The 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné was the 62nd edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné (formerly Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré) stage race, and the first since it was renamed. It took place from 6–13 June, and was part of both the 2010 UCI ProTour and World Calendar. It began in Evian-les-Bains with an individual time trial, and ended in Sallanches.
The race was won by Slovenia's Janez Brajkovič, riding for . Second in the general classification was Alberto Contador of , while Tejay van Garderen finished third for . Contador won the points classification on a tie-break with Brajkovič, 's Egoi Martínez won the mountains classification and Euskaltel-Euskadi also won the teams classification.
Teams As the Dauphiné Libéré was a UCI ProTour event, the 18 ProTour teams are invited automatically, plus an additional 4 non pro tour teams. They were:
Pre-race favourites The winner of the event for the previous two years, Alejandro Valverde, had been widely tipped to do well in the event, but was banned from all of UCI registered races for 19 months from a few days prior to the event. Two time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador started the race as favourite, but emphasized that his priority was to use the race as preparation for the Tour de France, without particular concern to win it.
Route +Stage characteristics and winners Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner P 6 June Évian-les-Bains Individual time trial 1 7 June Évian-les-Bains to Saint-Laurent-du-Pont Hilly stage 2 8 June Annonay to Bourg-Saint-Andéol Hilly stage 3 9 June Monteux to Sorgues Individual time trial 4 10 June Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Risoul High mountain stage 5 11 June Serre-Chevalier to Grenoble High mountain stage 6 12 June Crolles to Alpe d'Huez High mountain stage 7 13 June Allevard to Sallanches Hilly stage
Stages
Prologue 6 June 2010 – Evian-les-Bains, (Individual time trial)
Stage and General Classification after Prologue RiderTeamTime 1 8' 34" 2 + 2" 3 + 5" 4 + 10" 5 + 12" 6 + 12" 7 + 12" 8 + 13" 9 + 13" 10 + 14"
Stage 1 7 June 2010 – Evian-les-Bains to Saint-Laurent-du-Pont,
Stage 1 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 0" 3 + 0" 4 + 0" 5 + 0" 6 + 0" 7 + 0" 8 + 0" 9 + 0" 10 + 0"General Classification after Stage 1 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 2" 3 + 5" 4 + 10" 5 + 12" 6 + 12" 7 + 13" 8 + 14" 9 + 14" 10 + 15"
Stage 2 8 June 2010 – Annonay to Bourg-Saint-Andéol,
Stage 2 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 0" 3 + 0" 4 + 0" 5 + 0" 6 + 0" 7 + 0" 8 + 0" 9 + 0" 10 + 0"General Classification after Stage 2 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 2" 3 + 5" 4 + 10" 5 + 12" 6 + 12" 7 + 14" 8 + 14" 9 + 15" 10 + 15"
Stage 3 9 June 2010 – Monteux to Sorgues, (individual time trial)
Stage 3 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 26" 3 + 43" 4 + 53" 5 + 55" 6 + 1' 46" 7 + 1' 56" 8 + 2' 09" 9 + 2' 14" 10 + 2' 15"General Classification after Stage 3 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 36" 3 + 50" 4 + 1' 41" 5 + 2' 01" 6 + 2' 20" 7 + 2' 45" 8 + 2' 47" 9 + 2' 49" 10 + 2' 53"
Stage 4 10 June 2010 – Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Risoul,
Stage 4 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 12" 3 + 15" 4 + 15" 5 + 18" 6 + 18" 7 + 18" 8 + 18" 9 + 23" 10 + 23"General Classification after Stage 4 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1' 15" 3 + 1' 41" 4 + 1' 56" 5 + 2' 43" 6 + 2' 55" 7 + 3' 06" 8 + 3' 10" 9 + 3' 28" 10 + 3' 29"
Stage 5 11 June 2010 – Serre-Chevalier to Grenoble,
Stage 5 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 34" 3 + 34" 4 + 1' 39" 5 + 1' 39" 6 + 1' 39" 7 + 2' 40" 8 + 2' 40" 9 + 2' 40" 10 + 2' 40"General Classification after Stage 5 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1' 15" 3 + 1' 41" 4 + 1' 56" 5 + 2' 43" 6 + 2' 55" 7 + 3' 05" 8 + 3' 06" 9 + 3' 10" 10 + 3' 28"
Stage 6 12 June 2010 – Crolles to Alpe d'Huez,
Stage 6 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 0" 3 + 17" 4 + 24" 5 + 40" 6 + 1' 17" 7 + 1' 18" 8 + 1' 18" 9 + 1' 18" 10 + 1' 26"General Classification after Stage 6 RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1' 41" 3 + 2' 41" 4 + 3' 46" 5 + 4' 01" 6 + 4' 17" 7 + 4' 23" 8 + 5' 54" 9 + 6' 10" 10 + 6' 33"
Stage 7 13 June 2010 – Allevard to Sallanches,
Stage 7 Result RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 27" 3 + 32" 4 + 34" 5 + 40" 6 + 40" 7 + 40" 8 + 40" 9 + 40" 10 + 40"Final General Classification RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1' 41" 3 + 2' 41" 4 + 3' 46" 5 + 4' 17" 6 + 4' 23" 7 + 4' 23" 8 + 6' 16" 9 + 6' 20" 10 + 6' 57"
Classification leadership
Stage WinnerGeneral classificationMountains classificationPoints classificationTeam Classification P Alberto Contador Alberto Contador Alberto Contador Alberto Contador 1 Grega Bole Mathieu Ladagnous Geraint Thomas 2 Juan José Haedo Bram Tankink Grega Bole 3 Janez Brajkovič Janez Brajkovič Geraint Thomas 4 Nicolas Vogondy Janez Brajkovič 5 Daniel Navarro Eros Capecchi Geraint Thomas 6 Alberto Contador Egoi Martínez Janez Brajkovič 7 Edvald Boasson Hagen Alberto Contador Final Janez Brajkovič Egoi Martínez Alberto Contador
Final standings
General Classification #RiderTeamTime 1 2 + 1' 41" 3 + 2' 41" 4 + 3' 46" 5 + 4' 17" 6 + 4' 23" 7 + 4' 23" 8 + 6' 16" 9 + 6' 20" 10 + 6' 57"
Teams Classification #TeamTime184h 39' 25"2 + 4' 03"3 + 4' 45"4 + 6' 46"5 + 13' 12"6 + 13' 38"7 + 14' 04"8 + 21' 24"9 + 25' 37"10 + 26' 08"
Mountains Classification #RiderTeamPoints1 552 333 324 295 266 247 238 229 2210 21
Points Classification #RiderTeamPoints 1 98 2 98 3 72 4 71 5 70 6 69 7 51 8 48 9 48 10 47
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