Highlights
Report
Geraint Thomas led home a superb INEOS Grenadiers 1-2 at Tour de Romandie as Richie Porte moved up to second with an impressive time trial performance on the final stage
Thomas put in a measured ride in Fribourg to overhaul leader Mike Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) and secure the overall victory from his teammate by 33 seconds.
Starting the day in sixth, Porte put in a strong performance in changeable conditions to move up to second overall and secure back-to-back World Tour stage race second places.
Thomas finished third on the final stage, not pushing for the stage win, knowing that his aim was to overturn a 11 second gap to race leader Woods. The Welshman looked on course to achieve this at the intermediate check point, where he led the field.
However, with patches of rain across the course, the Welsh rider carefully navigated the second half of the stage, finishing third to seal overall victory.
Rohan Dennis and Filippo Ganna were ninth and 10th respectively to make it four Grenadiers in the top 10, which helped secure the best team classification.
Results
Stage
| 1 | Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep | 0:21:54 |
| 2 | Stefan Bissegger (Swi) EF Education-Nippo | 0:00:06 |
| 3 | Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers | 0:00:17 |
| 4 | Ilan Van Wilder (Bel) Team DSM | 0:00:18 |
| 5 | Richie Porte (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers | 0:00:20 |
| 6 | Fausto Masnada (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep | 0:00:21 |
| 7 | Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep | 0:00:29 |
| 8 | Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:00:34 |
| 9 | Rohan Dennis (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers | 0:00:35 |
| 10 | Filippo Ganna (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers | 0:00:37 |
General Classification
| 1 | Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers | 17:59:57 |
| 2 | Richie Porte (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers | 0:00:28 |
| 3 | Fausto Masnada (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep | 0:00:38 |
| 4 | Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:00:39 |
| 5 | Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-up Nation | 0:00:43 |
| 6 | Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team | 0:00:45 |
| 7 | Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech | 0:01:08 |
| 8 | Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Team BikeExchange | 0:01:22 |
| 9 | Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain Victorious | 0:01:30 |
| 10 | Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe | 0:02:20 |
