2025 Critérium du Dauphiné (World Tour), France

77th edition: June 8 - 15, 2025

Critérium du Dauphiné podium history | 2024 edition | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | Stage 8

2025 Dauphiné map.

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Sunday, June 15: 8th & Final Stage, Val-d'Arc - Val-Cenis (Plateau du Mont-Cenis), 133.3 km

Stage 8 map & profile | Stage 8 photos

Lenny Martinez wins stage eight.

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Stage 8 rated ascents:

• Km 4.7: Côte d'Aiton, 1.2 km @ 8.8%. Cat. 3
• Km 15.3: Côte de Saint-Georges-d'Hutières, 4.7 km @ 7.1%. Cat. 2
• Km 66.7: Col de Beune, 6.6 km @ 6.8%. Cat. 1
• Km 88: Côte de Saint-André, 2.5 km @ 7.6%. Cat. 3
• Km 101.1: Côte d'Aussois, 6.3 km @ 6.2%. Cat. 2
• Km 128.3: Col du Mont-Cenis, 9.6 km @ 6.9%. Cat. 1

Weather at the finish city of Val-Cenis at 2:20 PM, local time: 22C (71F), showers in the vicinity, and the wind from the south-southwest at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 91% chance of rain until 4:00 PM, when it drops to 36%.

The race: 135 riders began this last stage of the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné at 1:30 PM. Early in the stage Emilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies) abandoned.

Tadej Pogacar is the third reigning world champion to win the Critérium du Dauphiné, after France’s Louison Bobet (1955) and Bernard Hinault (1981).

Here's the race organizer's stage eight summary:

The final mountain challenges of an exhilarating Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 saw Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) take flight to victory. The French youngster proved to be the strongest climber in a star-studded breakaway, eventually dropping Enric Mas (Movistar) with 8 kilometres to go.

At 21 years old, he takes his first win in the race, ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), who becomes the third reigning world champion to win the Critérium du Dauphiné, after France’s Louison Bobet (1955) and Bernard Hinault (1981). Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) join him in the overall top-3. Pogacar also wins the green jersey while Lipowitz rules the best young rider standings. Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) takes the polka-dot jersey after spending the day at the front.

The race:
At the start in Val-d'Arc, 135 riders get together, including Romain Bardet, who begins his final day in the professional peloton with a guard of honour paying tribute to his career.

A hard battle to make a 12-man break
As has often been the case this week, the first attacks come from Mathieu Van der Poel, going first atop the cat-3 Côte d'Aiton (km 4.7).

The peloton on the day's first climb, the Côte d'Aiton

His first attempt is unsuccessful, but, after several more attacks, a group set off at km 14 with Max Van Gils (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease a Bike), Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal-Quick Step), Lenny Martinez (Bahrain-Victorious), Bruno Armirail (Décathlon-AG2R), Ben Healy (EF Education Easypost), Enric Mas, Romeo (Movistar), Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Alexey Lutsenko (Israel-Premier Tech).

They build up a 4-minute lead at km 36, before Uno-X Mobility riders start chasing to protect Tobias Johannessen's 5th place in the overall standings from Enric Mas. Atop the Col de Beaune (km 66.7), the gap is down to 2’30’’.

Martinez surges, Pogacar controls
Van der Poel attacks ahead of the intermediate sprint in Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (km 75.4). The Dutch star takes 10 points and pushes on, building a lead of 1’10’’ over his former companions up the Côte d’Aussois (km 101.1). Behind him, Romeo pulls the break. Van der Poel is reeled in just before the bottom of climb up Col de Mont-Cenis.

The race explodes on this final ascent of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 with a flurry of attacks in the breakaway and in the peloton. Enric Mas tries to drop everyone but Lenny Martinez hangs on and eventually goes solo with 8 kilometres to go. Behind him, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) accelerates a couple of times and only Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) follow him in the last 1.5 km of ascent.

Over the top (5km to go), the French climber is 50 seconds ahead of Pogacar and Vingegaard. He maintains a gap of 34 seconds on the line to claim his third World Tour victory of the season, after stages of Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie, while Pogacar seals the overall victory, his first in the Critérium du Dauphiné, and takes his 99th professional win before heading to the Tour de France.

Complete results:

Photos

133.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.322 km/hr

1	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	3hr 34min 18sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 34sec
3	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
4	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:40
5	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
6	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	0:45
7	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:47
8	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
9	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	1:01
10	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
11	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:46
12	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
13	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:05
14	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
15	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:27
16	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	2:57
17	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
18	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	3:12
19	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
20	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	3:13
21	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	3:18
22	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	3:25
23	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
24	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	4:17
25	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	4:41
26	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	5:15
27	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5:44
28	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	5:46
29	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
30	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	6:11
32	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
33	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	6:14
34	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
35	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	7:35
36	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	9:50
37	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
38	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
39	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
40	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
41	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
42	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
43	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	11:28
44	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
45	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	11:49
46	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
47	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:04
48	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
49	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	13:57
50	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	15:20
51	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
52	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
53	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
54	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
55	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
56	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	15:26
57	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
58	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
59	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
60	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	15:57
61	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	16:14
62	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
63	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
64	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
65	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
66	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
67	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
68	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
69	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
70	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	16:19
71	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	18:21
72	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	18:58
73	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
74	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
75	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
77	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
78	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
79	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
80	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
81	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	19:56
82	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
83	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	21:32
84	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
85	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
86	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	23:48
87	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	23:53
88	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	23:55
89	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
90	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
91	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
92	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
93	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
94	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
95	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
96	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
97	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
98	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
99	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
100	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
101	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
102	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
103	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
104	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
105	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	24:45
106	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	24:50
107	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
108	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	26:12
109	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
110	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	27:20
111	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
112	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
113	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
114	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
115	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
116	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
117	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
118	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
119	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
120	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
121	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
122	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
123	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
124	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
125	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
126	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
127	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	28:55
128	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	29:46

 

Final GC after stage 8:

• GC winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification winner: Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale)
• Points classification winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification winner: Visma | Lease a Bike

1,199.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.901 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	29hr 19min 46sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 59sec
3	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:38
4	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	4:21
5	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	6:12
6	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	7:28
7	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	7:57
8	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	8:25
9	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	8:57
10	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	10:01
11	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	10:34
12	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	13:08
13	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	13:24
14	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	16:56
15	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	16:59
16	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	17:03
17	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	19:10
18	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	19:32
19	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:43
20	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	24:08
21	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	28:01
22	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	28:36
23	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	30:16
24	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	30:40
25	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	33:21
26	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	38:32
27	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	38:37
28	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	38:52
29	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	40:35
30	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	40:54
31	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	42:03
32	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	42:13
33	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	42:16
34	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	42:34
35	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	45:08
36	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	46:09
37	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	47:51
38	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	48:03
39	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	49:15
40	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	50:05
41	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	50:45
42	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	52:29
43	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	52:41
44	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	55:33
45	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	56:11
46	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	57:37
47	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	58:15
48	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	58:25
49	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	58:45
50	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	59:02
51	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	59:11
52	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	1:00:59
53	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:01:19
54	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	1:01:21
55	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:03:03
56	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	1:03:26
57	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:03:37
58	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:04:35
59	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	1:05:04
60	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	1:05:12
61	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	1:06:14
62	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	1:07:27
63	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	1:08:28
64	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	1:08:53
65	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:09:52
66	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:09:58
67	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	1:10:14
68	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	1:10:30
69	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	1:10:42
70	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	1:11:03
71	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	1:11:10
72	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:12:01
73	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	1:13:07
74	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:15:31
75	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:15:33
76	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	1:15:41
77	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	1:16:00
78	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:16:11
79	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	1:16:34
80	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	1:16:35
81	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	1:17:04
82	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	1:17:40
83	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	1:17:48
84	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:18:02
85	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:18:14
86	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:19:09
87	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:19:15
88	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:19:37
89	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	1:19:43
90	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	1:20:32
91	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:20:47
92	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:20:52
93	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:21:26
94	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:23:06
95	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	1:23:10
96	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	1:23:40
97	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	1:24:09
98	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:24:30
99	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	1:25:07
100	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	1:25:21
101	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	1:27:45
102	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	1:28:03
103	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	1:29:27
104	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	1:29:40
105	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	1:30:57
106	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:33:05
107	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:33:40
108	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	1:34:17
109	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	1:34:37
110	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:36:19
111	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:37:03
112	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	1:37:18
113	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	1:38:49
114	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	1:39:58
115	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	1:40:06
116	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:40:51
117	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	1:41:39
118	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	1:43:01
119	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	1:45:28
120	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:46:05
121	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:46:39
122	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	1:48:29
123	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	1:52:10
124	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	1:52:59
125	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	1:56:09
126	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	1:58:14
127	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	1:59:55
128	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	2:05:24

 

Stage 8 map & profile:

Stage 8 map

Stage 8 profile

Stage 8 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Lenny Martinez wins stage eight.

Lenny Martinez is momentarily overcome.

Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar finish second and third.

That's a wrap. Romain Bardet (with teammate Chris Hamilton) crosses the finishes line. This was his last professional bike race.

Stage winner Lenny Martinez

The final GC podium, from left: Jonas Vingegaard (2nd), Tadej Pogacar (1st) & Florian Lipowitz (3rd)

2025 Critérium du Dauphiné winner Tadej Pogacar.

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Saturday, June 14: Stage 7, Grand-Aigueblanche - Valmeinier 1800, 131.6 km

Stage 7 map & profile | Stage 7 photos

Tadej Pogacar wins stage 7. Second-place Jonas Vingegaard is 14 seconds back.

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Stage 7 rated ascents:

• Km 25.8: Col de la Madeleine, 24.6 km@ 6.2%. Hors Categorie
• Km 70.8: Col de la Croix de Fer, 22.4 km @ 6.9%. Hors Categorie
• Km 131.6: Montée de Valmeinier, 16.5 km @ 6.7%. Hors Categorie

Weather at the finish city of Valmeinier at 2:20 PM, local time: 28C (82F), fair, with the wind from the southwest at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage seven summary.

After a first display of dominance in Combloux, Tadej Pogacar dominated the highest summits of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 to win stage 7 on Saturday. Visma-Lease a Bike tried to put pressure on UAE Team Emirates-XRG on the ascents of the Col de la Madeleine and Col de la Croix de Fer. Romain Bardet revived his great memories from the area with yet another long range attack. But in the end, nobody could match Pogacar’s pace when he attacked 12 kilometres away from the finish at Valmeinier 1800.

The world champion takes his third victory in this Critérium du Dauphiné, the 10th this year, the 12th since he claimed the rainbow jersey and his 98th as a professional rider. Will he make it 100 on the final day of the race, tomorrow, with another mountain stage towards Val-Cenis? His overall lead is up to 1’01’’ over Jonas Vingegaard.

GC second place Jonas Vingegaard is quite the object of attention before the stage start.

The stage:
On the day after Tadej Pogacar’s victory in Combloux, it’s time to face the higher summits of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025. Starting from Grand-Aigueblanche, the riders will reach 2,000 metres of altitude at Col de la Madeleine and Col de la Croix de Fer before tackling the final ascent to Valmeinier 1800. With three HC-climbs and 4,800 metres of elevation, this is the queen stage fo this 77th edition.

A brutal battle up La Madeleine
A 135-man peloton set off at noon and a fierce battle immediately unfolds on the way up the first HC-climb of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025. Visma-Lease a Bike are especially willing to make the break. Victor Campenaerts is the first attacker of the day. Matteo Jorgenson also tries to go, before Sepp Kuss eventually gets away in a 15-man group built in several waves.

The lead group goes over the day's first climb, the Col de la Madeleine, 1min 5sec ahead of the yellow jersey group

Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step) and Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) led the way from km 8. And they were gradually joined by more attackers until the group settles at km 23 with Kuss, Santiago Buitrago, Torstein Traeen (Bahrain Victorious), Sergio Higuita (XDS Astana), Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), Ivan Romeo (Movistar), Andreas Lekessund (Uno-X Mobility), Clément Braz Afonso (Groupama-FDJ), Alexey Lutsenko (Israel Premier-Tech), Romain Bardet, Juan Guillermo Martinez (Picnic PostNL), Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Wanty) and Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies).

The race explodes again at La Croix de Fer
Tadej Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG set the pace in the bunch. The intensity is still high on the Col de la Croix de Fer. Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet sets off from the bunch and manages to bridge the gap to the front group while V. Paret-Peintre is dropped. At that point, the gap hits a maximum of 2’05’’ (km 64).

Behind them, Visma-Lease a Bike brutally up the ante, which also forces the front riders to accelerate. At the summit, Buitrago goes first. Only 18’’ behind, Matteo Jorgenson leads a very reduced GC group featuring Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Ste), Maxim Van Gils, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), Paul Seixas (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale).

Romain Bardet is alone and off the front after descending the Croix der Fer. He has a gap of 47 seconds before beginning the ascent to the finish at Valmeinier. He was caught with 13 kilometers to go.

Pogacar sets off to Valmeinier 1800
Onto the downhill, Bardet accelerates towards Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, where he had claimed his first Tour de France stage win, in 2015. Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) returns to the bunch to control the gap. At the bottom of the final climb to Valmeinier 1800, Bardet leads by 35’’.

The French climber is caught 13 kilometres away from the summit. Kuss attacks, Sivakov controls… And Pogacar attacks with 12 km to go. Vingegaard tries to resist, with Lipowitz on his wheel. But the slope puts everyone in their place.

Tadej Pogacar off the front with 6.5 km to go. Vingegaard is 20 seconds back, Lipowitz at 40 seconds and Evenepoel & Halland Johannessen at 1 min 9sec.

At the summit, Pogacar celebrates and takes victory 14’’ ahead of Vingegaard, who trailed by 30’’ with one kilometre to go. Lipowitz completes the top-3 on the day (+1’21’’) ahead of Johannessen (+2’26’’) and Evenepoel (+2’39’’).

Complete results:

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131.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 31.584 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 10min 0sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 14sec
3	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:21
4	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	2:26
5	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	2:39
6	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:48
7	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
8	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	3:51
9	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
10	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
11	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
12	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:27
13	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	6:19
14	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
15	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
17	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
18	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	6:37
19	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	8:01
20	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
21	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	9:20
22	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	9:31
23	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	9:53
24	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	12:10
25	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
26	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	12:24
27	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
28	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
29	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	12:59
30	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
31	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	13:28
32	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	16:03
33	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
34	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	16:12
35	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	19:19
36	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
37	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
38	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:41
39	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	19:49
40	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	20:20
41	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
42	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
43	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	23:04
44	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	24:22
45	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	24:35
46	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
47	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	24:47
48	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
49	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
50	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
51	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	s.t.
52	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	25:31
53	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	25:40
54	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	26:58
55	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
56	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
57	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
58	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
59	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	27:53
60	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	29:46
61	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
62	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
63	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	29:53
64	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	30:40
65	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
66	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	s.t.
67	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	32:13
68	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	32:44
69	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
70	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
71	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
72	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
73	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
74	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
75	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
76	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
77	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
78	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
79	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	32:49
80	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	32:55
81	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
82	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	33:23
83	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	34:32
84	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	35:17
85	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	35:20
86	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
87	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	35:23
88	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	36:56
89	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
90	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
91	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
92	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
93	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
94	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
95	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
96	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
97	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
98	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
99	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
100	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	37:06
101	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	37:09
102	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
103	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
104	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	37:29
105	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
106	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
107	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
108	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
109	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
110	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	38:01
111	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
112	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	38:11
113	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	38:18
114	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	38:22
115	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
116	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
117	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
118	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	38:31
119	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
120	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
121	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	38:33
122	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	39:32
123	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
124	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	40:00
125	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
126	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	40:50
127	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	44:11
128	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
129	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
130	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
131	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
132	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	44:17
133	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
134	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	44:24
135	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	44:57

 

GC after stage 7:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification leader: Visma | Lease a Bike)

1,066.3 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.411 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	25hr 44min 58sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 1min 1sec
3	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:21
4	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	4:11
5	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	5:55
6	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	6:50
7	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	7:18
8	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	7:24
9	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	7:41
10	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	7:43
11	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	8:07
12	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	8:45
13	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	11:15
14	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	12:53
15	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	13:56
16	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	14:04
17	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	15:02
18	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	15:13
19	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	15:21
20	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	15:28
21	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	17:29
22	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	21:00
23	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	21:41
24	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	25:00
25	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	25:53
26	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	26:04
27	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	27:34
28	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	27:37
29	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	27:45
30	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	28:46
31	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	29:17
32	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	29:24
33	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	30:57
34	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	31:19
35	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	33:14
36	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	35:00
37	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	35:20
38	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	35:55
39	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	37:41
40	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	37:53
41	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	39:32
42	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	40:43
43	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	41:38
44	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	41:39
45	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	41:47
46	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	42:49
47	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	43:09
48	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	43:18
49	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	43:24
50	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	43:25
51	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	43:28
52	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	44:52
53	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	45:20
54	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	45:21
55	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	46:03
56	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	47:20
57	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	47:27
58	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	48:30
59	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	50:23
60	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	51:40
61	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	52:08
62	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	52:21
63	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	52:42
64	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	53:04
65	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	53:07
66	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	53:09
67	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	53:39
68	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	53:43
69	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	54:14
70	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	54:15
71	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	54:29
72	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	54:39
73	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	54:56
74	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	55:44
75	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	55:46
76	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	56:23
77	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	57:11
78	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	57:22
79	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	58:01
80	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	58:07
81	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	59:34
82	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	59:39
83	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	59:45
84	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	59:46
85	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	59:50
86	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	1:00:36
87	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	1:00:46
88	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:00:47
89	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	1:00:50
90	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	1:00:52
91	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	1:01:06
92	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	1:01:08
93	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	1:01:43
94	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	1:02:04
95	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:02:24
96	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	1:02:29
97	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	1:03:59
98	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	1:04:07
99	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	1:04:14
100	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	1:04:38
101	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:04:38
102	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:04:47
103	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	1:05:25
104	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:06:02
105	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:06:15
106	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	1:06:21
107	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	1:06:43
108	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:06:50
109	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	1:07:27
110	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	1:07:47
111	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:09:06
112	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	1:09:23
113	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	1:10:27
114	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	1:10:28
115	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	1:10:59
116	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	1:11:59
117	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:13:01
118	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	1:13:16
119	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:13:38
120	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	1:14:49
121	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:17:40
122	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	1:18:38
123	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:19:49
124	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	1:22:47
125	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:23:14
126	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	1:25:20
127	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	1:26:09
128	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	1:27:12
129	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	1:31:24
130	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	1:31:49
131	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	1:33:05
132	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	1:36:08
133	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:40:19
134	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	1:45:20
135	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	1:45:27

 

Stage 7 map & profile:

Stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

Stage 7 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Race leader Tadej Pogacar before the start.

Pogacar and Vingegaard with teammates descending what I believe is the Col de la Madeleine

Riders descending the first of the day's three big climbs, the Col de la Madeleine.

Tadej Pogacar wins stage seven.

Jonas Vingegaard finishing second.

Third-place finisher Florian Lipowitz

Tobias Halland Johannessen finishing fourth.

Remco Evenepoel finishing fifth.

Seventh-place Ben Tulett

Matteo Jorgenson was twelfth.

Jonas Vingegaard just after finishing the stage.

Stage winner and GC leader Tadej Pogacar with 2-time Tour de France winner Bernard Thevenet.

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Friday, June 13: Stage 6, Valserhône - Combloux, 126.7 km

Stage 6 map & profile | Stage 6 photos

Tadej Pogacar wins the stage and becomes the new GC leader.

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Stage 6 rated ascents:

• Km 35: Côte de Villy-le-Pelloux, 0.8 km @ 8.1%. Cat 4.
• Km 59: Col des Fleuries, 5.1 km @ 4.4%. Cat. 3
• Km 87.6: Côte du Mont-Saxonnex, 5.4 km @ 8.7%. Cat. 1
• Km 120.5: Côte de Domany, 2.4 km @ 8.6%. Cat. 2
• Km 126.7: Côte de la Cry, 2.7 km @ 8.2%. Cat. 2

Weather at the finish city of Combloux at 2:05 PM, local time: 29C (85F), sunny, with the wind from the southwest at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is a 7% chance of rain.

The race: Andreas Kron (Uno-X Mobility) did not start. That left 144 starters for today's stage.

Here's the race organizer's stage six report:

A couple of days after he lost significant time in the ITT, Tadej Pogacar replied with a dominant performance on the first mountain stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025. The reigning world champion attacked on the way up Côte de Domancy, forever associated with Bernard Hinault’s triumph at the 1980 Worlds.

Nobody could follow Pogacar as he flew away towards Domancy, where he had suffered a crushing defeat to Jonas Vingegaard in the Tour de France 2023. This time, the Slovenian star opened massive gaps to win the stage ahead of his Danish rival (+1’01’’) and Florian Lipowitz (+1’22’’) while Remco Evenepoel dropped 1’50’’. After his 11th victory as the holder of the rainbow jersey, Pogacar reclaims the yellow and blue jersey. A very different challenge awaits him on Saturday, with three HC climbs on the menu.

The classification leaders on the start line.

The race
Onto the mountains! After five intense days of racing from Domérat, the 144-man peloton of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 tackle the final three stages to decide the winners of the race. The road from Valserhône to Combloux is short but packed with climbing - 2,630 metres of elevation across 126.7 km - with a brutal uphill finish featuring the successive ascents of Côte de Domancy and Côte de la Cry to reach the line.

A hard battle for the break
Attackers are inspired, especially Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who initiates the first move right from the start. A few more attackers join him at the front but the peloton gets back at km 13.

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin Deceuninck) attacked almost at the gun. ASO photo

A new move sets off at km 27 with Michael Shea Leonard (Ineos Grenadiers), Bruno Armirail (Décathlon-AG2R), Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X), Pierre Thierry (Arkéa-B&B) and Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies).  Alex Baudin (EF Education-Easypost), Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Romain Bardet (Picnic PostNL) immediately react to make it an 8-man breakaway.

The race explodes with 43 km to go
UAE Team Emirates-XRG pull the bunch and the gap never gets higher than 2’10’’ at km 34. It even gets down to 1’15’’ at the bottom of the first cat-1 ascent of this edition, Côte du Mont-Saxonnex (5.4km at 8.7%, summit at km 87.6). The race immediately explodes.

At the front, Alex Baudin - flying towards his home region - and Michael Leonard prove to be the strongest. In the peloton, Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease a Bike) tests the waters, only to be immediately followed by Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) counter-attacks.

The German rising star is caught inside the last kilometre by a very reduced GC group. Tim Wellens sets the pace for Pogacar, with Jonas Vingegaard, Ben Tulett, Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), Paul Seixas (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale), Enric Mas (Movistar) and Eddie Dunbar (Jayco AlUla) on their wheels.

Pogacar smashes the Côte de Domancy
Stragglers get back to the GC group on the valley. At the bottom of the Côte de Domancy, Leonard and Baudin are 1’15’’ away from a 27-man peloton. The French youngster sets off from the bottom. Behind him, UAE Team Emirates-XRG set a brutal pace.

Tadej Pogacar alone and off the front on the Côte de Domancy with Jonas Vingegaard 18 seconds back.

Pogacar accelerates 1 kilometre away from the summit, over 7km away from the finish. Vingegaard tries to resist but the Slovenian flies away. The world champion catches Baudin and goes solo with 6.5 kilometres to go.

The gaps increase while his chasers battle it out for the podium position. Over the line, as Pogacar takes his 11th victory as the reigning world champion, Vingegaard trails by 1’01’’, Lipowitz by 1’22’’, Jorgenson by 1’30’’ and Evenepoel by 1’50’’. The overall standings are, once again, turned upside down. But much longer climbing challenges await them on Saturday.

Complete results:

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126.7 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.288 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2hr 59min 46sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 1min 1sec
3	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:22
4	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:30
5	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	1:50
6	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	1:56
7	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	2:03
8	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	2:04
9	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
10	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
11	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	2:09
12	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	2:26
13	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
14	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	2:29
15	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
16	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:33
17	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	2:42
18	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
19	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	2:48
21	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	4:53
22	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
23	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	6:12
24	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	6:13
25	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	6:21
26	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
27	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	6:30
28	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:36
29	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	6:53
30	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	7:14
31	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	8:31
32	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
33	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
34	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	9:12
35	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	9:57
36	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	10:10
37	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
38	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
39	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	10:49
40	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	11:33
41	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	11:38
42	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
43	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	11:42
44	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	11:47
45	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	11:49
46	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	11:53
47	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	13:27
48	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:31
49	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
50	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
51	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
52	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
53	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
54	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
55	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
56	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
57	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
58	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
59	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
60	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
61	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
62	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
63	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
64	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
65	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
66	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
67	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
68	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
69	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
70	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
71	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	14:16
72	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
73	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
74	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
75	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
76	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
77	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	14:23
78	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	s.t.
79	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
80	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:44
81	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	14:46
82	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
83	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
84	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	14:50
85	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	16:11
86	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	16:58
87	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
88	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
89	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
90	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
91	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
92	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
93	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	18:16
94	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
95	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	19:37
96	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
97	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
98	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
99	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
100	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
101	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
102	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
103	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
104	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
105	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
106	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
107	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
108	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
109	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
110	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
111	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
112	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
113	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
115	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
116	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
117	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
118	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
119	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
120	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
121	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
122	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
123	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
124	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
125	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
126	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	20:00
127	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
128	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
129	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	20:46
130	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
131	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	20:48
132	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
133	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	20:56
134	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	21:09
135	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	21:19
136	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	21:20
137	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	21:53
138	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.

 

GC after stage 6:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost)
• Points classification leader: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification leader: Visma | Lease a Bike

934.7 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.302 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	21hr 35min 8sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 43sec
3	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:54
4	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	1:22
5	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:41
6	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:28
7	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	2:39
8	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:49
9	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	3:21
10	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:26
11	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	3:40
12	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	3:45
13	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	4:02
14	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	4:06
15	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	4:20
16	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:23
17	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	4:44
18	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	4:46
19	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	6:24
20	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	7:09
21	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	7:33
22	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	7:52
23	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	8:52
24	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	8:54
25	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	8:55
26	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	8:59
27	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	9:07
28	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	10:15
29	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	10:58
30	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	10:59
31	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	11:32
32	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	11:50
33	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	12:40
34	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	12:49
35	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	13:04
36	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	13:25
37	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	14:27
38	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:32
39	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	14:42
40	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	15:17
41	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	15:22
42	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	15:23
43	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	15:24
44	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	15:25
45	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	15:28
46	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	15:46
47	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	15:48
48	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	15:50
49	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	16:07
50	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	16:34
51	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	16:37
52	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	17:23
53	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	17:52
54	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	18:13
55	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:33
56	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:45
57	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	20:16
58	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	20:34
59	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	20:41
60	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	20:50
61	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	20:55
62	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	21:08
63	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	21:29
64	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	21:42
65	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	21:45
66	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	22:00
67	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	22:02
68	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	22:06
69	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	22:07
70	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	22:10
71	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	22:11
72	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	22:25
73	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	22:33
74	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	22:39
75	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	22:52
76	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	22:53
77	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	22:54
78	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	23:15
79	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	23:26
80	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	23:29
81	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	23:40
82	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	24:44
83	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	25:23
84	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	25:53
85	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	26:44
86	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	26:52
87	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	26:53
88	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	26:59
89	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	27:01
90	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
91	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	27:17
92	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	27:25
93	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	27:32
94	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	27:34
95	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	27:43
96	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	27:58
97	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	28:07
98	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	28:36
99	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	28:37
100	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	29:10
101	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	29:30
102	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	29:37
103	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	29:38
104	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	30:22
105	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	30:58
106	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	30:59
107	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	31:55
108	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	32:07
109	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	32:26
110	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	32:49
111	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	33:36
112	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	33:40
113	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	33:45
114	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	33:56
115	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	34:11
116	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	34:41
117	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	35:59
118	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	36:10
119	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	36:11
120	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	36:12
121	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	37:31
122	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	39:08
123	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	39:50
124	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	40:10
125	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	41:42
126	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	42:43
127	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	43:05
128	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	45:03
129	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	45:59
130	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	47:03
131	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	48:01
132	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	48:44
133	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	51:01
134	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	51:45
135	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	53:08
136	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	1:01:06
137	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:04:46
138	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	1:05:38

 

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

Stage 6 photos by Fotorepoter Sirotti:

GC leader Remco Evenepoel gets his bike.

Points classification leader Mathieu van der Poel before the stage start.

Tadej Pogacar signs autographs before the race.

Time to get to the start line.

Stage six gets started.

Tadej Pogacar wins stage six.

61 seconds later Jonas Vingegaard finished second.

Matteo Jorgenson finishes fourth

A clearly spent Remco Evenepoel was fifth in the stage. Behind him in pink is Alex Baudin.

Florian Lipowitz is the Best Young Rider.

King of the Mountains Alex Baudin

Tadej Pogacar has traded his Rainbow Jersey for a Yellow Jersey.

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Thursday, June 12: Stage 5, Saint-Priest - Mâcon, 183 km

Stage 5 map & profile | Stage 5 photos

Jake Stewart wins stage five. Sirotti photo

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Stage 5 rated ascents:

• Km 91: Côte de Saint-Amour, 1.2 km @ 5.6%. Cat. 4
• Km 109: Col de Fontmartin, 6.7 km @ 4.4%. Cat. 3
• Km 120.5: Col de Boubon, 4.7 km @ 5.2%. Cat. 3
• Km 155.8: Côte des Quatre Vents, 5.3 km @ 4.6%. Cat. 3

Weather at the finish city of Mâcon at 2:15 PM, local time: 31C (87F), sunny, with the wind from the southeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Michael Hepburn (Jayco AlUla) did not start. The stage got its real start at 1:01 PM. Early in the stage Louis Vervaeke abandoned.

Late in the stage Pascal Ackermann (Israel-Premier Tech) crashed and had to abandon.

Near the finish GC leader Remco Evenepoel crashed, but he was up quickly to finish the stage. Because his fall was in the final five kilometers, he was given the same time as the front group he was in and remains the GC leader.

On the startline, before the stage start.

Here's the race organizer's stage five summary:

The final sprint of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, ahead of three major mountain stages, saw Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech) power to victory in Mâcon, after a fast and hard stage. Attackers tried to make the most of the climbs of the day to try and upset the sprinters. But the pack managed to catch the breakaway inside the last 2 kilometres, which seemed to be the perfect timing for Lidl-Trek to line up their train at the front and launch Jonathan Milan to a second stage win in this edition. But the Italian powerhouse, dropped earlier in the stage, couldn’t fend off his rivals and especially Stewart. On Sunday, he was already the fastest from the bunch… This time, there was nobody ahead to deprive him of his first UCI World Tour success. Remco Evenepoel went down in the finale but he retains the yellow and blue jersey.

The race:
On the day after Remco Evenepoel dominated the ITT from Charmes-sur-Rhône to Saint-Péray, a 149-man set off from Saint-Priest, without Michael Hepburn (Jayco AlUla), the fifth rider to abandon the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025. The 183 kilometres laid out in front of them, en route to Mâcon, are far less demanding than what’s coming in the Alps, but the stage still packs enough climbing to create real uncertainty about the scenario the riders will deliver.

A battle from the start
Enzo Leijnse (Picnic PostNL) and Pierre Thierry (Arkea-B&B Hotels) set off at km 1.5. They’re rapidly joined at the front by Jordan Labrosse (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) but the battle goes. EF Education-EasyPost and Cofidis drive the chase, counter-attackers launch new moves… But the situation settles as Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) is caught by the bunch at km 24.

By that point, the gap has hit its maximum - 2’10’’ - and sprint teams - Lidl-Trek and Israel-Premier Tech - have taken the helm of the bunch to try and control the day.

The day's first break with 125 km to go: Enzo Leijnse, Jordan Labrosse & Pierre Thierry. They were soon joined by Benjamin Thomas & Thibaut Guernalec. With 100 kms to go the gap was 50 seconds.

Counter-attackers shake the race
The riders fly towards the hilly section of the day halfway through the stage and the gap drops down to 1’ ahead of the first climb of the day, the cat-3 Côte de Saint-Amour. Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis) and Thibault Guernalec (Arkea-B&B Hotels) seize the opportunity to join the lead group at km 75.

They push their lead back up to 1’50’’ (km 96). But the race heats up again on the cat-3 ascents of Col de Fontmartin (km 109) and Col de Boubon (km 120.5). Mathieu Burgaudeau and Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies) attack at the bottom of the first ascent and are quickly joined by Tobias Foss.

Another move sets off on the second one. Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost) and Gregor Muhlberger (Movistar) move past Burgaudeau and Vercher but Foss also follows that move. They trail by 1’10’’ as the race enters the last 50 kilometres. The peloton are 30’’ further behind.

Attackers resist, Stewart takes it
Lidl-Trek and Soudal Quick-Step join forces to catch the chasers with 46 kilometres to go. As for the lead group, their gap is down to 1’05’’. Labrosse ups the ante and Thierry is dropped from the front group. In the peloton, Alpecin-Deceuninck, Uno-X and Ineos Grenadiers work together to bring the gap down to 25’’ at the summit of the final climb of the day, Côte des Quatre Vents (27.2 km to go). Jonathan Milan is dropped just before the summit but his Lidl-Trek teammates quickly bring him back to the bunch.

15.6 km to go. The peloton is really strung out with the break 29 seconds ahead.

Into the last 10 kilometres, Leijnse is dropped by Labrosse, Thomas and Guernalec, who maintain a gap of 18’’ to the peloton. They put in a strong resistance but are eventually caught just inside the last 2 kilometres with several teams working together at the front of the bunch.

Yellow Jersey'd Remco Evenepoel is quickly back up after crashing very late in the stage.

Lidl-Trek take it to the front positions of the bunch. Milan seems to be in a perfect position when into the last kilometre but he can’t react when Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech) flies past him to take victory ahead of Axel Laurance (Ineos Grenadiers) and Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X Mobility).

Complete results:

Photos

183 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.043 km/hr

1	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	4hr 3min 46sec
2	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
3	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
4	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
6	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
7	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
8	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
10	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
11	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
12	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
13	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
14	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
15	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
16	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
17	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
19	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
20	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
21	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
22	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
23	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
24	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
25	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
26	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
27	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
28	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
29	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
30	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	s.t.
31	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
32	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
33	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
34	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
35	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
36	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
37	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
38	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
39	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
40	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
41	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
42	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
43	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
44	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
45	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
46	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
47	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
48	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
49	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
50	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
51	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
52	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
53	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
54	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
55	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
56	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
57	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
58	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
59	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
60	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
61	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
62	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
63	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	@ 22sec
64	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
65	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
66	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
67	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
68	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
69	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
70	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
71	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
72	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
73	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
74	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
75	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
76	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
77	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
78	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
79	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	33
80	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
81	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
82	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
83	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:49
84	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
85	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
86	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
87	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	0:57
88	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
89	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
90	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	1:13
91	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:17
92	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
93	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 0sec
94	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	1:17
95	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
96	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
97	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:23
98	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
99	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	1:44
100	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	1:54
101	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	2:11
102	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	2:59
103	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	3:07
104	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	3:18
105	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
106	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	3:47
107	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	s.t.
108	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
109	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	4:18
110	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	4:24
111	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4:39
112	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4:43
113	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	5:48
115	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	6:15
116	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	6:41
117	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	7:16
118	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
119	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
120	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
121	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
122	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
123	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
124	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
125	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
126	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	7:27
127	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
128	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
129	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
130	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
131	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	7:45
132	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
133	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	11:25
134	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
135	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
136	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
137	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
138	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
139	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
140	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
141	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	15:26
142	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
143	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
144	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
145	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.

 

GC after stage 5:

• GC leader: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Paul Ourselin (Cofidis)
• Points classification leader: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Best young rider: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: Visma | Lease a Bike

808 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.484 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	18hr 34min 54sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 4sec
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:14
4	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:16
5	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:30
6	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:31
7	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:38
8	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:39
9	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	1:16
10	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	1:24
11	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	1:25
12	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:35
13	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:39
14	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
15	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
16	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
17	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	1:42
18	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	1:46
19	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:49
20	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:50
21	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
22	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
23	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	1:58
24	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:59
25	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	2:00
26	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:06
27	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	2:06
28	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	2:08
29	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:18
30	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	2:19
31	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	2:20
32	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:21
33	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	2:22
34	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	2:25
35	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	2:28
36	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	2:43
37	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	2:44
38	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:47
39	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	2:54
40	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:57
41	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	3:02
42	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
43	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	3:04
44	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	3:09
45	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	3:10
46	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	3:14
47	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	3:16
48	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	3:21
49	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	3:22
50	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	3:24
51	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	3:29
52	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	3:30
53	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	3:31
54	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:35
55	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:37
56	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:45
57	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	3:46
58	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	3:54
59	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	3:58
60	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	4:06
61	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	4:12
62	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	4:34
63	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	4:49
64	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	5:01
65	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	5:40
66	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5:45
67	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:03
68	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	6:24
69	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	6:53
70	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	6:55
71	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	7:05
72	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	7:10
73	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	7:35
74	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	7:40
75	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	7:43
76	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	7:50
77	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	7:52
78	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	8:08
79	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	8:31
80	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	8:36
81	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	8:45
82	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	8:49
83	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	8:50
84	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	8:57
85	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	9:01
86	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	9:11
87	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	9:21
88	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	9:49
89	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	9:50
90	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	9:51
91	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	10:12
92	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	10:39
93	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	10:45
94	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	12:03
95	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	12:10
96	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	12:46
97	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	12:58
98	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	12:58
99	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	13:07
100	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	13:27
101	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s
102	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	13:40
103	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	13:58
104	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	14:27
105	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:38
106	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	14:47
107	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	15:32
108	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	15:33
109	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	15:53
110	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15:59
111	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	16:07
112	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	16:13
113	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	16:27
114	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	16:35
115	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	17:56
116	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	18:44
117	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	18:52
118	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	19:18
119	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	19:29
120	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	19:55
121	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:59
122	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	20:42
123	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	21:01
124	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	21:22
125	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	22:14
126	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	22:16
127	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	23:09
128	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	23:11
129	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	23:29
130	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	24:07
131	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	25:17
132	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	25:54
133	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	26:50
134	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	27:54
135	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	28:52
136	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	29:35
137	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	30:20
138	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	31:27
139	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	33:59
140	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	36:43
141	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	37:35
142	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	39:38
143	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	41:57
144	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	44:18
145	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	45:20

 

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

Stage five photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Tadej Pogacar before the start.

Jonas Vingegaard.

Romain Bardet.

Remco Evenepoel & Mathieu van der Poel on the start line.

Stage five gets started.

The finish...here they come

Jake Stewart wins the stage.

Remco Evenepoel finishes 93rd, but given the same time as the front group.

Jake Stewart just after winning the sage.

Stage winner Jake Stewart

Remco Evenepoel will start stage 6 in yellow. With him is Bernard Thevenet, winner of the the 1975 & 1976 editions of the Dauphiné (as well as a couple of Tours de France).

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Wednesday, June 11: Stage 4, Charmes-sur-Rhône - Saint-Péray 17.4 kilometer individual time trial

Stage 4 map & profile | Stage 4 photos

Remco Evenepoel winning the stage in the World Champion's jersey. Getty photo

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Weather at the finish city of Saint-Péray at 2:05 PM, local time: 31C (87F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 19 km/hr (13 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Domen Novak was the first rider off the ramp, at 14:15, followed by Johan Price-Pejtersen one minute later, ahead of Casper Pedersen, Soren Waerenskjold… Riders started every minute, until Ivan Romeo went at 16:45, with the yellow and blue jersey on his shoulders.

With the rainbow jersey as the reigning world time trial champion, Remco Evenepoel started at 16:33. He was followed by Jonas Vingegaard (16:35) and Tadej Pogacar (16:37).

Here's the race organizer's stage four report:

The big showdown anticipated for day 4 of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 smiled on Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), powering to an impressive victory in Saint-Péray. Over the 17.4-km course of the ITT, the Olympic and world champion gained 21 seconds on Jonas Vingegaard, 38 on Matteo Jorgenson and 49 on Tadej Pogacar. Just like he did last year, the Belgian swaps his rainbow jersey for the yellow and blue jersey, ahead of Florian Lipowitz (+4'') and former leader Ivan Romeo (+9''). Evenepoel says he feels much stronger than a year ago ahead of the upcoming climbing challenges. The battle is full on and there won’t be many respites until the end of July!

The race:
The sun is out for a highly anticipated showdown pitting the riders of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 against the clock in a 17.4-km time-trial from Charmes-sur-Rhône to Saint-Péray. The course is straight but demanding, with a 2-km climb halfway through the stage to sap the legs.

Such a challenge is bound to deliver a major battle between the likes of Remco Evenepoel (winner of the ITT of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2024, Olympic champion and 2-time world champion), Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. Ivan Romeo (the 2024 U23 ITT world champion) wants to make the most of his abilities to defend the yellow and blue jersey claimed on Tuesday. Paul Seixas (2024 Junior world champion) completes an extraordinary rainbow cast.

Cavagna raises the bar
Domen Novak (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) is the first rider off the ramp, at 14:15. His time at the finish (24’43’’) is quickly beaten by Norwegian national champion Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X Mobility), setting a reference of exactly 23 minutes.

It takes a major effort from his countryman Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) to edge him from the hot seat. Remco Evenpoel’s predecessor, crowned ITT world champion in 2022, clocks a time of 22’00’’ (47.4 km/h).

Foss’ time resists until Rémi Cavagna (Groupama-FDJ) reminds everyone why he’s known as the “TGV from Clermont-Ferrand” (“high speed train”). After 10.5 km, the French specialist is 17 seconds ahead of Foss. At the finish, he maintains a gap of 3 seconds, with an average speed of 47.6 km/h.

Evenepoel at 50.1 km/h
The “Clermont-Ferrand TGV” enjoyed half an hour in the hot seat, but was knocked off the top spot by Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), who raised the bar even higher by improving the time to beat by 28 seconds.

However, we enter another dimension when Remco Evenepoel set off from Charmes-sur-Rhône, passed the intermediate time check 30 seconds ahead of the American rider from Visma-Lease a Bike, and crossed the finish line with a total lead of 37 seconds. It seems certain that the world champion has taken a step towards victory on the day, but his two prestigious rivals may well have what it takes to respond.

However, it is clearly too much for Jonas Vingegaard, who loses 20 seconds on the Belgian leader. The gap is even bigger for Tadej Pogacar, who has dropped out of the podium places, 11 seconds behind Jorgenson and 49 seconds behind Evenepoel.

Romeo loses the yellow and blue jersey
The battle for the overall classification is still wide open at this stage, given that Ivan Romeo is also the reigning U23 world champion in the discipline. At the start, he needed to finish no more than 1'17’’ behind Evenepoel to keep his yellow and blue jersey.

The Spaniard, tired from his efforts the day before, loses 1'25’’’ which still allows him to remain on the provisional podium, in third place behind Florian Lipowitz, who posted the fifth fastest time of the day.

Complete results:

Photos

17.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 50.112 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	20min 50sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 21sec
3	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:38
4	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:49
5	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:57
6	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:02
7	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	1:07
8	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:10
9	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
10	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:12
11	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:14
12	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:19
13	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	1:21
14	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	1:23
15	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	1:26
16	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	1:29
17	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	1:34
18	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:38
19	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
21	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	1:41
22	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	1:45
23	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	1:46
24	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:48
25	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:49
26	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
27	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
28	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	1:53
29	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	1:57
30	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:58
31	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
32	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	1:59
33	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:03
34	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
35	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
36	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:05
37	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
38	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	2:07
39	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	2:10
40	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
41	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	2:11
42	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	2:13
43	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:17
44	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	2:18
45	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	2:19
46	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	2:21
47	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
48	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
49	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
50	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	2:24
51	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
52	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:27
53	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
54	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:28
55	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:29
56	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	2:31
57	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
58	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
59	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:34
60	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	2:36
61	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	2:38
62	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
63	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
64	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
65	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:40
66	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	2:41
67	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
68	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	2:42
69	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:44
70	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	2:46
71	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
72	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
73	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:47
74	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	2:49
75	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	2:52
76	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	2:53
77	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
78	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	2:54
79	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	2:55
80	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	2:57
81	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
82	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
83	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:00
84	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	3:01
85	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
86	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:05
87	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	3:05
88	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	3:08
89	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
90	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	3:08
91	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	3:10
92	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	3:11
93	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	3:13
94	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	3:14
95	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	3:14
96	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	3:16
97	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	3:18
98	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:20
99	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	3:22
100	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	3:23
101	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
102	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
103	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	3:25
104	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	3:28
105	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	3:29
106	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
107	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
108	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
109	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:34
110	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	3:35
111	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	3:36
112	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	3:37
113	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	3:38
114	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	3:39
115	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:40
116	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
117	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:41
118	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:43
119	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
120	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
121	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	3:45
122	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
123	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
124	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	3:46
125	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	3:49
126	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
127	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:50
128	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
129	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
130	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:51
131	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:53
132	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:56
133	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
134	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	3:57
135	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:58
136	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:02
137	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:06
138	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	4:08
139	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	4:10
140	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	4:11
141	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	4:13
142	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	4:14
143	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	4:18
144	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	4:21
145	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	4:27
146	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	4:28
147	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	4:32
148	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	4:34
149	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:42
150	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	4:58

 

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Paul Ourselin (Cofidis)
• Points classification leader: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Best young rider: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leaqder: Visma | Lease a Bike

625 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.047 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	14hr 31min 8sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 4sec
3	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:09
4	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:14
5	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:16
6	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:30
7	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
8	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:38
9	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:39
10	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	1:03
11	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:13
12	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:15
13	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	1:16
14	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	1:17
15	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	1:24
16	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	1:25
17	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	1:35
18	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:39
19	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
21	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	1:42
22	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	1:46
23	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:49
24	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:50
25	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
26	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
27	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	1:54
28	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	1:58
29	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:59
30	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
31	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	2:00
32	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	2:04
33	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:06
34	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
35	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	2:08
36	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	2:14
37	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:18
38	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	2:19
39	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	2:20
40	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:21
41	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	2:22
42	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
43	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	2:25
44	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
45	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	2:28
46	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:29
47	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
48	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	2:32
49	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	2:43
50	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	2:47
51	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
52	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	2:54
53	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:56
54	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:57
55	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	2:59
56	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	3:02
57	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
58	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	3:04
59	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	3:09
60	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
61	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	3:14
62	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:15
63	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	3:17
64	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	3:24
65	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	3:26
66	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
67	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	3:30
68	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:35
69	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	3:54
70	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	4:18
71	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	4:29
72	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	4:43
73	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	4:49
74	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	5:10
75	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5:23
76	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:30
77	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	5:32
78	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:35
79	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	5:46
80	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:00
81	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	6:04
82	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	6:55
83	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	7:05
84	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	7:07
85	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	7:10
86	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	7:27
87	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	7:35
88	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	7:43
89	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	7:50
90	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	7:52
91	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	8:04
92	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	8:06
93	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	8:08
94	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	8:16
95	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	8:17
96	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	8:23
97	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	8:39
98	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	8:49
99	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	8:57
100	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	8:59
101	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	9:11
102	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	9:28
103	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	9:36
104	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	9:50
105	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	10:01
106	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	10:08
107	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	10:12
108	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	10:40
109	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	11:16
110	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	11:33
111	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	11:37
112	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	12:06
113	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:32
114	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	12:35
115	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	12:46
116	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	12:58
117	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
118	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	13:05
119	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	13:26
120	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	13:40
121	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	13:47
122	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:55
123	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:29
124	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:38
125	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	15:55
126	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	15:59
127	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	16:07
128	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	17:56
129	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	18:22
130	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	18:29
131	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	18:35
132	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	18:56
133	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	19:28
134	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	19:29
135	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	19:34
136	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	20:38
137	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	22:08
138	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	22:09
139	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	23:07
140	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	23:09
141	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	24:11
142	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	25:18
143	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	26:31
144	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	28:13
145	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	29:37
146	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	30:24
147	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	30:52
148	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	33:55
149	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	35:53
150	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	37:02

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

Stage 4 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Overnight GC leader Ivan Romeo. He was 15th, at 1min 26sec

French time trial champion Bruno Armirail was eleventh.

Mathieu van der Poel was sixth.

Tadej Pogacar riding to fourth in the stage.

Here's third-place Matteo Jorgenson

Jonas Vingegaard was second, 21 seconds slower than winner Evenepoel.

Remco Evenepoel: The finest time trialist in the world showing how it is done.

Mathieu van der Poel remains the points classification leader.

Paul Ourselin is the King of the Mountains.

Remco Evenepoel will start stage five in the yellow GC leader's jersey.

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Tuesday, June 10: Stage 3, Brioude - Charantonnay, 207.2 km

Stage 3 map & profile | Stage 3 photos

An emotional Ivan Romeo wins stage three and becomes the new GC leader.

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Stage 3 rated ascents:

• Km 8.9: Côte de Cornille, 4.1 km @ 4.8%. Cat. 3
• Km 18: Côte de la Barbate, 5.8 km @ 6.9%. Cat. 2
• Km 78.7: Côte de Malataverne, 5.4 km & 3.9%. Cat. 3
• Km 129.6: Col du Tracol, 2.9 km & 4.2%. Cat 4
• Km 188.2: Côte du Château Jaune, 1.2 km @ 9.2%. Cat. 3

Weather at the finish city of Charantonnay at 2:15 PM, local time: 26C (79F), sunny, with the wind from the west at 6 km/hr (4 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: The start city of Brioude is Romain Bardet's hometown.

Here's the race organizer's stage three summary:

An exhilarating day of racing towards Charantonnay saw Ivan Romeo (Movistar) make the most of his budding talent to claim victory on day 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné. The young Spaniard (21 years old) powered away from an impressive breakaway featuring the likes of Mathieu van der Poel and Florian Lipowitz and never looked back, eventually claiming the stage but also the yellow and blue jersey. Already a winner in the area during the Tour de l’Avenir 2023, he will enjoy a special day on Wednesday. From Charmes-sur-Rhône to Saint-Péray (17.4km), it will be all about the most powerful rouleurs and the GC contenders, with a highly anticipated individual time-trial. And Romeo is an expert of the matter too - he’s the reigning UCI ITT U23 World Champion!

The race:
153 riders line up at the start in Brioude, where local icon Romain Bardet receives warm thanks and encouragement from his home town and the Critérium du Dauphiné organisation as he gets ready to retire at the end of the week.

The classification leaders at the the startline.

A flurry of attacks led by Van der Poel
Romain Barder, the leader of Picnic PostNL, is one of the many attackers participating in the breakaway attempts on the côte de Cornille (km 8,9) and the côte de la Barbate (km 18).

Mathieu Van der Poel, Louis Barré and Van Gils are particularly active. But all these initiatives are nullified, while the size of the peloton halves, losing not only the leader of the overall standings Jonathan Milan but also the wearer of the polka-dot jersey, Paul Ourselin, and strong climbers like Ben Healy, Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet and Magnus Sheffield.

13 riders in the lead
The intermediate sprint at La Chaise-Dieu (km 29.4) provides an opportunity for Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel to chase a handful of bonus seconds (4 for the Slovenian, 2 for the Belgian), while Louis Barré launches a new move.

After several waves of counter-attackers join him, the leading group features 13 riders, with Axel Laurance, Michael Shea Leonard (Ineos Grenadiers), Ivan Romeo (Movistar), Brieuc Rolland (Groupama-FDJ), Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), Harold Tejada (XDS Astana), Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility), Ed Dunbar (Jayco AlUla), Louis Barré (Intermarché-Wanty) and Anthony Turgis (Total Energies).

The day's break about 70 kilometers into the stage with the peloton 1min 40sec back. GC leader Jonathan Milan has been dropped from the peloton.

GC teams react to the threat
Van der Poel is the best classified rider in the overall standings, only trailing by 2’’. And GC teams are also wary of riders such as Lipowitz (2nd of Paris-Nice 2025), Romeo (4th of the UAE Tour 2025), Dunbar (11th of last year’s La Vuelta, with 2 stage wins), Harold Tejada (8th of Paris-Nice)…

Tadej Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG, Remco Evenepoel’s Soudal Quick-Step and then Jonas Vingegaard’s Visma-Lease a Bike work together to control the day. The gap never gets higher than 2’35’’ (km 73) but it’s still up to 50’’ at the bottom of the last climb: the cat-3 Côte du Château Jaune (1.2km, 9.2%), to be summited with 19 km to go.

Romeo sets off
Lipowitz puts the hammer down at the bottom of the climb. Over the top, the German rider is accompanied by Tejada, Bernard and Leknessund. Van der Poel and Barré join them with 13 km to go. And then Romeo, Laurance, Dunbar and Rolland make it a 10-man group with 11 km to go. Meanwhile, the gap to the bunch goes back up to 1’15’’.

Ivan Romeo wins stage three and becomes the new GC leader.

Attacks fly and Romeo eventually manages to open a gap with 6 km to go. The Spaniard keeps pushing all the way to the finish, where he takes a most significant victory, 14’’ ahead of Tejada, Barré and Lipowitz. He also takes the yellow and blue jersey while the peloton finish with a gap of 1’06’’. But Wednesday’s ITT is set to turn the tables upside down again.

Complete results:

Photos

207.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.345 km/hr

1	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	4hr 34min 10sec
2	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	@ 14sec
3	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
4	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:27
6	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
7	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
8	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
9	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
10	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:29
11	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	1:08
12	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
13	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
14	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
15	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
16	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
17	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
18	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
19	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
20	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
21	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
22	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
23	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
24	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
25	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
26	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
27	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
28	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
29	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
30	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	s.t.
31	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
32	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
33	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
34	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
35	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
36	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
37	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
38	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
40	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
41	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
42	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
43	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
44	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
45	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
46	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
47	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
48	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
49	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
50	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
51	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
52	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
53	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
54	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
55	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
56	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
57	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
58	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
59	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
60	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
61	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
62	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
63	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
64	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
65	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
66	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
67	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
68	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
69	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
70	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
71	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
72	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
73	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
74	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
75	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
76	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
77	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
78	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
79	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
80	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
81	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
82	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
83	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
84	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
85	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
86	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
87	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	4:08
88	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5:28
89	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
90	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
91	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
92	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
93	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
94	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
95	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
96	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
97	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
98	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
99	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
100	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
101	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
102	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
103	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
104	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
105	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
106	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
107	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
108	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
109	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
110	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
111	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
113	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
115	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	5:46
116	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
117	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	7:38
118	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	8:14
119	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
120	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
121	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
122	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
123	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
124	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	8:21
125	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	10:03
126	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
127	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
128	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
129	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
130	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
131	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
132	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
133	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
134	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
135	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
136	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
137	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
138	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	s.t.
139	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	10:20
140	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
141	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
142	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
143	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
144	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
145	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	10:38
146	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	13:07
147	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	15:18
148	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
149	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
150	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
151	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.

 

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Ivan Romeo (Movistar)
• Mountains classification leader: Paul Ourselin (Cofidis)
• Points classification leader: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Best young rider: Ivan Romeo (Movistar)
• Teams classification leader: Movistar

607.6 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.939 km/hr

1	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	14hr 9min 1sec
2	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	@ 17sec
3	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:18
4	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:24
5	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:29
6	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	0:37
7	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
8	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:39
9	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:06
10	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	1:12
11	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
12	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:17
13	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
14	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:18
15	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
16	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
17	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
19	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
20	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
21	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
22	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
23	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
24	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
25	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
26	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
27	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
28	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
29	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
30	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
31	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
32	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
33	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
34	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
35	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
36	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
38	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
39	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
40	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
41	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
42	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
43	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
44	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
45	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
46	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
47	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
48	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
49	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
50	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
51	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
52	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
53	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
54	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
55	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
56	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
57	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
58	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
59	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
60	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
61	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	1:35
62	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
63	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
64	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
65	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
66	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
67	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
68	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
69	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
70	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
71	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	2:16
72	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	2:50
73	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	3:04
74	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:26
75	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:47
76	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
77	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
78	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	3:52
79	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	4:18
80	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	4:26
81	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	4:41
82	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	5:07
83	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
84	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
85	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	5:36
86	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	5:38
87	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
88	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
89	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
90	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
91	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	5:46
92	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	5:55
93	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
94	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
95	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
96	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
97	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
98	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	6:36
99	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
100	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	6:45
101	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	6:52
102	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	8:00
103	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	8:07
104	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
105	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
106	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	8:23
107	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	8:24
108	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	9:08
109	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:51
110	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	9:56
111	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	10:06
112	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	10:13
113	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
114	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	10:30
115	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
116	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
117	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
118	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	10:59
119	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	11:00
120	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11:23
121	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	11:36
122	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	11:37
123	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:03
124	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	12:42
125	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	13:41
126	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
127	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	14:02
128	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	14:07
129	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	15:25
130	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	15:28
131	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	15:44
132	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	15:58
133	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	16:17
134	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	16:44
135	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	16:57
136	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	17:37
137	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	17:58
138	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:36
139	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	20:14
140	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	20:46
141	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	21:32
142	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	21:32
143	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	22:29
144	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	23:38
145	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	25:44
146	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	28:16
147	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	29:31
148	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
149	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	31:49
150	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	33:14
151	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	34:26

 

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

Stage three photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

GC leader Jonathan Milan before the stage started.

Romain Bardet with fans before the start.

Remco Evenepoel

Romain Bardet again before the race.

Jonas Vingegaard

Tadej Pogacar

Mathieu van der Poel and Jonathan Milan at the start.

Ivan Romeo knows he's got the stage won.

Stage winner Ivan Romeo is overcome with emotion.

Harold Tejada was second in the stage.

Mathieu van der Poel (left) beats Axel Laurance for fifth place.

The field sprint for 11th place, won by Emilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies).

Jonathan Milan's last moment in yellow. He's with teammate Simone Consonni.

Ivan Romeo after the stage.

Stage winner and new GC leader Ivan Romeo.

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Monday, June 9: Stage 2, Prémilhat - Issoire, 204.6 km

Stage 2 map & profile | Stage 2 photos

Jonathan Milan wins stage two and becomes the new GC leader. Tadej Pogacar can be seen farther back, in yellow.

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Stage 2 rated ascents:

• Km 33.4: Côte de la Font Nanaud, 3.5 km @ 4.6%. Cat. 4
• Km 50.5: Côte de Saint-Priest-des-Champs, 1.3 km @ 5%. Cat. 4
• Km 61.1: Côte des Rivauds, 3.5 km @ 4.8%. Cat. 3
• Km 71.8: Côte de Saint Jacques d'Ambur, 3.1 km @ 5.1%. Cat. 3
• Km 147.1: Côte du Chateau de Buron, 3.3 km @ 6.9%. Cat. 2
• Km 186.7: Côte de Nonette, 1.8 km @ 5.7%. Cat. 4

Weather at the finish city of Issoire at 2:15 PM, local time: 22C (72F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 8 km/hr (5 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the race organizer's stage two report:

When it comes down to raw power, Jonathan Milan is a special beast. Despite being dropped over the climbs of the day, the Italian sprinter was perfectly supported by his Lidl-Trek team to battle for victory in Issoire, at the end of stage 2 of the 77th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné, where nobody could come close to him. In his maiden participation, Milan already takes his first victory in the race, and his sixth of a season that sees him rise as one of the best sprinters in the world, if not the best. He also takes the yellow and white jersey from Tadej Pogacar (41st). On his childhood roads, Romain Bardet (Picnic PostNL) attacked in the finale, on the eve of the start from Brioude, his hometown.

On the start line: Pogacar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel. Photo: ASO/Tony Esnault

The stage start
The sun is out to accompany the 153-man peloton setting off from Prémilhat at midday, with 204.6 km of racing ahead of them. The uphill start inspires attackers but the sprinters don’t want to let too big a group get away. After 8 kilometres of battle, Paul Ourselin (Cofidis) gets away, alone.

The leader of the KOM standings opens a gap as high as 6’30’’ (km 25) and makes the most of this opportunity to rack up 6 points atop the Côte de la Font Nanaud (cat. 4, km 33.4), Côte de Saint-Priest-des-Champs (cat. 4, km 50.5), Côte des Rivauds (cat. 3, km 61.1) and Côte de Saint Jacques d’Ambur (cat. 3, km 71.8) to all but secure the polka-dot jersey for another day.

3 + 1 = 4 attackers
Behind Ourselin, several riders try to counter-attack but Jonathan Milan’s Lidl-Trek and Mathieu Van der Poel’s Alpecin-Deceuninck join forces to control the day. Atop the Côte de Saint Jacques d’Ambur, the gap is still up to 5’05’’. It drops down to 1’15’’ at the intermediate sprint in Olby (km 102), halfway through the stage.
Three counter-attackers set off to join Ourselin a handful of kilometres further: Romain Combaud (Picnic PostNL), Victor Guernalec (Arkea-B&B Hotels) and Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco AlUla). The peloton only trail by 20’’ at km 106 but the leaders push the gap back up to 1’35’’ with 70 km to go.

Saving Private Milan
Onto the main ascent of the day, the cat.2 Côte du Château de Buron (3.3km at 6.9%), Juul Jensen ups the ante. Guernalec goes first over the top while Ourselin and Combaud are caught by the bunch, trailing by 55’’.

The road keeps rising and Milan is dropped with 55 kilometres to go. After a 10-km pursuit with four Lidl-Trek teammates, the Italian powerhouse gets back to the bunch as they enter the final 42.9km circuit.

Bardet’s special move
On his childhood roads, Romain Bardet (Picnic PostNL) attacks up the Côte de Nonette (cat.4) and opens a gap of 8’’ at the summit (17.9 km to go). The Frenchman pushes his lead to 20’’ but he’s caught just inside the last 10 kilometers.

Romain Bardet attacked on the day's final climb, the Côte de Nonette, but was caught with 9.7 kms to go.

Lidl-Trek took the helm of the bunch inside the last 3 kilometres to go to lead out Milan. Mathieu Van der Poel followed the Italian’s wheel, but nobody could match Milan’s power when he put the hammer down. Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Van der Poel follow him in the stage’s top-3. With Tadej Pogacar coming 41st, Milan also takes the yellow and blue jersey.

Complete results:

Photos

204.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.639 km/hr

1	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	4hr 54min 49sec
2	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
4	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
5	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
6	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
7	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
8	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
9	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
10	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
11	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
12	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
13	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
14	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
15	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
16	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
17	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
18	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
19	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
20	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
21	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
22	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
23	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
24	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
25	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
26	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
27	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
28	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
29	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
30	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
31	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
32	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
33	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	s.t.
34	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
35	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
36	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
37	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
38	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
39	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
40	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
41	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
42	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
43	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
44	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
45	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
46	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
47	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
48	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
49	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
50	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
51	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
52	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
53	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
54	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
55	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
56	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
57	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
58	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
59	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
60	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
61	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
62	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
63	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
64	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
65	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
66	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
67	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
68	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
69	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
70	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
71	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
72	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
73	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
74	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
75	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
76	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
77	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
78	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
79	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
80	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
81	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
82	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
83	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
84	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
85	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
86	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
87	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
88	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
89	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
90	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
91	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
92	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
93	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
94	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
95	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
96	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
97	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
98	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
99	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
100	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
101	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
102	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
103	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
104	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
105	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
106	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
107	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
108	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
109	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
110	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
111	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
112	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
113	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
114	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
115	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
116	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
117	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	@ 29sec
118	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
119	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
120	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	0;32
121	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
122	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	0:36
123	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	1:03
124	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
125	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:29
126	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:42
127	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
128	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
129	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	1:51
130	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:56
131	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
132	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	2:07
133	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	2:17
134	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	2:43
135	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:23
136	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	5:34
137	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
138	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
139	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
140	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
141	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
142	Oliver Knight	Cofidis	s.t.
143	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:33
144	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
145	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	11:25
146	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
147	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
148	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
149	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
150	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
151	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
152	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
153	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:31

 

GC after stage 2:

• GC leader: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
• Mountains classification leader: Paul Ourselin (Cofidis)
• Points classification leader: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Best young rider: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
• Teams classification leader: Visma | Lease a bike

400.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.792 km/hr

1	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	9hr 34min 51sec
2	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	@ 2sec
4	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	0:04
5	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
6	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	0:08
7	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:09
8	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
9	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	0:10
10	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
11	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
12	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
13	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
14	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
15	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
16	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
17	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
18	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
19	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
20	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
21	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
22	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
23	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
24	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
25	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
26	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
27	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
28	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
29	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
30	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
31	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
32	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
33	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
34	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
35	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
36	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
38	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
40	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
41	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
42	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
43	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
44	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
45	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
46	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
47	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
48	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
49	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
50	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
51	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
52	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
53	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
54	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
55	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
56	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
57	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
58	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
60	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
61	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
62	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
63	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
64	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
65	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
66	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
67	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
68	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
69	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
70	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
71	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
72	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
73	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
74	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
75	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
76	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	0:27
77	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
78	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
79	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
80	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
81	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
82	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
83	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
84	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
85	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
86	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
87	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
88	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
89	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
90	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
91	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
92	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
93	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	0:56
94	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	0:59
95	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	1:08
96	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
97	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
98	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:52
99	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	1:56
100	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:00
101	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:18
102	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	2:23
103	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	2:32
104	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	2:39
105	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
106	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
107	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
108	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
109	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
110	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
111	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
112	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	2:44
113	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:33
114	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	3:47
115	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	3:59
116	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
117	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
118	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
119	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
120	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
121	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	4:28
122	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	5:02
123	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	5:22
124	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:28
125	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	5:41
126	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	5:44
127	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:55
128	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
129	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	6:06
130	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	6:08
131	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	7:07
132	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	7:34
133	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	7:38
134	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	8:00
135	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	8:03
136	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	8:13
137	Oliver Knight	Cofidis	s.t.
138	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
139	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:43
140	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
141	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	9:33
142	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:37
143	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	15:24
144	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
145	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	16:04
146	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
147	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	16:31
148	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:01
149	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:56
150	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
151	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	19:08
152	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	19:28
153	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.

 

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

Stage two photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Opening ceremonies, Team Groupama-FDJ is presented.

Carlos Rodriguez before the stage start.

Romain Bardet

Stage winner Jonathan Milan before the race.

Remco Evenepoel before the stage start.

On the start line: Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenpoel.

Stage two gets rolling.

Time to sprint.

A happy Jonathan Milan wins stage two.

Jonathan Milan just after winning the stage.

Stage winner Jonathan Milan. In the white shirt is Bernard Thevenet, winner of the 1975 and 1976 editions of the Dauphiné, as well as the 1975 and 1977 Tours de France.

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Sunday, June 8: Stage 1, Domérat - Montluçon, 195.8 km

Stage 1 map & profile | Stage 1 photos

Tadej Pogacar wins a close one. Sirotti photo

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Stage 1 rated ascents:

• Km 107.5: Côte de Sainte-Thérence, 2.6 km @ 4.6%. Cat. 4
• Km 114: Côte d'Argenty, 2.1 km @ 5.4%. Cat. 4
• Km 125.5: Côte de Buffon, 0.6km @ 8.6%. Cat. 4
• Km 140: Côte de Domérat, 1.5 km @ 4%. Cat. 4
• Km 157.3: Côte de Buffon, 0.6 km @ 8.7%. Cat. 4
• Km 171.8: Côte de Domérat, 1.8 km @ 4%. Cat. 4
• Km 189.1: Côte de Buffon, 0.6 km @ 8.6%. Cat. 4

Weather at the finish city of Montluçon at 2:10 PM, local time: 21C (70F), fair, with the wind from the west-northwest at 18 km/hr (11 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: This is Romain Bardet's (Picnic-PostNL) final pro race.

Here is the race organizer's stage one summary:

Stage 1 of the Critérium du Dauphiné already delivered a thrilling chapter into the royal rumble anticipated this week with the likes of Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Mathieu van der Poel battling it out. The four superstars took the first four positions in Montluçon after a thrilling finale. Vingegaard put the hammer down with just over 5 kilometres to go and his three major rivals followed his move, alongside Santiago Buitrago. The Colombian climber was swallowed by the bunch in the sprint but the other four managed to get the better of the field, with Pogacar flying past Van der Poel with only 25 metres to go. Vingegaard finished 2nd in between the winner of the Tour of Flanders and the conqueror of Paris-Roubaix. Five years after his first participation, Pogacar takes his first stage win in the Dauphiné, and his tenth success as the reigning UCI World Champion.

Domérat and Montluçon are only separated by a handful of kilometres but a 195.8-km stage 1 of the Critérium du Dauphiné lies ahead of the peloton as they set off from the former in the morning. The opening 132-km loop will be followed by 2 laps on the final circuit (31.8km) around Montluçon. And many riders aye glory on this first day of action.

Two French riders attack as soon as the flag drops: Paul Ourselin (Cofidis) and Pierre Thierry (Arkea-B&B Hotels). They rapidly open a gap of 3’55’’ (at km 12) before Jonathan Milan’s Lidl-Trek and Pascal Ackermann’s Israel-Premier Tech put men at the front of the bunch to control the day.

Ourselin rules the early climbs, Pogacar shows himself
As the attackers make their way back to Montluçon, they face the first categorised climbs of the day. Ourselin goes first atop the Côte de Sainte-Thérence (km 107.5), Côte d’Argenty (km 114), Côte de Buffon (km 125.5) and Côte de Domérat (km 140) to all but secure the polka-dot jersey. He is then dropped while Thierry keeps going at the front.

EF Education-EasyPost up the ante on the second ascent of the Côte de Buffon and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) already accelerates with almost 40 km to go. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) is right on his wheel and the big guns look at each other.

The peloton halfway into the stage with two riders about two minutes up the road. Photo: ASO/Tony Esnault

Vingegaard makes the difference
Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) seizes the opportunity to bridge the 10-second gap to Thierry. The two men work together to push their lead to 45’’ into the final lap (31.8 km). Thierry holds on to go first atop the Côte de Domérat, before Wright goes solo into the last 25 km.

The Londoner is caught on the last ascent of the Côte de Buffon (0.6km at 8.6%, to be summited with 6.7km to go), marked by strong attacks from Axel Laurance (Ineos Grenadiers) and Lukas Nerurkar (EF Education-EasyPost). Attacks keep flying over the top until Vingegaard puts the hammer down with 5.6 km to go.

Pogacar outsprints Van der Poel
Pogacar and Van der Poel immediately follow the Danish climber. Evenepoel and Buitrago rapidly bridge the gap. And the five men fly towards the finish line, with the peloton right in their wake.

Tadej Pogacar wins stage one.

Sprinters get back to them inside the last kilometre… But Van der Poel has already opened his sprint. Only Pogacar and Vingegaard manage to get past him, inside the last 30 metres, while Evenepoel finishes 4th ahead of Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech).

Complete results:

Photos

195.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.927 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 40min 12sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
4	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
5	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
6	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
7	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
8	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
9	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
10	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
11	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
12	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
13	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
14	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
15	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
16	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
17	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
18	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
19	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
20	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
21	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
22	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
23	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
24	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
25	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
26	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
27	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
28	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
29	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
30	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
31	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
32	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
33	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
34	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
35	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
36	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
37	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
38	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
39	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
40	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
41	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
42	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
43	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
44	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
45	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
46	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
47	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
48	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
49	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
50	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
51	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
52	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
53	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
54	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
55	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
56	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
57	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
58	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
59	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
60	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
61	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
62	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
63	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
64	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
65	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
66	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
67	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
68	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
69	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
70	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
71	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
72	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
73	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
74	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
75	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
76	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
77	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
78	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
79	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
80	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	@ 17sec
81	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
82	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
83	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
84	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
85	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
87	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
88	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
89	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
90	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
91	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
92	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
94	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
95	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
96	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
97	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
98	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
99	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
100	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	0:58
101	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
102	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
103	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:18
104	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:39
105	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	1:46
106	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
107	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	2:13
108	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	2:22
109	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:29
110	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
111	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
112	Oliver Knight	Cofidis	s.t.
113	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
115	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
116	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
117	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
118	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
119	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	s.t.
120	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
121	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:49
122	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	s.t.
123	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
124	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
125	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
126	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
127	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
128	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
129	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
130	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
131	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
132	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
133	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
134	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
135	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
136	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
137	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	4:29
138	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	4:56
139	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:20
140	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:46
141	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	5:58
142	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	6:21
143	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
144	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
145	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
146	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	7:53
147	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
148	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
149	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
150	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
151	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	8:33
152	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	10:25
153	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.

GC after stage 1:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Mountains classification leader: Paul Ourselin (Cofidis)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: Visma | Lease a Bike

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 40min 2sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 4sec
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:06
4	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:09
5	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	0:10
6	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
7	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
8	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
9	Clément Venturini	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
10	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	s.t.
11	Paul Penhoët	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
12	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
13	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
14	Stian Fredheim	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
15	Ben Tulett	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
16	Anders Foldager	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
17	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
18	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
19	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
21	Simone Velasco	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
22	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
23	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
24	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
25	Max Poole	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
26	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
27	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
28	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
29	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
30	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
32	Enric Mas	Movistar Team	s.t.
33	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
34	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
35	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
36	Clément Berthet	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
38	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
39	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
40	Mathys Rondel	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
41	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
42	Clément Russo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
43	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
44	Juan Guillermo Martinez	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
45	Maxim Van Gils	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
46	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
47	Louis Barré	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
48	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
49	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
50	Archie Ryan	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
51	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
52	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
53	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
54	Clément Braz Afonso	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
55	Romain Bardet	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
56	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
57	Emanuel Buchmann	Cofidis	s.t.
58	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
60	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
61	Paul Seixas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
62	Edward Dunbar	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
63	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
64	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
65	Dylan Teuns	Cofidis	s.t.
66	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
67	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
68	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
69	Andreas Kron	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
70	Pierre Latour	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
71	Brieuc Rolland	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
72	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
73	Mathieu Burgaudeau	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
74	Victor Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
75	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
76	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
77	Kamiel Bonneu	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
78	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
79	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
80	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	0:27
81	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
82	Roland Thalmann	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
83	Asbjørn Hellemose	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
84	Alex Baudin	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
85	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
87	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
88	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
89	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
90	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
91	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
92	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
94	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
95	Fabien Doubey	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
96	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
97	Koen Bouwman	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
98	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
99	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
100	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:08
101	Alexander Hajek	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
102	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
103	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:28
104	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:49
105	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	1:56
106	Darren van Bekkum	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
107	Axel Laurance	INEOS Grenadiers	2:23
108	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	2:32
109	Fabian Weiss	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:39
110	Romain Combaud	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
111	Chris Hamilton	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
112	Oliver Knight	Cofidis	s.t.
113	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
115	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
116	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
117	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
118	Matis Louvel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
119	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar Team	s.t.
120	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
121	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:59
122	Michel Hessmann	Movistar Team	s.t.
123	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
124	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
125	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
126	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
127	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
128	Attila Valter	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
129	Mattéo Vercher	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
130	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
131	Jorge Arcas	Movistar Team	s.t.
132	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
133	Ludovic Robeet	Cofidis	s.t.
134	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
135	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
136	Alessandro De Marchi	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
137	Magnus Cort	Uno-X Mobility	4:39
138	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	5:06
139	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:30
140	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:56
141	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	6:08
142	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	6:31
143	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
144	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
145	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
146	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	8:00
147	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	8:03
148	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
149	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
150	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
151	Pepijn Reinderink	Soudal Quick-Step	8:43
152	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	10:33
153	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	10:35

 

Stage 1 map & profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile

Stage one photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Selfie time for Lenny Martinez and his Bahrain Victorious team

Guillaume Martin signs an autograph

Jonas Vingegaard heads to the start.

Opening ceremonies, Team Ef Education-EasyPost is presented

And here are the INEOS Grenadiers

Team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar before the stage start.

Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard on the start line.

The day's break of Paul Ourselin (Cofidis) and Pierre Thierry (Arkea-B&B Hotels).

Here they come...

World Road Champion Tadej Pogacar wins the first stage.

Tadej Pogacar wills tart stage two in yellow.