Stage 6 - Biescas Col du Tourmalet

1 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Astana Pro Team 3:41:00
2 Michael Woods (Can) EF Pro Cycling 0:25
3 Rui Costa (Por) UAE-Team Emirates 0:25
4 Robert Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:27
5 Michael Valgren (Den) NTT Pro Cycling 0:27
6 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:27
7 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:38
8 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Pro Cycling 0:48
9 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:53
10 Sergio Henao (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 0:55


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+44 Remi Cavagna
+30 Michael Storer
+23 Jasha Sutterlin
+21 Ide Schelling
+18 Alfred Wright
+17 Michael Woods
+17 Dmitriy Gruzdev
+16 Santiago Buitrago
+16 Jonathan Hivert
+15 Pierre-Luc Perichon

Biggest losers by position :
-35 Quentin Jauregui
-30 Matteo Badilatti
-17 Sepp Kuss
-15 Andrea Bagioli
-15 Jan Hirt
-14 Thymen Arensman
-13 Michael Morkov
-12 Sam Bennett
-11 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
-11 Robert Stannard
-11 Stefan de Bod

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:18 Ion Izagirre
+0:49 Michael Woods
+0:47 Rui Costa
+0:41 Robert Power
+0:41 Michael Valgren
+0:41 Guillaume Martin
+0:30 Mattia Cattaneo
+0:20 Hugh Carthy
+0:18 Gorka Izagirre
+0:13 Sergio Henao

Biggest losers by time :
-35:25 Jakub Mareczko
-24:50 Martin Salmon
-24:29 Matteo Moschetti
-24:29 Quentin Jauregui
-23:18 Matteo Badilatti
-22:30 Stephen Williams
-22:20 Mihkel Raim
-21:07 Niki Terpstra
-21:03 Paul Martens
-20:44 Harry Tanfield
-20:26 Mickael Delage

Favourites by position :
+17 Michael Woods
+6 Wout Poels
+4 Guillaume Martin
+3 Aleksandr Vlasov
+2 Richard Carapaz
+2 Marc Soler
+1 Alejandro Valverde
-1 Enric Mas
-3 Primoz Roglic
-3 George Bennett
-5 Tejay van Garderen
-10 Tom Dumoulin
-15 Jan Hirt

Favourites by time :
+0:49 Michael Woods
+0:41 Guillaume Martin
+0:13 Richard Carapaz
+0:13 Marc Soler
-0:06 Wout Poels
-0:30 Primoz Roglic
-0:35 Enric Mas
-0:52 Aleksandr Vlasov
-0:52 Alejandro Valverde
-1:25 George Bennett
-11:00 Tom Dumoulin
-16:03 Tejay van Garderen
-16:03 Jan Hirt

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Richard Carapaz 24:34:39 (was 3rd at 0:13)
2 Hugh Carthy 0:18 (was 5th at 0:38)
3 Dan Martin 0:20 (was 2nd at 0:05)
4 Primoz Roglic 0:30 (was 1st at 0:00)
5 Enric Mas 1:07 (was 4th at 0:32)
6 Felix Grosschartner 1:30 (was 7th at 1:17)
7 Marc Soler 1:42 (was 9th at 1:55)
8 Esteban Chaves 2:02 (was 8th at 1:29)
9 David de la Cruz 2:46 (was 12th at 2:31)
10 Alejandro Valverde 3:00 (was 11th at 2:08)
11 Wout Poels 3:19 (was 17th at 3:13)
.....
13 George Bennett 3:22 (was 10th at 1:57)
.....
20 Aleksandr Vlasov 6:34 (was 23rd at 5:42)
21 Guillaume Martin 7:15 (was 25th at 7:56)
.....
47 Tom Dumoulin 32:05 (was 37th at 21:05)
.....
56 Michael Woods 40:29 (was 73rd at 41:18)
.....
59 Jan Hirt 42:27 (was 44th at 26:24)
.....
102 Tejay van Garderen 1:05:24 (was 97th at 49:21)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 79 (unchanged)
2 Richard Carapaz 61 (was 3rd with 57 points)
3 Dan Martin 57 (was 2nd with 57 points)
4 Guillaume Martin 36 (was 8th with 26 points)
5 Hugh Carthy 33 (was 11th with 25 points)
6 Enric Mas 33 (was 4th with 33 points)
7 Felix Grosschartner 33 (was 5th with 33 points)
8 Marc Soler 29 (was 6th with 26 points)
9 Tim Wellens 26 (was 7th with 26 points)
10 Sepp Kuss 26 (was 9th with 26 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tim Wellens 19 (unchanged)
2 Richard Carapaz 18 (unchanged)
3 Dan Martin 16 (unchanged)
4 Guillaume Martin 15 (was 6th with 7 points)
5 Sepp Kuss 14 (was 4th with 14 points)
6 Ion Izagirre 11 (was 20th with 1 points)
7 Primoz Roglic 7 (was 5th with 7 points)
8 Quentin Jauregui 6 (was 7th with 6 points)
9 Enric Mas 6 (was 8th with 6 points)
10 Alejandro Valverde 6 (was 9th with 6 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Movistar Team 73:49:56 (was 2nd at 1:42)
2 UAE-Team Emirates 3:37 (was 3rd at 7:14)
3 Team Jumbo-Visma 8:09 (was 1st at 62:40:36)
4 Astana Pro Team 10:06 (was 4th at 13:33)
5 Mitchelton-Scott 24:18 (was 5th at 24:21)
6 INEOS Grenadiers 35:13 (was 7th at 35:58)
7 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 39:21 (was 8th at 38:50)
8 Trek - Segafredo 41:52 (was 6th at 32:16)
9 Groupama - FDJ 53:30 (was 11th at 49:56)
10 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:01:31 (was 9th at 47:48)
11 CCC Team 1:04:40 (was 10th at 48:26)
12 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:05:06 (was 12th at 58:16)
13 Israel Start-Up Nation 1:12:34 (was 13th at 1:02:24)
14 NTT Pro Cycling 1:16:35 (was 14th at 1:07:54)
15 EF Pro Cycling 1:18:01 (was 15th at 1:12:50)
16 AG2R La Mondiale 1:21:22 (was 19th at 1:20:43)
17 Bahrain - McLaren 1:29:10 (was 18th at 1:20:28)
18 Team Total Direct Energie 1:37:19 (was 17th at 1:19:32)
19 Team Sunweb 1:40:12 (was 21th at 1:34:10)
20 BORA - hansgrohe 1:45:09 (was 20th at 1:30:57)
21 Lotto Soudal 1:47:13 (was 16th at 1:19:19)
22 Burgos-BH 2:08:36 (was 22th at 1:42:07)

Retirements to date : Stage
Fernando Barcelo (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 6
Francisco Jose Ventoso (CCC Team) 5
Grega Bole (Bahrain - McLaren) 5
Natnael Berhane (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 5
Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) 4
Simon Geschke (CCC Team) 4
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain - McLaren) 3
Thibaut Pinot (Groupama - FDJ) 3
Axel Domont (AG2R La Mondiale) 2
Brandon Smith Rivera (INEOS Grenadiers) 2
Alexandre Geniez (AG2R La Mondiale) 1
Ilan Van Wilder (Team Sunweb) 1
Mathias Frank (AG2R La Mondiale) 1
Total retirements : 13


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