2012 Tour de Romandie
The 2012 Tour de Romandie was the 66th running of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race. It started on 24 April in Lausanne and ended on 29 April in Crans-Montana and consisted of six stages, including a race-commencing prologue stage and a race-concluding individual time trial. It was the 14th race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.
| 2012 UCI World Tour, race 14 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 24–29 April 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 5 + Prologue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 695.1 km (431.9 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 18h 05' 40" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The race was won by Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky, after winning two stages including the final stage time trial, to take the general classification on the final day. Wiggins won the general classification by 12 seconds over runner-up Andrew Talansky of Garmin–Barracuda, who finished second to Wiggins in the final stage; Talansky also won the young rider classification title. Third place was taken by Movistar Team's Rui Costa after he also put in a strong performance in the time trial, and gained sufficient time to move up from ninth overnight.
In the race's other classifications, Petr Ignatenko of Team Katusha won both the green jersey for the most points gained in intermediate sprints, and the pink jersey for the King of the Mountains classification, while Team Sky finished at the head of the teams classification, with three of the squad's riders – Wiggins, Richie Porte and Michael Rogers – finishing in the overall top five.