The 2007

Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It ...

served as the 59th edition of this event now held on the

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. The stage race was held from May 1 through May 6, 2007 in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as

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. The race winner was Thomas Dekker of .

Final standings

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* UCI ProTour points are not awarded to riders on UCI Continental Team that finish in the top-10 overall or a top-3 stage finish.

Mountains classification

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Sprints classification

Stages

Prologue – 2007-05-01,
Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () ...
, 3.5 km ITT

Italian

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() repeats his win in last year's prologue with a time of 4 minutes, 35 seconds over the 3.5 kilometer course at 45.82 km/h (28.5 mph).

Stage 1 – 2007-05-02,
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– La Chaux de Fonds, 157 km

Germany's hope for the future

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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 – 2007-05-03, La Chaux de Fonds – Lucens, 167 km

The only real sprinter stage of this edition of the

was an easy win for

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rider

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. The rider held off Borut Božič with ease.

Stage 3 – 2007-05-04, Moudon –
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, 163 km

Although the course was really difficult, the favourites did not feel like attacking today. And thus, the escapees got their shot at winning a stage. After a win in the Tirreno Adriatico cyclist Matteo Bono added another nice win to his palmares. He held of Japan's

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in the sprint. Beppu did score the first Pro Tour points ever for Japan though.

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

A long break by rider

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finished with 8 kilometers to go. By then, 's Eddy Mazzoleni upped the pace. He thinned out the group until there were about 15 riders left. Attacks followed by José Ángel Gómez Marchante and

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. But the only real successful attack was by Spaniard

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. Dutch rider Thomas Dekker saw the danger and took over from Mazzoleni. As a result, only five riders could follow. American cyclist

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attacked with 4 kilometers to go. Dekker replied instantly and with much pain and suffering also Frenchman John Gadret managed to follow. The trio caught up with Anton, who was happy he could sit in last wheel and follow. Although Dekker made the strongest impression and tried to get away twice, it was Anton who took the win. Dekker disputed the win due to a seemingly irregular sprint by Anton. But his protest was denied.

Stage 5 – 2007-05-06,
Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...
, 20 km ITT

In the finishing

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around

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

Thomas Dekker didn't allow his competitors to have any hopes of winning the

. Only riders

and Andrey Kashechkin stayed somewhat in the vicinity of Dekker. The young Dutch hope of winning the

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in the future did a triple strike by winning the time trial, the final general classification and the points classification. The following UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were named to the 2007 Tour de Romandie:

Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race

As of May 6, 2007, after the Tour de RomandieUpdated 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 moves into 18th place thanks to the 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie. * 93 riders (up from 82 riders) have scored at least one point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.

References

External links

Official site (French)
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