Tour de Romandie Féminin stage 3 crash shatters peloton in final 400 metres

The final stage of the Tour de Romandie Féminin saw escapees Riejanne Markus (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Niamh Fisher-Black (SD Worx-Protime) sprint for the stage win, but instead of a reduced bunch sprint for third place, only five riders came into view of the finish cameras, with more riders finishing in small groups or alone: A crash in the final roundabout, just under 400 metres from the line, had fractured the peloton.

The four puddles at the entrance to the roundabout, two of them directly in the ideal racing line, were no problem for Markus and Fisher-Black, but when the 27-rider peloton followed at high speed, a touch of wheels led to ten riders going down.