2007 Tour de Romandie

The 2007 Tour de Romandie served as the 59th edition of this event now held on the 2007 UCI ProTour. The stage race was held from May 1 through May 6, 2007 in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. The race winner was Thomas Dekker of Rabobank.

2007 UCI ProTour, race 11 of 26
Race details
Dates	1–6 May
Stages	5 + Prologue
Distance	666.5 km (414.1 mi)
Winning time	17h 27' 02"
Results
Winner Thomas Dekker (NED) (Rabobank)   Second Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) (Astana)   Third Andrey Kashechkin (KAZ) (Astana) Points Thomas Dekker (NED) (Rabobank) Mountains Laurent Brochard (FRA) (Bouygues Télécom) Sprints Patrick Calcagni (SUI) (Liquigas)

Final standings

General classification

	Cyclist	Team	Time	UCI ProTour Points
1	Thomas Dekker	Rabobank	17h 27' 02"	50
2	Paolo Savoldelli	Astana	+ 11"	40
3	Andrey Kashechkin	Astana	+ 34"	35
4	Cadel Evans	Predictor–Lotto	+ 43"	30
5	Chris Horner	Predictor–Lotto	+ 46"	25
6	Roman Kreuziger	Liquigas	+ 1' 35"	20
7	Igor Antón	Euskaltel–Euskadi	+ 1' 51"	15
8	Andy Schleck	Team CSC	+ 1' 53"	10
9	Sylwester Szmyd	Lampre–Fondital	+ 1' 55"	5
10	Janez Brajkovič	Discovery Channel	+ 2' 00"	2

• 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

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1	Laurent Brochard	Bouygues Télécom	64 pts.
2	Chris Anker Sørensen	Team CSC	42 pts.
3	Eros Capecchi	Liquigas	30 pts.

Points classification

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1	Thomas Dekker	Rabobank	43 pts.
2	Paolo Savoldelli	Astana	35 pts.
3	Markus Fothen	Gerolsteiner	32 pts.

Sprints classification

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1	Patrick Calcagni	Liquigas	10 pts.
2	László Bodrogi	Crédit Agricole	9 pts.
3	Sandy Casar	Française des Jeux	7 pts.

Stages

Prologue – 2007-05-01, Fribourg, 3.5 km ITT

Italian Paolo Savoldelli (Astana) 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).

	Rider	Country	Team	Time	UCI ProTour Points
1	Paolo Savoldelli	Italy	Astana	4' 35"	3 pts.
2	Roman Kreuziger	Czech Republic	Liquigas	+ 5"	2 pts.
3	Chris Horner	United States	Predictor–Lotto	+ 7"	1 pt.

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

Germany's hope for the future Markus Fothen of Gerolsteiner 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.

	Rider	Country	Team	Time	UCI ProTour points
1	Markus Fothen	Germany	Gerolsteiner	4h 08' 58"	3 pts.
2	Francisco Pérez	Spain	Caisse d'Epargne	s.t.	2 pts.
3	Joaquim Rodríguez	Spain	Caisse d'Epargne	s.t.	1 pt.

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

The only real sprinter stage of this edition of the Tour de Romandie was an easy win for Australian rider Robbie McEwen. The Predictor–Lotto rider held off Borut Božič with ease.

	Rider	Country	Team	Time	UCI ProTour Points
1	Robbie McEwen	Australia	Predictor–Lotto	4h 01' 14"	3 pts.
2	Borut Božič	Slovenia	Team L.P.R.	s.t.	N/A
3	Enrico Gasparotto	Italy	Liquigas	s.t.	1 pt.

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

Although the course was really difficult, the favourites did not feel like attacking today. And thus, the escapees got their shot at winning a stage. After a win in the Tirreno Adriatico Lampre–Fondital cyclist Matteo Bono added another nice win to his palmares. He held of Japan's Beppu in the sprint. Beppu did score the first Pro Tour points ever for Japan though.

	Rider	Country	Team	Time	UCI ProTour Points
1	Matteo Bono	Italy	Lampre–Fondital	4h 04' 15"	3 pts.
2	Fumiyuki Beppu	Japan	Discovery Channel	s.t.	2 pts.
3	Marco Pinotti	Italy	T-Mobile Team	+ 2"	1 pt.

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

A long break by Lampre–Fondital rider Gorazd Štangelj finished with 8 kilometers to go. By then, Astana'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 Predictor–Lotto cyclist Chris Horner attacked with 4 kilometers to go. Dekker replied instantly and with much pain and suffering also Frenchman John Gadret managed to follow. The trio caught up with Anton, who was happy he could sit in last wheel and follow. Although Dekker made the strongest impression and tried to get away twice, it was Anton who took the win. Dekker disputed the win due to a seemingly irregular sprint by Anton. But his protest was denied.

	Rider	Country	Team	Time	UCI ProTour points
1	Igor Antón	Spain	Euskaltel–Euskadi	4h 36' 55"	3 pts.
2	Thomas Dekker	Netherlands	Rabobank	s.t.	2 pts.
3	Chris Horner	United States	Predictor–Lotto	s.t.	1 pt.

Stage 5 – 2007-05-06, Lausanne, 20 km 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 Astana 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.

	Rider	Country	Team	Time	UCI ProTour points
1	Thomas Dekker	Netherlands	Rabobank	26' 36"	3 pts.
2	Paolo Savoldelli	Italy	Astana	+ 5"	2 pts.
3	Andrey Kashechkin	Kazakhstan	Astana	+ 12"	1 pt.

The following UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were named to the 2007 Tour de Romandie:

Nation	UCI Code	Team Name
	A2R	AG2R Prévoyance
	AST	Astana
	BTL	Bouygues Télécom
	COF	Cofidis
	C.A	Crédit Agricole
	CSC	Team CSC
	DSC	Discovery Channel
	EUS	Euskaltel–Euskadi
	FDJ	Française des Jeux
	GCE	Caisse d'Epargne
	GST	Gerolsteiner
	LAM	Lampre–Fondital
	LIQ	Liquigas
	LPR	Team L.P.R.
	PRL	Predictor–Lotto
	QSI	Quick-Step–Innergetic
	RAB	Rabobank
	SDV	Saunier Duval–Prodir
	TMO	T-Mobile Team
	UNI	Unibet.com

Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race

As of May 6, 2007, after the Tour de Romandie

While the top 10 places remained the same, race winner Thomas Dekker scored his first UCI ProTour points and moved into 11th place. Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen gained three points to jump from 18th to 15th place. Paolo Savoldelli moves into 18th place thanks to the 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie.

Rank	Previous Rank	Name	Nationality	Team	Points
1	1	Davide Rebellin	Italy	Gerolsteiner	157
2	2	Alejandro Valverde	Spain	Caisse d'Epargne	107
3	3	Danilo Di Luca	Italy	Liquigas	100
4	4	Óscar Freire	Spain	Rabobank	82
5	5	Stuart O'Grady	Australia	Team CSC	79
6	6	Stefan Schumacher	Germany	Gerolsteiner	75
7	7	Fränk Schleck	Luxembourg	Team CSC	63
8	8	Juan José Cobo	Spain	Saunier Duval–Prodir	62
9	9	Alberto Contador	Spain	Discovery Channel	58
10	10	Tom Boonen	Belgium	Quick-Step–Innergetic	57
11	–	Thomas Dekker	Netherlands	Rabobank	55
12	11	Andreas Klöden	Germany	Astana	53
13	12	Alessandro Ballan	Italy	Lampre–Fondital	50
14	13	Matthias Kessler	Germany	Astana	50
15	18	Robbie McEwen	Australia	Predictor–Lotto	47

• 93 riders (up from 82 riders) have scored at least one point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.

External links

• Official site (French)