Pogacar attacked with twelve kilometers left and while Jonas Vingegaard tried to stick to his rear wheel, he couldn't match the speed of the Slovenian rider. Florian Lipowitz also fought to close the gap to Pogacar, while Remco Evenepoel and Tobias Johannessen were chasing further back.
Vingegaard received no help from Lipowitz in trying to close the gap as all the hard work was handed to the Dane.
Vingegaard then dropped Lipowitz at the ten-kilometer mark and and still had the world champion in his yellow race leader jersey in his eyesight.
With eight kilometres left, Tadej Pogacar was eighteen seconds ahead of Vingegaard while Lipowitz was 25 seconds back and Evenepoel was almost a minute behind together with Johannessen.
Vingegaard fought furiosly to minimize the gap on the climb, but with with 4.4-kilometers left, the Danish rider from Team Visma was twenty seconds behind Pogacar.
Lipowitz had not thrown in the towel but was still chasing 54 seconds behind, while Evenepoel was almost 01:30 minutes behind leading rider Pogacar who even looked like he could go up a gear if needed.
The UAE Team Emirates rider continued increasing his advantage as he approached the finish line at the summit of Valmeinier 1800 and Pogacar crossed the finish line in superior fashion to take his third stage victory in this year’s Criterium du Dauphine.
Jonas Vingegaard chased to the end and on the final kilometre managed to cut the gap severely as he finished in second place 14 seconds after Pogacar.
Tadej Pogacar increased his lead in the general classification. Jonas Vingegaard remains second, while Florian Lipowitz is still third. Remco Evenepoel is fourth on the GC, while Matteo Jorgenson is fifth.
