Tour de Suisse 2023: Evenepoel honours Mäder with solo victory

Remco Evenepoel - Tour de Suisse 2023: Evenepoel honours Mäder with solo victoryfoto: Cor VosThe timing for GC is taken with 25 kilometres to go. Remco Evenepoel could have taken it easy, but no. The World Champion strikes with 17 kilometres to go and he solos to triumph. Matthias Skjelmose stays in the GC lead. (Slideshow route/profile)

Results 7th stage 2023 Tour de Suisse

1. Remco Evenepoel (bel)
2. Wout van Aert (bel)
3. Bryan Coquard (fra)
4. Lorrenzo Manzin (fra)
5. Alex Aranburu (spa)
6. Kevin Vermaerke (bel)
7. Romain Grégoire (fra)
8. Jonas Koch (ger)
9. Gonzalo Serrano (spa)
10. Matthew Dinham (aus)

GC after stage 7
1. Mattias Skjelmose (den)
2. Felix Gall (aut) + 0.08
3. Juan Ayuso (spa) + 0.18
4. Remco Evenepoel (bel) + 0.46
5. Wilco Kelderman (nld) + 1.16
6. Romain Bardet (fra) + 1.29
7. Rigoberto Uran (col) + 1.54
8. Cian Uijtdebroeks (bel) + 1.57
9. Dylan Teuns (bel) + 3.00
10. Harold Tejada (col) + 3.48

Race report
The race starts without Bahrain Victorious, Tudor and Intermarché-Circus-Wanty. Those teams pulled out off the Tour de Suisse after Gino Mäder’s passing. Another 17 riders, including Mäder’s compatriots Michael Schär, Stefan Küng, Marc Hirschi and Mauro Schmid, pulled out of the race as well.

The peloton remains bunched for the entire day until the times for the GC are taken with 25 kilometres to.

Powless attacks in the only remaining climb. He is brought back before Evenepoel goes clear with 17.5 kilometres to go. The World Champion opens up a 50 seconds gap and takes the win in honour of Mäder.

Another interesting read: route 7th stage Tour de Suisse 2023.

Tour de Suisse 2023 stage 7: route, profile, more

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Remco Evenepoel


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