He Dauphine Criterium 2023 starts this Sunday, June 4and ends a week later, the sunday 11after the dispute of their eight stages. It is one of the most prestigious races on the international calendar among those that are not among the big three (Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España), and thus belongs to the UCI WorldTour . The Danish cyclist Jumbo-Visma Jonas Vingegaard is the main favorite to achieve victory in the general classification of the test, which puts its 75th edition at stake in 2023, although Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorius), Richard Carapaz (EF Education), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Jay Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), Adam Yates (UAE) and Enric Mas (Movistar) they are also on the list of candidates for victory. EITB, through eitb.eus and ETB1, will offer the Critérium Dauphiné 2023 live.

vingegaardwho has had an almost flawless 2023 season, with victories in the final overall of the Itzulia Basque Country and of O Great Way and with a third place in the Paris-Nice, in which he was surpassed by Tadej Pogacar (UAE), is designated by the organization of the event itself as the cyclist to beat. The Dane, who is going to count, in the Jumbo, with the help of his teammates Christophe Laporte and Dylan van Baarlewants to continue adding victories, less than a month before starting his great challenge: repeat the victory obtained in the 2022 Tour de France.

In Bahrain, Michael Landa In the Dauphiné Critérium he will seek to return to being close to the level of Vingegaard, as he already achieved in Itzulia. The man from Murgia has not competed since Liège-Bastogne-Liège, where he did not finish the race, but in 2023 he was second in the return to Andalusiathird in the walloon arrowfifth in the back to cataloniaand seventh in the Tirreno-Adriatico and in the Return to the Valencian Community; that, without counting his excellent second place finish in the Itzulia Basque Countrywhere he was the main rival of Jonas Vingegaard.

Daniel Felipe Martínez and Egan Bernal (Ineos), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal Quick-Step), Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost) and Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) They are other cyclists who aspire to have a good race and surprise in the general classification.

STAGES OF THE DAUPHINÉ 2023 CRITÉRIUM

Stage 1: Chambon-sur-Lac-Chambon-sur-Lac (157 kilometers), Sunday June 4

Profile of stage 1 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 2: Brassac-les-Mines-La Chaise-Dieu (167 kilometers), Monday, June 5

Profile of stage 2 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 3: Monistrol-sur-Loire-Le Coteau (191 kilometers), Tuesday June 6

Profile of stage 3 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 4: Cours-Belmont-de-la-Loire (31.1 kilometres, individual time trial), Wednesday, June 7

Profile of stage 4 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 5: Cormoranche-sur-Saône-Salins-les-Bains (191 kilometers), Thursday, June 8

Profile of stage 5 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 6: Nantua-Crest-Voland (168 kilometers), Friday June 9

Profile of stage 6 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 7: Porte-de-Savoie-Col de la Croix De Fer-Saint Sorlin (147 kilometers), Saturday June 10

Profile of stage 7 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Stage 8: Le Pont-de-Claix-La Bastille (152 kilometers), Sunday June 11

Profile of stage 8 of the Critérium Dauphiné 2023. Photo: criterium-du-dauphine.fr.

Source: Eitb

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