Along with the Tour de Suisse, the Criterium du Dauphine is one of the true warm-up races for the Tour de France and Denmark’s Jakob Fuglsang won it for the second time in three years, taking charge on the next-to-last stage with a second-place finish on the mountainous course.
Coupled with a third-place finish in the second stage, he managed to hold off American Tejay van Garderen for the victory by 20 seconds over more than 30 hours of riding.
Fuglsang now hopes his Tour de France experience is better than after he won the 2017 Criterium, where he was not able to finish. Van Garderen had his best finish in a multi-stage race since he was runner-up at last year’s Amgen Tour of California. He had also finished second in the 2015 Criterium du Dauphine.
(The Tour de Suisse is continuing; the leader after two of nine stages is Dane Kasper Asgreen and Slovakian star Peter Sagan, both one second ahead of Australians Rohan Dennis and Michael Matthews.)
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British star Lizzie Deignan, the 2015 World Road Race Champion, showed she is fully recovered from he 2017 injuries with a terrific win at the six-stage OVO Energy Women’s Tour in England and Wales.
She moved from third to first on the difficult fifth stage, winning the stage against Poland’s Kasia Niewiadoma and vaulting over her and Liane Lippert (GER) for the overall lead. She held on in the final stage, finishing eighth and just two seconds ahead of the Pole.
It was Deignan’s second win at the British stage race, also in 2016 and her first win in two years. If she is truly healthy now, she can be a dangerous challenger to the ruling Dutch stars of the UCI Women’s World Tour. Summaries:
UCI World Tour Criterium du Dauphine
France ~ 9-16 June 2019
(Full results here)
Stage 1 (142.0 km): 1. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR), 3:24:33; 2. Philippe Gilbert (BEL), 3:24:33; 3. Wout van Aert (BEL), 3:24:33; 4. Nils Politt (GER), 3:24:33; 5. Gregor Muhlberger (AUT), 3:24:33. Also in the top 25: 25. Tejay van Garderen (USA), 3:24:33.
Stage 2 (180.0 km): 1. Dylan Teuns (BEL), 4:12:41; 2. Guillaume Martin (FRA), 4:12:41; 3. Jakob Fuglsang (DEN), 4:12:54; 4. Thibaut Pinot (FRA), 4:12:54; 5. Michael Woods (CAN), 4:12:54. Also in the top 25: 17. Van Garderen (USA), 4:13:25.
Stage 3 (177.0 km): 1. Sam Bennett (IRL), 4:15:25; 2. Van Aert (BEL), 4:15:25; 3. Davide Ballerini (ITA), 4:15:25; 4. Clement Venturini (FRA), 4:15:25; 5. Edward Theuns (BEL), 4:15:25. Also in the top 25: 24. Neilson Powless (USA), 4:15:25.
Stage 4 (26.1 km Time Trial): 1. Van Aert (BEL), 33:38; 2. Van Garderen (USA), 34:09; 3. Tom Dumoulin (NED), 34:25; 4. Steven Kruijswijk (NED), 34:27; 5. Emanuel Buchmann (GER), 34:29. Also in the top 25: 16. Joey Rosskopf (USA), 35:04; … 25. Powless (USA), 35:23.
Stage 5 (201.0 km): 1. Van Aert (BEL), 5:00:34; 2. Bennett (IRL), 5:00:34; 3. Julian Alaphilippe (FRA), 5:00:34; 4. Lorenzo Manzin (FRA), 5:00:34; 5. Venturini (FRA), 5:00:34.
Stage 6 (229.0 km): 1. Alaphilippe (FRA), 6:00:54; 2. Gregor Muhlberger (AUT), 6:00:54; 3. Alessandro de Marchi (ITA), 6:01:16; 4. Woet Poels (NED), 6:07:04; 5. Gorka Izagirre (ESP), 6:07:04. Also in the top 25: 21. Van Garderen (USA), 6:07:04.
Stage 7 (133.5 km): 1. Poels (NED), 4:01:34; 2. Fuglsang (DEN), 4:01:35; 3. Buchmann (GER), 4:01:35; 4. Pinot (FRA), 4:01:44; 5. Dan Martin (IRL), 4:01:44. Also in the top 25: 8. Van Garderen (USA), 4:01:50; … 15. Sepp Kuss (USA), 4:02:32; … 25. Powless (USA), 4:05:23.
Stage 8 (113.5 km): 1. Dylan van Baarle (NED), 3:05:48; 2. Jack Haig (AUS), 3:05:48; 3. Carl Fredrik Hagen (NOR), 3:06:38; 4. Warren Barguil (FRA), 3:07:00; 5. Sepp Kuss (USA), 3:07:00. Also in the top 25: 18. Van Garderen (USA), 3:07:47; … 23. Powless (USA), 3:08:26.
Final Standings: 1. Jakob Fuglsang (DEN), 30:44:27; 2. Tejay van Garderen (USA), +0:20; 3. Emanuel Buchmann (GER), +0:21; 4. Wout Poels (NED), +0:28; 5. Thibaut Pinot (FRA), +0:33; 6. Dylan Teuns (BEL), +1:11; 7. Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ), +1:12; 8. Dan Martin (IRL), +1:21; 9. Nairo Quintana (COL), +1:24; 10. Romain Bardet (FRA), +1:38. Also in the top 26: 24. Neilson Powless (USA), +14:59; 25. Joey Rosskopf (USA), +15:09; 26. Sepp Kuss (USA), +19:19.
UCI Women’s World Tour/OVO Energy Women’s Tour
Britain ~ 10-15 June 2019
(Full results here)
Stage 1 (157.6 km): 1. Jolien D’Hoore (BEL), 4:09:12; 2. Amy Pieters (NED), 4:09:12; 3. Lisa Brennauer (GER), 4:09:12; 4. Roxane Founier (FRA), 4:09:12; 5. Marianne Vos (NED), 4:09:12. Also in the top 25: 16. Coryn Rivera (USA), 4:09:12; … 25. Leah Thomas (USA), 4:09:12.
Stage 2 (62.5 km): 1. Vos (NED), 1:34:17; 2. Lizzie Deignan (GBR), 1:34:17; 3. Sarah Roy (AUS), 1:34:17; 4. Elena Cecchini (ITA), 1:34:17; 5. Maria Giulia Confalonieri (ITA), 1:34:17. Also in the top 25: 7. Rivera (USA), 1:34:17; … 25. Thomas (USA), 1:34:24.
Stage 3 (145.1 km): 1. D’Hoore (BEL), 3:46:04; 2. Brennauer (GER), 3:46:04; 3. Demi Vollering (NED), 3:46:04; 4. Fournier (FRA), 3:46:04; 5. Roy (AUS), 3:46:04. Also in the top 25. 12. Rivera (USA), 3:46:04
Stage 4 (158.9 km): 1. Kasia Niewiadoma (POL), 4:18:29; 2. Liane Lippert (GER), 4:18:29; 3. Deignan (GBR), 4:18:36; 4. Pieters (NED), 4:18:38; 5. Vollering (NED), 4:18:40. Also in the top 25: 7. Thomas (USA), 4:18:40; … 23. Rivera (USA), 4:19:10.
Stage 5 (140.0 km): 1. Deignan (GBR), 3:54:35; 2. Niewiadoma (POL), 3:54:35; 3. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA), 3:54:37; 4. Leah Kirchmann (CAN), 3:54:52; 5. Christine Majerus (LUX), 3:54:52. Also in the top 25: 16. Thomas (USA), 3:54:57.
Stage 6 (125.9 km): 1. Pieters (NED), 3:27:02; 2. Kirchmann (CAN), 3:27:02; 3. Fournier (FRA), 3:27:02; 4. Vollering (FRA), 3:27:02; 5. Majerus (LUX), 3:27:02. Also in the top 25: 13. Thomas (USA), 3:27:02.
Final Standings: 1. Lizzie Deignan (GBR), 21:09:25; 2. Kasia Niewiadoma (POL), +0:02; 3. Amy Pieters (NED), +0:23; 4. Christine Majerus (LUX), +0:49; 5. Demi Vollering (NED), +0:51; 6. Leah Kirchmann (CAN), +0:54; 7. Elizabeth Banks (GBR), +0:58; 8. Leah Thomas (USA), +0:58; 9. Malgorzata Jasinska (POL), +0:59; 10. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA), +1:01. Also in the top 25: 25. Coryn Rivera (USA), +6:42.
