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Saturday, June 13: Stage 7, Montmélian - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, 155 km

Stage 7 map and profile

Chris Froome wins Dauphine stage 7. Photo AFP Eric Feferberg

Stage 7 rated climbs:

• Km 37.5 - Col de Tamié, 8.5 km @ 6.4% - cat 1
• Km 60.0 - Col de la Forclaz, 8.1 km @ 7.8% - cat 1
• Km 94.5 - Col de la Croix Fry, 11.3 km @ 7% - cat 1
• Km 103.0 - Col des Aravis, 4.3 km @ 5.8% - cat 3
• Km 145.0 - Côte des Amerands, 2.7 km @ 11.2% - cat 1
• Km 155.0 - Montée du Bettex, 7 km @ 7.7% - cat 1

The Race: Chris Froome and Tejay van Garderen were well in front of the race, and on the final ascent to Saint-Gervais Froome dropped van Garderen. The Sky rider came in seventeen seconds ahead of van Garderen to win the stage.

But, van Garderen has to be pleased with the day's work as he became the new race leader, a fragile 18 seconds ahead of Froome.

Froome, of course, was quite pleased with the day's work, saying, “I couldn’t be happier. The guys rode out of their skin and buried themselves to make it as hard as possible. On the back of yesterday’s stage – which had a lot of the main contenders in the break – it made sens7e to do that. That’s one of the beauties of stage racing, you can’t give everything one day and then expect to back it up the next.

“As I said, I can’t thank my team-mates enough, and it was special to have my wife at the finish. That gave me an added incentive to go hard and see her.”

He added: “Tejay has ridden a really good race and BMC did a really good time trial on Tuesday which put almost 30 seconds into us. I still have a bit to make up on him. It’s not an easy stage tomorrow and the race isn’t over until it’s over. We’ll keep fighting all the way ‘til the end.

“Today was a really good show of where I’m at [heading into the Tour de France]. I’ve still got some work to do, and I’m not at my best yet, but being able to ride a stage like that shows I’m not far off and I’m really happy.”

Froome noted that he still had lots of work to do if he is going to wrest the yellow jersey from van Garderen.

Overnight leader Vincenzo Nibali wasn't up to defending his lead in the queen stage, finishing 24th, nearly four minutes behind Froome.

Complete Results:

155 km raced at an average speed of 35.190 km/hr

1	Christopher FROOME	SKY	4hr 24min 17sec
2	Tejay VAN GARDEREN	BMC RACING TEAM	@ 17sec
3	Louis MEINTJES	MTN-QHUBEKA	0:00:41
4	Benat INTXAUSTI	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
5	Joaquim RODRIGUEZ	TEAM KATUSHA	0:00:54
6	Romain BARDET	AG2R LA MONDIALE	@ 1min 8sec
7	Alexis VUILLERMOZ	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:01:15
8	Andrew TALANSKY	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	0:01:25
9	Rui COSTA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:01:34
10	Daniel NAVARRO	COFIDIS	0:01:45
11	Simon YATES	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:01:47
12	Rafael VALLS	LAMPRE - MERIDA	s.t.
13	Daniel MARTIN	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	0:01:52
14	David DE LA CRUZ	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	s.t.
15	Pawel POLJANSKI	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:01:55
16	Kenny ELISSONDE	FDJ	0:02:02
17	Alejandro VALVERDE	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:02:03
18	Pierre ROLLAND	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:02:12
19	Robert KISERLOVSKI	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:02:30
20	Jonathan CASTROVIEJO	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:02:36
21	Bart DE CLERCQ	LOTTO-SOUDAL	0:02:49
22	Marcel WYSS	IAM CYCLING	0:03:01
23	Michele SCARPONI	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:03:58
24	Vincenzo NIBALI	ASTANA PRO TEAM	s.t.
25	Emanuel BUCHMANN	BORA-ARGON 18	s.t.
26	Riccardo ZOIDL	TREK	s.t.
27	Gorka IZAGUIRRE	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:05:08
28	Wouter POELS	SKY	0:05:20
29	Stef CLEMENT	IAM CYCLING	0:05:48
30	Romain SICARD	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:06:38
31	Chris Anker SORENSEN	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:06:59
32	Bartosz HUZARSKI	BORA-ARGON 18	0:08:56
33	Samuel SANCHEZ	BMC RACING TEAM	s.t.
34	José HERRADA LOPEZ	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
35	Bjorn THURAU	BORA-ARGON 18	s.t.
36	Cristiano SALERNO	BORA-ARGON 18	s.t.
37	Ruben PLAZA MOLINA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	s.t.
38	Haimar ZUBELDIA	TREK	s.t.
39	Tiago MACHADO	TEAM KATUSHA	s.t.
40	Philip DEIGNAN	SKY	s.t.
41	Nicolas ROCHE	SKY	s.t.
42	José MENDES	BORA-ARGON 18	0:09:24
43	Luis Angel MATE	COFIDIS	0:10:19
44	Edward BELTRAN	TINKOFF-SAXO	s.t.
45	Nicolas EDET	COFIDIS	s.t.
46	Rein TAARAMAE	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:11:14
47	Peter KENNAUGH	SKY	0:11:18
48	Pieter SERRY	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	0:11:49
49	Gianpaolo CARUSO	TEAM KATUSHA	0:13:00
50	Bauke MOLLEMA	TREK	0:13:23
51	Adam YATES	ORICA GREENEDGE	s.t.
52	Pim LIGTHART	LOTTO-SOUDAL	s.t.
53	Jean-Christophe PERAUD	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:14:48
54	Nathan HAAS	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	s.t.
55	Rohan DENNIS	BMC RACING TEAM	0:15:57
56	Rory SUTHERLAND	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:17:32
57	Ian BOSWELL	SKY	s.t.
58	Daniel TEKLEHAIMANOT	MTN-QHUBEKA	s.t.
59	Magnus Cort NIELSEN	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:18:00
60	Christian MEIER	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:18:03
61	Paul VOSS	BORA-ARGON 18	0:21:12
62	Jan BARTA	BORA-ARGON 18	s.t.
63	Jay MC CARTHY	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:21:55
64	Jacques JANSE VAN RENSBURG	MTN-QHUBEKA	0:22:52
65	Wilco KELDERMAN	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	s.t.
66	Serge PAUWELS	MTN-QHUBEKA	s.t.
67	Bram TANKINK	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	s.t.
68	Reto HOLLENSTEIN	IAM CYCLING	s.t.
69	Mikael CHEREL	AG2R LA MONDIALE	s.t.
70	Johan VAN SUMMEREN	AG2R LA MONDIALE	s.t.
71	Ben GASTAUER	AG2R LA MONDIALE	s.t.
72	Cyril GAUTIER	TEAM EUROPCAR	s.t.
73	José Rodolfo SERPA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	s.t.
74	Lawson CRADDOCK	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	s.t.
75	Kristijan KOREN	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	s.t.
76	Ivan SANTAROMITA	ORICA GREENEDGE	s.t.
77	Jarlinson PANTANO	IAM CYCLING	s.t.
78	Evgeny PETROV	TINKOFF-SAXO	s.t.
79	Joseph ROSSKOPF	BMC RACING TEAM	s.t.
80	Michael SCHÄR	BMC RACING TEAM	s.t.
81	Ian STANNARD	SKY	s.t.
82	Stephen CUMMINGS	MTN-QHUBEKA	s.t.
83	George BENNETT	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	s.t.
84	John GADRET	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
85	Albert TIMMER	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	0:23:16
86	Gatis SMUKULIS	TEAM KATUSHA	0:25:18
87	Alessandro VANOTTI	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:25:54
88	Fumiyuki BEPPU	TREK	s.t.
89	Perrig QUEMENEUR	TEAM EUROPCAR	s.t.
90	Lieuwe WESTRA	ASTANA PRO TEAM	s.t.
91	Matthew BUSCHE	TREK	s.t.
92	Bruno PIRES	TINKOFF-SAXO	s.t.
93	Markel IRIZAR	TREK	s.t.
94	Romain GUILLEMOIS	TEAM EUROPCAR	s.t.
95	Damien HOWSON	ORICA GREENEDGE	s.t.
96	Simon GERRANS	ORICA GREENEDGE	s.t.
97	Jens KEUKELEIRE	ORICA GREENEDGE	s.t.
98	Sebastian LANGEVELD	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	s.t.
99	Lars BOOM	ASTANA PRO TEAM	s.t.
100	Andriy GRIVKO	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:26:47
101	Dylan TEUNS	BMC RACING TEAM	0:26:49
102	Ramunas NAVARDAUSKAS	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	0:26:51
103	Tosh VAN DER SANDE	LOTTO-SOUDAL	s.t.
104	Alexei TCATEVICH	TEAM KATUSHA	s.t.
105	Bryan NAULEAU	TEAM EUROPCAR	s.t.
106	Jos VAN EMDEN	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	s.t.
107	Nacer BOUHANNI	COFIDIS	s.t.
108	Dylan VAN BAARLE	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	s.t.
109	Tiesj BENOOT	LOTTO-SOUDAL	s.t.
110	Matteo BONO	LAMPRE - MERIDA	s.t.
111	Chad HAGA	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	s.t.
112	Nelson OLIVEIRA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	s.t.
113	Edvald BOASSON HAGEN	MTN-QHUBEKA	s.t.
114	Alberto LOSADA	TEAM KATUSHA	s.t.
115	Jack BAUER	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	s.t.
116	Tony GALLOPIN	LOTTO-SOUDAL	s.t.
117	Reinardt JANSE VAN RENSBURG	MTN-QHUBEKA	s.t.
118	Julien SIMON	COFIDIS	s.t.
119	Tony MARTIN	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	s.t.
120	Niki TERPSTRA	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	s.t.
121	Dmitriy GRUZDEV	ASTANA PRO TEAM	s.t.
122	Arnaud COURTEILLE	FDJ	s.t.
123	Manuel QUINZIATO	BMC RACING TEAM	s.t.
124	David TANNER	IAM CYCLING	s.t.
125	Angel VICIOSO	TEAM KATUSHA	s.t.
126	Daniel OSS	BMC RACING TEAM	s.t.
127	Thomas VOECKLER	TEAM EUROPCAR	s.t.
128	Benoît VAUGRENARD	FDJ	s.t.
129	Dennis VAN WINDEN	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	0:30:30
130	Geoffrey SOUPE	COFIDIS	s.t.
131	Florian SENECHAL	COFIDIS	s.t.
132	Tobias LUDVIGSSON	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	s.t.
133	Tyler FARRAR	MTN-QHUBEKA	s.t.
134	Martijn KEIZER	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	s.t.
135	Luke ROWE	SKY	s.t.
136	Maarten WYNANTS	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	s.t.
137	Christophe LAPORTE	COFIDIS	s.t.
138	Mickaël DELAGE	FDJ	s.t.
139	Kévin REZA	FDJ	s.t.
140	Vladimir ISAYCHEV	TEAM KATUSHA	s.t.

GC after Stage 7:

1,056 km raced so far at an average speed of 39.123 km/hr

1	Tejay VAN GARDEREN	BMC RACING TEAM	26hr 59min 27sec
2	Christopher FROOME	SKY	@ 18sec
3	Benat INTXAUSTI	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:00:45
4	Rui COSTA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	@ 1min 10sec
5	Simon YATES	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:01:29
6	Alejandro VALVERDE	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:01:40
7	Romain BARDET	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:01:45
8	Daniel MARTIN	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	0:02:29
9	Andrew TALANSKY	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	0:02:39
10	Joaquim RODRIGUEZ	TEAM KATUSHA	0:02:46
11	Vincenzo NIBALI	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:03:05
12	Rafael VALLS	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:03:36
13	David DE LA CRUZ	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	0:04:12
14	Robert KISERLOVSKI	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:05:05
15	Bart DE CLERCQ	LOTTO-SOUDAL	0:05:55
16	Daniel NAVARRO	COFIDIS	0:06:36
17	Jonathan CASTROVIEJO	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:08:53
18	Gorka IZAGUIRRE	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:11:59
19	Ruben PLAZA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:14:59
20	José HERRADA	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:18:08
21	Adam YATES	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:22:25
22	Chris Anker SORENSEN	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:22:44
23	Wilco KELDERMAN	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	0:25:04
24	Tony GALLOPIN	LOTTO-SOUDAL	0:27:27
25	John GADRET	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:27:47
26	Paul VOSS	BORA-ARGON 18	0:28:17
27	Rein TAARAMAE	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:30:39
28	George BENNETT	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	0:31:47
29	Jean-Christophe PERAUD	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:34:51
30	Tiesj BENOOT	LOTTO-SOUDAL	0:34:58
31	Louis MEINTJES	MTN-QHUBEKA	0:36:04
32	Alexis VUILLERMOZ	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:37:22
33	Pierre ROLLAND	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:37:47
34	Michele SCARPONI	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:38:29
35	Rohan DENNIS	BMC RACING TEAM	0:38:45
36	Pawel POLJANSKI	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:39:08
37	José Rodolfo SERPA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:39:14
38	Christian MEIER	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:40:09
39	Lieuwe WESTRA	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:40:13
40	Emanuel BUCHMANN	BORA-ARGON 18	0:41:18
41	Philip DEIGNAN	SKY	0:41:35
42	Bruno PIRES	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:41:41
43	Andriy GRIVKO	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:43:30
44	Nicolas ROCHE	SKY	0:44:21
45	Ben GASTAUER	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:45:23
46	Haimar ZUBELDIA	TREK	0:46:03
47	Mikael CHEREL	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:46:26
48	Tiago MACHADO	TEAM KATUSHA	0:46:55
49	Peter KENNAUGH	SKY	0:47:04
50	Bjorn THURAU	BORA-ARGON 18	0:47:33
51	Simon GERRANS	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:47:57
52	Marcel WYSS	IAM CYCLING	0:48:18
53	Samuel SANCHEZ	BMC RACING TEAM	0:49:02
54	Wouter POELS	SKY	0:49:51
55	Arnaud COURTEILLE	FDJ	0:50:43
56	Riccardo ZOIDL	TREK	0:50:49
57	Stephen CUMMINGS	MTN-QHUBEKA	0:51:43
58	Alberto LOSADA	TEAM KATUSHA	0:51:46
59	Cristiano SALERNO	BORA-ARGON 18	0:52:00
60	Kenny ELISSONDE	FDJ	0:54:11
61	José MENDES	BORA-ARGON 18	0:54:45
62	Stef CLEMENT	IAM CYCLING	0:55:22
63	Romain SICARD	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:55:50
64	Pieter SERRY	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	0:56:34
65	Luis Angel MATE	COFIDIS	0:58:44
66	Dylan TEUNS	BMC RACING TEAM	0:59:30
67	Tony MARTIN	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	0:59:44
68	Edward BELTRAN	TINKOFF-SAXO	@ 1hr 0min 4sec
69	Lawson CRADDOCK	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	1:00:33
70	Jarlinson PANTANO	IAM CYCLING	1:00:38
71	Bartosz HUZARSKI	BORA-ARGON 18	1:02:25
72	Nathan HAAS	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	1:02:46
73	Nacer BOUHANNI	COFIDIS	1:02:54
74	Bram TANKINK	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	1:03:10
75	Bauke MOLLEMA	TREK	1:03:25
76	Gianpaolo CARUSO	TEAM KATUSHA	1:03:25
77	Serge PAUWELS	MTN-QHUBEKA	1:03:51
78	Ian BOSWELL	SKY	1:05:21
79	Nicolas EDET	COFIDIS	1:06:24
80	Jay MC CARTHY	TINKOFF-SAXO	1:07:52
81	Reto HOLLENSTEIN	IAM CYCLING	1:08:09
82	Cyril GAUTIER	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:08:43
83	Ian STANNARD	SKY	1:11:17
84	Jan BARTA	BORA-ARGON 18	1:12:15
85	Ivan SANTAROMITA	ORICA GREENEDGE	1:13:48
86	Johan VAN SUMMEREN	AG2R LA MONDIALE	1:14:12
87	Pim LIGTHART	LOTTO-SOUDAL	1:14:18
88	Matthew BUSCHE	TREK	1:14:30
89	Kristijan KOREN	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	1:15:46
90	Daniel TEKLEHAIMANOT	MTN-QHUBEKA	1:16:19
91	Michael SCHÄR	BMC RACING TEAM	1:16:37
92	Julien SIMON	COFIDIS	1:17:02
93	Evgeny PETROV	TINKOFF-SAXO	1:17:43
94	Rory SUTHERLAND	MOVISTAR TEAM	1:18:00
95	Nelson OLIVEIRA	LAMPRE - MERIDA	1:18:12
96	Edvald BOASSON HAGEN	MTN-QHUBEKA	1:18:27
97	Perrig QUEMENEUR	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:18:43
98	Alexei TCATEVICH	TEAM KATUSHA	1:19:31
99	Jens KEUKELEIRE	ORICA GREENEDGE	1:19:36
100	David TANNER	IAM CYCLING	1:19:49
101	Damien HOWSON	ORICA GREENEDGE	1:20:17
102	Markel IRIZAR	TREK	1:20:30
103	Reinardt JANSE VAN RENSBURG	MTN-QHUBEKA	1:21:09
104	Tobias LUDVIGSSON	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	1:21:14
105	Magnus Cort NIELSEN	ORICA GREENEDGE	1:21:24
106	Joseph ROSSKOPF	BMC RACING TEAM	1:22:17
107	Daniel OSS	BMC RACING TEAM	1:22:51
108	Jacques JANSE VAN RENSBURG	MTN-QHUBEKA	1:23:24
109	Matteo BONO	LAMPRE - MERIDA	1:24:58
110	Lars BOOM	ASTANA PRO TEAM	1:24:59
111	Jos VAN EMDEN	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	1:25:24
112	Kévin REZA	FDJ	1:25:27
113	Martijn KEIZER	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	1:25:42
114	Niki TERPSTRA	ETIXX-QUICK STEP	1:26:35
115	Bryan NAULEAU	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:27:24
116	Thomas VOECKLER	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:27:24
117	Chad HAGA	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	1:27:34
118	Ramunas NAVARDAUSKAS	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	1:28:14
119	Manuel QUINZIATO	BMC RACING TEAM	1:29:35
120	Tosh VAN DER SANDE	LOTTO-SOUDAL	1:29:42
121	Angel VICIOSO	TEAM KATUSHA	1:29:52
122	Dennis VAN WINDEN	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	1:30:42
123	Fumiyuki BEPPU	TREK	1:30:50
124	Benoît VAUGRENARD	FDJ	1:31:43
125	Geoffrey SOUPE	COFIDIS	1:32:19
126	Gatis SMUKULIS	TEAM KATUSHA	1:32:56
127	Alessandro VANOTTI	ASTANA PRO TEAM	1:33:09
128	Christophe LAPORTE	COFIDIS	1:34:07
129	Luke ROWE	SKY	1:34:13
130	Romain GUILLEMOIS	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:35:21
131	Dmitriy GRUZDEV	ASTANA PRO TEAM	1:35:46
132	Tyler FARRAR	MTN-QHUBEKA	1:37:25
133	Maarten WYNANTS	LOTTO NL-JUMBO	1:37:58
134	Sebastian LANGEVELD	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	1:38:35
135	Mickaël DELAGE	FDJ	1:38:38
136	Albert TIMMER	TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN	1:39:12
137	Vladimir ISAYCHEV	TEAM KATUSHA	1:39:35
138	Florian SENECHAL	COFIDIS	1:40:47
139	Dylan VAN BAARLE	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	1:43:35
140	Jack BAUER	CANNONDALE-GARMIN	1:43:47

Stage 7 map and profile:

Dauphiné stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

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