2012 Tour de Romandie

2012 UCI World Tour, race 14 of 28
Race details
Dates24–29 April 2012
Stages5 + Prologue[1]
Distance695.1 km (431.9 mi)
Winning time18h 05' 40"
Results
Winner  Bradley Wiggins (GBR) (Team Sky)
  Second  Andrew Talansky (USA) (Garmin–Barracuda)
  Third  Rui Costa (POR) (Movistar Team)
Mountains  Petr Ignatenko (RUS) (Team Katusha)
Youth  Andrew Talansky (USA) (Garmin–Barracuda)
Sprints  Petr Ignatenko (RUS) (Team Katusha)
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The 2012 Tour de Romandie was the 66th running of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race. It started on 24 April in Lausanne and ended on 29 April in Crans-Montana and consisted of six stages, including a race-commencing prologue stage and a race-concluding individual time trial. It was the 14th race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.

The race was won by Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky,[2] after winning two stages including the final stage time trial, to take the general classification on the final day. Wiggins won the general classification by 12 seconds over runner-up Andrew Talansky of Garmin–Barracuda,[3] who finished second to Wiggins in the final stage; Talansky also won the young rider classification title. Third place was taken by Movistar Team's Rui Costa after he also put in a strong performance in the time trial,[4] and gained sufficient time to move up from ninth overnight.

In the race's other classifications, Petr Ignatenko of Team Katusha won both the green jersey for the most points gained in intermediate sprints, and the pink jersey for the King of the Mountains classification,[5] while Team Sky finished at the head of the teams classification,[6] with three of the squad's riders – Wiggins, Richie Porte and Michael Rogers – finishing in the overall top five.[7]

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  2. ^ "Wiggins wins Tour de Romandie". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Bradley Wiggins wins six-day Tour de Romandie". ESPN. Associated Press. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  4. ^ "Costa climbs to podium in final ITT". Movistar Team. Movistar. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  5. ^ ""Tour de Romandie": Spilak closed in 8th position". Team Katusha. Katusha Management SA. 29 April 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Bradley Wiggins wins Tour de Romandie for Team Sky". BBC Sport. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Wiggins crowned in Romandie". Team Sky. BSkyB. 29 April 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.