Jonas Vingegaard is the winner of stage 7 of Criterium du Dauphine Saturday’s stage 7 of Criterium du Dauphine 2023 was a battle in the mountains. The 147.9-kilometer route from Porte-de-Savoie to the legendary Col de la Croix de Fer included no less than two Hors Categorie (outside category) climbs – the mythical Col de la Madeleine and the Col du Mollard – and concluded on the Category 1 Col de la Croix de Fer. Team Jumbo-Visma’s Jonas Vingegaard was the general classification leader before today’s penultimate stage of this year’s Criterium du Dauphine.
The climbers in the Criterium du Dauphiné peloton were looking forward to today’s menu and it did not take long after the start before the first attacks were launched to form a viable breakaway group that would set out to conquer the French mountains. It did, however, take a while before any breakaway hopefuls would prove successful.
127 kilometers from the finish multiple attacking groups had formed.
With 85 kilometers left of today’s strenuous mountain battle, Remi Cavagna (Soudal-QuickStep), Anthony Perez (Cofidis), Madis Mihkels (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty), and Lotto-Dstny’s Victor Campenaerts were leading the race, while Reuben Thompson (Groupama-FDJ), Anthon Charmig (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team), and Tobias Bayer (Alpecin-Deceuninck) were chasing approximately two minutes behind the leaders.
The peloton was approximately five minutes behind and was spearheaded by Ineos-Grenadiers up the mythical Col de la Madeleine (24.8 kilometers; 6.1 percent average gradient).
With approximately thirty kilometers left of the stage, Campenaerts had attacked solo and led the stage 01:14 minutes ahead of […]
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