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<\/p>\nIsaac Del Toro follows up on Saturday\u2019s stage victory with another mountain top win, sealing the biggest victory of his career.<\/p>\n
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Isaac Del Toro wins the final stage and overall of the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images) (Photo: @Dario Belingheri\/@Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Updated June 14, 2026 09:57AM<\/p>\n
Isaac Del Toro<\/a> completed a double-double at the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes<\/a>, taking his second consecutive stage win Sunday and also winning the race overall.<\/p>\n The Mexican UAE Emirates-XRG rider attacked the GC favorites 9km from the finish atop the category one climb of the Plateau de Solaison-Brison, quickly distancing his rivals and gaining time all the way to the finish.<\/p>\n He crossed the line one minute clear of former teammate Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek), who had started one place behind him on GC in fourth. Tobias Hallan Johannesssen<\/a> (Uno-X Mobility) put in a late burst to grab third, two seconds further back. Maillot Jaune Luke Tuckwell (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Matteo Jorgenson<\/a> (Visma-Lease a Bike), who started the day first and second overall, dropped 1:43 to the stage winner.<\/p>\n Tuckwell held on to second in the final GC, ending the eight day race 54 seconds off yellow. Ayuso captured third at 1:17, while a fading by Jorgenson close to the finish dropped him from second to fourth.<\/p>\n Del Toro added to his GC wins this year in the UAE Tour and Tirreno Adriatico, and gets a very clear indication that his Tour de France preparations are right on track.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is something that is absolutely incredible,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe I would have doubted a bit that I could win it, but it is a fantastic privilege to be in this situation. It fills me with pride. I am very impressed and really happy. It has gone much better than planned.\u201d<\/p>\n He is often seen as the heir to Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s throne, both because of their shared team but also because of his talent. Del Toro is five years younger at 22 and will make his Tour de France debut next month.<\/p>\n His official role is to help Poga\u010dar to a record-equaling fifth GC win and when asked, confirmed he would do exactly that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be full. Full gas,\u201d he said, referring to his backing of the Slovenian.<\/p>\n Bad day for Seixas DNF, great day for Del Toro<\/p>\n Stage 8 of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes was the toughest of the race with four categorised climbs, including the hors category Mont\u00e9e de Bisanne and the Plateau de Solaison-Brison, a 11.5km climb to the finish.<\/p>\n It started with the category one Col du Pr\u00e9, which finished off the GC hopes of an injured Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA GCM). The Frenchman crashed heavily on Saturday and while he hoped to bounce back on the final stage, things did not go as he intended.<\/p>\n Seven riders went clear prior to his DNF, namely Laurens De Plus, Carlos Rodriguez (Netcompany Ineos), L\u00e9o Bisiaux (Decathlon CMA CGM), Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost), Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step), Geoffrey Bouchard (Total Energies). Harold Tejada (XDS Astana), and Cl\u00e9ment Braz Afonso (Groupama-FDJ United). They were later joined by Kevin Vauquelin (Netcompany Ineos).<\/p>\n However the UAE Emirates XRG team was leading the chase behind, keeping the gap at a reachable level, and the leaders had just 50 seconds with 50km remaining.<\/p>\n Once onto the final climb Paret-Peintre attacked the front group with 11km remaining. He was joined by Rodr\u00edguez and De Plus, while behind the UAE team were further ramping up the pressure. That paved the way for an attack by Del Toro with 9km remaining and he soon caught and passed those out front.<\/p>\n The Mexican quickly gained time on his rivals and finished far ahead at the finish line, sealing his second consecutive stage win and, crucially, the overall. It\u2019s the biggest win of his career and shows he is in sparkling form prior to his debut Tour de France in three week\u2019s time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Del Toro follows up on Saturday\u2019s stage victory with another mountain top win, sealing the biggest victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[168574,49,48,635,54263,82,260508,88388,62849,264880,81379,54267],"class_list":["post-737464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-audio-true","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-criterium-du-dauphine","tag-tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-tag-juan-ayuso","tag-tag-luke-tuckwell","tag-tag-matteo-jorgenson","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}