Lenny Martinez won the fourth stage of the Tour de Romandie 2025, this Saturday, May 3.
At the end of the dull ascent of the day, made up of 20.8 km with 7.6% Average tilt, the 21 -year -old French took the victory in 3 h 43 min 46 s ahead of the Portuguese JOAO ALMEIDA (same time) and Italian Lorenzo Fortunato (+29 s).
On the soggy roads of the Swiss station, the runner of the Bahrain Victorious team placed his acceleration 200 m from the finish to win first place in the sprint, after a last very technical turn.
Martinez also seizes the general’s leader’s jersey, just ahead of Fortunato.
“It was long, but you shouldn’t think about the length of the bump, the risk of stalling,” he told Eurosport in comments reported by West France. “Les UAE [Vine et Almeida] were very strong for two. In punch, I managed to beat Joao Almeida. I didn’t want to let a UAE go on my own. There was a good rhythm. Joao Almeida has a good explosiveness too, I saw him come back to my left. In any case, I am especially happy to have won a step. »»
Composed of 128.4 km with an arrival at 2,095 m altitudethe most raised queen stage of the five that this Tour de Romandie 2025 compose. At the foot of the ascent towards Thyon 2000, the favorite peloton accused a delay of forty seconds on the escape, composed of the French Louis Barré et Julien Bernard. Their compatriot Alex Baudin Then wore the yellow jersey but after five kilometers of ascent, he was released from the group of leaders.
The double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoellong awaited on this stage, was obviously not in the blow today and he would prefeat his teammate Junior Lecerfwhich occupied the second place of the General before this Saturday, less than 10 km from the finish. In the end, it only remained Almeida and Martinez under the red flame of the last kilometer, and the French was the strongest.
This season, Lenny Martinez won during the 5th stage of Paris-Nice Last March, then finished 4th in the Tour de Catalonia end of March and 4th of the Walloon arrow April 23.
The last stage of the Tour de Romandie will take place this Saturday, May 4. On the program, a 17.1 km time trial. As a leader in the general classification, Martinez will leave at 3:40 p.m.
