2026 Tour de Romandie Stage 4 Results & Recap
Stage 4 of the 2026 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
Tadej Pogačar (UAD) soloed to victory on the "queen" stage after two accelerations on the final climb of the Jaunpass carried him clear of his GC rivals. After topping the pass with a lead of 20 seconds on Florian Lipowitz (RBH), the world champion maintained most of that advantage on the descent into Charmey, where he finished 16 seconds ahead of the German and boosted his GC lead to 35 seconds ahead of the race's final day.
The action was almost ceaseless from start to finish. After an early break formed, Red Bull closed down most of the advantage it had eked out so that Primož Roglič could bridge to it from the peloton. Valentin Paret-Peintre (SOQ) and Marco Brenner (TUD) accompanied Roglič, making nine riders up front.
Brenner's job was to help teammate Roland Thalmann (TUD) to take maximum points on the 2nd- and 1st-cat climbs that opened the stage, a task he carried out perfectly by riding over each pass in second place behind Thalmann to prevent the other breakaways picking up a siginficant number of KoM points. Job done, Brenner dropped back to the peloton and abandoned the race soon after.
After those early climbs, six riders remained up front, Maxime Decomble (FDJ), Louis Vervaeke (SOQ) and Michael Leonard (EFE) in the company of Roglič, Paret-Peintre and Thalmann. They opened a lead of 2'50" before UAE decided they'd got enough leeway.
That gap was halved on the third climb, where Decomble and Thalmann were dropped. At the start of the final ascent, only Roglič and Paret-Peintre remained up front, their lead just 1 minute.
On the steepest part of the Jaunpass, with the breakaways now just 15 seconds ahead, Pogačar attacked. Lenny Martinez (TBV) tried to follow, tracked by Jørgen Nordhagen and Lipowitz, and this quartet quickly flashed past Roglič and Paret-Peintre. Lipowitz, though, was the only one of the three chasers who managed to bridge the gap to the world champion.
Nearing the top of the climb, Pogačar attacked again, and this time Lipowitz couldn't respond. Riding into a headwind on the descent into the finish, the pair were equally matched, while the gap they opened up on the chasers underlined the edge they had on the rest of the field.
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