7:53
68	Tom-Jelte Slagter	Dimension Data	8:17
69	Søren Kragh Andersen	Team Sunweb	8:22
70	Michael Albasini	Mitchelton-Scott	8:40
71	Matteo Trentin	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
72	Stan Dewulf	Lotto-Soudal	9:31
73	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:41
74	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	10:16
75	Gian Friesecke	Switzerland	10:18
76	Claudio Imhoff	Switzerland	s.t.
77	Nathan Brown	EF Education First	s.t.
78	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain-Merida	10:30
79	Tsgabu Grmay	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
80	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	11:01
81	Dries Devenyns	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
82	Colin Joyce	Rally UHC	s.t.
83	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	11:15
84	Antonio Nibali	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
85	Tom Bohli	UAE-Team Emirates	11:36
86	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
87	Fabian Lienhard	Switzerland	s.t.
88	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	CCC Team	s.t.
89	Stijn Vandenbergh	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
90	Jay Thomson	Dimension Data	s.t.
91	Jelle Vanendert	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
92	Larry Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
93	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
94	Michael Valgren Andersen	Dimension Data	s.t.
95	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
96	Jurgen Roelandts	Movistar	s.t.
97	Lukasz Wisniowski	CCC Team	s.t.
98	Yuriy Natarov	Astana	s.t.
99	Sven Erik Bystrøm	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
100	Enrico Battaglin	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
101	Daniel Hoelgaard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
102	Michael Gogl	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
103	Taco van der Hoorn	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
104	Sam Bewley	Mitchelton-Scott	11:43
105	Owain Doull	Team INEOS	11:45
106	Reinardt Van Rensburg	Dimension Data	11:50
107	Manuele Mori	UAE-Team Emirates	12:00
108	Alexander Kristoff	UAE-Team Emirates	12:30
109	Lukas Pöstlberger	Bora-Hansgrohe	13:02
110	Rick Zabel	Katusha-Alpecin	13:51
111	Daniel Oss	Bora-Hansgrohe	14:04
112	Robin Carpenter	Rally UHC	15:09
113	Enzo Wouters	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
114	Ivan Garcia	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
115	Gavin Mannion	Rally UHC	15:44
116	Ryan Anderson	Rally UHC	s.t.
117	Andreas Schillinger	Bora-Hansgrohe	s.t.
118	John Degenkolb	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
119	Reto Hollenstein	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
120	Sep Vanmarcke	EF Education First	s.t.
121	Yves Lampaert	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
122	Svein Tuft	Rally UHC	s.t.
123	Mitchell Docker	EF Education First	s.t.
124	Carlos Cuesta	Movistar	s.t.
125	Tom Scully	EF Education First	s.t.
126	Alexander Edmondson	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
127	Kiel Reijnen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
128	Rob Britton	Rally UHC	s.t.
129	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	16:29
130	Szymon Sajnok	CCC Team	s.t.
131	Jérôme Cousin	Total Direct Energie	16:36
132	Fabien Grellier	Direct Energie	s.t.
133	Thomas Boudat	Direct Energie	s.t.
134	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-Hansgrohe	16:38
135	Peter Sagan	Bora-Hansgrohe	16:40
136	Luke Rowe	Team INEOS	s.t.
137	Maximiliano Richeze	Deceuninck-Quick Step	16:49
138	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-Hansgrohe	16:58
139	Elia Viviani	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
140	Michael Mørkøv	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.

GC after stage 6:

792.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.444 km/hr

1	Egan Bernal	Team INEOS	18hr 40min 18sec
2	Rohan Dennis	Bahrain-Merida	@ 12sec
3	Patrick Konrad	Bora-Hansgrohe	0:29
4	Jan Hirt	Astana	0:35
5	Tiesj Benoot	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
6	Marc Soler	Movistar	0:41
7	Domenico Pozzovivo	Bahrain-Merida	0:50
8	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	0:58
9	Fabio Aru	UAE-Team Emirates	1:07
10	Nicolas Roche	Team Sunweb	s.t.
11	Patrick Schelling	Switzerland	1:12
12	Enric Mas	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:17
13	Sergio Henao	UAE-Team Emirates	1:22
14	Fabio Felline	Trek-Segafredo	1:24
15	Simon Spilak	Katusha-Alpecin	1:26
16	Hugh John Carthy	EF Education First	1:32
17	Lawson Craddock	EF Education First	1:42
18	Luis Mas Bonet	Movistar	s.t.
19	Jonathan Castroviejo	Team INEOS	1:43
20	Carlos Betancur	Movistar	1:44
21	Romain Sicard	Direct Energie	1:55
22	Aurélien Paret Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:56
23	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	2:05
24	Roman Kreuziger	Dimension Data	2:10
25	Steve Morabito	Groupama-FDJ	2:13
26	Matteo Fabbro	Katusha-Alpecin	2:17
27	Lennard Kämna	Team Sunweb	2:20
28	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	2:22
29	Merhawi Kudus	Astana	2:24
30	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	2:30
31	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	2:51
32	Luis León Sanchez	Astana	2:53
33	Winner Anacona	Movistar	3:21
34	Mathias Frank	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:30
35	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	4:01
36	Robert Stannard	Mitchelton-Scott	4:03
37	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	s.t.
38	Marc Hirschi	Team Sunweb	5:27
39	enny Elissonde	Team INEOS	5:43
40	Ben Swift	Team INEOS	6:24
41	Greg Van Avermaet	CCC Team	6:41
42	Patrick Bevin	CCC Team	6:53
43	Gino Mäder	Dimension Data	7:39
44	Matteo Trentin	Mitchelton-Scott	8:16
45	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	8:32
46	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	8:34
47	Hector Carretero	Movistar	9:07
48	Lilian Calmejane	Direct Energie	9:14
49	Michael Schär	CCC Team	9:37
50	Roland Thalmann	Switzerland	10:03
51	Simon Geschke	CCC Team	10:23
52	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	10:26
53	Nathan Brown	EF Education First	10:32
54	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	10:33
55	Dries Devenyns	Deceuninck-Quick Step	11:12
56	Rui Alberto Faria	UAE-Team Emirates	11:16
57	Michael Albasini	Mitchelton-Scott	11:17
58	Nikias Arndt	Team Sunweb	11:41
59	Tsgabu Grmay	Mitchelton-Scott	11:57
60	Enrico Battaglin	Katusha-Alpecin	12:03
61	Simon Pellaud	Switzerland	12:45
62	Søren Kragh Andersen	Team Sunweb	12:55
63	Sven Erik Bystrøm	UAE-Team Emirates	13:36
64	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	13:43
65	Paul Ourselin	Direct Energie	14:01
66	Nathan Haas	Katusha-Alpecin	14:26
67	Matteo Badilatti	Switzerland	14:33
68	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	15:07
69	Brandon McNulty	Rally UHC	15:24
70	Stan Dewulf	Lotto-Soudal	15:35
71	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	15:39
72	Peter Sagan	Bora-Hansgrohe	15:44
73	Ben King	Dimension Data	16:48
74	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain-Merida	16:55
75	Pim Ligthart	Direct Energie	17:12
76	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	17:47
77	Tom-Jelte Slagter	Dimension Data	18:15
78	Yves Lampaert	Deceuninck-Quick Step	18:40
79	Carlos Cuesta	Movistar	19:33
80	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	19:44
81	Larry Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	19:58
82	Valerio Agnoli	Bahrain-Merida	20:24
83	Daniel Oss	Bora-Hansgrohe	20:47
84	Gian Friesecke	Switzerland	21:38
85	Yuriy Natarov	Astana	22:00
86	Owain Doull	Team INEOS	23:00
87	Reinardt JVan Rensburg	Dimension Data	23:28
88	Lukas Pöstlberger	Bora-Hansgrohe	23:29
89	Fabian Lienhard	Switzerland	23:32
90	Sep Vanmarcke	EF Education First	23:39
91	Alexander Kristoff	UAE-Team Emirates	24:29
92	Michael Valgren Andersen	Dimension Data	24:39
93	Manuele Mori	UAE-Team Emirates	25:31
94	Lukasz Wisniowski	CCC Team	25:37
95	Pierre-Roger LaTour	Ag2r La Mondiale	25:47
96	Ivan Garcia	Bahrain-Merida	26:39
97	Willem Jakobus Smit	Katusha-Alpecin	26:46
98	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	26:52
99	Mitchell Docker	EF Education First	27:05
100	Taco van der Hoorn	Jumbo-Visma	27:11
101	Michael Gogl	Trek-Segafredo	27:21
102	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	27:43
103	Elia Viviani	Deceuninck-Quick Step	28:06
104	Colin Joyce	Rally UHC	28:32
105	John Degenkolb	Trek-Segafredo	28:33
106	Tosh Van Der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	28:44
107	Michael Mørkøv	Deceuninck-Quick Step	29:01
108	Thomas Boudat	Direct Energie	29:41
109	Andrea Garosio	Bahrain-Merida	30:25
110	Stijn Vandenbergh	Ag2r La Mondiale	31:12
111	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-Hansgrohe	32:09
112	Robin Carpenter	Rally UHC	34:02
113	Fabien Grellier	Direct Energie	34:18
114	Jurgen Roelandts	Movistar	35:20
115	Claudio Imhoff	Switzerland	35:23
116	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	35:24
117	Daniel Hoelgaard	Groupama-FDJ	35:35
118	Jay Thomson	Dimension Data	s.t.
119	Szymon Sajnok	CCC Team	36:03
120	Sam Bewley	Mitchelton-Scott	36:12
121	Tom Bohli	UAE-Team Emirates	36:44
122	Maximiliano Richeze	Deceuninck-Quick Step	36:59
123	Rick Zabel	Katusha-Alpecin	37:08
124	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Jumbo-Visma	37:30
125	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-Hansgrohe	38:02
126	Reto Hollenstein	Katusha-Alpecin	38:50
127	Jelle Vanendert	Lotto-Soudal	38:55
128	Rob Britton	Rally UHC	39:07
129	Tom Scully	EF Education First	39:16
130	Antonio Nibali	Bahrain-Merida	39:42
131	Alexander Edmondson	Mitchelton-Scott	40:19
132	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	CCC Team	40:28
133	Ryan Anderson	Rally UHC	41:36
134	Jérôme Cousin	Total Direct Energie	42:10
135	Gavin Mannion	Rally UHC	42:26
136	Svein Tuft	Rally UHC	42:49
137	Luke Rowe	Team INEOS	43:22
138	Andreas Schillinger	Bora-Hansgrohe	44:32
139	Kiel Reijnen	Trek-Segafredo	48:27
140	Enzo Wouters	Lotto-Soudal	55:04

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

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Wednesday, June 19: Stage 5, Münchenstein - Einsiedeln, 177 km

Elia Viviani makes it two in a row. Sirotti photo

Stage 5 map & profile | Stage 5 photos

Weather at the finish city of Einsiedeln at 1:15 PM, local time: 24C (76F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 14 km/hr (9 mph). No rain is forecast for the afternoon.

The race: All 141 riders who finished Tuesday's stage started today. The stage began at 12:25 with a 7-kilometer neutralized start.

Here's the stage report from stage winner Elia Viviani's Deceuninck-Quick Step team:

Deceuninck – Quick-Step created again a thing of sublime beauty at the Tour de Suisse, absolutely bossing the stage 5 finale and rolling out the red carpet in the last 100 meters for Elia Viviani, whose massive acceleration on the uphill drag to the line carried him to his sixth victory of the season.

“It’s always good to win a race, and getting to taste victory for the second day in a row feels great. The guys did a perfect job and I must say they make my life much easier. This success makes me happy also because it confirms I’m on track for the Tour de France”, said the first Italian rider since 2003 to claim two stages at a Tour de Suisse edition.

Journeying from Münchenstein to Einsiedeln, which was welcoming the peloton for the first time in 16 years, Wednesday’s 177km-long stage was by no means a walk in the park, despite coming down again to a mass sprint. A hilly route featuring a 13km second-category climb inside the last 40 kilometers tested the bunch and inspired three riders to break clear, but the field caught them with relative ease and the sprint teams began preparing for the finish.

With two kilometers to go, the Deceuninck – Quick-Step train – comprising best young rider Kasper Asgreen and national champions Yves Lampaert, Michael Mørkøv and Maximiliano Richeze – provided a masterful lead-out for Elia Viviani, who waited until the closing 100 meters to kick out, knowing that timing was key on the 4% gradients of Einsiedeln’s city center. The 30-year-old Italian powered like a locomotive and emerged again as the fastest man at the Tour de Suisse, beating Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo), as he clocked up his sixth victory of the season.

“We all had tired legs, because the stage was really hard, and knowing that the uphill finish and the cobbles would make everything tactical, I asked the guys to move to the head of the bunch with only 1500 meters left. After Max dropped me off the front as we rounded the last corner, all I had to do was launch my sprint”, explained Elia after the team’s 39th victory of year. “The flat stages are over, but I will continue the race, help as much as possible Enric, who is our GC guy, and hopefully get to celebrate some more nice results with the team.”

Complete results:

Stage 5 photos

177 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.094 km/hr

1	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4hr 18min 26sec
2	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
4	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
5	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	s.t.
6	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
7	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
8	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
9	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
10	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	s.t.
11	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	s.t.
12	GARCIA CORTINA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
13	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
14	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
15	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
16	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
17	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	s.t.
18	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	s.t.
19	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
20	MAS Lluís	Movistar	s.t.
21	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
22	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
23	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
24	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
25	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	s.t.
26	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	s.t.
27	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
28	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	s.t.
29	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
30	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
31	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
32	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
33	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	s.t.
34	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	s.t.
35	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
36	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
37	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
38	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
39	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	s.t.
40	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
41	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
42	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
43	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	s.t.
44	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
45	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
46	HIRT Jan	Astana	s.t.
47	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
48	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
49	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
50	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
51	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
52	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
53	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
54	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
55	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	s.t.
56	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
57	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	s.t.
58	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	s.t.
59	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
60	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
61	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
62	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
63	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
64	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
65	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
66	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
67	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
68	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
69	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	s.t.
70	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	s.t.
71	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
72	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
73	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	s.t.
74	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	s.t.
75	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
76	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	s.t.
77	KING Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
78	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
79	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	s.t.
80	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
81	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
82	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
83	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
84	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	s.t.
85	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
86	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	s.t.
87	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	s.t.
88	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
89	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
90	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	s.t.
91	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
92	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
93	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	s.t.
94	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	s.t.
95	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
96	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
97	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
98	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	s.t.
99	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
100	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	@ 37sec
101	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	0:44
102	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	0:53
103	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	0:55
104	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
105	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
106	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	1:11
107	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
108	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	1:13
109	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	1:15
110	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	1:17
111	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	1:19
112	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	1:31
113	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	s.t.
114	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	s.t.
115	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	s.t.
116	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	1:35
117	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	1:46
118	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	2:25
119	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
120	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
121	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
122	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	s.t.
123	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	s.t.
124	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	2:30
125	FRAILE Omar	Astana	2:32
126	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
127	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
128	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	s.t.
129	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	2:35
130	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	s.t.
131	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	s.t.
132	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
133	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	2:37
134	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	2:58
135	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	3:21
136	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	5:27
137	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	5:32
138	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
139	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	5:36
140	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	7:41
141	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	12:48

GC after stage 5:

672.3 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.203 km/hr

1	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	15hr 55min 48sec
2	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	@ 14sec
3	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:21
4	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	0:22
5	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	0:27
6	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	0:38
7	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	0:39
8	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	0:40
9	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
10	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
11	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	0:41
12	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	0:45
13	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	0:47
14	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
15	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	0:48
16	MAS Lluís	Movistar	0:49
17	SOLER Marc	Movistar	0:51
18	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	0:52
19	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	0:53
20	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	0:55
21	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	0:56
22	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	0:58
23	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	0:59
24	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	1:00
25	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:01
26	HIRT Jan	Astana	1:02
27	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
28	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
29	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:05
30	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:07
31	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	1:08
32	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	1:10
33	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	1:11
34	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	1:14
35	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	1:15
36	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
37	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	1:20
38	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	1:22
39	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	1:23
40	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	1:26
41	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:27
42	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:34
43	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	1:41
44	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	1:46
45	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	1:50
46	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	2:23
47	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	2:24
48	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	2:56
49	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	3:01
50	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	3:03
51	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	3:21
52	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	3:33
53	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	3:37
54	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3:52
55	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	3:58
56	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	3:59
57	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	4:22
58	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	4:45
59	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	5:09
60	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	5:29
61	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	6:32
62	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	6:56
63	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	7:00
64	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	7:11
65	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	7:21
66	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	7:41
67	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	8:20
68	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	8:51
69	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	9:01
70	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:02
71	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	9:04
72	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:18
73	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	9:23
74	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	9:28
75	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	9:40
76	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	10:54
77	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	11:20
78	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	11:23
79	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	11:28
80	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:04
81	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	12:11
82	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	12:13
83	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	12:16
84	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	12:17
85	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	12:22
86	GARCIA CORTINA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	12:26
87	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	12:34
88	KING Ben	Dimension Data	12:47
89	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	12:52
90	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	12:55
91	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:59
92	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	13:07
93	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	13:40
94	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	13:45
95	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	13:59
96	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	14:01
97	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	14:27
98	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	14:42
99	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	s.t.
100	FRAILE Omar	Astana	14:49
101	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	14:57
102	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	16:07
103	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	16:31
104	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	16:41
105	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	18:23
106	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	18:29
107	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	18:38
108	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	19:49
109	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	19:51
110	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	20:02
111	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	20:30
112	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	20:32
113	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	20:38
114	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	21:06
115	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	21:10
116	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	21:47
117	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	22:20
118	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	24:02
119	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	24:13
120	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	24:19
121	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	24:28
122	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	24:40
123	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	24:43
124	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	24:55
125	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	s.t.
126	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	25:25
127	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	25:31
128	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	26:02
129	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	26:04
130	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	26:30
131	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	26:48
132	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	26:50
133	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	27:38
134	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	s.t.
135	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	28:01
136	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	28:15
137	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	29:23
138	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	29:44
139	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	29:48
140	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	33:39
141	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

Stage 5 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Alexander Kristoff signs in.

Former GC leader Kasper Asgreen gets his bike to start the stage.

Peter Sagan signs an autograph for a young fan.

Peter Sagan and recently retired Swiss super rider Fabian Cancellara

The peloton starts stage five.

The pack arrives at the finish city of Einsiedeln

Elia Viviani clearly got the jump on the rest of the field.

Elia Viviani gets his second stage win this Swiss Tour.

Stage winner Elia Viviani

Peter Sagan remains the GC leader.

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Tuesday, June 18: Stage 4, Murten - Arlesheim, 163.9 km

Stage 4 map & profile | Stage 4 photos

The fast guys duke it out and Elia Viviani (far right) is the day's fastest man. Sirotti photo

Weather at the finish city of Arlesheim at 1:30 PM, local time: 29C (84F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 5 km/hr (3 mph). Only a 5% chance of rain for the afternoon.

The Race: All 144 riders who finished yesterday began the stage today. The stage began at 1:16, with a 4.3 km neutralized start.

With about 30 kilometers to go Geraint Thomas (Team INEOS) crashed out of the race. He was taken to a hospital for examination.

Here is the organizer's stage four summary:

Clad in the tricolore jersey of Italian road champion, Elia Viviani (DQT) celebrated his first stage win at the Tour de Suisse after a royal sprint in Arlesheim. Peter Sagan (SVK / BOH) remains the overall leader.

At about 30km from the finish, the crowds were startled by a crash in the peloton. A rider from Team Astana and Geraint Thomas (GBR / INS) were down on the ground. The Welshman, who used the Swiss roads to fine-tune his build-up towards defence of last year’s Tour de France title, was forced to quit the race. He was transferred to hospital for further medical checks. We hope that the Welshman did not sustain a major injury and wish him a speedy recovery.

Geraint Thomas is down and getting medical attention.

“The last climb up the Eichberg was harder for me than the final sprint. Once I made it over the climb on the climb, I knew that the stage victory was possible for me,” Viviani said in Arlesheim. The Italian rider got a lead out in the sprint from his teammate Michael Mörkov (DEN), who delivered him in an perfect position to storm to victory. It was a win that was more than welcome for Viviani, as it proved that he’s still among the world’s best sprinters. For the second time in his career, Viviani will be taking the start in the Tour de France. He hopes to be wearing the Maillot Jaune at the end of the opening stage in Brussels.

The Bora-Hansgrohe team from race leader Peter Sagan controlled the pace in the peloton throughout the day, but it left Sagan (3rd) without men to lead him out in the sprint. Michael Matthews (AUS / SUN) was the fastest rider in the final metres but he launched his sprint too late.

Just like on Monday, four riders featured in the breakaway of the day in the 163.9km long stage from Murten to Arlesheim. Numerous attacks proved unsuccessful early on in the stage until Robin Carpenter (USA / RLY), Simon Geschke (GER / CCC), Taco Van der Hoorn (NED / TJV) and Gian Friesecke gapped the field. The latter was the representative from the Swiss national team who fought until the end to hold off the peloton, unfortunately in vain.

Complete results:

Stage 4 photos

163.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.507 km/hr

1	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3hr 46min 2sec
2	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	s.t.
3	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
4	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
5	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
6	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	s.t.
7	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
8	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
9	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
10	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
11	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	s.t.
12	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
13	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
14	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
15	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
16	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
17	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
18	KING Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
19	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
20	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	s.t.
21	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
22	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
23	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
24	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
25	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	s.t.
26	MAS Lluís	Movistar	s.t.
27	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
28	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
29	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	s.t.
30	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
31	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	s.t.
32	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
33	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
34	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
35	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
36	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
37	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
38	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
39	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
40	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
41	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
42	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	s.t.
43	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
44	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	s.t.
45	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	s.t.
46	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	s.t.
47	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
48	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
49	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	s.t.
50	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
51	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
52	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	s.t.
53	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	s.t.
54	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	s.t.
55	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
56	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
57	JOYCE Colin	UHC Cycling	s.t.
58	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
59	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
60	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	s.t.
61	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
62	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	s.t.
63	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
64	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
65	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
66	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
67	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
68	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
69	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
70	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
71	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
72	HIRT Jan	Astana	s.t.
73	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
74	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
75	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
76	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
77	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
78	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
79	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	s.t.
80	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	s.t.
81	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	s.t.
82	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
83	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	s.t.
84	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
85	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	@ 16sec
86	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	0:51
87	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	1:06
88	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	1:08
89	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	1:17
90	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	1:25
91	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	1:46
92	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	1:48
94	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
95	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	s.t.
96	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
97	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	2:39
98	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
99	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	2:52
100	MCNULTY Brandon	UHC Cycling	4:56
101	CARPENTER Robin	UHC Cycling	7:03
102	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	s.t.
103	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	7:43
104	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
105	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	s.t.
106	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
107	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
108	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
109	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	11:32
110	FRAILE Omar	Astana	s.t.
111	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	s.t.
112	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
113	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
114	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
115	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
116	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
117	BRITTON Rob	UHC Cycling	s.t.
118	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
119	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	s.t.
120	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	s.t.
121	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
122	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
123	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	s.t.
124	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
125	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
126	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
127	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
128	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
129	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	s.t.
130	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
131	ANDERSON Ryan	UHC Cycling	s.t.
132	TUFT Svein	UHC Cycling	s.t.
133	MANNION Gavin	UHC Cycling	s.t.
134	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	s.t.
135	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
136	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
137	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
138	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
139	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	s.t.
140	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
141	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	14:24

GC after stage 4:

495.3 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.609 km/hr

1	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	11hr 37min 28sec
2	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	@ 10sec
3	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:15
4	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	0:16
5	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	0:21
6	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	0:25
7	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	0:32
8	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	0:33
9	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	0:34
10	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
11	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
12	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	0:35
13	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	0:39
14	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	0:41
15	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
16	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	0:42
17	MAS Lluís	Movistar	0:43
18	SOLER Marc	Movistar	0:45
19	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	0:46
20	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	0:47
21	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	0:49
22	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	0:50
23	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	0:52
24	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	0:53
25	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	0:54
26	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	0:55
27	HIRT Jan	Astana	0:56
28	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
29	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
30	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:59
31	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:01
32	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	1:02
33	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	1:04
34	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	1:05
35	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	1:08
36	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	1:09
37	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
38	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	1:14
39	SCHELLING Patrick	Team Switzerland	1:16
40	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	1:17
41	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	1:20
42	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
43	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:21
44	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	1:24
45	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:28
46	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	1:31
47	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	1:35
48	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	1:40
49	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	1:41
50	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	1:44
51	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	2:17
52	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	2:40
53	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:51
54	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	3:15
55	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	3:27
56	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	3:31
57	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	4:01
58	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	4:08
59	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	4:16
60	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	4:39
61	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	5:23
62	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	6:20
63	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	6:24
64	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	6:50
65	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	6:54
66	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	7:05
67	THALMANN Roland	Team Switzerland	8:14
68	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	8:45
69	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	8:52
70	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	8:55
71	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	8:56
72	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	8:57
73	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	8:58
74	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:12
75	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	9:17
76	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	9:22
77	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	9:34
78	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	10:48
79	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	11:14
80	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	11:51
81	MCNULTY Brandon	UHC Cycling	11:59
82	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	12:05
83	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	12:07
84	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:08
85	FRIESECKE Gian	Team Switzerland	12:10
86	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	12:11
87	FRAILE Omar	Astana	s.t.
88	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	12:20
89	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
90	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	12:22
91	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	12:28
92	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
93	KING Ben	Dimension Data	12:41
94	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	12:44
95	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	12:46
96	JOYCE Colin	UHC Cycling	12:47
97	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	12:49
98	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:53
99	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	13:01
100	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	13:02
101	BADILATTI Matteo	Team Switzerland	13:34
102	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	14:10
103	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	14:24
104	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	14:30
105	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	14:36
106	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	14:51
107	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	16:25
108	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	18:10
109	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	18:17
110	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	18:53
111	CARPENTER Robin	UHC Cycling	19:43
112	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	20:24
113	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	20:26
114	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	20:32
115	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	21:00
116	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	21:04
117	BRITTON Rob	UHC Cycling	21:38
118	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	21:41
119	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	23:29
120	IMHOF Claudio	Team Switzerland	23:31
121	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	23:33
122	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	23:39
123	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	23:56
124	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	24:02
125	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	24:05
126	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	24:07
127	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	24:15
128	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	24:34
129	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	24:37
130	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	24:49
131	MANNION Gavin	UHC Cycling	24:57
132	TUFT Svein	UHC Cycling	25:20
133	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	25:37
134	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	25:51
135	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	25:52
136	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	26:24
137	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	26:41
138	ANDERSON Ryan	UHC Cycling	26:42
139	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	26:44
140	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	26:45
141	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	27:57

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

Stage 4 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Geraint Thomas (left) before the start.

Alexander Kirstoff rides to the start line.

The stage begins as the peloton leaves the city of Murten.

The peloton has reached the finish city of Arlesheim.

The sprinters are lined up and looking grim-faced.

Here they come.

And Elia Viviani (far right) wins the stage.

Peter Sagan just after the stage

Stage winner Elia Viviani

Peter Sagan remains the race leader.

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Monday, June 17: Stage 3, Flamatt - Murten, 162.3 km

Stage 3 map & profile

Peter Sagan wins the stage and takes over the GC lead. Sirotti photo

Weather at the finish city of Murten at 1:20 PM, local time: 23C (73F), sunny, with the wind from the east-northeast at 14 km/hr (9 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the report from winner Peter Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe team.

There’s no escaping the hills at the Tour de Suisse, as even the easier stages feature a significant amount of climbing. Today, while the flat finish suggested the sprinters would again have their eye on the stage, to get there they would first have to traverse 130km of undulating terrain of the 162.3km total. While there were only two categorised climbs over the course of the day – both third category – it would be the relentless climbing and descending that would be the biggest drain of energy.

Clearly undaunted by the profile, a quartet boldly set off early on, becoming the day’s break and building an advantage. The moment they hit four minutes though, the peloton jumped into action to reduce this to a more manageable two minutes. It was clear the sprint teams weren’t going to let a break take a second stage in a row, but this didn’t stop the escapees pushing back and taking this lead back out to three minutes.

As the kilometres passed, it was BORA-hansgrohe that took to the front to reel them back in, and by the time 40km were left, it was back down to two minutes and falling quickly, knocking another thirty seconds off this time by the 30km to go mark. At this pace, it was down to fifteen seconds with 10km remaining and it was clear the sprinters were going to take the stage. The whole of the BORA-hansgrohe team was here pushing the pace at the front – with Bodnar and Burghardt on the front and Lukas Pöstlberger and Daniel Oss keeping the Slovak National Champion, Peter Sagan, protected in the bunch.

A last attempt from the break to stay out came to nothing, and with just under 6km to go, it was all back together. The bunch looked nervous as the speeds ramped up for the sprint, with Peter staying safe mid-pack. The final stretch was winding, and it was here that Peter started his sprint early, catching his rivals completely unawares.

With 75m to go there was no doubting who was going to take the win, the Slovak rider dominating the sprint and finishing with clean air between him and the rest of the bunch. Adding to his record tally of Tour de Suisse wins, Peter also moved into the top spot in the GC to claim the race’s yellow jersey while also taking the lead in the points contest.

"I'm happy with this stage win, my 17th at the Tour de Suisse, and the leader's yellow jersey. I'd like to thank the whole team for their brilliant work, they controlled the race and placed me in a perfect spot for the victory. It was a very fast finale and quite hectic because everybody wanted to be in the front. When we crossed the finish line for the first time, it was clear to me that in order to have a chance at winning, I had to be in the first positions of the group before the last left turn. That's what we did and I was able to attack in the final stretch to get the victory." – Peter Sagan

"Beautiful day today, everything worked as we had planned. Our goal was to aim for the win with Peter and for that we knew we had to work and pull almost from the start in order to keep everything under control. The guys put in a superb effort and Peter topped it off. With 15km to go, he had to change bikes but thanks to Maciej Bodnar's help, he made it back to the group and was later perfectly positioned for the sprint finish. It wasn't easy to control because the pace was very high all day. Still, Peter got into the final 200m in second position and took a clear victory. Good job everybody!" – Jan Valach, Sports Director

Complete results:

162.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.381 km/hr

1	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	3hr 39min 25sec
2	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
3	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
4	GARCIA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
5	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
6	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	s.t.
7	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
8	LIENHARD Fabian	Switzerland	s.t.
9	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
10	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
11	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
12	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
13	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	s.t.
14	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
15	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
16	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	s.t.
17	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
18	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	s.t.
19	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
20	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	s.t.
21	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
22	MAS Lluís	Movistar	s.t.
23	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
24	THOMAS Geraint	Team INEOS	s.t.
25	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	s.t.
26	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
27	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	s.t.
28	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
29	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
30	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
31	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
32	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
33	FRIESECKE Gian	Switzerland	s.t.
34	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	s.t.
35	FRAILE Omar	Astana	s.t.
36	HIRT Jan	Astana	s.t.
37	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	s.t.
38	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
39	THALMANN Roland	Switzerland	s.t.
40	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
41	KING Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
42	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	s.t.
43	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	s.t.
44	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
45	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
46	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
47	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
48	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
49	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
50	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
51	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
52	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
53	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
54	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
55	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
56	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	s.t.
57	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
58	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
59	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	s.t.
60	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
61	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
62	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	s.t.
63	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
64	SCHELLING Patrick	Switzerland	s.t.
65	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
66	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
67	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
68	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	s.t.
69	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
70	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
71	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	s.t.
72	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
73	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	s.t.
74	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	s.t.
75	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	s.t.
76	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
77	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
78	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
79	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	s.t.
80	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
81	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
82	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
83	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
84	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
85	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
86	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	s.t.
87	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
88	ZEITS Andrey	Astana	s.t.
89	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	s.t.
90	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
91	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
92	IMHOF Claudio	Switzerland	s.t.
93	PELLAUD Simon	Switzerland	s.t.
94	BADILATTI Matteo	Switzerland	s.t.
95	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	s.t.
96	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
97	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
98	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
99	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
100	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
101	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	s.t.
102	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	s.t.
103	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	s.t.
104	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	s.t.
105	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
106	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	s.t.
107	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	s.t.
108	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
109	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
110	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
111	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	s.t.
112	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
113	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
114	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
115	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
116	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
117	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	@ 51sec
118	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
119	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
120	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
121	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	s.t.
122	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
123	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	0:56
124	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
125	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
126	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	0:58
127	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
128	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	s.t.
129	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	s.t.
130	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	s.t.
131	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	s.t.
132	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	1:03
133	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	1:26
134	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	1:47
135	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	1:57
136	DE TIER Floris	Jumbo-Visma	2:08
137	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	2:14
138	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
139	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
140	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	2:17
141	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
142	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	s.t.
143	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	2:20
144	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.

GC after stage 3:

331.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.170 km/hr

1	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	7hr 51min 31sec
2	ASGREEN Kasper	Deceuninck-Quick Step	@ 10sec
3	DENNIS Rohan	Bahrain-Merida	0:11
4	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Sunweb	s.t.
5	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First	0:16
6	KUNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	0:20
7	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	0:27
8	THOMAS Geraint	Team INEOS	0:28
9	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	Team INEOS	0:29
10	SANCHEZ Luis León	Astana	s.t.
11	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	s.t.
12	KONRAD Patrick	Bora-hansgrohe	0:30
13	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
14	FELLINE Fabio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
15	BERNAL Egan	Team INEOS	0:34
16	FRAILE Omar	Astana	s.t.
17	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	0:36
18	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
19	ROCHE Nicolas	Team Sunweb	0:37
20	MAS Lluís	Movistar	0:38
21	SOLER Marc	Movistar	0:40
22	ARU Fabio	UAE-Team Emirates	0:41
23	MORABITO Steve	Groupama-FDJ	0:42
24	BETANCUR Carlos	Movistar	0:44
25	SICARD Romain	Total Direct Energie	0:45
26	VALGREN Michael	Dimension Data	s.t.
27	HENAO Sergio	UAE-Team Emirates	0:47
28	VAN AVERMAET Greg	CCC Team	0:48
29	GESCHKE Simon	CCC Team	0:49
30	SPILAK Simon	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
31	FRANK Mathias	Ag2r La Mondiale	0:50
32	HIRT Jan	Astana	0:51
33	CONCI Nicola	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
34	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First	s.t.
35	MAS Enric	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:54
36	DEVENYNS Dries	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:56
37	BOUWMAN Koen	Jumbo-Visma	0:57
38	BROWN Nathan	EF Education First	0:59
39	KREUZIGER Roman	Dimension Data	1:00
40	FABBRO Matteo	Katusha-Alpecin	1:03
41	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	1:04
42	SWIFT Ben	Team INEOS	s.t.
43	THALMANN Roland	Switzerland	1:06
44	BOUCHARD Geoffrey	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:08
45	BRAMBILLA Gianluca	Trek-Segafredo	1:09
46	SCHELLING Patrick	Switzerland	1:11
47	BATTAGLIN Enrico	Katusha-Alpecin	1:12
48	CARRETERO Héctor	Movistar	1:15
49	FRANKINY Kilian	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
50	PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:16
51	SCHAR Michael	CCC Team	1:19
52	STANNARD Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	1:22
53	BIDARD François	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:23
54	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	UAE-Team Emirates	1:26
55	HIRSCHI Marc	Team Sunweb	1:27
56	KUDUS Merhawi	Astana	1:30
57	ELISSONDE Kenny	Team INEOS	1:35
58	KAMNA Lennard	Team Sunweb	1:36
59	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Sunweb	1:39
60	BADILATTI Matteo	Switzerland	1:57
61	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	2:05
62	GRMAY Tsgabu	Mitchelton-Scott	2:12
63	LAMPAERT Yves	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:46
64	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	3:40
65	CALMEJANE Lilian	Total Direct Energie	4:03
66	MADER Gino	Dimension Data	4:11
67	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	4:29
68	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	4:34
69	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Team Sunweb	5:18
70	POSTLBERGER Lukas	Bora-hansgrohe	5:55
71	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain-Merida	6:19
72	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	6:33
73	SMIT Willie	Katusha-Alpecin	6:36
74	THOMAS Benjamin	Groupama-FDJ	6:40
75	MONFORT Maxime	Lotto-Soudal	6:45
76	DEWULF Stan	Lotto-Soudal	6:49
77	MCNULTY Brandon	Rally UHC	6:58
78	BEVIN Patrick	CCC Team	7:00
79	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	7:16
80	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	7:28
81	VANMARCKE Sep	EF Education First	8:40
82	CONTRERAS Rodrigo	Astana	8:50
83	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	8:52
84	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r La Mondiale	8:55
85	ZEITS Andrey	Astana	9:04
86	WARBASSE Larry	Ag2r La Mondiale	9:07
87	OURSELIN Paul	Total Direct Energie	9:12
88	PELLAUD Simon	Switzerland	9:17
89	NATAROV Yuriy	Astana	9:21
90	ROOSEN Timo	Jumbo-Visma	9:27
91	TOLHOEK Antwan	Jumbo-Visma	9:29
92	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	9:52
93	BRITTON Rob	Rally UHC	10:01
94	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	10:40
95	SCULLY Tom	EF Education First	11:52
96	IMHOF Claudio	Switzerland	11:54
97	BOHLI Tom	UAE-Team Emirates	11:56
98	DOULL Owain	Team INEOS	12:00
99	EDMONDSON Alex	Mitchelton-Scott	12:02
100	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First	12:06
101	FRIESECKE Gian	Switzerland	12:09
102	VIVIANI Elia	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:13
103	GARCIA CORTINA Iván	Bahrain-Merida	12:15
104	STUYVEN Jasper	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
105	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	12:19
106	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	12:23
107	VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	Dimension Data	s.t.
108	BEWLEY Sam	Mitchelton-Scott	12:25
109	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	12:28
110	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	12:30
111	SAJNOK Szymon	CCC Team	12:36
112	KING Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
113	CARPENTER Robin	Rally UHC	12:38
114	VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume	CCC Team	s.t.
115	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
116	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	12:39
117	BOUDAT Thomas	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
118	LIENHARD Fabian	Switzerland	12:41
119	JOYCE Colin	Rally UHC	12:42
120	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	12:43
121	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	12:44
122	MØRKØV Michael	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:48
123	LIGTHART Pim	Total Direct Energie	12:56
124	GRELLIER Fabien	Total Direct Energie	12:57
125	ROELANDTS Jürgen	Movistar	s.t.
126	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	CCC Team	12:58
127	GAROSIO Andrea	Bahrain-Merida	13:00
128	HOELGAARD Daniel	Groupama-FDJ	13:12
129	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
130	MANNION Gavin	Rally UHC	13:20
131	WOUTERS Enzo	Lotto-Soudal	13:28
132	VAN DER HOORN Taco	Jumbo-Visma	13:41
133	TUFT Svein	Rally UHC	13:43
134	VAN DER SANDE Tosh	Lotto-Soudal	13:53
135	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	14:00
136	GOGL Michael	Trek-Segafredo	14:05
137	ROWE Luke	Team INEOS	14:14
138	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	14:15
139	COUSIN Jérôme	Total Direct Energie	14:47
140	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	15:04
141	ANDERSON Ryan	Rally UHC	15:05
142	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan	Jumbo-Visma	15:07
143	NIBALI Antonio	Bahrain-Merida	15:08
144	DE TIER Floris	Jumbo-Visma	15:13

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

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Sunday, June 16: Stage 2, Langnau im Emmental - Langnau im Emmental, 159.6 km.

Luis Leon Sanchez takes the second stage sitting up.

Weather at Langnau im Emmental at 1:50 PM, local time: 18C (64F), partly cloudy, with the win from the north-northeast at 7 km/hr (4 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the report from Velon.

June 16, 2019: Luis León Sanchez (Astana) pulled off an astonishing performance on stage 2 of Tour de Suisse as he attacked on the final 10 km and soloed to victory in Langnau im Emmental. Peter Sagan (BORA-hansgrohe) sprinted to second place, while Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-SCOTT) finished third on the stage. Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck - Quick-Step) is the new race leader.

On paper, Sunday’s stage looked like a good one for for a breakaway to make it but after a fast start, only four riders managed to get away. Claudio Imhof was one of them but already on the first climb, the Swiss rider decided to leave his breakaway companions and continue solo. Imhof built up a gap of over four minutes before the peloton started to react.

On the final two climbs, Astana set a furious pace in the pack. Sanchez himself did most of the work, setting up teammate Omar Fraile for an attack. Fraile tried to get away several times but ultimately, he was caught close the top of the final climb.

The likes of Sagan, Trentin and Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) were not far behind as the first group started on the descent and knowing so, many riders were eager to attack on the final flat part. However, despite several attempts, nobody succeeded in getting away.

With 10 km to go - just as the group with the sprinters were about to make contact - Sanchez put in his attack. Despite his hard effort earlier on the climbs, Sanchez still managed to find energy for a final push to the line. The chase group tried their best to reel him back in, but without success.

Sanchez took the win while Asgreen - who also had put in several attacks trying to get away - sprinted to fourth place and took over the race lead, in the same time as Sagan in second place. Rohan Dennis (Bahrain-Merida) is now third overall.

Complete results:

159.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.677 km/hr

1	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	4hr 1min 21sec
2	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	@ 6sec
3	Matteo Trenti	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
4	Kasper Asgree	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
5	Greg Van Avermaet	CCC Team	s.t.
6	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	s.t.
7	Omar Fraile	Astana	s.t.
8	Sven Erik Bystrøm	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
9	Nathan Haas	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
10	Ben Swift	Team INEOS	s.t.
11	Lilian Calmejane	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
12	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
13	Michael Valgren	Dimension Data	s.t.
14	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
15	Roland Thalmann	Switzerland	s.t.
16	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
17	Egan Bernal	Team INEOS	s.t.
18	Carlos Betancur	Movistar	s.t.
19	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
20	Merhawi Kudus	Astana	s.t.
21	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
22	Kévin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
23	Enric Mas	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
24	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
25	Nicolas Roche	Team Sunweb	s.t.
26	Roman Kreuziger	Dimension Data	s.t.
27	Robert Stannard	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
28	Geraint Thomas	Team INEOS	s.t.
29	Tiesj Benoot	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
30	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
31	Héctor Carretero	Movistar	s.t.
32	Rohan Dennis	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
33	Enrico Battaglin	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
34	Dries Devenyns	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
35	Hugh Carthy	EF Education First	s.t.
36	Nathan Brown	EF Education First	s.t.
37	Sergio Henao	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
38	Mathias Frank	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
39	Romain Sicard	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
40	Simon Spilak	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
41	Patrick Schelling	Switzerland	s.t.
42	Fabio Aru	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
43	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	s.t.
44	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
45	Domenico Pozzovivo	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
46	Jan Hirt	Astana	s.t.
47	Steve Morabito	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
48	Matteo Fabbro	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
49	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
50	Fabio Felline	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
51	Kenny Elissonde	Team INEOS	s.t.
52	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
53	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
54	Lluís Mas	Movistar	s.t.
55	Lawson Craddock	EF Education First	s.t.
56	Jonathan Castroviejo	Team INEOS	s.t.
57	Matteo Badilatti	Switzerland	s.t.
58	Yves Lampaert	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
59	Simon Geschke	CCC Team	s.t.
60	Michael Albasini	Mitchelton-Scott	15''
61	Michael Schär	CCC Team	34''
62	Marc Hirschi	Team Sunweb	41''
63	Lennard Kämna	Team Sunweb	55''
64	Tsgabu Grmay	Mitchelton-Scott	1' 28''
65	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	3' 12''
66	Willie Smit	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
67	Gino Mäder	Dimension Data	s.t.
68	Nikias Arndt	Team Sunweb	s.t.
69	Lukas Pöstlberger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
70	Carlos Barbero	Movistar	s.t.
71	Søren Kragh	Team Sunweb	4' 08''
72	Brandon McNulty	Rally-UHC	5' 21''
73	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
74	Patrick Bevin	CCC Team	s.t.
75	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	6' 14''
76	Stan Dewulf	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
77	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
78	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
79	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
80	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
81	Simon Pellaud	Switzerland	8' 10''
82	Tom-Jelte Slagter	Dimension Data	s.t.
83	Paul Ourselin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
84	Rui Costa	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
85	Rob Britton	Rally-UHC	s.t.
86	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
87	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
88	Yuriy Natarov	Astana	s.t.
89	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	s.t.
90	Manuele Mori	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
91	Sep Vanmarcke	EF Education First	s.t.
92	Andrey Zeits	Astana	s.t.
93	Larry Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
94	Pierre Latour	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
95	Valerio Agnoli	Bahrain-Merida	11' 36''
96	Claudio Imhof	Switzerland	s.t.
97	Daniel Hoelgård	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
98	Stijn Vandenbergh	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
99	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Dimension Data	s.t.
100	Gian Friesecke	Switzerland	s.t.
101	Mitch Docker	EF Education First	s.t.
102	Iván García	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
103	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	CCC Team	s.t.
104	Fabien Grellier	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
105	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
106	Benjamin King	Dimension Data	s.t.
107	Fabian Lienhard	Switzerland	s.t.
108	Jay Thomson	Dimension Data	s.t.
109	Ryan Anderson	Rally-UHC	s.t.
110	Floris De Tier	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
111	Jérôme Cousin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
112	Szymon Sajnok	CCC Team	s.t.
113	Enzo Wouters	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
114	Reto Hollenstein	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
115	Kiel Reijnen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
116	Michael Gogl	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
117	Daniel McLay	EF Education First	s.t.
118	Andrea Garosio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
119	John Degenkolb	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
120	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
121	Colin Joyce	Rally-UHC	s.t.
122	Robin Carpenter	Rally-UHC	s.t.
123	Lukasz Wisniowski	CCC Team	s.t.
124	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
125	Alexander Edmondson	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
126	Rick Zabel	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
127	Andreas Schillinger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
128	Tom Scully	EF Education First	s.t.
129	Antonio Nibali	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
130	Pim Ligthart	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
131	Jelle Vanendert	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
132	Svein Tuft	Rally-UHC	s.t.
133	Sam Bewley	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
134	Michael Mørkøv	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
135	Luke Rowe	Team INEOS	s.t.
136	Maximiliano Richeze	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
137	Owain Doull	Team INEOS	s.t.
138	Elia Viviani	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
139	Thomas Boudat	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
140	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
141	Tom Bohli	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
142	Jürgen Roelandts	Movistar	s.t.
143	Gavin Mannion	Rally-UHC	s.t.
144	Taco van der Hoorn	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
145	Alexander Kristoff	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.

GC after stage 2:

169.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.219 km/hr

1	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4hr 12min 16sec
2	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	Rohan Dennis	Bahrain-Merida	@ 1sec
4	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	s.t.
5	Lawson Craddock	EF Education First	6''
6	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	10''
7	Matteo Trentin	Mitchelton-Scott	17''
8	Geraint Thomas	Team INEOS	18''
9	Jonathan Castroviejo	Team INEOS	19''
10	Yves Lampaert	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
11	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
12	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
13	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	20''
14	Nathan Haas	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
15	Fabio Felline	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
16	Egan Bernal	Team INEOS	24''
17	Omar Fraile	Astana	s.t.
18	Kévin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	26''
19	Tiesj Benoot	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
20	Nicolas Roche	Team Sunweb	27''
21	Lluís Mas	Movistar	28''
22	Marc Soler	Movistar	30''
23	Fabio Aru	UAE-Team Emirates	31''
24	Steve Morabito	Groupama-FDJ	32''
25	Carlos Betancur	Movistar	34''
26	Romain Sicard	Total Direct Energie	35''
27	Michael Valgren	Dimension Data	s.t.
28	Sergio Henao	UAE-Team Emirates	37''
29	Greg Van Avermaet	CCC Team	38''
30	Simon Geschke	CCC Team	39''
31	Simon Spilak	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
32	Mathias Frank	Ag2r La Mondiale	40''
33	Jan Hirt	Astana	41''
34	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
35	Hugh Carthy	EF Education First	s.t.
36	Enric Mas	Deceuninck-Quick Step	44''
37	Dries Devenyns	Deceuninck-Quick Step	46''
38	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	47''
39	Nathan Brown	EF Education First	49''
40	Roman Kreuziger	Dimension Data	50''
41	Matteo Fabbro	Katusha-Alpecin	53''
42	Domenico Pozzovivo	Bahrain-Merida	54''
43	Ben Swift	Team INEOS	s.t.
44	Roland Thalmann	Switzerland	56''
45	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	58''
46	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	59''
47	Patrick Schelling	Switzerland	1' 01''
48	Enrico Battaglin	Katusha-Alpecin	1' 02''
49	Michael Albasini	Mitchelton-Scott	1' 04''
50	Héctor Carretero	Movistar	1' 05''
51	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
52	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	1' 06''
53	Michael Schär	CCC Team	1' 09''
54	Robert Stannard	Mitchelton-Scott	1' 12''
55	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	1' 13''
56	Sven Erik Bystrøm	UAE-Team Emirates	1' 16''
57	Marc Hirschi	Team Sunweb	1' 17''
58	Merhawi Kudus	Astana	1' 20''
59	Kenny Elissonde	Team INEOS	1' 25''
60	Lennard Kämna	Team Sunweb	1' 26''
61	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	1' 29''
62	Lilian Calmejane	Total Direct Energie	1' 39''
63	Matteo Badilatti	Switzerland	1' 47''
64	Tsgabu Grmay	Mitchelton-Scott	2' 02''
65	Nikias Arndt	Team Sunweb	3' 30''
66	Lukas Pöstlberger	Bora-hansgrohe	3' 48''
67	Gino Mäder	Dimension Data	4' 01''
68	Søren Kragh	Team Sunweb	4' 05''
69	Willie Smit	Katusha-Alpecin	4' 14''
70	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	4' 19''
71	Carlos Barbero	Movistar	4' 24''
72	Patrick Bevin	CCC Team	5' 24''
73	Brandon McNulty	Rally-UHC	5' 50''
74	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain-Merida	6' 09''
75	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	6' 23''
76	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	6' 30''
77	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	6' 35''
78	Stan Dewulf	Lotto-Soudal	6' 39''
79	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	7' 06''
80	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	7' 18''
81	Sep Vanmarcke	EF Education First	8' 30''
82	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	8' 40''
83	Rui Costa	UAE-Team Emirates	8' 42''
84	Pierre Latour	Ag2r La Mondiale	8' 45''
85	Tom-Jelte Slagter	Dimension Data	8' 51''
86	Rob Britton	Rally-UHC	8' 53''
87	Andrey Zeits	Astana	8' 54''
88	Larry Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	8' 57''
89	Paul Ourselin	Total Direct Energie	9' 02''
90	Simon Pellaud	Switzerland	9' 10''
91	Yuriy Natarov	Astana	9' 11''
92	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	9' 17''
93	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	9' 19''
94	Manuele Mori	UAE-Team Emirates	9' 39''
95	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	11' 31''
96	Tom Scully	EF Education First	11' 42''
97	Claudio Imhof	Switzerland	11' 44''
98	Tom Bohli	UAE-Team Emirates	11' 46''
99	Owain Doull	Team INEOS	11' 50''
100	Lukasz Wisniowski	CCC Team	11' 52''
101	Alexander Edmondson	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
102	Mitch Docker	EF Education First	11' 56''
103	Gian Friesecke	Switzerland	11' 59''
104	Iván García	Bahrain-Merida	12' 05''
105	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
106	Michael Gogl	Trek-Segafredo	12' 08''
107	Reto Hollenstein	Katusha-Alpecin	12' 09''
108	Elia Viviani	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
109	Maximiliano Richeze	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12' 11''
110	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Dimension Data	12' 13''
111	Sam Bewley	Mitchelton-Scott	12' 15''
112	John Degenkolb	Trek-Segafredo	12' 17''
113	Jay Thomson	Dimension Data	12' 18''
114	Gavin Mannion	Rally-UHC	12' 19''
115	Rick Zabel	Katusha-Alpecin	12' 20''
116	Jérôme Cousin	Total Direct Energie	12' 23''
117	Szymon Sajnok	CCC Team	12' 26''
118	Benjamin King	Dimension Data	s.t.
119	Robin Carpenter	Rally-UHC	12' 28''
120	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	CCC Team	s.t.
121	Stijn Vandenbergh	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
122	Thomas Boudat	Total Direct Energie	12' 29''
123	Fabian Lienhard	Switzerland	12' 31''
124	Colin Joyce	Rally-UHC	12' 32''
125	Valerio Agnoli	Bahrain-Merida	12' 33''
126	Alexander Kristoff	UAE-Team Emirates	12' 34''
127	Andreas Schillinger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
128	Svein Tuft	Rally-UHC	12' 35''
129	Taco van der Hoorn	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
130	Antonio Nibali	Bahrain-Merida	12' 38''
131	Michael Mørkøv	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
132	Ryan Anderson	Rally-UHC	12' 39''
133	Daniel McLay	EF Education First	12' 43''
134	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Jumbo-Visma	12' 46''
135	Pim Ligthart	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
136	Fabien Grellier	Total Direct Energie	12' 47''
137	Jürgen Roelandts	Movistar	s.t.
138	Andrea Garosio	Bahrain-Merida	12' 50''
139	Jelle Vanendert	Lotto-Soudal	12' 52''
140	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
141	Floris De Tier	Jumbo-Visma	12' 55''
142	Daniel Hoelgård	Groupama-FDJ	13' 02''
143	Luke Rowe	Team INEOS	13' 06''
144	Kiel Reijnen	Trek-Segafredo	13' 09''
145	Enzo Wouters	Lotto-Soudal	13' 18''

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Saturday, June 15: Stage 1, Langnau im Emmental 9.5 km individual time trial

Stage winner Rohan Dennis going very fast in what looks like a very big gear.

Weather at Langnau in Emmental at 2:00 PM, local time: 20C (68F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 10 km/hr (6 mph). Thunderstorm are possible in the late afternoon.

The race: Here's the report from winner Rohan Dennis' Bahrain-Merida team.

Langnau, 15 June 2019 – “Today it was a hard one – smiles Rohan Dennis, opening ITT winner in the rainbow jersey – it was quite a mental battle for me because in the last months my results they were very far away from what I expected”.

“Finally, today I made it and it’s a great feeling to be back on that top step. Tomorrow I will be in yellow jersey and I will do my best to defend it. The penultimate stage will be another ITT and I feel confident to repeat today performance. And then there is the Tour de France I’m looking forward to it ”.

“It’s was a super start! – says SD Tristan Hoffman – everything went right and I’m very happy about Rohan’s result. Of course, congratulations to everybody, riders and staff, for their work “.

The ITT world champion beat Poland’s Maciej Bodnar and Australian Michael Matthews for less than a second. Tomorrow, the 2nd stage includes three identical rounds of 53.2 kilometers with some climbs south of Langnau.

Complete results and GC:

1	Rohan Dennis	Bahrain-Merida	10min 50sec
2	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	@ 1sec
4	Søren Kragh	Team Sunweb	2''
5	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
6	Lawson Craddock	EF Education First	5''
7	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	7''
8	Patrick Bevin	CCC Team	8''
9	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	9''
10	Tom Scully	EF Education First	11''
11	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	14''
12	Tom Bohli	UAE-Team Emirates	15''
13	Geraint Thomas	Team INEOS	17''
14	Jonathan Castroviejo	Team INEOS	18''
15	Yves Lampaert	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
16	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
17	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	19''
18	Owain Doull	Team INEOS	s.t.
19	Nathan Haas	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
20	Claudio Imhof	Switzerland	s.t.
21	Fabio Felline	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
22	Matteo Trentin	Mitchelton-Scott	20''
23	Lukasz Wisniowski	CCC Team	21''
24	Alexander Edmondson	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
25	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
26	Egan Bernal	Team INEOS	23''
27	Nikias Arndt	Team Sunweb	s.t.
28	Mitch Docker	EF Education First	25''
29	Sep Vanmarcke	EF Education First	s.t.
30	Kévin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
31	Omar Fraile	Astana	s.t.
32	Tiesj Benoot	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
33	Maxime Monfort	Lotto-Soudal	26''
34	Nicolas Roche	Team Sunweb	s.t.
35	Lluís Mas	Movistar	27''
36	Gian Friesecke	Switzerland	28''
37	Marc Soler	Movistar	29''
38	Stan Dewulf	Lotto-Soudal	30''
39	Fabio Aru	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
40	Steve Morabito	Groupama-FDJ	31''
41	Carlos Betancur	Movistar	33''
42	Iván García	Bahrain-Merida	34''
43	Romain Sicard	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
44	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
45	Luis León Sánchez	Astana	s.t.
46	Brandon McNulty	Rally-UHC	s.t.
47	Michael Valgren	Dimension Data	s.t.
48	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	35''
49	Sergio Henao	UAE-Team Emirates	36''
50	Danny van Poppel	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
51	Lennard Kämna	Team Sunweb	s.t.
52	Michael Gogl	Trek-Segafredo	37''
53	Greg Van Avermaet	CCC Team	s.t.
54	Rui Costa	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
55	Simon Geschke	CCC Team	38''
56	Reto Hollenstein	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
57	Elia Viviani	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
58	Simon Spilak	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
59	Tsgabu Grmay	Mitchelton-Scott	39''
60	Mathias Frank	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
61	Michael Schär	CCC Team	40''
62	Jan Hirt	Astana	s.t.
63	Pierre Latour	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
64	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
65	Hugh Carthy	EF Education First	s.t.
66	Maximiliano Richeze	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
67	Marc Hirschi	Team Sunweb	41''
68	Lukas Pöstlberger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
69	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Dimension Data	42''
70	Enric Mas	Deceuninck-Quick Step	43''
71	Sam Bewley	Mitchelton-Scott	44''
72	Dries Devenyns	Deceuninck-Quick Step	45''
73	John Degenkolb	Trek-Segafredo	46''
74	Tom-Jelte Slagter	Dimension Data	s.t.
75	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
76	Jay Thomson	Dimension Data	47''
77	Nathan Brown	EF Education First	48''
78	Rob Britton	Rally-UHC	s.t.
79	Andrey Zeits	Astana	49''
80	Gavin Mannion	Rally-UHC	s.t.
81	Rick Zabel	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
82	Roman Kreuziger	Dimension Data	s.t.
83	Jérôme Cousin	Total Direct Energie	52''
84	Daniel McLay	EF Education First	s.t.
85	Larry Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
86	Matteo Fabbro	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
87	Domenico Pozzovivo	Bahrain-Merida	53''
88	Ben Swift	Team INEOS	s.t.
89	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
90	Michael Albasini	Mitchelton-Scott	54''
91	Gino Mäder	Dimension Data	s.t.
92	Szymon Sajnok	CCC Team	55''
93	Benjamin King	Dimension Data	s.t.
94	Roland Thalmann	Switzerland	56''
95	Bruno Armirail	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
96	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	57''
97	Robin Carpenter	Rally-UHC	s.t.
98	Stijn Vandenbergh	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
99	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
100	Paul Ourselin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
101	Thomas Boudat	Total Direct Energie	58''
102	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
103	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	CCC Team	59''
104	Patrick Schelling	Switzerland	1' 00''
105	Fabian Lienhard	Switzerland	s.t.
106	Colin Joyce	Rally-UHC	1' 01''
107	Enrico Battaglin	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
108	Valerio Agnoli	Bahrain-Merida	1' 02''
109	Alexander Kristoff	UAE-Team Emirates	1' 03''
110	Andreas Schillinger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
111	Héctor Carretero	Movistar	1' 04''
112	Svein Tuft	Rally-UHC	s.t.
113	Taco van der Hoorn	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
114	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
115	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	1' 05''
116	Simon Pellaud	Switzerland	s.t.
117	Yuriy Natarov	Astana	1' 06''
118	Antonio Nibali	Bahrain-Merida	1' 07''
119	Willie Smit	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
120	Michael Mørkøv	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
121	Ryan Anderson	Rally-UHC	1' 08''
122	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	1' 09''
123	Robert Stannard	Mitchelton-Scott	1' 11''
124	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	1' 12''
125	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
126	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
127	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	1' 14''
128	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Jumbo-Visma	1' 15''
129	Pim Ligthart	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
130	Sven Erik Bystrøm	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
131	Fabien Grellier	Total Direct Energie	1' 16''
132	Jürgen Roelandts	Movistar	s.t.
133	Carlos Barbero	Movistar	1' 17''
134	Merhawi Kudus	Astana	1' 19''
135	Andrea Garosio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
136	Jelle Vanendert	Lotto-Soudal	1' 21''
137	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
138	Kenny Elissonde	Team INEOS	1' 24''
139	Floris De Tier	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
140	Enzo Wouters	Lotto-Soudal	1' 27''
141	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	1' 28''
142	Daniel Hoelgård	Groupama-FDJ	1' 31''
143	Manuele Mori	UAE-Team Emirates	1' 34''
144	Luke Rowe	Team INEOS	1' 35''
145	Kiel Reijnen	Trek-Segafredo	1' 38''
146	Lilian Calmejane	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
147	Matteo Badilatti	Switzerland	1' 46''