Tour de Romandie: BORA one-two as Higuita wins queen stage sprint

The queen stage of the Tour de Romandie has been taken to a reduced bunch sprint, as Jumbo-Visma managed to control the lead of Rohan Dennis, and Sergio Higuita won the sprint to the line for BORA - hansgrohe.

The breakaway consisted of 12 riders: Ion Izagirre, Quinten Hermans, Toms Skujins, Harm Vanhoucke, Óscar Rodríguez, Yannis Voisard, Raúl García Pierna, Marco Brenner, Filippo Colombo, Ivo Oliveira, James Knox and Nils Brun. The group's gap had a maximum of 4:30 minutes, whilst the group started splitting when it got into the mountains.

Izagirre, Skujins, Rodríguez, Vanhoucke and Knox entered the final climb with 2:30 minutes of lead, and slowly the two Spaniard dropped their companions, but saw their gap shortened by the chasing peloton, in which several teams pushed the pace, but it was the fight for position in the flat sections that chopped it up the most.

Near the top of the hardest section of the climb with 9 kilometers to go Einer Rubio attacked as the rest of the peloton remained calm in the peloton led by Jumbo-Visma. The Dutch team controlled the race comfortably, with Dennis easily controlling the moves in the final kilometers.

As the riders approached the finish, Luke Plapp closed the gap to Rubio with the group in the wheel, and a group sprint was to decide the stage win. BORA had two riders in the group and they have thrived, with Sergio Higuita hitting the front in the final few hundred meters and resisting to take the win in Zinal, beating his teammate Aleksandr Vlasov and Juan Ayuso at the finish. Dennis arrived in the group and kept the lead of the race.