The 2007 Tour de Romandie was the 61st edition of the Tour de Romandie and the 11th event of the 2007 UCI ProTour. The race was held from 1 to 6 May in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. The race winner was Thomas Dekker of .
Teams Twenty-one teams participated in the race.
Stages Prologue 1 May — Fribourg, (ITT)
Italian Paolo Savoldelli () repeats his win in last year's prologue with a time of 4 minutes, 35 seconds over the 3.5 kilometre course at .
Stage 1 2 May – Granges-Paccot to La Chaux de Fonds,
Germany's hope for the future, Markus Fothen of , took the win after he escaped in the finale together with Francisco Pérez. Fothen beat him in a classical sprint-a-deux. The peloton bunch sprint was just behind the two leaders.
Stage 2 3 May – La Chaux de Fonds to Lucens,
The only real sprinter stage of this edition of the Tour de Romandie was an easy win for Australian rider Robbie McEwen. The rider held off Borut Božič with ease.
Stage 3 4 May – Moudon to Charmey,
Although the course was difficult, the favourites did not perform as expected. And thus, the escapees got their shot at winning a stage. After a stage win in the Tirreno–Adriatico, cyclist Matteo Bono added another nice win to his palmares. He held off Japan's Fumiyuki Beppu in the sprint. Beppu did score the first Pro Tour points ever for Japan.
Stage 4 5 May – Charmey to Pas de Morgins,
A long break by rider Gorazd Štangelj finished with 8 kilometres to go. By then, 's Eddy Mazzoleni upped the pace. He thinned out the group until there were about 15 riders left. Attacks followed by José Ángel Gómez Marchante and Sylwester Szmyd. But the only real successful attack was by Spaniard Igor Antón. Dutch rider Thomas Dekker saw the danger and took over from Mazzoleni. As a result, only five riders could follow. American cyclist Chris Horner attacked with 4 kilometres to go. Dekker replied instantly and with much pain and suffering also Frenchman John Gadret managed to follow. The trio caught up with Antón, who was happy to sit in last wheel and follow. Although Dekker made the strongest impression and tried to get away twice, it was Antón who took the win. Dekker disputed the win due to a seemingly irregular sprint by Antón. But his protest was denied.
Stage 5 6 May – Lausanne, ITT
In the finishing time trial around Lausanne, Thomas Dekker didn't allow his competitors to have any hopes of winning the Tour de Romandie. Only riders Paolo Savoldelli and Andrey Kashechkin stayed somewhat in the vicinity of Dekker. The young Dutch hope of winning the Tour de France in the future did a triple strike by winning the time trial, the final general classification and the points classification.
Classification standings
General classification
Mountains classification
Points classification
Sprints classification
Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings As of 6 May after the Tour de Romandie.Updated Rankings 2007-05-06; UCI; Accessed 2007-05-06
While the top 10 places remained the same, race winner Thomas Dekker scored his first UCI ProTour points and moved into 11th place. Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen gained three points to jump from 18th to 15th place. Paolo Savoldelli moved into 18th place thanks to the 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie.
RankPreviousRankNameNationalityTeamPoints1 1Davide Rebellin15722Alejandro Valverde10733Danilo Di Luca10044Óscar Freire8255Stuart O'Grady7966Stefan Schumacher7577 Fränk Schleck 6388Juan José Cobo6299 Alberto Contador 581010Tom Boonen5711 –Thomas Dekker551211Andreas Klöden531312Alessandro Ballan5014 13 Matthias Kessler 501518Robbie McEwen47
93 riders (up from 82 riders) have scored at least one point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.
References
External links Official site (French)