Nobody had it on the screen: the Briton Oscar ONLEY surprisingly won the royal stage of the Tour de Suisse in front of Favorit Joao Almeida. Lennard Kämna succeeded.
Oscar onley (Picnic – Postnl) has won the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse. It was the greatest career success for the 22-year-old Scots. Lennard Kämna (Lidl-Trek) drove to eighth place at the royal stage from La Punt to Santa Maria 1:46 minutes behind. The 28-year-old remains in fifth place (+1: 44) of the overall ranking.
Almeida loses uphill sprint
At the end, onley fought a mountain sprint with the previous day winner Joao Almeida, who was second. The Austrian Felix Gall (Decathlo – AG2R La Mondiale) took third place, followed by the Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa -B & B Hotels/+0: 57), the new bearer of the yellow jerseys followed.
In the overall classification, Vauquelin leads with a 29 second lead over his compatriot Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor), who reached the goal as seventh (+1: 22). Almeida (+0: 39) moved to third place overall. Onley follows fourth place (+1: 21).
Strong performance from Kämna
More than a year after his severe training session, the former Tour-de-France-Tappei winner Lennard Kämna is getting going better and better. The 28-year-old went to eighth place on the royal stage of the Tour de Suisse and thus continues to finish fifth in the overall ranking.
Kämna was hit by a car in training in Tenerife in April 2024 and suffered injuries to the upper body and lungs. It was only in March of this year that the former junior world champion got back into the racing events on the tour of the Catalonia. Kämna, who already won stages on the tour, the Giro and the Vuelta, only now did the first top ten placement.
Single time trial will decide
The Tour de Suisse ends on Sunday with the individual time trial from Beckenried to Stockhütte. On Friday, on the sixth stage to Neuhausen am Rheinfall, two mountains of the second category will take place before the terrain then becomes flatter.