For the second time in three races on the UCI World Tour Alex Howes finished as the top American. After finishing 32nd in the Amstel Gold Race last Sunday Howes finished 21st in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege a week later in a group just 12 seconds behind the winner. Howes’ finish was the third highest by an American on the tour this season.

Lawson Craddock was the next American to finish in 37th and 1:41 behind winner Wout Poels. The only other American in the top 100 was Peter Stetina who finished 85th, 5:27 back. Kiel Reijnen ended a streak of three straight races he had not finished and was 151st.

The next UCI World Tour event is the Tour de Romandie starting Tuesday and running until May 1st. Howes is scheduled to be in the field as will Tejay Van Garderen who has not raced since the Volta a Cataluyna a month ago where he finished fifth. Joe Dombrowski also hasn’t raced since then and finished 37th in that, his only event so far this year. Stetina, fresh off the 85th place finish Sunday is in the field and Andrew Talansky who did not finish his only event so far this year, the Paris-Nice race.

The Tour de Romandie starts with a 3.95km time trial on Tuesday.

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