Critérium du Dauphiné
Stage 7: Grand-Algueblanche - Valmeinier 1800
France
Saturday 14 June 2025
132.1 km
Strong effort of Evenepoel on Dauphiné queen stage

The riders had to overcome three massive ascents Saturday afternoon at the penultimate World Tour stage race of the year – Col de la Madeleine, Col de la Croix de Fer and Valmeinier 1800, and the first of these was climbed right from the start. Among those to try something was also Soudal Quick-Step’s Valentin Paret-Peintre, who went with another rider and opened a 40-second gap before being joined by a large chasing group.
As their margin didn’t exceed two minutes at any point during the stage, the peloton had an easy mission when it came to bringing them back, which they did on the second climb, where the main favourites’ group was reduced to just ten riders after a sudden change of tempo at the front. In the Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne valley, where more than 2000 years ago Hannibal led his army consisting of more than 100 000 soldiers and 37 elephants as he crossed the Alps, more riders joined that small bunch, which arrived together at the bottom of Valmeinier, trailing the last survivor of the breakaway by 40 seconds.
The fight for victory was ignited more than ten kilometers from the line, when Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) attacked and put some daylight into his opponents. Evenepoel once again adopted his usual steady pacing strategy, just like on the previous day, riding tempo and not blowing pace. It was a strategy that helped Soudal Quick-Step’s leader conclude the stage in fifth – a result that helped him cement his fourth place in the general classification of this 77th Critérium du Dauphiné.
Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images
Race details
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
4:10:00 |
2 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:14 |
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 Nicolau Movistar Team |
3:48 |
8 |
Emanuel Buchmann Cofidis |
3:51 |
9 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
3:51 |
10 |
Guillaume Martin Guyonnet Groupama - FDJ |
3:51 |
44 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
24:22 |
53 |
Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step |
25:40 |
78 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
32:44 |
122 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step |
39:32 |
123 |
Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step |
39:32 |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
25:44:58 |
2 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
1:01 |
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 Team |
6:50 |
7 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
7:18 |
8 |
Ben Tulett Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
7:24 |
9 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
7:41 |
10 |
Enric Mas Nicolau Movistar Team |
7:43 |
43 |
Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step |
41:38 |
66 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
53:09 |
77 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
56:23 |
124 |
Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:22:47 |
134 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:45:20 |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
69 pt |
2 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
69 pt |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
58 pt |
4 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
49 pt |
5 |
Florian Lipowitz Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
44 pt |
6 |
Jake Stewart Israel - Premier Tech |
41 pt |
7 |
Jonathan Milan Lidl - Trek |
41 pt |
8 |
Axel Laurance INEOS Grenadiers |
36 pt |
9 |
Louis Barré Intermarché - Wanty |
33 pt |
10 |
Bastien Tronchon Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
32 pt |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
27 pt |
2 |
Santiago Buitrago Sánchez Bahrain - Victorious |
27 pt |
3 |
Sergio Higuita García XDS Astana Team |
27 pt |
4 |
Bruno Armirail Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
19 pt |
5 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
18 pt |
6 |
Juan Guillermo Martinez Huertas Team Picnic PostNL |
18 pt |
7 |
Romain Bardet Team Picnic PostNL |
16 pt |
8 |
Florian Lipowitz Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
15 pt |
9 |
Alex Baudin EF Education - EasyPost |
13 pt |
10 |
Paul Ourselin Cofidis |
12 pt |
17 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
6 pt |
1 |
Florian Lipowitz Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
25:47:19 |
2 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:50 |
3 |
Paul Seixas Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
4:29 |
4 |
Ben Tulett Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
5:03 |
5 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
5:20 |
6 |
Mathys Rondel Tudor Pro Cycling Team |
11:43 |
7 |
Louis Barré Intermarché - Wanty |
12:52 |
8 |
Iván Romeo Abad Movistar Team |
35:20 |
9 |
Lenny Martinez Bahrain - Victorious |
37:11 |
10 |
Brieuc Rolland Groupama - FDJ |
38:22 |
23 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
54:02 |
43 |
Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:20:26 |
1 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 77:30:55 |
2 | Bahrain - Victorious | 29:08 |
3 | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 33:23 |
4 | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | 40:25 |
5 | Movistar Team | 42:18 |
6 | Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | 45:21 |
7 | INEOS Grenadiers | 55:18 |
8 | Groupama - FDJ | 56:52 |
9 | EF Education - EasyPost | 1:03:56 |
10 | Uno-X Mobility | 1:05:41 |