{"id":650331,"date":"2026-06-21T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650331\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:30:14","slug":"tour-de-suisse-women-stage-5-live-marlen-reusser-in-group-of-five-at-the-front-of-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650331\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Suisse Women stage 5 LIVE: Marlen Reusser in group of five at the front of the race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2026-06-21T09:11:42.936Z<\/p>\n

Femke De Vries has won the Queen of the Mountains jersey.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T09:06:54.632Z<\/p>\n

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2026-06-21T09:06:14.235Z<\/p>\n

Megan Arens has been dropped by the lead group as they begin the second descent of Col de la Croix.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T09:04:33.208Z<\/p>\n

Megan Arens attacked in search of QoM points but was chased down by Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney. Niewiadoma-Phinney started the stage 1:49 down in the GC and will need to press on in this descent if she wants to drop Reusser and improve her GC standing.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:55:38.203Z<\/p>\n

Femke De Vries attacks again and a gap opened up to Megan Arens and C\u00e9drine Kerbaol. They have managed to fight back on to the back of the group, but this could be a sign of this to come for Kerbaol and Arens if more attacks keep coming from this lead group.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:51:07.292Z<\/p>\n

Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) is on the front of a chasing group of five, trying to pull it back into contention, but the gap to the lead group has gone out to 52 seconds.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:45:40.894Z<\/p>\n

C\u00e9drine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) has bridged her way to the lead group.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:40:22.420Z<\/p>\n

At just 19 years old, this is an incredible ride from Megan Arens.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:39:00.891Z
\n50km to go<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:38:31.047Z<\/p>\n

Femke De Vries (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) attacks! Marlen Reusser (Movistar), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon\/\/SRAM) and Megan Arens (Team Picnic PostNL). A gap has opened up to Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) and Koch has been caught and dropped.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:36:11.159Z<\/p>\n

Sarah Van Dam (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) has been dropped.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:32:20.041Z<\/p>\n

The yellow jersey group have caught the chase group and closed the gap to just 1:02. Liane Lippert (Movistar) has been dropped, leaving Reusser without any teammates.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:29:08.963Z<\/p>\n

“I think Elisa should try something because she is only 10 seconds behind, and then I think there should be a fight also for the other podium spots because it’s quite tight and I also think The GC order we have now is not representing a stage like today. We didn’t have this big climbing stage so I think here you make bigger differences, it’s different people that can be even faster, so I guess they will atack each other also.” Marlen Reusser said to CyclingProNet<\/a><\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:14:51.990Z<\/p>\n

Marlen Reusser (Movistar) looks like she is struggling in the heat.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:13:09.260Z<\/p>\n

Franziska Koch must be feeling amazing because the gap to the chase group is now 1:25, and the gap to the yellow jersey group is two and a half minutes. There are some attacks coming out of the yellow jersey so we’ll have to wait and see if they can close the gap.<\/p>\n

The GC riders are still mostly together, but I would be surprised if we got to the top of this climb without somebody trying to change that.<\/p>\n

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2026-06-21T08:05:42.186Z<\/p>\n

Koch has a 40 second gap to the group of six going into the second ascent of Col de la Croix.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T08:00:51.295Z<\/p>\n

The peloton is 2:10 back as they approach they prepare for their second climb up the Col de la Croix.<\/p>\n

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\"VILLARS-SUR-OLLON,\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:53:30.071Z
\n70km to go<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:51:25.412Z<\/p>\n

The two groups of three have merged and are 12 seconds behind Koch. The yellow jersey group are now at +1:35.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:48:08.387Z<\/p>\n

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2026-06-21T07:46:21.309Z<\/p>\n

Nina Buijsman (Human Powered Health), Nienke Vinke (Team SD Worx – Protime) and Jasmin Liechti (NEXETIS) are chasing Koch and are at 11 seconds. Another group of three is at 25 seconds, and the remains of the peloton are at 30.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:41:47.748Z<\/p>\n

Franziska Koch (FDJ United – SUEZ) is in the lead with a gap of 12 seconds.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:38:46.285Z<\/p>\n

There is a group of ten riders currently leading. It includes Marlen Reusser (Movistar), Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon\/\/SRAM).<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:34:08.909Z<\/p>\n

Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) and Arens (Team Picnic PostNL) have both been caught by a reduced peloton. Arens did cross the top of the Col de la Croix first though, bringing her up to 13 points in the mountain classification, only 3 points behind Femke de Vries (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) on 16 points.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:29:11.437Z<\/p>\n

Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) has attacked from the peloton too and is 20 seconds behind Arens (Team Picnic PostNL).<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:27:43.239Z<\/p>\n

The peloton seems to be breaking up now. Megan Arens (Team Picnic PostNL) has broken free of the peloton and has a gap of 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:19:54.352Z<\/p>\n

The peloton is approaching the top of Col de la Croix for the first time, where there will be a fight for the mountain classifaction points. Femke de Vries (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) currently leads on 13 points, with Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) and Megan Arens (Team Picnic PostNL) close behind on 7.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T07:07:00.727Z<\/p>\n

Before the action begins, check out our report from yesterday’s TT if you need a quick refresher.<\/p>\n

Tour de Suisse Women: World champion Marlen Reusser rides sensational time trial to win stage 4 and power into race lead<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AARBURG,\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)
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2026-06-21T07:02:21.569Z<\/p>\n

The stage is underway in Villars-sur-Ollon.<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T06:59:19.706Z<\/p>\n

A reminder of who our classification leaders are going into the final stage:<\/p>\n

GC: Marlen Reusser<\/p>\n

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Points: Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt<\/p>\n

QoM: Femke de Vries<\/p>\n

Youth: C\u00e9drine Kerbaol<\/p>\n

Image 1 of 3<\/p>\n

\"AARBURG,(Image credit: Getty Images)\"AARBURG,(Image credit: Getty Images)\"AARBURG,(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2026-06-21T06:50:52.695Z<\/p>\n

The neutral roll out will be at 9am CEST, with the official flag drop at 9:02am CEST. The stage today starts halfway up the Col de la Croix, so there should be action right from the start.<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the fifth and final stage of the Tour de Suisse Women 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2026-06-21T09:11:42.936Z Femke De Vries has won the Queen of the Mountains jersey. 2026-06-21T09:06:54.632Z Enjoying our live race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}