Dauphiné: Evenepoel wins the time trial and takes the yellow jersey

Remco Evenepoel wins the time trial of the fourth stage at the Tour of Dauphiné.

The Belgian, world champion in the specialty, covered the 34.4 km of the route from Saint-Germain-Laval to Neulise in 41'49" at 49.3 km/h.

Tarling starts much earlier than the other men in the rankings and climbs to the top of the virtual ranking; for over two hours no one manages to match his time. Evenepoel runs a time trial substantially identical to the Briton in the first two split times, and then gains 17" in the final part, slightly uphill.

In third place is Roglic , who perhaps started too slowly, the Slovenian arriving 39" behind Evenepoel.

The other men in the standings all lose more than a minute from the Belgian. Evenepoel takes the yellow jersey off Derek Gee's shoulders (good 6th place today) and leads the general classification ahead of Roglic and Jorgenson.

ARRIVAL ORDER:

1 EVENEPOEL Remco 41,49.28 49,353

2 TARLING Joshua 42.06.63 0.17.35 49.014

3 ROGLIČ Primož 42.28.46 0.39.18 48.594

4 JORGENSON Matthew 42.57.07 1.07.79 48.055

5 LAZKANO Oier 43.10.41 1.21.13 47.807

6 GEE Derek 43.13.63 1.24.35 47.748

7 POWLESS Neilson 43.14.18 1.24.90 47.738

8 ARMIRAIL Bruno 43.16.01 1.26.73 47.704

9 AYUSO Juan 43.16.74 1.27.46 47.691

10 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 43.28.04 1.38.76 47.484

Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency