Josef Cerny was a shock winner of the quick, flat prologue of the Tour of Romandie on Tuesday raced on the shores of Lake Lehman.
World champion Tobias Foss was second and Remi Cavagna third in the five-stage race that has two hilly levels, one mountainous and one lengthy particular person time-trial remaining.
Surrounded by the beautiful snowcapped Alps which await the peloton on Thursday’s Queen stage, Cerny accomplished the 6.8km course in 7min 25sec.
“That was really close, I’m a very happy man. I worked hard for this, look at the start list. It was painful,” stated the Czech rider.
Of the eventual general contenders for the title, Ethan Hayter was 5 seconds off the tempo and UAE’s nice hope for the longer term, Juan Ayuso, was at 12sec, the 20-year-old Spaniard targetting triumph on the 2023 Vuelta.
Adam and Simon Yates have been divided by a single second with the UAE man at 19 and the Jayco Alula rider 20sec off the tempo.
Egan Bernal misplaced 25sec on the day with the slender Colombian primed to point out in the Alps on Thursday.
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