2025 Tour de Romandie Stage 5 Results & Recap
Stage 5 of the 2025 Tour de Romandie is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Stage 5 of the 2025 Tour de Romandie was a 17.1km individual time trial around Geneva, largely flat but featuring one steady rise in the second half. The route included a tricky opening stretch out of the city — a short, narrow, cobbled ramp of 300 metres at 7.8% — before opening out onto flat, straight roads hugging the shoreline of Lake Geneva. The riders then tackled a 1.5km climb at 5% that took them away from the lake, followed by a gentle drag to the intermediate check at 11.9km, before dropping back down to the waterfront for the run to the finish.
Among the early starters, Danish time trial specialist Johan Price-Pejtersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) set the initial benchmark time of 21:11, though with so many elite time trialists among the GC riders still to come, his time was always under threat.
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), the reigning world and Olympic time trial champion, delivered a dominant performance to claim the stage win. At the intermediate check after 11.9km, Evenepoel was already leading, finishing in a time of 20:33. João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) came in second at 11 seconds back, with Alberto Bettiol third at 18 seconds. Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) was fourth and Aleksandr Vlasov fifth.
The real drama of the day, however, played out in the general classification. Almeida had started the stage three seconds behind overnight race leader Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), and his second-place finish in the time trial was more than enough to overhaul the Frenchman. Almeida beat Martinez by 30 seconds on the day, seizing the overall victory. Martinez finished 13th on the stage, which left him second overall.
The final GC podium saw Almeida take the win, with Martinez in second at 26 seconds and Jay Vine third at 41 seconds. Lorenzo Fortunato finished fourth overall, with Evenepoel fifth despite his stage win — the Belgian's losses in the mountains across the preceding stages proving too much to overcome in a single time trial.
It was a fitting end to an entertaining race: Evenepoel reminding the world of his supremacy against the clock, while Almeida's quiet consistency across the week ultimately proved the decisive factor in the overall battle.
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