Pogačar seals Tour de Romandie title with fourth stage win

On the final stage of the Tour de Romandie, Tadej Pogačar surfed the efforts of his rivals and their teams, before out-kicking Florian Lipowitz to the Leysin summit to claim his fourth stage win of the week.

On the last day of the WorldTour stage race, several riders were determined to make a go of it from the breakaway, and break the stage-win stranglehold imposed by Pogačar and Dorian Godon (prologue and stage 2). However, the gap held by the eight-man move was never enough to hold all the way, and Finn Fisher-Black was the last man reeled in about halfway up the finishing climb.

Bahrain Victorious was determined to position Lenny Martinez for a grand finale, and Lipowitz appeared optimistic after a strong performance the previous day, but the German's accelerations never troubled the race leader, and the stage came down to a slow-motion sprint. In the end, Pogačar made light work of it and put three seconds into Lipowitz at the line, sealing overall victory by 42 seconds. Lipowitz's second-consecutive runner-up finish kept him comfortably second overall, while Martinez successfully retained the third step of the GC podium.

[race_result id=12 stage_id=90118 count=5 gc=0 year=2026]

[race_result id=12 stage_id=90118 count=5 gc=5 year=2026]