
Critérium du Dauphiné: Alaphilippe gets in the mix in Voiron

Rémi Cavagna is definitely one of the unsung heroes of this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné. The 22-year-old’s strenuous work for Deceuninck – Quick-Step since the start of the race was a thing of beauty, a selfless commitment that saw Rémi put himself in the services of the team leaders on a daily basis, either by going into the break and paving the way for Julian Alaphilippe to win a quintet of classified climbs, or by spending an enormous amount of time at the front of the peloton, eating kilometers and chewing into the escapees’ gap.
Most recently, the “TGV of Clermont-Ferrand” showed his undeniable skills of “breakaway killer” on stage five of the race, the second-longest at this edition (201 kilometers), where unperturbed by the rolling parcours between Boën-sur-Lignon and Voiron or the crosswinds that threatened to shatter the bunch to pieces, he gradually reduced the leading trio’s advantage, before finally peeling off the front inside the last ten kilometers.
That allowed Philippe Gilbert to launch a daring attack under the flamme rouge kite, which was shut down with only 500 meters to go. That didn’t mean it was over for Deceuninck – Quick-Step, as Julian Alaphilippe navigated through the chaotic pack on the tricky uphill drag to the line and sprinted to his first podium since returning to competition last Sunday, behind Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Sam Bennett (Bora-hansgrohe).
Alaphilippe was one of the three Wolfpack members to conclude the stage in the upper part of the classification, alongside Zdenek Stybar (7th) and Philippe Gilbert, who despite being reabsorbed, still had enough left to sprint and get ninth.
Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele/ Getty Images
Race details
1 |
Wout van Aert Team Jumbo-Visma |
5:00:34 |
2 |
Sam Bennett BORA - hansgrohe |
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3 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
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4 |
Lorrenzo Manzin |
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5 |
Clément Venturini AG2R La Mondiale |
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6 |
Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Dimension Data |
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7 |
Zdeněk Štybar
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
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8 |
Sonny Colbrelli Bahrain Merida |
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9 |
Philippe Gilbert
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
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10 |
Mads Würtz Schmidt Team Katusha Alpecin |
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25 |
Álvaro José Hodeg Chagüi
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
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138 |
Rémi Cavagna
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
,, |
140 |
Petr Vakoč
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
7:27 |
1 |
Adam Yates Mitchelton-Scott |
17:28:00 |
2 |
Dylan Teuns Bahrain Merida |
0:04 |
3 |
Tejay van Garderen EF Education First |
0:06 |
4 |
Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team |
0:07 |
5 |
Wout van Aert Team Jumbo-Visma |
0:20 |
6 |
Steven Kruijswijk Team Jumbo-Visma |
0:24 |
7 |
Thibaut Pinot Groupama - FDJ |
0:25 |
8 |
Emanuel Buchmann BORA - hansgrohe |
0:26 |
9 |
Alexey Lutsenko Astana Pro Team |
0:30 |
10 |
Nairo Quintana Rojas Movistar Team |
0:40 |
20 |
Philippe Gilbert
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
2:12 |
58 |
Petr Vakoč
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
15:00 |
61 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
16:04 |
65 |
Zdeněk Štybar
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
18:09 |
99 |
Rémi Cavagna
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
25:57 |
131 |
Álvaro José Hodeg Chagüi
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
40:17 |
1 |
Wout van Aert Team Jumbo-Visma |
82 pt |
2 |
Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Dimension Data |
53 pt |
3 |
Sam Bennett BORA - hansgrohe |
47 pt |
4 |
Alexey Lutsenko Astana Pro Team |
38 pt |
5 |
Clément Venturini AG2R La Mondiale |
34 pt |
6 |
Philippe Gilbert
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
30 pt |
7 |
Dylan Teuns Bahrain Merida |
29 pt |
8 |
Guillaume Martin Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team |
28 pt |
9 |
Sonny Colbrelli Bahrain Merida |
24 pt |
10 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
24 pt |
21 |
Petr Vakoč
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
12 pt |
22 |
Zdeněk Štybar
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
12 pt |
23 |
Álvaro José Hodeg Chagüi
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
12 pt |
44 |
Rémi Cavagna
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
1 pt |
1 |
Wout van Aert Team Jumbo-Visma |
17:28:20 |
2 |
Nils Politt Team Katusha Alpecin |
1:24 |
3 |
Bjorg Lambrecht Lotto Soudal |
2:25 |
4 |
Steff Cras Team Katusha Alpecin |
3:02 |
5 |
Nick Schultz Mitchelton-Scott |
3:47 |
6 |
David Gaudu Groupama - FDJ |
6:21 |
7 |
Odd Christian Eiking Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team |
7:40 |
8 |
Gianni Moscon Team INEOS |
7:47 |
9 |
Harm Vanhoucke Lotto Soudal |
8:59 |
10 |
Lennard Hofstede Team Jumbo-Visma |
9:05 |
25 |
Rémi Cavagna
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
25:37 |
32 |
Álvaro José Hodeg Chagüi
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
39:57 |
1 |
Casper Pedersen Team Sunweb |
18 pt |
2 |
Magnus Cort Nielsen Astana Pro Team |
13 pt |
3 |
Julian Alaphilippe
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
12 pt |
4 |
Fabien Doubey Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team |
10 pt |
5 |
Gorka Izagirre Insausti Astana Pro Team |
7 pt |
6 |
Guillaume Martin Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team |
5 pt |
7 |
Bjorg Lambrecht Lotto Soudal |
5 pt |
8 |
Alessandro De Marchi CCC Team |
5 pt |
9 |
Oliver Naesen AG2R La Mondiale |
5 pt |
10 |
Natnael Berhane Cofidis, Solutions Crédits |
4 pt |
14 |
Rémi Cavagna
Deceuninck - Quick Step |
3 pt |
1 | EF Education First | 52:27:18 |
2 | Astana Pro Team | 0:14 |
3 | Mitchelton-Scott | 1:04 |
4 | Groupama - FDJ | 1:42 |
5 | Team Jumbo-Visma | 1:50 |
6 | Bahrain Merida | 2:34 |
7 | Movistar Team | 4:34 |
8 | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | 5:51 |
9 | Team Katusha Alpecin | 6:58 |
10 | Team INEOS | 7:38 |