Giro d'Italia stage 6 summary

Stage 6 - Grotte di Frasassi-Ascoli Piceno (San Giacomo) 160km

1 Gino Mader (Swi) Bahrain - Victorious 4:17:52
2 Egan Bernal (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:12
3 Dan Martin (Irl) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:12
4 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:12
5 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 0:14
6 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 0:25
7 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:25
8 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:27
9 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Education - Nippo 0:29
10 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana - Premier Tech 0:29


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+82 Kobe Goossens
+46 Jimmy Janssens
+38 Antonio Pedrero
+37 Simon Guglielmi
+37 Dario Cataldo
+30 Simone Petilli
+29 Bauke Mollema
+27 Einer Augusto Rubio
+25 Jens Keukeleire
+24 Thomas De Gendt

Biggest losers by position :
-57 Alessandro De Marchi
-44 Nicolas Edet
-38 Alberto Bettiol
-34 Nelson Oliveira
-33 Domenico Pozzovivo
-32 Andrea Vendrame
-26 Luis Leon Sanchez
-21 Natnael Tesfatsion
-20 Callum Scotson
-20 Rudy Molard
-19 Remi Cavagna

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:41 Gino Mader
+1:23 Egan Bernal
+1:21 Dan Martin
+1:17 Remco Evenepoel
+1:15 Giulio Ciccone
+1:04 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+1:04 Damiano Caruso
+1:02 Marc Soler
+1:00 Simon Yates
+1:00 Hugh Carthy

Biggest losers by time :
-26:19 Cameron Meyer
-26:19 Fernando Gaviria
-26:19 Juan Sebastian Molano
-26:19 Maximiliano Richeze
-26:16 Roger Kluge
-26:16 Simone Consonni
-26:03 Albert Torres
-26:03 Alex Dowsett
-26:03 Alexander Krieger
-26:03 Alexis Gougeard
-26:03 Attilio Viviani

Favourites by position :
+29 Bauke Mollema
+20 Tejay Van Garderen
+10 Joao Almeida
+10 Emanuel Buchmann
+10 Dan Martin
+8 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+7 Egan Bernal
+5 Vincenzo Nibali
+5 Fausto Masnada
+4 Simon Yates
+3 Hugh Carthy
+2 Pello Bilbao
+2 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1 Jai Hindley

Favourites by time :
+1:23 Egan Bernal
+1:21 Dan Martin
+1:04 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+1:00 Simon Yates
+1:00 Hugh Carthy
+1:00 Aleksandr Vlasov
+0:49 Joao Almeida
+0:49 Emanuel Buchmann
+0:32 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:11 Pello Bilbao
-0:17 Fausto Masnada
-0:33 Bauke Mollema
-1:09 Jai Hindley
-18:51 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Attila Valter 22:17:06 (was 4th at 1:00)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:11 (was 7th at 1:28)
3 Egan Bernal 0:16 (was 10th at 1:39)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:24 (was 6th at 1:24)
5 Louis Vervaeke 0:25 (was 2nd at 0:42)
6 Hugh Carthy 0:38 (was 9th at 1:38)
7 Damiano Caruso 0:39 (was 11th at 1:43)
8 Giulio Ciccone 0:41 (was 16th at 1:56)
9 Dan Martin 0:47 (was 19th at 2:08)
10 Simon Yates 0:49 (was 14th at 1:49)
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12 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:06 (was 20th at 2:10)
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16 Emanuel Buchmann 1:40 (was 26th at 2:29)
17 Vincenzo Nibali 1:43 (was 22nd at 2:15)
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19 Pello Bilbao 2:01 (was 21st at 2:12)
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24 Fausto Masnada 3:09 (was 29th at 2:52)
25 Jai Hindley 3:29 (was 24th at 2:20)
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28 Joao Almeida 4:49 (was 38th at 5:38)
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39 Bauke Mollema 14:32 (was 68th at 13:59)
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99 Tejay Van Garderen 43:29 (was 119th at 24:38)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Giacomo Nizzolo 72 (unchanged)
2 Elia Viviani 68 (unchanged)
3 Tim Merlier 58 (unchanged)
4 Caleb Ewan 56 (unchanged)
5 Peter Sagan 50 (unchanged)
6 Filippo Tagliani 39 (unchanged)
7 Davide Cimolai 31 (unchanged)
8 Fernando Gaviria 30 (unchanged)
9 Gino Mader 29 (was 0 points)
10 Taco Van Der Hoorn 28 (was 9th with 28 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Gino Mader 26 (was 0 points)
2 Geoffrey Bouchard 18 (was 0 points)
3 Vincenzo Albanese 16 (was 2nd with 16 points)
4 Rein Taaramae 13 (was 3rd with 13 points)
5 Matej Mohoric 10 (was 0 points)
6 Alessandro De Marchi 10 (was 4th with 10 points)
7 Francesco Gavazzi 9 (was 5th with 9 points)
8 Egan Bernal 8 (was 0 points)
9 Simone Ravanelli 8 (was 0 points)
10 Simon Pellaud 6 (was 6th with 6 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Bahrain - Victorious 66:53:22 (was 1st at 53:58:03)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:39 (was 2nd at 0:04)
3 Team BikeExchange 2:48 (was 4th at 0:50)
4 Trek - Segafredo 3:48 (was 6th at 2:18)
5 EF Education - Nippo 4:18 (was 5th at 1:35)
6 Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:47 (was 8th at 4:52)
7 Movistar Team 11:58 (was 12th at 10:38)
8 Team DSM 12:55 (was 10th at 5:25)
9 Team Jumbo-Visma 18:39 (was 9th at 5:16)
10 Astana - Premier Tech 21:25 (was 11th at 6:16)
11 UAE-Team Emirates 23:40 (was 3rd at 0:13)
12 BORA - hansgrohe 29:23 (was 14th at 14:03)
13 Israel Start-Up Nation 37:25 (was 7th at 3:40)
14 EOLO-Kometa 41:29 (was 13th at 12:46)
15 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 45:38 (was 17th at 16:53)
16 Groupama - FDJ 48:05 (was 15th at 16:02)
17 AG2R Citroen Team 58:25 (was 16th at 16:17)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 1:18:50 (was 22th at 42:38)
19 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:19:53 (was 19th at 26:00)
20 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 1:22:47 (was 18th at 24:44)
21 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 1:26:16 (was 20th at 30:25)
22 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 1:37:34 (was 21th at 36:51)
23 Lotto Soudal 1:58:53 (was 23th at 1:12:49)

Retirements to date : Stage
Francois Bidard (AG2R Citroen Team) 6
Joe Dombrowski (UAE-Team Emirates) 6
Manuel Belletti (EOLO-Kometa) 6
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Mikel Landa (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 7


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