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In 1947, a bicycle race was created by Le Dauphiné libéré to promote its circulation. After World War II, as cycling recovered from a universal five- or six-year hiatus, the Grenoble-based newspaper decided to create and organize a cycling stage race covering the Dauphiné region.
The Dauphiné (UK: / ˈ d oʊ f ɪ n eɪ, ˈ d ɔː f-/ DOH-fin-ay, DAW-, US: / ˌ d oʊ f iː ˈ n eɪ / DOH-fee-NAY, [1] French:; Occitan: Daufinat or Dalfinat; Arpitan: Dôfenât or Darfenât), formerly known in English as Dauphiny, is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes.
The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycling road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France.The race is run over eight days during the first half of June.
All nineteen UCI WorldTeams and two UCI ProTeams made up the twenty-one teams that participated in the race. [3] Each team fielded a squad of seven riders, for a total of 147 riders, from which there were 118 finishers.
Stage characteristics [2]; Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1: 5 June La Voulte-sur-Rhône to Beauchastel: 192 km (119 mi) Hilly stage Wout van Aert (BEL) 2: 6 June Saint-Péray to Brives-Charensac
Drôme lies within the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.Drôme is bordered by Ardèche to the west, Isère to the north and east, Hautes-Alpes to the east, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence to the southeast and Vaucluse to the south.
The 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné was the 71st edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné, a road cycling stage race.The race took place between 9 and 16 June 2019, in France and Switzerland.
Henry Anglade (6 July 1933 – 10 November 2022) [2] was a French cyclist.In 1959 he was closest to winning the Tour de France, when he won a stage and finished second, 4:01 behind Federico Bahamontes.