2011 Tour de Romandie

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2011 UCI World Tour, race 13 of 27
Map of the race
Race details
Dates	26 April – 1 May 2011
Stages	5 + Prologue
Distance	694.5 km (431.5 mi)
Winning time	16h 51' 49
Results
Winner  Cadel Evans (AUS) (BMC Racing Team)   Second  Tony Martin (GER) (HTC–Highroad)   Third  Alexander Vinokourov (KAZ) (Astana) Mountains  Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN) (Saxo Bank–SunGard) Youth  Andrew Talansky (USA) (Garmin–Cervélo) Sprints  Matthias Brändle (AUT) (Geox–TMC)   Team Garmin–Cervélo
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The 2011 Tour de Romandie was the 65th running of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race. It started on 26 April in Martigny and ended on 1 May in Geneva and consisted of six stages, including a race-commencing prologue stage and also a penultimate day individual time trial. It was the 13th race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.

The race was won by BMC Racing Team rider Cadel Evans, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey for the second time^[1] – having previously won the race in 2006 – with an eighth-place finish on the penultimate time trial stage, and held his advantage to the end of the race.^[2] Evans' winning margin over runner-up Tony Martin was 18 seconds,^[2] and Astana's Alexander Vinokourov completed the podium, 19 seconds down on Evans.^[2]

In the race's other classifications, Saxo Bank–SunGard rider Chris Anker Sørensen won the King of the Mountains classification, Matthias Brändle of Geox–TMC won the green jersey for the sprints classification, Garmin–Cervélo's Andrew Talansky won the young rider classification, with Garmin–Cervélo also finishing at the head of the teams classification.