Critérium du Dauphiné
Stage 6: Nantua - Crest-Voland
France
Friday 09 June 2023
170.2 km
Critérium du Dauphiné: A day in the break for Bagioli

The sixth stage of the French World Tour race featured just four classified climbs, but the profile of this 170.2km day in the saddle was deceptive, as the last two of these – Côte de Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe and Crest-Voland – boasted some really tough gradients.
For the second day running, the start was incredibly fast, the peloton averaging close to 50 kilometers in the first hour of racing. After leaving behind the town of Nantua, where Julian Alaphilippe won a Tour de l’Ain stage as a neo-pro in 2014, the fight for the breakaway started. It took around 40 kilometers for a leading group to form, and when this happened, our team had there the strong duo of Andrea Bagioli and Dries Devenyns.
Both worked well together with the other men up the road, helping the move establish a maximum gap of four minutes. In the last 50 kilometers, a change of teams at the front of the bunch signalled a change of pace, and suddenly the escapees’ advantage began going down rapidly, by the time they took on Col des Aravis only 1:40 separating them from the field.
That was also the moment that the group fragmented, Andrea finding himself chasing a strong trio. The Italian gave his best, but despite his effort he came short of bridging across, and on the last ascent he was reeled in by the yellow jersey group. The small peloton arrived some 50-odd seconds behind winner Georg Zimmermann (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty) and Julian sprinted to his third top ten finish of the week, which helped the Frenchman cements his place on the overall podium ahead of the mountainous weekend that will bring down the curtain over this edition.
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Race details
1 |
Georg Zimmermann Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
4:02:50 |
2 |
Mathieu Burgaudeau TotalEnergies |
0:01 |
3 |
Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolás INEOS Grenadiers |
0:08 |
4 |
Giulio Ciccone Trek - Segafredo |
0:48 |
5 |
Ben O'Connor AG2R Citroën Team |
0:48 |
6 |
Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates |
0:48 |
7 |
Jack Haig Bahrain - Victorious |
0:48 |
8 |
Jai Hindley BORA - hansgrohe |
0:48 |
9 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step |
0:48 |
10 |
Enric Mas Nicolau Movistar Team |
0:48 |
45 |
Andrea Bagioli
Soudal - Quick Step |
2:50 |
53 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal - Quick Step |
5:08 |
79 |
Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step |
10:35 |
95 |
Florian Sénéchal
Soudal - Quick Step |
11:03 |
107 |
Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step |
17:22 |
122 |
Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step |
20:35 |
1 |
Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen Jumbo-Visma |
21:06:41 |
2 |
Ben O'Connor AG2R Citroën Team |
1:10 |
3 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:23 |
4 |
Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates |
1:26 |
5 |
Jai Hindley BORA - hansgrohe |
1:37 |
6 |
Jack Haig Bahrain - Victorious |
1:44 |
7 |
Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda INEOS Grenadiers |
2:07 |
8 |
Guillaume Martin Cofidis |
2:54 |
9 |
Mikkel Bjerg UAE Team Emirates |
2:55 |
10 |
Tobias Halland Johannessen Uno-X Pro Cycling Team |
2:57 |
49 |
Andrea Bagioli
Soudal - Quick Step |
15:43 |
72 |
Florian Sénéchal
Soudal - Quick Step |
24:16 |
78 |
Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step |
27:30 |
81 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal - Quick Step |
28:35 |
118 |
Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step |
45:56 |
131 |
Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:01:34 |
1 |
Christophe Laporte Jumbo-Visma |
78 pt |
2 |
Matteo Trentin UAE Team Emirates |
58 pt |
3 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step |
55 pt |
4 |
Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen Jumbo-Visma |
37 pt |
5 |
Fred Wright Bahrain - Victorious |
30 pt |
6 |
Axel Zingle Cofidis |
30 pt |
7 |
Clément Champoussin Team Arkéa Samsic |
24 pt |
8 |
Rune Herregodts Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
24 pt |
9 |
Richard Carapaz Montenegro EF Education-EasyPost |
22 pt |
10 |
Robert Stannard Alpecin-Deceuninck |
22 pt |
17 |
Andrea Bagioli
Soudal - Quick Step |
16 pt |
31 |
Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step |
10 pt |
1 |
Mathieu Burgaudeau TotalEnergies |
13 pt |
2 |
Pierre Latour TotalEnergies |
11 pt |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen Jumbo-Visma |
5 pt |
4 |
Georg Zimmermann Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
5 pt |
5 |
Jonas Gregaard Wilsly Uno-X Pro Cycling Team |
4 pt |
6 |
Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolás INEOS Grenadiers |
4 pt |
7 |
Rafał Majka UAE Team Emirates |
3 pt |
8 |
James Shaw EF Education-EasyPost |
3 pt |
9 |
Rune Herregodts Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
2 pt |
10 |
Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates |
2 pt |
1 |
Mikkel Bjerg UAE Team Emirates |
21:09:36 |
2 |
Tobias Halland Johannessen Uno-X Pro Cycling Team |
0:02 |
3 |
Clément Champoussin Team Arkéa Samsic |
0:16 |
4 |
Max Poole Team DSM |
0:17 |
5 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
0:18 |
6 |
Sean Quinn EF Education-EasyPost |
0:44 |
7 |
Lenny Martinez Groupama - FDJ |
1:14 |
8 |
Oscar Onley Team DSM |
2:17 |
9 |
Robert Stannard Alpecin-Deceuninck |
4:09 |
10 |
Edoardo Zambanini Bahrain - Victorious |
4:29 |
14 |
Andrea Bagioli
Soudal - Quick Step |
12:48 |
23 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal - Quick Step |
25:40 |
35 |
Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step |
43:01 |
1 | UAE Team Emirates | 63:23:59 |
2 | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:05 |
3 | Bahrain - Victorious | 4:56 |
4 | EF Education-EasyPost | 5:00 |
5 | Jumbo-Visma | 11:26 |
6 | Groupama - FDJ | 11:46 |
7 | BORA - hansgrohe | 13:03 |
8 | Trek - Segafredo | 16:51 |
9 | Cofidis | 19:50 |
10 | AG2R Citroën Team | 20:14 |