Critérium du Dauphiné

Stage 8: Val-d'Arc - Plateau du Mont-Cenis

FR France Sunday 15 June 2025 133.8 km

Evenepoel finishes fourth at the Critérium du Dauphiné

Evenepoel finishes fourth at the Critérium du Dauphiné

Remco Evenepoel improved his result of last year at the Critérium du Dauphiné by three places, coming home fourth on the general classification after a strong and hard week of racing. The double Olympic Champion once again won the only individual time trial of the competition and enjoyed a two-day spell in the yellow jersey before the three mountain stages, where he did his best despite a crash on stage 5, whose effects could be seen on the ascents.

On the final stage, a 133.3km one comprising six climbs, including the brutal Mont-Cenis one, and 3500 vertical meters, Remco attacked twice: once on the last difficulty of the day, where he accelerated from the favourites’ group making a selection, followed by another move on the plateau leading to the line, where he dropped almost all those with him en route to fifth place – his sixth top ten finish of the week – a result that helped the Belgian seal his position in the overall standings.

“This final stage was another step forward. I underestimated the crash in which I was involved a couple of days a bit and also struggled with the allergies, which prevented me from being at my best for two days in a row, but today was a bit better, I had a good feeling, and that gives me a lot of confidence for the future.”

“In the next couple of weeks, I want to work on the tempo changes, because it’s something that isn’t in my nature, but I also need to improve on the climbs. There’s still some time until the Tour de France and we are confident we can be there with a good team and in better form”, said Remco after bringing home Soudal Quick-Step’s best result in eight years at the Dauphiné.

 

Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images

Race details

1 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
3:34:18
2 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:34
3 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:34
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:40
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:40
6 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
0:45
7 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:47
8 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
0:47
9 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
1:01
10 Sepp Kuss
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:01
21 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
3:18
67 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
16:14
108 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
26:12
118 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
27:20
DNF Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
-03:34:18
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
29:19:46
2 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:59
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 Nicolau
Movistar Team
7:57
8 Paul Seixas
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
8:25
9 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
8:57
10 Guillaume Martin Guyonnet
Groupama - FDJ
10:01
51 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
59:11
63 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
1:08:28
64 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
1:08:53
122 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
1:48:29
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
79 pt
2 Mathieu van der Poel
Alpecin - Deceuninck
79 pt
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
70 pt
4 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
55 pt
5 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
48 pt
6 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
41 pt
7 Axel Laurance
INEOS Grenadiers
36 pt
8 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
33 pt
9 Bastien Tronchon
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
32 pt
10 Fred Wright
Bahrain - Victorious
32 pt
1 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
36 pt
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
33 pt
3 Sergio Higuita García
XDS Astana Team
27 pt
4 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
26 pt
5 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
23 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 Mathieu van der Poel
Alpecin - Deceuninck
14 pt
10 Alex Baudin
EF Education - EasyPost
13 pt
20 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
37 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
29:22:24
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
1:43
3 Paul Seixas
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
5:47
4 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
6:19
5 Ben Tulett
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
10:30
6 Mathys Rondel
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
14:21
7 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
36:14
8 Louis Barré
Intermarché - Wanty
39:25
9 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
45:13
10 Iván Romeo Abad
Movistar Team
46:37
16 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step
56:33
42 Pepijn Reinderink
Soudal Quick-Step
1:45:51
1 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 88:16:04
2 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 39:05
3 Bahrain - Victorious 49:21
4 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 51:22
5 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 51:46
6 Movistar Team 54:57
7 EF Education - EasyPost 1:10:54
8 INEOS Grenadiers 1:16:28
9 Groupama - FDJ 1:17:29
10 Soudal Quick-Step 1:28:58

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