LIVE time trial stage 4 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 | Evenepoel, Vingegaard, Pogacar: who will rise to the occasion?

Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 07:08

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On day four of the Critérium du Dauphiné, an individual time trial of 17.4 kilometers is scheduled. Along the way, the riders must tackle a tricky climb of almost two kilometers at more than eight percent, which could prove crucial for the stage result. IDLProCycling.com outlines the possible scenarios for you!

Course time trial stage 4 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025

The time trial in the Critérium du Dauphiné can be divided into three sections: a section before the climb, the climb from Les Freydieres, and the section towards the finish in Saint-Péray.

From Chames-sur-Rhône, we follow the river towards Les Freydierses, where the road climbs 1.6 kilometers at a gradient of 9.4 percent—similar to the Mur de Huy—before passing the halfway point in Toulaud.

The road then descends slightly to the finish in Saint-Péray, which means that speeds will be high despite the slight headwind.

Important start times time trial stage 4 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025

14:15:00 (local time) Domen Novak (first rider)
14:42:00 (local time) Tobias Foss
14:46:00 (local time) Victor Campenaerts
15:00:00 (local time) Nils Politt
15:36:00 (local time) Remi Cavagna
15:57:00 (local time) Lenny Martinez
16:01:00 (local time) Maximilian Schachmann
16:17:00 (local time) Magnus Sheffield
16:18:00 (local time) Matteo Jorgenson
16:20:00 (local time) Carlos Rodriguez
16:33:00 (local time) Remco Evenepoel
16:35:00 (local time) Jonas Vingegaard
16:36:00 (local time) Fred Wright
16:37:00 (local time) Tadej Pogacar
16:38:00 (local time) Andreas Leknessund
16:41:00 (local time) Mathieu van der Poel
16:42:00 (local time) Florian Lipowitz
16:43:00 (local time) Harold Tejada
16:45:00 (local time) Ivan Romeo (last rider)

Weather time trial stage 4 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025

It is hot in France this week, too. On Wednesday, the temperature will rise above 30 degrees Celsius in the Ardeche. The wind is coming from the north, so it will be in the riders' faces for most of the time trial.

Favorites time trial stage 4 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025

On day one, we already got a taste of what to expect later in the stage race, but the time trial is still the first real test for the GC contenders in the Critérium du Dauphiné. This brings us to the big three: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates-XRG), and Jonas Vingegaard of Visma | Lease a Bike.

Evenepoel is the reigning Olympic and world time trial champion and, therefore, has an advantage over his rivals. However, Pogacar and Vingegaard have, of course, already proven on several occasions that they are extremely good at time trials. It will be important for all of them to go full throttle.

There are certainly some outsiders, too. What about the strong Americans Magnus Sheffield (INEOS Grenadiers) and Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike)? Jorgenson could well turn out to be the fourth contender in this Dauphiné, and Sheffield is also someone who should not be underestimated on a time trial bike.

In the Tour of the Basque Country, we also saw that Max Schachmann (Soudal Quick-Step), Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), and Victor Campenaerts (Visma | Lease a Bike) are good in time trials. We know this from past performances of other riders such as Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost).

The GC contenders will all have to dig deep, and we have seen promising performances in time trials in the past from the likes of Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers), Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), Max Poole (Picnic PostNL), leader Ivan Romeo (Movistar) and Harold Tejada (XDS-Astana). Like Lipowitz, the latter two secured a good position in the GC thanks to their breakaway on Tuesday, which also included Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Will the Dutchman put himself to the test again?

Who are the favorites for the time trial in stage 4 of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, according to IDLProCycling.com?

Top favorites: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates-XRG)
Outsiders: Jonas Vingegaard, Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike), Magnus Sheffield (INEOS Grenadiers) and Max Schachmann (Soudal Quick-Step)
Long shots: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Victor Campenaerts (Visma | Lease a Bike), Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers), Fred Wright, Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Ivan Romeo (Movistar) and Harold Tejada (XDS-Astana)