The Tour de Suisse took place this Sunday in Chablais, in a time trial between Aigle and Villars-sur-Ollon. It was the Portuguese Joao Almeida who won this final stage, while his teammate from the UAE team Adam Yates secured the yellow jersey.
Adam Yates (UAE) won the 87th edition of the Tour de Suisse on Sunday, a year after his victory in the Tour de Romandie. He kept his yellow jersey after the final time trial in Chablais, between Aigle and Villars-sur-Ollon, won by his teammate Joao Almeida.
The Briton, who was 31 seconds ahead of the Portuguese before this eighth and final stage of the Swiss loop, only conceded nine to his teammate. Outgoing winner, Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl) finished third in this time, enough to dislodge Egan Bernal (Ineos) in third place in the general classification.
The two riders from the UAE team thus signed a fourth consecutive double in this Tour de Suisse. Yates won the 5th and 7th stages ahead of Almeida, who finished ahead of him in the 6th and 8th stages.
Best Swiss, Matteo Badilatti (Q36.5) completed this final time trial in 21st place, 2’20” behind the Portuguese winner. The Grisons rider retained his 15th place in the final general classification.
The Valaisans Antoine Debons and Valentin Darbellay, both members of the Italian Corratec team, were ranked 120th and 97th respectively. The second city, 103rd overall, draws a positive conclusion from his week on the Tour de Suisse.
Demi Vollering in force
Earlier on Sunday, Demi Vollering did it again on the Women’s Tour. After winning the first stage, the Dutchwoman also won the 15.7 km hill time trial, on the same course as the men.
Vollering was ahead of Italian Elisa Longo Borghini by 18 seconds and New Zealander Kim Cadzow by 26 seconds. Like the day before, where she had ridden alone for 50 km and had only been caught in the penultimate kilometer, Elise Chabbey finished as the best Swiss woman. The 31-year-old from Geneva, however, paid off for the efforts made the day before and lost nearly 3’30 on Vollering to fall to 17th place.
Overall, Vollering leads with 1’26 ahead of Longo Borghini. Chabbey lost seven places and finds himself 10th at 4’13. The third stage on Monday will be done over 125.6 km between Vevey and Champagne.
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