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2026 Tour de Romandie

Swiss cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ136745849 ↗
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The 2026 Tour de Romandie was a road cycling stage race that took place between 28 April and 3 May in Romandy, the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. It was the 79th edition of the Tour de Romandie and the 20th race of the 2026 UCI World Tour.

Teams

Fourteen UCI WorldTeams and one UCI ProTeam participated in the race.

UCI WorldTeams

UCI ProTeams

Pre-race favourites

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) was the favourite for the race, making his debut in the race. Primary challengers included Primoz Roglič and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe), and young talents Lenny Martinez (Team Bahrain Victorious) and Oscar Onley (INEOS Grenadiers).

Route

The last stage ended with a Category 1 mountain finish where the riders climbed from 381m above sea level to 1,314m on Leysin.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2026 Tour de Romandie” is swiss cycling race. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tour, Romandie and Swiss, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tour, Romandie and Swiss is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2026 Tour de Romandie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.