2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
| 2012 UCI World Tour, race 16 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The route of the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
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| Dates | 3–10 June 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 + Prologue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,051.7 km (653.5 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 26h 40' 46" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
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| Second |
 Michael Rogers (Australia)
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| Third |
Cadel Evans (Australia)
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Points |
Cadel Evans (Australia)
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(BMC Racing Team) |
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Mountains |
 Cayetano Sarmiento (Colombia)
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(Liquigas–Cannondale) |
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Youth |
 Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands)
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(Rabobank) |
| Team | Team Sky | ||
The 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné was the sixty-fourth running of the Critérium du Dauphiné cycling stage race; a race rated as a World Tour event on the UCI calendar, the highest classification such an event can have. The race consisted of eight stages, beginning with a prologue in Grenoble on 3 June, and concluded in Châtel on 10 June. The race was organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation, the same group that organises the Tour de France. It was viewed as a great preparation for July's Tour de France, hence why a majority of the contenders for the general classification of the major tour participated in the Dauphiné. It featured mountainous stages as well as an individual time trial quite similar in length to those that awaited the riders in the Tour.
The race was won for the second successive year by Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins, who claimed the leader's yellow and blue jersey after the first stage, extending his race-leading advantage after winning the fourth stage individual time trial, and ultimately maintained that advantage. Wiggins became only the third rider to win the Dauphiné and Paris–Nice – a race that Wiggins had won in March – in the same year after Jacques Anquetil (1963 and 1965) and Eddy Merckx (1971) had previously done so.
Wiggins' winning margin over his team-mate and runner-up Michael Rogers was one minute and seventeen seconds, and BMC Racing Team's Cadel Evans completed the podium, nine seconds down on Rogers. In the race's other classifications, Liquigas–Cannondale rider Cayetano Sarmiento won the King of the Mountains classification, Evans won the green jersey for the points classification,Rabobank's Wilco Kelderman won the young rider classification, with Team Sky finishing at the head of the teams classification by over thirteen minutes, after placing four riders inside the final overall top ten placings.
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