SIGNAL-DE-BOUGY, Switzerland, April 30, 2011 – America’s David Zabriskie, riding for the Garmin Cervelo team, won the fourth stage of the Tour de Romandie on Saturday, a 20.1km time-trial between Aubonne and Signal-de-Bougy.

Australia’s Cadel Evans, who was eighth on the stage, took the yellow jersey.

Zabriskie finished the stage almost two seconds ahead of Australia’s Richie Porte with Dutch rider Lieuwe Westra 14 seconds back off the lead.

“I had a good day on a course that suited me,” said Evans. “Of the earlier starters, Zabriskie pipped Richie Porte for the stage. Great ride by both of them as they were well ahead of the rest of us.”

“I’m very satisfied,” Evans said. “Two weeks ago, I didn’t do the classics races because of that training ride crash, so coming back here I didn’t know where I was. But I worked hard with some good people around me and came back at a good level.”

Taylor Phinney and his stars-and-stripes BMC timemachine TT01 didn’t fare as well. The U.S. national time trial champion crashed into a wall about 700 meters into his race against the clock. “I think I got just a little too a too excited,” Phinney said. “I did some damage to my cleat and shoes and hip and back, but my knees, elbows and shoulder are fine. For a crash, it probably looks terrible, but I didn’t get too hurt.”

Stage
1. David Zabriskie (USA/GRM) 27:57, 2. Richie Porte (AUS) at 01.77, 3.
Lieuwe Westra (NED) 13.93, 4. Bradley Wiggins (GBR) 17.79, 5. Tony Martin
(GER) 27.15, 6. Andrew Talansky (USA) 41.72, 7. Steven Kruijswijk (NED) 42.97,
8. Cadel Evans (AUS) 44.45, 9. Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP) 47.71, 10. Linus
Gerdemann (GER) 54.36

Overall standings
1. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) 13hr 00min 58sec, 2. Tony Martin (GER) at 18, 3.
Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ) 19, 4. Marci Pinotti (ITA) 31, 5. Benat Intxausti
(ESP) 41, 6. Pieter Weening (NED) 51, 7. Janez Brajkovic (SLO) 52, 8. Pavel
Brutt (RUS) 58, 9. Andrew Talansky (USA) 59, 10. David Millar (GBR) 1:00
Selected: 14. Denis Menchov (RUS) 1:16, 19. Marcel Wyss (SUI) 1:24, 21.
Simon Spilak (SLO) 1:30, 31. Ivan Basso (ITA) 2:50, 32. David Zabriskie (USA)
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