Posts Tagged ‘romandie’

Data: Ramunas Navardauskas – Tour de Romandie, stage 2

Data: Ramunas Navardauskas – Tour de Romandie, stage 2

Ramunas Navardauskas’ Garmin Edge data on Garmin Connect:


Navardauskas wins – Tour de Romandie, stage 2

Navardauskas wins – Tour de Romandie, stage 2

Ramunas Navardauskas took the first stage win of his young career in argyle at the Tour de Romandie. Sports director Johnny Weltz sent this report. It was a beautiful day here in Switzerland featuring as stage that was 190 km of up-and-down. We decided not to be very active in the beginning of the day. [...]


Talansky on the podium in Romandie opener

Talansky on the podium in Romandie opener

Andrew Talansky kept his stage racing results strong with a second place at the Tour of Romandie prologue. More photos from the Tour of Romandie:


Report: Talansky powers to podium and best young rider in Romandie

Report: Talansky powers to podium and best young rider in Romandie

A great week for the argyle in Romandie was capped off by Andrew Talansky showing the cycling world just what he can do. He nearly won the mountain time trial, resulting in second overall and securing the best young rider jersey. Allan Peiper sent this report. We have had a great week here. Lots of [...]


Tech and Training: DZ’s Edge 500 data from Tour of Romandie TT

Tech and Training: DZ’s Edge 500 data from Tour of Romandie TT

David Zabriskie’s Garmin Edge 500 data from his winning TT at the Tour of Romandie. More photos from Tour of Romandie:


Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 5

Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 5

The argyle armada finished up a great week of racing in Switzerland by taking home the team GC and going 1-2 in the best young rider competition with Andrew Talansky followed closely by Peter Stetina. Johnny Weltz sent this final report: The last stage had a pretty hard profile. A lot of teams didn’t have [...]


Race report: Zabriskie flies to Romandie TT win!

Race report: Zabriskie flies to Romandie TT win!

Multiple U.S. time trial champion David Zabriskie once again bested the field in the race against the clock, winning the Tour of Romandie stage 4 time trial. And a strong overall performance with four in the top 20 and Andrew Talansky taking the best young rider jersey from teammate Peter Stetina. “Today the stage was [...]


Tech & Training: Jack Bobridge’s Garmin Edge 500 data – Tour of Romandie, stage 1

Tech & Training: Jack Bobridge’s Garmin Edge 500 data – Tour of Romandie, stage 1

Jack Bobridge had a hard day in the saddle riding in the break — see just how hard:


Race report: Stetina stays in young rider jersey – Tour of Romandie, stage 3

Race report: Stetina stays in young rider jersey – Tour of Romandie, stage 3

Peter Stetina kept hold of his best young rider jersey on stage 3 of the Tour of Romandie in Switzerland. Johnny Weltz sent this report: The stage today was one of the easier ones, as the difficulty was all in the end. There was a break that dominated the stage from the beginning and another [...]


Race report: Argyle attacks on Tour of Romandie, stage 2

Race report: Argyle attacks on Tour of Romandie, stage 2

The argyle armada was in full swing today, with attacks from Peter Stetina, Tom Danielson and David Millar in the final kilometers of the stage making for a fantastic finale. Johnny Weltz sent this report: The stage started flat out, with three laps of a very hard area. There wasn’t a kilometer that was flat! [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 1

Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 1

Jack Bobridge rode strong in the breakaway, finishing fourth on the stage and moving up the GC to fourth — as well as leading in the best young rider’s competition. Johnny Weltz has the report: With everything at status quo after the prologue and a leader who wouldn’t make it in the front on a [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, prologue

Race report: Tour of Romandie, prologue

David Millar showed another aspect of his time trial abilities in the prologue of the Tour of Romandie, solid bike handling, as he maneuvered his Cervélo P4 to a top-five finish on the tricky circuit. Johny Weltz sent this report: Today the start of the race was a short prologue on a 3.5 km technical [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 5

Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 5

Team Garmin-Transitions wrapped up the Tour of Romandie on Sunday. Once again it was rain on the menu as Christian Vande Velde rode strong over the mountain climbs to claim 14th overall — giving him more confidence heading into the May races. Johnny Weltz has the report: Another very wet and cold morning greeted us, [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 4

Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 4

Team Garmin-Transitions’ Christian Vande Velde kept himself within striking distance of the overall podium after a wet and generally miserable day in the saddle. Johnny Weltz has the report: A lot of rain today! WIth a raining day ahead of us the start was unusually fast at 50km average the first hour. A group of [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 3

Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 3

Team Garmin-Transitions’ Christian Vande Velde continues to fine-tune his form for May, putting in a strong time trial result at the Tour of Romandie, says team director Johnny Weltz: Today was a 23km time trial with a long climb of some 7km. Christian had a good ride and was not far from his normal concurrents [...]


Race Report: Tour of Romandie, stage 2

Race Report: Tour of Romandie, stage 2

Team Garmin-Transitions had another go at a field sprint and Robbie Hunter put in a strong performance, netting third on the day. Johnny Weltz has the report: Another hot day in Switzerland and everybody was tired after yesterday’s stage. But it still started out very fast. After 20km a group of four got a go [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 1

Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 1

Team Garmin-Transitions’ Robbie Hunter and Michel Kreder gave it a go on the first road stage of the Tour of Romandie. And if it were not for a narrow finish straight the field sprint might have gone better for the Argyle Armada. Director Johnny Weltz has the report: A nice sunny day in Switzerland; the [...]


Race report: Tour of Romandie, prologue

Race report: Tour of Romandie, prologue

Team Garmin-Transitions returned to stage racing in the Tour of Romandie in Switzerland. The racing began with a short prologue time trial with the young Aussie sensation Jack Bobridge turning in the best time for the team. “It was a very short and technical 4.3km course for the prologue,” said director sportif Johnny Weltz. “And [...]


Roster: Tour of Romandie

Roster: Tour of Romandie

Team Garmin-Transitions moves back to stage racing with the Tour of Romandie in Switzerland. Christian Vande Velde will lead the team after returning to action in the final Spring Classic Liege-Bastogne-Liege. He is joined by a strong-but-young contingent of riders, including Aussie track sensation Jack Bobridge in his first European race! Jack Bobridge Kirk Carlsen [...]