A Remco Evenepoel masterclass at the Critérium du Dauphiné

Race report | Wednesday 11 June 2025 - 17:27

The 25-year-old took the win and two distinctive jerseys after Wednesday’s stage

Remco Evenepoel crushed the stage four individual time trial of the French race, scoring the victory, just like last year, and moving into the yellow jersey after one of the most stunning rides of his career in a race against the clock.

The Olympic and World Champion of the discipline had a superb start, blasting through the intermediate checkpoint and improving the best result up until that point by a massive 30 seconds, which put him on track for a great day at the Critérium du Dauphiné. The Belgian, making his just second stage race appearance of the season, continued to push a big tempo in the remaining kilometers, producing a blistering ride and clocking a time of 20:30 thanks to an average speed of more than 50km/h, enough to see him take the victory by a huge margin for a 17.4km ITT – his 56th in the Soudal Quick-Step jersey.

This dominant victory, Remco’s 19th in an individual time trial, sees him lead the general classification at the French race with four stages to go, an important boost of confidence for Evenepoel, as he mentioned after the podium ceremony.

“It was a tough stage due to that steep climb, but I just found my rhythm as soon as I rolled down the ramp and kept it on the climb and also in the final kilometers, where I used the headwind in my favour. I am proud of this victory and happy that I could make some important gaps in the general classification. I wasn’t expecting that, especially as my main focus was on the stage win, but it just shows all the hard work I have put into it. Today was a good step for the next days and weeks, and at the same time, a result that makes me confident for the coming stages”, said Evenepoel after scoring Soudal Quick-Step’s 1000th victory.

 

Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images

Race details

1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
20:50
2 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:21
3 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:38
4 Tadej Pogačar
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 Rémi Cavagna
Groupama - FDJ
1:07
8 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
1:10
9 Tobias Foss
INEOS Grenadiers
1:10
10 Paul Seixas
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
1:12
32 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
1:59
47 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
2:21
102 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
3:23
104 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
3:28
112 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
3:37
125 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
3:49
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
14:31:08
2 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:04
3 Iván Romeo Abad
Movistar Team
0:09
4 Mathieu van der Poel
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:14
5 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:16
6 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
0:30
7 Harold Tejada Canacue
XDS Astana Team
0:30
8 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:38
9 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:39
10 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
1:03
31 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
2:00
86 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
7:27
102 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
9:28
121 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
13:47
134 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
19:29
148 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
33:55
1 Mathieu van der Poel
Alpecin - Deceuninck
61 pt
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
39 pt
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
37 pt
4 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
34 pt
5 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
30 pt
6 Bastien Tronchon
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
26 pt
7 Iván Romeo Abad
Movistar Team
25 pt
8 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
25 pt
9 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
24 pt
10 Harold Tejada Canacue
XDS Astana Team
22 pt
1 Paul Ourselin
Cofidis
12 pt
2 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
8 pt
3 Victor Guernalec
6 pt
4 Emanuel Buchmann
Cofidis
3 pt
5 Christopher Juul-Jensen
Team Jayco AlUla
3 pt
6 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
2 pt
7 Ruben Guerreiro
Movistar Team
2 pt
8 Pierre Thierry
2 pt
9 Max Poole
Team Picnic PostNL
2 pt
10 Romain Bardet
Team Picnic PostNL
1 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
14:31:08
2 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:04
3 Iván Romeo Abad
Movistar Team
0:09
4 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
1:03
5 Paul Seixas
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
1:13
6 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
1:35
7 Finn Fisher-Black
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:39
8 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:39
9 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
1:42
10 Ben Tulett
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:50
30 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
7:27
45 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
19:29
1 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 43:36:15
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:53
3 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 0:56
4 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:26
5 Soudal Quick-Step 1:32
6 Bahrain - Victorious 1:52
7 Uno-X Mobility 2:23
8 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 2:26
9 Groupama - FDJ 2:34
10 Movistar Team 2:38

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