Stage 6 : May 12, 2016 Ponte - Roccaraso 157 km

1 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4.40.05
2 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 1.19
3 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha
4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 1.22
5 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data 1.24
6 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 1.29
8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 1.33
9 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team
10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 1.36


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+76 Tim Wellens
+66 Giulio Ciccone
+62 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski
+57 Riccardo Zoidl
+57 Alexander Foliforov
+56 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev
+55 Javier Moreno Bazan
+53 Damien Howson
+51 David Lopez Garcia
+50 Jose Herrada Lopez

Biggest losers by position :
-44 Nikias Arndt
-40 Moreno Moser
-39 Giacomo Nizzolo
-33 Boy van Poppel
-32 Caleb Ewan
-28 Andre Greipel
-28 Arnaud Demare
-28 Heinrich Haussler
-28 Manuel Belletti
-28 Matteo Trentin
-27 Alexey Tsatevich

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:33 Tim Wellens
+0:09 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:07 Ilnur Zakarin

Biggest losers by time :
-24:37 Matteo Pelucchi
-19:25 Boy van Poppel
-19:25 Caleb Ewan
-19:25 Ji Cheng
-19:25 Matthias Brandle
-19:25 Nicola Ruffoni
-19:25 Nikias Arndt
-19:25 Roger Kluge
-18:05 Albert Timmer
-18:05 Artur Ershov
-18:05 Bert De Backer

Favourites by position :
+22 Mikel Nieve Ituralde
+7 Jakob Fuglsang
+7 Domenico Pozzovivo
+6 Ryder Hesjedal
+3 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
+1 Rigoberto Uran
+1 Rafal Majka
+1 Mikel Landa Meana
+1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-2 Davide Formolo
-2 Bob Jungels
-3 Vincenzo Nibali

Favourites by time :
+0:09 Jakob Fuglsang
-0:02 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:07 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
-0:11 Rigoberto Uran
-0:11 Rafal Majka
-0:14 Steven Kruijswijk
-0:14 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-0:19 Bob Jungels
-0:21 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:21 Ryder Hesjedal
-0:21 Mikel Landa Meana
-0:29 Mikel Nieve Ituralde
-0:54 Davide Formolo

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tom Dumoulin 24:22:15 (unchanged)
2 Jakob Fuglsang 0:26 (was 9th at 0:35)
3 Ilnur Zakarin 0:28 (was 8th at 0:35)
4 Bob Jungels 0:35 (was 2nd at 0:16)
5 Steven Kruijswijk 0:38 (was 5th at 0:24)
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:41 (was 7th at 0:27)
7 Diego Ulissi 0:41 (was 3rd at 0:20)
8 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:44 (was 11th at 0:37)
9 Vincenzo Nibali 0:47 (was 6th at 0:26)
10 Kanstantsin Siutsou 0:49 (was 17th at 0:47)
11 Rigoberto Uran 0:51 (was 12th at 0:40)
12 Rafal Majka 0:56 (was 13th at 0:45)
13 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:56 (was 20th at 0:54)
.....
15 Mikel Landa Meana 1:08 (was 16th at 0:47)
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21 Ryder Hesjedal 1:38 (was 27th at 1:17)
.....
23 Davide Formolo 1:51 (was 21st at 0:57)
.....
42 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 6:02 (was 64th at 5:33)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Marcel Kittel 106 (unchanged)
2 Arnaud Demare 88 (was 2nd with 86 points)
3 Maarten Tjallingii 80 (unchanged)
4 Andre Greipel 69 (unchanged)
5 Tom Dumoulin 58 (was 7th with 50 points)
6 Elia Viviani 58 (was 5th with 58 points)
7 Diego Ulissi 50 (was 6th with 50 points)
8 Giacomo Berlato 44 (unchanged)
9 Giacomo Nizzolo 43 (unchanged)
10 Moreno Hofland 42 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Damiano Cunego 18 (was 1st with 14 points)
2 Tim Wellens 17 (was 10th with 2 points)
3 Alessandro Bisolti 16 (was 12th with 1 points)
4 Jakob Fuglsang 8 (was 0 points)
5 Alexander Kolobnev 8 (was 0 points)
6 Nicola Boem 7 (was 2nd with 7 points)
7 Ilnur Zakarin 6 (was 0 points)
8 Stefano Pirazzi 6 (was 5th with 4 points)
9 Eugert Zhupa 6 (was 0 points)
10 Julen Amezqueta 6 (was 3rd with 6 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Southeast - Venezuela 5
Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Dimension Data 5
Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ 4
Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team 3
Total retirements : 5


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