# Stage 7: La Bridoire → Grand Colombier · Critérium du Dauphiné 2026

Saturday, June 13 (2026-06-13) · 133.6 km · Mountain Stage · Start 12:15 local

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A short but intense mountain stage finishing with the HC climb to Grand Colombier.

**Stages shaped like this fell to a late solo attack 7 of 14 times — climbers took 4 of those 7.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Col du Banchet** — Cat 2, at km 5.1, 5.4 km long, avg 5.7%, 308 m gain
- **Col de la Crusille** — Cat 4, at km 13.8, 2.9 km long, avg 4%, 116 m gain
- **Côte de Saint-Maurice-de-Rotherens** — Cat 2, at km 24.2, 4.9 km long, avg 7.1%, 348 m gain
- **Grand Colombier** — Cat 1, at km 76.2, 7 km long, avg 8.4%, 588 m gain
- **Col de Richemond** — Cat 2, at km 111.2, 7.7 km long, avg 6%, 462 m gain
- **COL DU GRAND COLOMBIER** — HC, at km 133.6, 8.4 km long, avg 10.2%, 857 m gain

## Intermediate sprints

- **Chanay** — intermediate sprint at km 95.6

Total elevation gain: 3711 m · Max elevation: 1501 m

Best viewing window (local time): 15:16–16:01.

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Data by Parcours (https://parcours.sh) — elevation profiles, key climbs and watch windows for the 2026 WorldTour season.