Critérium du Dauphiné: Lenny Martinez savours stage 8 breakaway win as Tadej Pogačar seals overall victory

Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) claimed the biggest win of his young career to date on the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, triumphing from the early breakaway with an 8km solo move up the day’s, and the race’s, final climb.

34 seconds behind the Frenchman, the general classification was confirmed as Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) crossed the finish line together, the Dane unable to detach his great rival on the way up.

Pogačar duly sealed the overall race victory, his first at the Dauphiné, having defended his sizeable lead without much difficulty over 3,500 metres of climbing spread across the final day.

He takes the win by 59 seconds over Vingegaard, while Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) rounds out the podium at 2:38 down, having shed seven seconds to Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) at the line.

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