Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 3 Results: Iván Romeo Gets First WT Win
Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 3 Results: Iván Romeo Gets First WT Win
Spain's Ivan Romeo, 21, won the third stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 on Tuesday when he streaked clear at the end of a 207-kilometer run.

Spain's Ivan Romeo won the third stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 on Tuesday when he streaked clear at the end of a 207-kilometer run from Brioude to Charantonnay to cross the line first and claim the overall lead.
Romeo surprised his breakaway companions, including Dutch world champion Mathieu van der Poel , to drop them in the final kilometers and lead the dash into the town of Charantonnay.
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"I've been thinking about this stage for a month now," said Romeo, a time-trial specialist. "I can hardly believe it. It was one of the hardest days of my life. I wasn't feeling well. But I followed my instincts in the final. It's the best day of the year for me. Hard work pays off."
It was the second win of the 21-year-old Movistar rider's career and earned him the yellow leader's jersey on the eve of the first time trial in this edition of the Dauphine.
Romeo completed the hilly run across the southeast of France in 4 hours, 34 minutes, 10 seconds.
Colombian Astana rider Harold Tejada came in second at 14 seconds, with Frenchman Louis Barre of Intermarche completing the podium.
The peloton, containing many of the race favorites, rolled in just over a minute later at the end of a day without any major incidents.
One of those contenders for the general classification is Red Bull leader Florian Lipowitz -- in the absence of last year's winner Primoz Roglic -- who did well to slip into the breakaway and come in just outside the podium.
The German sits fourth overall, with a 42-second advantage over ninth-place Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
The breakaway formed quickly after the start, and it was composed of 13 riders.
The first big break came on the Cote du Chateau Jaune, with its average gradient of over 9%, situated 19 kilometers from the finish.
After this final climb, only 10 riders remained amongst the contenders for the stage, and victory seemed to be in the grasp of Van der Poel -- the fastest of the bunch.
But Romeo had other ideas, attacking for the first time with 9 kilometers remaining, before going again and quickly opening a sizeable gap on the chasing pack.
Wednesday's fourth stage will be a 17.4-kilometer time trial between Charmes-sur-Rhone and Saint-Peray.
Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 3 Results – Top 25
- Ivan Romeo Abad (Movistar Team) – 4:34:10 (B10)
- Harold Tejada (XDS Astana Team) – 4:34:24 (B6)
- Louis Barre (Intermarché - Wanty) – 4:34:24 (B7)
- Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:34:24
- Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 4:34:37
- Axel Laurance (INEOS Grenadiers) – 4:34:37
- Brieuc Rolland (Groupama-FDJ) – 4:34:37
- Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek) – 4:34:37
- Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility) – 4:34:37
- Edward Dunbar (Team Jayco AlUla) – 4:34:37
- Emilien Jeanniere (TotalEnergies) – 4:35:18
- Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 4:35:18
- Anders Foldager (Team Jayco AlUla) – 4:35:18
- Alfred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) – 4:35:18
- Paul Penhoet (Groupama-FDJ) – 4:35:18
- Yevgeniy Fedorov (XDS Astana Team) – 4:35:18
- Dries De Pooter (Intermarché - Wanty) – 4:35:18
- Simone Velasco (XDS Astana Team) – 4:35:18
- Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek) – 4:35:18
- Pierre Thierry (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) – 4:35:18
- Tobias Bayer (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 4:35:18
- Laurence Pithie (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:35:18
- Thomas Jake Stewart (Israel - Premier Tech) – 4:35:18
- Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 4:35:18
- Paul Seixas (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 4:35:18
Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Overall Standings – Top 25 After Stage 3
- Ivan Romeo Abad (Movistar Team) – 14:09:01
- Louis Barre (Intermarché - Wanty) – 14:09:18
- Harold Tejada (XDS Astana Team) – 14:09:19
- Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 14:09:25
- Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 14:09:30
- Edward Dunbar (Team Jayco AlUla) – 14:09:38
- Brieuc Rolland (Groupama-FDJ) – 14:09:38
- Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility) – 14:09:38
- Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) – 14:10:07
- Alfred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) – 14:10:13
- Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 14:10:13
- Anders Foldager (Team Jayco AlUla) – 14:10:18
- Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) – 14:10:18
- Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 14:10:19
- Emilien Jeanniere (TotalEnergies) – 14:10:19
- Clément Venturini (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) – 14:10:19
- Laurence Pithie (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 14:10:19
- Simone Velasco (XDS Astana Team) – 14:10:19
- Aurélien Paret Peintre (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 14:10:19
- Thomas Jake Stewart (Israel - Premier Tech) – 14:10:19
- Alexey Lutsenko (Israel - Premier Tech) – 14:10:19
- Enric Mas (Movistar Team) – 14:10:19
- Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 14:10:19
- Max Poole (Team Picnic PostNL) – 14:10:19
- Ben Tulett (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 14:10:19
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