Tour de France stage 6 summary

Stage 6 - Le Teil Mont Aigoual

1 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 4:32:34
2 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:55
3 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team 2:15
4 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Pro Cycling 2:17
5 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick Step 2:52
6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek - Segafredo 2:53
7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) INEOS Grenadiers 2:53
8 Egan Bernal (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 2:53
9 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers 2:53
10 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 2:53


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+53 Remi Cavagna
+34 Mathieu Burgaudeau
+33 Thomas De Gendt
+33 Jan Hirt
+21 Ben Hermans
+20 Valentin Madouas
+17 Elia Viviani
+14 Neilson Powless
+13 Hugo Houle
+13 Clement Russo

Biggest losers by position :
-31 Marc Hirschi
-25 Pierre Latour
-21 Clement Venturini
-20 Alberto Bettiol
-19 Jack Bauer
-18 Jonas Koch
-17 Davide Formolo
-16 Soren Kragh Andersen
-14 Amund Grondahl Jansen
-13 Dayer Quintana
-12 Jasper Stuyven

Biggest gainers by time :
+3:11 Alexey Lutsenko
+2:09 Jesus Herrada
+0:44 Greg Van Avermaet
+0:36 Neilson Powless
+0:01 Julian Alaphilippe

Biggest losers by time :
-28:16 Alexander Kristoff
-28:16 Amund Grondahl Jansen
-28:16 Andre Greipel
-28:16 Anthony Turgis
-28:16 Benoit Cosnefroy
-28:16 Bryan Coquard
-28:16 Caleb Ewan
-28:16 Cees Bol
-28:16 Christophe Laporte
-28:16 Christopher Juul-Jensen
-28:16 Clement Venturini

Favourites by position :
+1 Thibaut Pinot
+1 Romain Bardet
-1 Nairo Quintana
-1 Miguel Angel Lopez
-1 Domenico Pozzovivo

Favourites by time :
+0:01 Julian Alaphilippe

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Adam Yates 27:03:57 (unchanged)
2 Primoz Roglic 0:03 (unchanged)
3 Tadej Pogacar 0:07 (unchanged)
4 Guillaume Martin 0:09 (unchanged)
5 Egan Bernal 0:13 (unchanged)
6 Tom Dumoulin 0:13 (unchanged)
7 Esteban Chaves 0:13 (was 8th at 0:13)
8 Nairo Quintana 0:13 (was 7th at 0:13)
9 Romain Bardet 0:13 (was 10th at 0:13)
10 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:13 (was 9th at 0:13)
.....
12 Thibaut Pinot 0:13 (was 13th at 0:13)
.....
14 Rigoberto Uran 0:13 (unchanged)
15 Richie Porte 0:13 (unchanged)
16 Julian Alaphilippe 0:15 (was 16th at 0:16)
17 Emanuel Buchmann 0:22 (unchanged)
18 Enric Mas 0:22 (unchanged)
19 Alejandro Valverde 0:34 (unchanged)
20 Richard Carapaz 0:41 (unchanged)
.....
28 Domenico Pozzovivo 2:42 (was 27th at 2:42)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Sam Bennett 129 (was 1st with 123 points)
2 Peter Sagan 117 (was 2nd with 114 points)
3 Alexander Kristoff 93 (unchanged)
4 Caleb Ewan 75 (unchanged)
5 Matteo Trentin 71 (was 5th with 70 points)
6 Bryan Coquard 70 (was 6th with 66 points)
7 Julian Alaphilippe 64 (was 10th with 47 points)
8 Cees Bol 62 (was 7th with 62 points)
9 Giacomo Nizzolo 61 (was 8th with 61 points)
10 Alexey Lutsenko 56 (was 39th with 13 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Benoit Cosnefroy 23 (unchanged)
2 Michael Gogl 12 (unchanged)
3 Nicolas Roche 11 (was 9th with 5 points)
4 Primoz Roglic 10 (was 3rd with 10 points)
5 Alexey Lutsenko 10 (was 0 points)
6 Jesus Herrada 9 (was 0 points)
7 Tadej Pogacar 8 (was 4th with 8 points)
8 Greg Van Avermaet 7 (was 0 points)
9 Quentin Pacher 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
10 Guillaume Martin 6 (was 6th with 6 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 EF Pro Cycling 81:12:37 (was 1st at 67:26:52)
2 Trek - Segafredo 1:16 (was 2nd at 0:32)
3 Team Jumbo-Visma 1:29 (was 3rd at 0:40)
4 Astana Pro Team 2:16 (was 7th at 3:47)
5 Bahrain - McLaren 2:40 (was 4th at 1:51)
6 Movistar Team 2:50 (was 5th at 2:14)
7 UAE-Team Emirates 4:41 (was 6th at 3:38)
8 Groupama - FDJ 5:36 (was 8th at 4:52)
9 INEOS Grenadiers 6:23 (was 9th at 5:47)
10 AG2R La Mondiale 7:14 (was 10th at 6:15)
11 Mitchelton-Scott 8:50 (was 11th at 6:43)
12 Team Arkea Samsic 17:44 (was 13th at 16:05)
13 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 21:10 (was 12th at 9:43)
14 BORA - hansgrohe 31:46 (was 14th at 17:04)
15 CCC Team 41:56 (was 16th at 33:55)
16 Deceuninck - Quick Step 42:35 (was 17th at 35:21)
17 Team Sunweb 1:10:57 (was 15th at 18:19)
18 B&B Hotels - Vital Concept p/b KTM 1:19:46 (was 18th at 47:26)
19 Israel Start-Up Nation 1:29:27 (was 19th at 59:15)
20 NTT Pro Cycling 1:35:54 (was 20th at 1:04:03)
21 Team Total Direct Energie 2:08:14 (was 21th at 1:29:54)
22 Lotto Soudal 3:15:08 (was 22th at 2:11:44)

Retirements to date : Stage
Anthony Perez (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 3
Philippe Gilbert (Lotto Soudal) 2
Rafael Valls (Bahrain - McLaren) 2
John Degenkolb (Lotto Soudal) 1
Toms Skujiss (Trek - Segafredo) 1
Total retirements : 5


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