2011 Tour de Romandie

The 2011 Tour de Romandie was the 65th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race and the 13th event of the 2011 UCI World Tour. 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. The race was won by BMC Racing Team rider Cadel Evans, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey for the second time – 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. Evans' winning margin over runner-up Tony Martin was 18 seconds, and Astana's Alexander Vinokourov completed the podium, 19 seconds down on Evans. 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. == Pre-race favourites == Pre-race favourites included the 2006 winner Cadel Evans, 2009 winner Roman Kreuziger, and the 2010 winner Simon Špilak. == Teams == Twenty teams participated in the race. == Stages == === Prologue === 26 April – Martigny, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi), individual time trial (ITT) === Stage 1 === 27 April 2011 – Martigny to Leysin, 169.3 kilometres (105.2 mi) === Stage 2 === 28 April 2011 – Romont, 168.3 kilometres (104.6 mi) === Stage 3 === 29 April 2011 – Thierrens to Neuchâtel, 166.5 kilometres (103.5 mi) === Stage 4 === 30 April 2011 – Aubonne to Bougy-Villars, 20.1 kilometres (12.5 mi), individual time trial (ITT) === Stage 5 === 1 May 2011 – Champagne to Geneva, 164.6 kilometres (102.3 mi) == Classification leadership == == Classification standings == === General classification === === Mountains classification === === Young rider classification === === Team classification === == References ==