2019 Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 5 Results & Recap
Stage 5 of the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) sprinted to his second victory at this edition of the Dauphiné, upsetting pre-stage favorite Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) in a bunch sprint in Voiron.
“We knew it’d be curvy in the last two kilometres and it’d be very difficult. It was necessary to hit the front early,” van Aert said. “I had a good position. I positioned myself on Julian Alaphilippe’s wheel and behind the guys from Bora, it was just perfect. I launched the sprint in the last bend. As I passed Julian, it was won. It’s a great week. I wanted to try and sprint because my second place on stage 3 gave me confidence. Honestly, I didn’t expect to beat a rider like Bennett. I’m taking profit of my form. But now that I’ve done a good time trial and a good sprint finish, I’ll race in support of our leader Steven Kruijswijk.”
Adam Yates finished the 201 km stage safely in the bunch to retain his yellow and blue jersey before tomorrow’s mountain stage. The Australian is four seconds ahead of former race leader Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Merida). Tejay van Garderen (EF Education First) sits third at six seconds. After winning today’s stage, van Aert moved up to fifth place overall, 20 seconds back. \n“Nothing really happened until about 60km to go,” Yates said in the press conference. “The wind was picking up a little bit but still, it wasn’t the right direction or it wasn’t strong enough to do anything. So it was just a bit of stress in the peloton. No more. I don’t know much about tomorrow’s finale in particular. The downhill at the end could be decisive but it’s not worth risking your life for gaining ten seconds. Any stage from now on is pretty hard, the last two are quite short and selective but as I said yesterday I’m feeling good. The sensations are good.”
At the beginning of today’s flat stage, Yoann Bagot (Vital Concept-B&B Hôtels) was the first to attack and gain some time on the peloton. Before he got too far up the road, Stéphane Rossetto (Cofidis) and Alessandro De Marchi (CCC) joined Badot and settled in to make up the break of the day.
With the sprinters’ teams prepared to keep the trio on a short leash, the break never got more than three minutes and 30-second advantage up the road, as Mitchelton Scott and Bora-hansgrohe set the pace in the peloton. \nAs the breakaway approached Voiron, the gap came down a lot later than expected, thanks to the work by De Marchi. The trio was eventually brought back with just a kilometre to go, and the sprinters took over.
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