Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 – Stage 8 [FULL STAGE]

June 16, 2019

Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 – Stage 8 – Cluses – Champéry : 113,5 km

The headliners for this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné (June 9-15) include four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome (Team Ineos). The British rider missed last year’s Dauphiné owing to his Giro d’Italia ambitions but he returns to familiar territory with a team capable of taking overall honours for the seventh time in nine editions.

Jakob Fuglsang secured overall victory at the Criterium du Dauphine after his Astana team controlled his GC rivals and efficiently dissuaded any attacks on the final mountain stage to Champery across the French border into Switzerland in the heart of the Alps.

Fuglsang started the stage with an eight-second lead on Adam Yates, but the Mitchelton-Scott rider surprisingly abandoned with 50km left to race, his team revealing he was suffering with a fever. Fuglsang’s other rivals lacked the terrain and courage to try to crack him, and so the Astana blue train gave the Dane an armchair ride to the finish.

Dylan van Baarle (Team Ineos) won the 113km stage after being part of the 13-rider move of the day. He and Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott) were the strongest on the final climbs and rode to the finish together, with van Baarle using his better speed and sprint skills to win. Astana brought the GC group home some 1:59 down on van Baarle to begin the celebrations and give Fuglsang his second overall victory in the French stage race, two years after his first.

Yates abandonment meant that Tejay van Garderen (EF Education First) finished second overall, 20 seconds down on Fuglsang, with Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) confirming his stage race credentials with third overall at 21 seconds. Wout Poels (Team Ineos) was fourth at 28 seconds.

“I jumped in the blue limousine and they rode me to the finish,” Fuglsang joked about the strength of his Astana team during the final stage.

“I expect the day to be even harder than it turned out to be, but my teammates did a great job and controlled it so perfect. We got a nice group up front; the best guy was five minutes down or something in the GC. Yates stopped for some reason and Kruijswijk had problems too; maybe yesterday was hard for some due to the cold and today then the team did the rest for me.”

Fuglsang won the 2017 Criterium du Dauphine but savoured this one more after riding the final stage in the leader’s yellow jersey. In 2017 he snatched victory from Richie Porte on the final stage.

“This one is special because I got to ride in the yellow jersey. In 2017 I won 2 stages but this one is different, I’m super happy to bring the jersey to finish and win,” he said.

Next up is a certain Grand Tour in July.

“I think my next race is another one in France…. I’m looking forward to it,” Fuglsang joked with confidence. “I think I’m in the right way and that this year can be a good year for me. This has been a fantastic season and I hope it can get even better.

“This year everything seems to come really easy and perfectly. It makes it so much easier, there’s no stress and everything comes automatically. Also the whole Astana team is super strong and everybody is lifting everyone else, there’s a good atmosphere, it’s really good.”

A short, controlled but intense final stage

The 113km stage was short but intense, but the lack of a steep mountain finish and the strength of the Astana squad were a blow to the hopes of Fuglsang’s overall rivals.

Team Ineos tried to set a fast pace and Thibaut Pinot made one acceleration, but Fuglsang never looked in trouble. He carefully let the break of 13 riders go away and then enjoyed the sky blue limo ride to the finish.

In the attack where van Baarle, Haig, Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Felix Grosshartner (Bora-Hansgrohe), Carlos Verona (Movistar), Sebastian Reichenbach (Groupama-FDJ), Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), Julien Bernard (Trek-Segafredo), Carl Fredrik Hagen (Lotto-Soudal), Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain-Merida), Alessandro De Marchi (CCC) and Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic).

Some were there for a GC teammate, others chasing the stage victory, but they worked well together over the rolling roads towards the Swiss border. Alaphilippe was there to sweep up the final mountain points and so win the blue polka-dot jersey. He did that with ease but then faltered when he turned his attention to winning the stage.

The 8.5km Côte des Rives with 20km to race proved fatal for Alaphilippe and saw Haig distance all his rivals. Van Baarle joined him at the right moment and everyone faded out of contention.

Hagen went close as Alaphilippe eased up, but Haig and van Baarle showed their form and talent by holding off the chase. Haig perhaps made a mistake in the sprint, and van Baarle made sure he hit out from the front close to the line, punching the air in celebration and giving Team Ineos a second consecutive stage victory after the emotions of Chris Froome’s crash.

“The plan was that me and Gianni Moscon would go in the breakaway to try and help Wout (Poel), but it turned out a bit differently. I’m so happy,” van Baarle said.

“This week had its ups and downs and everyone knows what happen with Chris. I’m happy the team did really great with that. I’m just really happy. In the past I really struggled in this race but I trained and worked so hard to be good here, I’m happy this came out of it all.”

Results :
1 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos 3:05:48
2 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
3 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal 0:00:50
4 Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:01:12
5 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
6 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
7 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:16
8 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:59
9 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
10 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
11 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
12 Bjorg Lambrecht (Bel) Lotto Soudal
13 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
14 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
15 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Ineos
16 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
17 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates
18 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Education First
19 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:02:04
20 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:05
21 Magnus Cort Nielsen (Den) Astana Pro Team
22 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:38
23 Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
24 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:02:44
25 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) CCC Team
26 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:02:56
27 Carlos Verona (Spa) Movistar Team
28 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida
29 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team 0:03:32
30 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
31 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:39
32 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Ineos 0:03:45
33 Serge Pauwels (Bel) CCC Team 0:04:08
34 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:04:34
35 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team 0:05:17
36 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
37 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo
38 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
39 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
40 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:07:09
41 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
42 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
43 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotel
44 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
45 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
46 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team Sunweb
47 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
48 Jérémy Maison (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
49 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
50 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty-Gobert
51 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep
52 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
53 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Gobert
54 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
55 Cristian Camilo Muñoz Lancheros (Col) UAE Team Emirates
56 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
57 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep
58 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
59 Pawel Bernas (Pol) CCC Team
60 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
61 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team
62 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Lotto Soudal
63 Simone Petilli (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
64 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
65 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida
66 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb
67 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb
68 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
69 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Team
70 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos
71 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:09:29
72 Rafael Valls (Spa) Movistar Team
73 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team
74 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:09:43
75 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
76 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
77 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:11:19
78 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First
79 Laurens ten Dam (Ned) CCC Team 0:14:12
80 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos 0:15:31
81 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Ineos
82 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:15:52
83 James Whelan (Aus) EF Education First 0:16:01
84 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
85 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
86 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UAE Team Emirates
87 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
88 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma
89 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
90 Florian Vachon (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
91 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo
92 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
93 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
94 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep
95 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotel
96 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
97 Julius van den Berg (Ned) EF Education First
98 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
99 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
100 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
101 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
102 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
103 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe
104 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Dimension Data 0:17:03
105 Hernando Bohorquez (Col) Astana Pro Team
106 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:18:27
DNF Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
DNF Dion Smith (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
DNF Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
DNF Edward Ravasi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
DNF Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNS Darwin Atapuma (Col) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
DNS Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
DNF Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
DNS Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First
DNS Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education First
DNF Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First
DNF Julien Vermote (Bel) Dimension Data
DNS Pierre Rolland (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotel
DNS Cyril Gautier (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotel
DNS Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
DNF Fabien Doubey (Fra) Wanty-Gobert
DNS Casper Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb

Final General Classification :
1 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 30:44:27
2 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Education First 0:00:20
3 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:21
4 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Ineos 0:00:28
5 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:33
6 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:11
7 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:12
8 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:21
9 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:01:24
10 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:38
11 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:44
12 Bjorg Lambrecht (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:03:17
13 Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:05:28
14 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert 0:05:29
15 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:06:26
16 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:46
17 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Gobert 0:08:23
18 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:08:49
19 Magnus Cort Nielsen (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:09:24
20 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:12:03
21 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:12:47
22 Simone Petilli (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:13:10
23 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:13:34
24 Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:14:59
25 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team 0:15:09
26 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:19:19
27 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:21:11
28 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:21:22
29 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Ineos 0:22:34
30 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:24:13
31 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal 0:26:14
32 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos 0:26:20
33 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:27:48
34 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos 0:27:59
35 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:28:48
36 Carlos Verona (Spa) Movistar Team 0:29:37
37 Serge Pauwels (Bel) CCC Team 0:29:54
38 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) CCC Team 0:33:30
39 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:34:01
40 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:36:12
41 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:36:51
42 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:37:55
43 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 0:38:57
44 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team 0:39:03
45 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:40:59
46 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:43:25
47 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:45:09
48 Rafael Valls (Spa) Movistar Team 0:47:23
49 Jérémy Maison (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:47:46
50 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 0:48:36
51 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:48:58
52 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:49:46
53 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:50:03
54 Pawel Bernas (Pol) CCC Team 0:50:18
55 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:50:34
56 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Team 0:51:09
57 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:52:04
58 Cristian Camilo Muñoz Lancheros (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:52:55
59 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:52:56
60 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:53:07
61 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:53:34
62 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty-Gobert 0:54:25
63 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:56:07
64 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida 0:56:24
65 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team 0:56:37
66 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotel 0:57:16
67 Hernando Bohorquez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:58:51
68 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:58:56
69 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:59:38
70 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:59:51
71 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott 1:01:08
72 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:03:07
73 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First 1:04:02
74 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:04:19
75 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 1:05:00
76 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:05:34
77 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team Sunweb 1:08:12
78 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Dimension Data 1:08:29
79 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:09:22
80 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:10:51
81 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:11:47
82 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:11:51
83 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 1:12:03
84 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 1:13:30
85 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 1:14:21
86 Laurens ten Dam (Ned) CCC Team 1:14:24
87 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 1:16:30
88 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:16:54
89 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 1:19:50
90 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 1:20:19
91 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:20:31
92 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 1:21:08
93 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 1:21:45
94 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin 1:23:40
95 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 1:25:23
96 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos 1:25:50
97 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UAE Team Emirates 1:27:50
98 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 1:29:19
99 Florian Vachon (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 1:29:30
100 James Whelan (Aus) EF Education First 1:30:27
101 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Ineos 1:32:25
102 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:32:57
103 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 1:34:55
104 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotel 1:35:14
105 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 1:36:30
106 Julius van den Berg (Ned) EF Education First 1:37:10