Nicolas Roche below expectations during big climbing test at Tour de Romandie

Nicolas Roche finishes yesterday's stage 3 at the Tour de Romandie, nearly six minutes after Katusha's Simon Spilak beat Chris Froome (Team Sky) for the stage win and also took the leader's jersey after a tough stage featuring four categorised climbs.

 

 

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April 29th to May 4th: Tour de Romandie

May 2nd: Stage 3, Le Bouveret to Aigle (180km)

1 Simon   Spilak (Slo) Team Katusha 5:09:23
2 Christopher   Froome (GBr) Team Sky
3 Rui   Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 0:00:57
4 Jakob   Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
5 Beñat   Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
6 Mathias   Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling
7 Vincenzo   Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
8 Jesus   Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:41
9 Thibaut   Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr
10 Andrew   Talansky (USA) Garmin Sharp
11 Marcel   Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling
12 Jon   Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team
13 Rafal   Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:02:00
14 Sébastien   Reichenbach (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:02:35
15 Riccardo   Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing 0:02:36
16 Maxime   Monfort (Bel) Lotto Belisol 0:03:25
17 Laurens   ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team
18 Andre   Fernando S Martins Cardoso (Por) Garmin Sharp
19 Darwin   Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team
20 Rigoberto   Uran (Col) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team
21 Jan   Bakelants (Bel) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:04:58
22 Nicolas   Roche (Irl) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:05:43
23 Thomas   Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar
24 Rafael   Valls Ferri (Spa) Lampre-Merida 0:07:34
25 Egor   Silin (Rus) Team Katusha

 

 

General Classification

1 Simon   Spilak (Slo) Team Katusha 11:39:25
2 Christopher   Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:01
3 Rui   Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 0:01:02
4 Vincenzo   Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:01:06
5 Mathias   Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:01:10
6 Beñat   Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:13
7 Jakob   Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:14
8 Jesus   Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:40
9 Jon   Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:48
10 Andrew   Talansky (USA) Garmin Sharp 0:01:50
11 Thibaut   Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:01:57
12 Rafal   Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:02:18
13 Marcel   Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:02:46
14 Riccardo   Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing 0:03:01
15 Sébastien   Reichenbach (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:03:05
16 Rigoberto   Uran (Col) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:03:36
17 Maxime   Monfort (Bel) Lotto Belisol 0:03:40
18 Laurens   ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 0:03:54
19 Andre   Fernando S Martins Cardoso (Por) Garmin Sharp 0:04:09
20 Darwin   Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 0:04:16
21 Nicolas   Roche (Irl) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:06:00
22 Thomas   Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 0:06:07
23 Jan   Bakelants (Bel) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:06:13
24 Yury   Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:07:50
25 Egor   Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:07:56