Stage 6 : Thursday, June 18 2009, Oberriet - Bad Zurzach, 177 km

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad 4:18:26
2 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
3 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.
4 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo TestTeam
5 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto
6 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank
7 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
8 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram
9 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
10 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step


Changes in stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+6 Andreas Dietziker
+5 Jurgen Roelandts
+4 Stuart O'Grady
+4 Massimiliano Mori
+3 Serguei Klimov
+3 Maxim Iglinskiy
+3 Luca Mazzanti
+3 Dimitriy Muravyev
+3 Chris Sutton
+3 Arnaud Gerard

Biggest losers by position :
-25 Linus Gerdemann
-4 Claudio Corioni
-3 Lars Boom
-3 Thomas Voeckler
-2 Branislau Samoilau
-2 Fabio Sabatini
-2 Greg Van Avermaet
-2 Heinrich Haussler
-2 Marlon Alirio Perez
-1 Christian Vandevelde
-1 Damien Gaudin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Mark Cavendish
+0:06 Oscar Freire Gomez
+0:05 Fabian Cancellara
+0:04 Francesco Gavazzi
+0:01 Serguei Ivanov

Biggest losers by time :
-4:04 Linus Gerdemann
-2:30 Emanuele Bindi
-1:45 Lloyd Mondory
-1:45 Pieter Jacobs
-1:06 Hilton Clarke
-1:06 Pascal Hungerbuhler
-1:06 Silvere Ackermann
-0:59 Branislau Samoilau
-0:59 Christian Vandevelde
-0:59 Dmitry Kozontchouk
-0:59 Greg Van Avermaet

Favourites by position :
+1 Fabian Cancellara
-1 Enrico Gasparotto
-1 Christian Vandevelde
-25 Linus Gerdemann

Favourites by time :
+0:05 Fabian Cancellara
-0:56 Enrico Gasparotto
-0:59 Christian Vandevelde
-4:04 Linus Gerdemann

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Tadej Valjavec 23.10.27
2 Fabian Cancellara 0.09
3 Olivier Zaugg 0.14
4 Roman Kreuziger 0.42
5 Andreas Kloden 0.45
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7 Maxime Monfort 0.55
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9 Vladimir Karpets 1.01
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11 Damiano Cunego 1.02
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13 Andy Schleck 1.07
14 Frank Schleck 1.08
15 Kim Kirchen 1.24
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29 Sylvain Chavanel 2.54
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56 Linus Gerdemann 7.00
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63 Johan Van Summeren 10.41
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77 Enrico Gasparotto 15.19
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119 Christian Vandevelde 35.40

Retirements to date : Stage
David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6
Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 5
Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 4
Sebastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Sebastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3
Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1
Total retirements : 6