Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

For the type of cycling race see Criterium

The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is an annual cycling road race, run over eight stages in the Dauphiné region in France during the first half of June. It is organised by the Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper. Along with the Tour de Suisse, the Dauphiné Libéré is an important race in the lead-up to the Tour de France in July.

Because the Dauphiné is a mountainous area, the winners are often climbing specialists. Many climbs that are famous from the Tour de France, like the Mont Ventoux, the Col du Galibier or Col de la Chartreuse appear often in the Dauphiné Libéré.

All cyclists who have won the Tour de France five times or more have also won the Dauphiné Libéré.

The first Dauphiné Libéré was held in 1947 when Eduard Klablinski from Poland was the winner. Nello Lauredi, Luis Ocaña, Charly Mottet and Bernard Hinault share the record of the most wins, with three each.

Iban Mayo won in 2004, when he climbed Mont Ventoux very quickly.  In the 2005 Dauphiné the winner was Iñigo Landaluze, of the Euskaltel-Euskadi team.

 Winners 
 1947 to 1999 
YearWinnerNatTeamTeam Nat1947Édouard Kablinski1948Édouard Fachleitner1949Lucien LazaridesFrance Sport-Dunlop1950Nello Lauredi1951Nello Lauredi1952Jean DottoFrance Sport1953Lucien TeisseireTerrot-Hutchinson1954Nello Lauredi1955Louison BobetStella/Mercier1956Alex CloseElvé-Peugeot1957Marcel Rohrbach1958Louis Rostollan1959Henry Anglade1960Jean DottoLiberia-Grammont1961Brian RobinsonRapha-Gitane-Dunlop1962Raymond MastrottoGitane-Leroux-Dunlop1963Jacques AnquetilSaint-Raphaël1964Valentin Uriona1965Jacques AnquetilFord-Gitane1966Raymond PoulidorMercier-BP1969Raymond PoulidorMercier-BP1970Luis OcañaBic1971Eddy MerckxPeugot-BP-Michelin1972Luis OcañaBic1973Luis OcañaBic1974Alain SantyGan-MercierYearWinnerNatTeamTeam Nat1975Bernard ThévenetPeugot-BP-Michelin1976Bernard ThévenetPeugot-BP-Michelin1977Bernard HinaultGitane1978Michel PollentierFlandria-Velda-Latina1979Bernard HinaultRenault-Gitane1980Johan van der Velde1981Bernard HinaultRenault-Gitane1982Michel LaurentPeugeot-Shell-Michelin1983Greg LeMondRenault-Elf-Gitane1984Martin Ramirez1985Phil Anderson1986Urs ZimmermannCarrera-Albuch1987Charly MottetSystème U1988Luis Herrera1989Charly MottetRMO1990Robert MillarZ1991Luis Herrera1992Charly MottetRMO1993Laurent DufauxHelvetia1994Laurent DufauxHelvetia1995Miguel IndurainBanesto1996Miguel IndurainBanesto1997Udo BöltsTeam Deutsche Telekom1998Armand De Las Cuevas1999Alexander VinokourovCasino

 After 1999 
YearWinnerNatTeamTeam Nat2000Tyler HamiltonU.S. Postal Service2001Christophe MoreauFestina2002Lance ArmstrongU.S. Postal Service2003Lance ArmstrongU.S. Postal Service2004Iban MayoEuskaltel-Euskadi2005Iñigo LandaluzeEuskaltel-Euskadi2006Levi LeipheimerTeam Gerolsteiner2007Christophe MoreauAg2r2008Alejandro Valverde2009Alejandro Valverde2010Janez Brajkovič

 Other websites 
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