Tour of Switzerland 2025, stage 2: Albanese returns to victory. Order of arrival and general classification

Schwarzsee (Switzerland), 16 June 2025 - The stage 2 of the Tour of Switzerland 2025 speaks Italian thanks to Vincenzo Albanese, who makes the most of a long and unusual sprint on a constantly ascending road: the perfect terrain for the Campanian, at third success, the first from 2022 and the first at level Word Tour, as well as the seventh for its EF Education EasyPostThe yellow jersey remains on the shoulders of Romain Gregoire, which strengthens it by gaining 1" of a bonus for an intermediate sprint on the day in which, 2 years exact from the disappearance, the Swiss race remembers the late Gino Mader. The stage 3 It will be there Aarau-Heiden: 195,6 km with others 2 GPM to be climbed in the context of a very undulating route, with 2.928 meters of altitude difference.  

The chronicle of stage 2 of the Tour of Switzerland 2025

After the victory in the debut of Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ), the Tour of Switzerland 2025 restarts from Aarau-Schwarzsee: 177 km moved and with 3 GPM to climb and 2.704 meters of altitude difference. They are fleeing Sylvan Dillier (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Jonas slip (Intermarché-Wanty) e Mauro Schmid (Team Jayco AlUla), who earn up to 1'30 " before seeing his advantage squandered by a lowered level crossing: the race jury promptly re-establishes the gap. slide passes first to the flying finish line of Schwarzenburg, while dillier loses contact with the treads: the GPM of Guggisberg (5,3 km with an average slope of 4,3%) rewards Schmid, which is repeated on the GPM of Heitenried (1,5 km with an average slope of 7%). The Tissot Sprint of St. Antoni see instead Gregory to pass third and therefore to take possession 1" of bonus. On the last GPM climb of the day, that of Keep right (1,6 km with an average slope of 6,1%), slide spring and Schmid he remains alone: ​​he then takes off from the group Fabio Van Den Bossche (Alpecin-Deceuninck), but every attempt is cancelled by the group, compact but still lacking several riders. The sprint is approaching, but the final remains uphill, with slopes between 3% and 5%: on this ground he starts with a gunshot Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), who then crashes and is overtaken by Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek). An anomalous sprint thus emerges which sees success almost in the long run of Vincenzo Albanese (EF Education-EasyPost).

Stage 2 of the Tour of Switzerland 2025 arrival order

 1) Vincenzo Albanese (EFE) in 3h55'57" 2) Fabio Christen (Q36) st 3) Lewis Askey (GFC) st 4) Quinn Simmons (LTK) st 5) Danny Van Poppel (RBH) st 6) Paul Lapeira (DAT) st 7) ​​Pello Bilbao (TBV) st 8) Nicolò Buratti (TBV) st 9) Gal Glivar (ADC) st 10) Fabio Van Den Bossche (ADC) st

Tour of Switzerland 2025 General Classification

1) Romain Grégoire (GFC) in 6h46'01" 2) Kévin Vauquelin (ARK) +25" 3) Ben O'Connor (JAY) +1'18" 4) Felix Grossschartner (UAD) +1'18" 5) Lennard Kamna (LTK) +1'18" 6) Ben Swift (IGD) +1'33" 7) Georg Zimmermann (IWA) +1'37" 8) Tiesj Benoot (TVL) +3'23" 9) Pello Bilbao (TBV) +3'23" 10) Michael Woods (IPT) +3'23"