2025 Criterium du Dauphine

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 7 Results: Pogacar Delivers Hat Trick

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 7 Results: Pogacar Delivers Hat Trick

For the second straight day, Tadej Pogacar rode away from his main rivals on the final ascent. He cemented his grip on the Dauphiné 2025 yellow jersey.

Jun 14, 2025 by AFP Report
Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 7 Results: Pogacar Delivers Hat Trick

For the second straight day, Tadej Pogacar rode away from his main rivals on the final ascent, and he cemented his grip on the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 yellow jersey in Saturday's mountainous Queen Stage.

"I launched it and maintained a good pace to the top," Pogacar said at the finish.

The Slovenian grabbed the overall lead Friday by shooting clear on the short closing climb.

On Saturday's penultimate stage, a 131.7-kilometer run from Grand-Aigueblanche, Pogacar's UAE teammate Pavel Sivakov reduced the leading pack by setting a ferocious tempo at the front at the start of the 20-kilometer final climb to Valmeinier ski resort.

With 12 kilometers to go, Pogacar upped the tempo, standing on his pedals and rocketing clear.

As on Friday, only his main Tour de France rival Jonas Vingegaard and young German Florian Lipowitz could respond.

Vingegaard settled into a dogged pursuit.

Pogacar, without rising out of his saddle again, was able to maintain an uncatchable pace.

He increased his lead to as much as 30 seconds, before relaxing up toward the end. He cruised across the line 14 seconds ahead of Vingegaard, quivering with effort as he came home.

"Today, Jonas was really strong, and I did not want to go too deep myself," Pogacar said. "It was a super hot and long climb. Luckily, I had enough time to ease up in the last kilometers and recovered. Happy I could defend the jersey like this."

Lipowitz again was third at 1 minute, 21 seconds. Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who had led the overall classification until Friday, finished fifth, as he had Friday, losing another 2 minutes and 39 seconds.

With one stage to go, Pogacar increased his lead to 1:01 over Vingegaard, 2:01 over Lipowitz and 4:11 to Evenepoel in fourth.

For much of the stage, Vingegaard's lieutenants on the powerful Visma team launched attack after attack, but they could not shake off Pogacar, or Sivakov, either going up or down the day's biggest climb the Col de la Croix de Fer.

"We wanted to take control on all the climbs, but Visma tried with all the attacks," Pogacar said. "I was pretty happy with how Pavel and the team rode today. It was sort of defense, to not get attacked by everyone from Visma."

He complained at the way Visma had tried to drop him on the descent of the Col de Croix de Fer.

"They went a little bit dangerous in the first kilometers of the downhill," he said. "I didn't like that, but it's modern cycling."

With the Tour de France starting July 5, Pogacar beat Vingegaard to take a third stage victory in the race.

It was the 98th of the Slovenian's career, breaking a tie with French sprinter Arnaud Demare for most by an active rider.

He has a chance for one more on Sunday when the race finishes with another mountainous stage, 133.3 kilometers from Val-d'Arc to the Plateau du Mont-Cenis.

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Stage 7 Results – Top 25

  1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) – 4:10:00 (B10)
  2. Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:10:14 (B6)
  3. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe) – 4:11:21 (B4)
  4. Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) – 4:12:26 (B2)
  5. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) – 4:12:39
  6. Ben Tulett (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:13:48
  7. Enric Mas (Movistar Team) – 4:13:48
  8. Emanuel Buchmann (Cofidis) – 4:13:51
  9. Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers) – 4:13:51
  10. Guillaume Martin Guyonnet (Groupama-FDJ) – 4:13:51
  11. Paul Seixas (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 4:13:51
  12. Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:15:27
  13. Louis Meintjes (Intermarché - Wanty) – 4:16:19
  14. Sepp Kuss (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:16:19
  15. Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious) – 4:16:19
  16. Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) – 4:16:19
  17. Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar Team) – 4:16:19
  18. Alexey Lutsenko (Israel - Premier Tech) – 4:16:37
  19. Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) – 4:18:01
  20. Guillermo Juan Martinez Huertas (Team Picnic PostNL) – 4:18:01
  21. Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 4:19:20
  22. Mathys Rondel (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 4:19:31
  23. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (XDS Astana Team) – 4:19:53
  24. Romain Bardet (Team Picnic PostNL) – 4:22:10 (B3)
  25. Clément Braz Afonso (Groupama-FDJ) – 4:22:10

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 Overall Standings – Top 25 After Stage 7

  1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) – 25:44:58
  2. Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 25:45:59
  3. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe) – 25:47:19
  4. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) – 25:49:09
  5. Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) – 25:50:53
  6. Paul Seixas (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 25:51:48
  7. Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 25:52:16
  8. Ben Tulett (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 25:52:22
  9. Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers) – 25:52:39
  10. Enric Mas (Movistar Team) – 25:52:41
  11. Emanuel Buchmann (Cofidis) – 25:53:05
  12. Guillaume Martin Guyonnet (Groupama-FDJ) – 25:53:43
  13. Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) – 25:56:13
  14. Sepp Kuss (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 25:57:51
  15. Alexey Lutsenko (Israel - Premier Tech) – 25:58:54
  16. Mathys Rondel (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 25:59:02
  17. Edward Dunbar (Team Jayco AlUla) – 26:00:00
  18. Louis Barre (Intermarché - Wanty) – 26:00:11
  19. Louis Meintjes (Intermarché - Wanty) – 26:00:19
  20. Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar Team) – 26:00:26
  21. Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious) – 26:02:27
  22. Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) – 26:05:58
  23. Jhoan Esteban Chaves (EF Education - EasyPost) – 26:06:39
  24. Clément Braz Afonso (Groupama-FDJ) – 26:09:58
  25. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (XDS Astana Team) – 26:10:51

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