| 2018 Critérium du Dauphiné | |
| Series: | 2018 UCI World Tour |
| Race No: | 23 |
| Season No: | 37 |
| Date: | 3–10 June 2018 |
| Stages: | 7 + Prologue |
| Distance: | 951.6[1] |
| Unit: | km |
| First: | Geraint Thomas |
| First Nat: | GBR |
| First Color: | yellow-bluebar |
| Second: | Adam Yates |
| Second Nat: | GBR |
| Third: | Romain Bardet |
| Third Nat: | FRA |
| Mountains Nat: | ITA |
| Mountains Color: | white dots on light blue 2 |
| Points Nat: | RSA |
| Points Color: | green |
| Youth: | Pierre Latour |
| Youth Nat: | FRA |
| Youth Color: | white |
| Previous: | 2017 |
| Next: | 2019 |
The 2018 Critérium du Dauphiné was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 10 June 2018 in France. It was the 70th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné and the twenty-third event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.[2] [3]
The race was won by a British rider from Team Sky, as Geraint Thomas won his first Dauphiné GC.
As the Critérium du Dauphiné was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 22-team peloton.
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | 3 June | Valence to Valence | 6.6km (04.1miles) | Individual time trial | |||
| 1 | 4 June | Valence to Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert | 179km (111miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 2 | 5 June | Montbrison to Belleville | 181km (112miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 3 | 6 June | Pont-de-Vaux to Louhans-Châteaurenaud | 35km (22miles) | Team time trial | |||
| 4 | 7 June | Chazey-sur-Ain to Lans-en-Vercors | 181km (112miles) | Mountain stage | |||
| 5 | 8 June | Grenoble to Valmorel | 130km (80miles) | Mountain stage | |||
| 6 | 9 June | Frontenex to La Rosière | 110km (70miles) | Mountain stage | |||
| 7 | 10 June | Moûtiers to Saint-Gervais | 136km (85miles) | Mountain stage | |||
In the Critérium du Dauphiné, four different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a yellow jersey with a blue bar; the winner of this classification was considered the winner of the race.[13]
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stages 1–3 & 5 | 25 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | |
| Stages 4, 6–8 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points for | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Points for | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Points for | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Points for | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Points for | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.