Tour de France, stage 6 summary
 

Stage 6 : Jul 9, Montargis - Gueugnon, 227.5 km

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia 5.37.42
2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions
3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Katusha
5 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram
6 Sebastien Turgot (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
7 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
8 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team
9 Robert Hunter (RSA) Garmin - Transitions
10 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+6 Daniel Lloyd
+5 Stephane Auge
+5 Manuel Quinziato
+5 Jeremy Roy
+5 Brett Lancaster
+5 Andreas Klier
+4 Simon Spilak
+4 Samuel Dumoulin
+4 Nicki Sorensen
+4 Jeremy Hunt

Biggest losers by position :
-43 Bert Grabsch
-20 Maxim Iglinskiy
-15 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-10 Anthony Roux
-8 Christophe Kern
-8 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde
-8 Paolo Tiralongo
-8 Stijn Vandenbergh
-6 Jens Voigt
-5 Dmitriy Muravyev
-5 Jurgen Van De Walle

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:03 Tyler Farrar
+0:03 Thor Hushovd
+0:03 Sebastien Turgot
+0:03 Robert Hunter
+0:03 Robbie McEwen
+0:03 Mark Renshaw
+0:03 Mark Cavendish
+0:03 Lloyd Mondory
+0:03 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil
+0:03 Gerald Ciolek

Biggest losers by time :
-10:55 Bert Grabsch
-10:55 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde
-8:42 Anthony Roux
-8:42 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-8:42 Dmitriy Muravyev
-8:42 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez
-6:16 David De La Fuente Rasilla
-2:49 Paolo Tiralongo
-1:55 Dries Devenyns
-1:55 Jens Voigt
-1:55 Jurgen Van De Walle

Favourites by position :

Favourites by time :

Top 3 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Fabian Cancellara 28:37:30 (unchanged)
2 Geraint Thomas 0:20 (was 2nd at 0:23)
3 Cadel Evans 0:39 (unchanged)
.....
6 Andy Schleck 1:09 (unchanged)
.....
9 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:40 (unchanged)
.....
13 Denis Menchov 1:49 (unchanged)
14 Bradley Wiggins 1:49 (unchanged)
.....
16 Roman Kreuziger 2:24 (unchanged)
17 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 2:25 (unchanged)
18 Lance Armstrong 2:30 (unchanged)
.....
24 Levi Leipheimer 2:53 (unchanged)
.....
28 Andreas Kloden 3:01 (unchanged)
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42 Robert Gesink 3:16 (unchanged)
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46 Carlos Sastre 3:19 (unchanged)
47 Ivan Basso 3:20 (unchanged)
.....
58 Joaquin Rodriguez 3:33 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Thor Hushovd 118 (was 1st with 102 points)
2 Alessandro Petacchi 114 (was 2nd with 88 points)
3 Robbie McEwen 105 (was 3rd with 81 points)
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 92 (was 4th with 73 points)
5 Mark Cavendish 85 (was 9th with 50 points)
6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 82 (was 5th with 64 points)
7 Sebastien Turgot 79 (was 6th with 59 points)
8 Geraint Thomas 74 (was 7th with 59 points)
9 Gerald Ciolek 71 (was 10th with 49 points)
10 Daniel Oss 54 (was 8th with 54 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Jerome Pineau 13 (unchanged)
2 Mathieu Perget 12 (was 0 points)
3 Sylvain Chavanel 8 (was 2nd with 8 points)
4 Rein Taaramae 8 (was 3rd with 8 points)
5 Sebastian Lang 7 (was 0 points)
6 Jurgen Van De Walle 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
7 Maxime Monfort 5 (was 5th with 5 points)
8 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
9 Ruben Perez Moreno 4 (was 0 points)
10 Matthew Lloyd 4 (was 7th with 4 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5
Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Transitions 3
David Le Lay (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 3
Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 3
Adam Hansen (Aus) Team HTC - Columbia 2
Mickael Delage (Fra) Omega Pharma-Lotto 2
Manuel Cardoso (Spa) Footon-Servetto 1
Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1
Total retirements : 9


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