Roglic wins another mountain stage to extend Criterium du Dauphine lead

Primoz Roglic made it back-to-back wins on stage seven of the Criterium du Dauphine to increase his overall lead heading into the final stage

The Bora–Hansgrohe rider took the yellow jersey from Remco Evenepoel on Friday and is now 62 seconds clear after winning the summit finish at Samoens 1600.

Both were involved in the large crash that led to stage five being neutralised on Thursday, but Evenepoel appears to have come off worst.

The Soudal Quick-Step rider again struggled on the queen stage of this year's race, losing nearly two minutes to Roglic, and the 24-year-old Belgian slipped to sixth in the general classification standings.

Slovenian Roglic, 34, crossed the line before America's Matteo Jorgenson, who has moved into second place overall, with Canada's Derek Gee going third in the GC.

Saturday's 155.3km route from Albertville featured three category one climbs before finishing with a 10km climb that had an average gradient of 9.3%.

Marc Soler started the day nearly four minutes off Roglic and broke away to lead the peloton by more than five minutes at one point.

The Spaniard was still leading when, 3km into the final climb, Evenepoel was dropped after the steepest section of 12.3%.

Soler was then caught 2km from the finish and although Oier Lazkano hit the front as the line approached, Roglic timed his attack perfectly to cross first with Jorgenson in hot pursuit.

Lidl-Trek's Tao Geoghegan Hart was one of several riders to withdraw either before or during Saturday's stage - the British rider still suffering with his injuries from Thursday's crash.

By winning the queen stage, Roglic further leads the points classification and also took the best climber's jersey. BORA – hansgrohe also sits on top of the team classification.

Primož Roglic: "Today we were not focused on winning the stage. You still have to take control from kilometre zero and all my team-mates did that. Every single one of them! All the guys did a great job. My focus was to stay safe but it wasn't easy with the conditions. However, in the end I had the legs to finish the job. Tomorrow is another super hard day."

VIDEO: Criterium du Dauphine Stage 6 Highlights

Criterium du Dauphine Stage 6 Top 10

1  ROGLIC Primož BORA - hansgrohe 4:29:16
2  JORGENSON Matteo Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:00
3  CICCONE Giulio Lidl - Trek 0:02
4  LAZKANO Oier Movistar Team 0:02
5  GEE Derek Israel - Premier Tech 0:02
6  RODRÍGUEZ Carlos INEOS Grenadiers 0:08
7  BUITRAGO Santiago Bahrain - Victorious 0:14
8  DE PLUS Laurens INEOS Grenadiers 0:14
9  VLASOV Aleksandr BORA - hansgrohe 0:14
10  LANDA Mikel Soudal Quick-Step 0:33

Criterium du Dauphine GC after stage 6

1  ROGLIC Primož BORA - hansgrohe 21:16:50
2  JORGENSON Matteo Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:02
3  GEE Derek Israel - Premier Tech 1:13
4  VLASOV Aleksandr BORA - hansgrohe 1:56
5  RODRÍGUEZ Carlos INEOS Grenadiers 1:58
6  EVENEPOEL Remco Soudal Quick-Step 2:15
7  DE PLUS Laurens INEOS Grenadiers 2:17
8  LAZKANO Oier Movistar Team 2:20
9  CICCONE Giulio Lidl - Trek 2:54
10  LANDA Mikel Soudal Quick-Step 3:51