2024 Tour de Suisse Stage 5 Results & Recap
Stage 5 of the 2024 Tour de Suisse is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Yates wins stage 5
Adam Yates finished off UAE Emirates' power play with a victory in the mountain village of Carì today. His teammate João Almeida came home in second place, while Egan Bernal emerged as the best of the rest. These finishing positions correspond to their places in the general classification.
The route climbed from the start. Axel Laurance, Simon Gugliemi, Alexey Lutsenko, Simone Velasco, Ben Zwiehoff, Johan Price Pejtersen, Lawson Craddock, and Damien Howson joined forces and quickly established a lead of one minute. However, as other riders realized they also wanted to join, the gap started to shrink. Gugliemi, Price Pejtersen, and Craddock were dropped, while Nans Peters and Louis Vervaeke took their places on the second climb of the day.
The dust had not settled yet, and the peloton kept chasing until Lutsenko was the only remaining leader. The Kazakh was caught just after the summit by a group of around 20 riders.
Lutsenko was determined, though, and he went again, this time with Einer Rubio, Stephen Williams, and – once again – Nans Peters. Johannes Staune-Mittet rejoined them on the valley floor, and the five opened up a lead of 2 minutes.
Rubio was the last attacker to be reeled in early on the finishing climb.
As João Almeida upped the pace in the final six kilometres, Mattias Skjelmose, Wilco Kelderman, and Cian Uijtdebroeks were the first riders to get dropped. Tom Pidcock, Oscar Onley, and Felix Gall follow suit. And Almeida kept pushing…
Five riders remained at the front in the last two kilometres: yellow jersey Adam Yates, Egan Bernal, Enric Mas, Matthew Riccitello, and Almeida himself.
Yates took over inside the final 1.7 kilometres. Bernal and Mas followed his move, but the Colombian cracked a little later. The Briton was alone in the lead with 900 metres left.
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