Quintana wins Tour of Romandie

GENEVA — Nairo Quintana protected his overall lead to win the Tour of Romandie Sunday after a final stage won by race specialist Michael Albasini. Colombian Quintana rode safely in the pack to keep his 19-second lead over Thibaut Pinot of France. Jon Izagirre of Spain was third. The Romandie race is a proven Tour de France trial and Quintana, a two-time runner-up, is targeting cycling's biggest prize in July. His six-day Romandie victory followed the seven-day Tour of Catalonia title he won in March. Albasini was strongest in a four-rider break that finished the flat 177-kilometer (110-mile) ride into Geneva barely ahead of the pack. The 35-year-old Swiss edged Andrey Amador of Costa Rica and third-placed Wilco Kelderman of the Netherlands to get his sixth Romandie stage win since 2014. Voeckler wins Tour de Yorkshire Thomas Voeckler of Direct Energie won the Tour de Yorkshire after taking the final stage in Scarborough Sunday. Voeckler and Ireland's Nicolas Roche had broken clear on Oliver's Mount, the last of six categorized climbs on a 198km stage from Middlesbrough, before the French veteran timed his move perfectly to take the title. This stage was always likely to decide the winner after two bunch sprints on the opening two days, and so it proved as Voeckler claimed the general classification win from Team Sky's Roche, who got the same time on the day but finished six seconds back overall once bonus seconds were applied. Adam Yates of Orica-GreenEdge crossed the line third on the day just ahead of Cofidis rider Anthony Turgis, although Turgis took third overall ahead of the Brit. The challenging course saw several breakaway attempts throughout the stage, but nothing stuck until Roche, Yates and Steven Kruijswijk (Lotto-NL Jumbo) attacked 22m from home. Voeckler and Turgis counter-attacked to chase them down and the five were together until Oliver's Mount gave Roche and Voeckler the chance to make their move six kilometres out. — Agencies