Tour de Suisse Women stage 5 LIVE: Marlen Reusser in group of five at the front of the race
The final stage in Villars-sur-Ollon brings the riders over 3,000m of elevation, where the overall winner will be crowned
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Race situation
Marlen Reusser, Femke De Vries, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney, Cédrine Kerbaol and Megan Arens lead by a minute.
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.
Femke De Vries attacks again and a gap opened up to Megan Arens and Cédrine 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.
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.
Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) has bridged her way to the lead group.
At just 19 years old, this is an incredible ride from Megan Arens.
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.
Sarah Van Dam (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) has been dropped.
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.
"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
Marlen Reusser (Movistar) looks like she is struggling in the heat.
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.
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.
Koch has a 40 second gap to the group of six going into the second ascent of Col de la Croix.
The peloton is 2:10 back as they approach they prepare for their second climb up the Col de la Croix.
The two groups of three have merged and are 12 seconds behind Koch. The yellow jersey group are now at +1:35.
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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.
Franziska Koch (FDJ United - SUEZ) is in the lead with a gap of 12 seconds.
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).
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.
Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) has attacked from the peloton too and is 20 seconds behind Arens (Team Picnic PostNL).
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.
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.
Before the action begins, check out our report from yesterday's TT if you need a quick refresher.
The stage is underway in Villars-sur-Ollon.
A reminder of who our classification leaders are going into the final stage:
GC: Marlen Reusser
Points: Zoe Bäckstedt
QoM: Femke de Vries
Youth: Cédrine Kerbaol
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.
Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the fifth and final stage of the Tour de Suisse Women 2026.
