Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo) sealed the overall title at the 2018 Tour de Romandie as Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe) sprinted to the stage 5 win.
At the end of Sunday’s 182-kilometer (113-mile) ride into Geneva, Ackermann got a perfect lead round the final corner. He eased to the stage win over Michael Morkov. Roberto Ferrari took the third spot.
“I think we are all really happy with this win. With the whole team I think that we showed we are really strong, we have really strong guys and it was a pleasure to work with them and to win in the end,” said Roglic.
“Every day was a really hard day. I think that the prologue helped to decide things and then the next day was hard, and of course, the mountain time trial and yesterday completed the racing here in the Tour of Romandie. “I was optimistic before [the time trial]. I was really strong before and it was nice to see that I could do a good job.”
Tour de Romandie 2018 – stage 5 results (Mont-sur-Rolle – Genève):
| 1 | Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe) | 4:09:51 |
| 2 | Michael Morkov (Quick-Step Floors) | ,, |
| 3 | Roberto Ferrari (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
| 4 | Timothy Dupont (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) | ,, |
| 5 | Rudiger Selig (Bora-hansgrohe) | ,, |
| 6 | Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Merida) | ,, |
| 7 | Benjamin Thomas (Groupama-FDJ) | ,, |
| 8 | Jens Keukeleire (Lotto Soudal) | ,, |
| 9 | Michael Albasini (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 10 | Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
Final general classification:
| 1 | Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo) | 17:09:00 |
| 2 | Egan Bernal (Team Sky) | +08” |
| 3 | Richie Porte (BMC) | +35” |
| 4 | Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) | +01’16” |
| 5 | Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates) | +01’23” |
| 6 | Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) | +02’32” |
| 7 | Rohan Dennis (BMC) | +02’49” |
| 8 | Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
| 9 | Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-hansgrohe) | +03’09” |
| 10 | Daniel Martin (UAE Team Emirates) | +03’12” |
