Stage 6 - Palmi-Scalea 192 km

1 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 5:02:33
2 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00
3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:00
4 Biniam Girmay (Eri) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
5 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Israel - Premier Tech 0:00
6 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
7 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00
8 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis 0:00
9 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) EOLO-Kometa 0:00
10 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek - Segafredo 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+2 Simone Ravanelli
+2 Pierre-Luc Perichon
+2 Patrick Gamper
+2 Nicolas Prodhomme
+2 Nico Denz
+2 Natnael Tesfatsion
+2 Miles Scotson
+2 Michael Hepburn
+2 Magnus Cort
+2 David De La Cruz

Biggest losers by position :
-16 Ignatas Konovalovas
-3 Clement Davy
-3 Davide Cimolai
-2 Loic Vliegen
-2 Otto Vergaerde
-2 Tobias Ludvigsson
-2 Wout Poels
-1 Alessandro De Marchi
-1 Domen Novak
-1 Dries De Bondt
-1 Giacomo Nizzolo

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Arnaud Demare
+0:06 Caleb Ewan
+0:04 Mark Cavendish
+0:03 Diego Rosa
+0:02 Filippo Tagliani
+0:01 Lennard Kamna

Biggest losers by time :
-5:13 Clement Davy
-2:43 Ignatas Konovalovas
-0:43 Roger Kluge
-0:33 Aime De Gendt
-0:33 Dries De Bondt
-0:33 Loic Vliegen
-0:30 Davide Ballerini
-0:27 Michael Schwarzmann
-0:25 Davide Cimolai
-0:21 Alessandro De Marchi
-0:21 Alexander Krieger

Favourites by position :
+2 David De La Cruz
-2 Wout Poels

Favourites by time :
-0:21 Wout Poels

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Juan Pedro Lopez 23:23:36 (unchanged)
2 Lennard Kamna 0:38 (was 2nd at 0:39)
3 Rein Taaramae 0:58 (unchanged)
4 Simon Yates 1:42 (unchanged)
5 Mauri Vansevenant 1:47 (unchanged)
6 Wilco Kelderman 1:55 (unchanged)
7 Joao Almeida 1:58 (unchanged)
8 Pello Bilbao 2:00 (unchanged)
9 Richie Porte 2:04 (unchanged)
10 Romain Bardet 2:06 (unchanged)
11 Richard Carapaz 2:06 (unchanged)
12 Mikel Landa 2:15 (unchanged)
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14 Jai Hindley 2:16 (unchanged)
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16 Hugh Carthy 2:20 (unchanged)
17 Alejandro Valverde 2:23 (unchanged)
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27 Guillaume Martin 4:06 (unchanged)
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30 Vincenzo Nibali 4:16 (unchanged)
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111 David De La Cruz 26:40 (was 113rd at 26:40)
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120 Wout Poels 28:23 (was 118th at 28:02)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Arnaud Demare 147 (was 1st with 94 points)
2 Biniam Girmay 94 (was 2nd with 72 points)
3 Mark Cavendish 78 (was 5th with 53 points)
4 Mathieu Van Der Poel 62 (unchanged)
5 Fernando Gaviria 54 (was 3rd with 67 points)
6 Giacomo Nizzolo 54 (was 6th with 39 points)
7 Filippo Tagliani 45 (was 7th with 36 points)
8 Caleb Ewan 43 (was 32nd with 8 points)
9 Phil Bauhaus 30 (was 14th with 18 points)
10 Pello Bilbao 27 (was 8th with 27 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Lennard Kamna 43 (was 1st with 41 points)
2 Mirco Maestri 18 (unchanged)
3 Juan Pedro Lopez 18 (unchanged)
4 Rein Taaramae 12 (unchanged)
5 Sylvain Moniquet 9 (unchanged)
6 Mattia Bais 8 (unchanged)
7 Mauri Vansevenant 6 (unchanged)
8 Jaakko Hanninen 6 (unchanged)
9 Pascal Eenkhoorn 5 (unchanged)
10 Rick Zabel 5 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 BORA - hansgrohe 70:14:21 (was 1st at 55:06:42)
2 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:25 (was 2nd at 2:17)
3 Trek - Segafredo 2:55 (was 3rd at 2:47)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 3:03 (unchanged)
5 INEOS Grenadiers 3:29 (was 5th at 3:21)
6 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 3:38 (was 6th at 3:26)
7 Movistar Team 6:11 (was 7th at 6:03)
8 Jumbo-Visma 6:42 (was 8th at 6:39)
9 Team DSM 8:18 (was 9th at 8:06)
10 Astana Qazaqstan Team 9:55 (was 10th at 9:43)
11 EF Education-EasyPost 10:43 (was 11th at 10:31)
12 Cofidis 11:53 (was 12th at 11:45)
13 UAE Team Emirates 14:13 (was 13th at 14:05)
14 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 23:29 (was 14th at 23:22)
15 EOLO-Kometa 23:38 (was 15th at 23:30)
16 AG2R Citroen Team 28:38 (was 16th at 28:34)
17 Alpecin-Fenix 46:05 (was 17th at 45:53)
18 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 48:12 (unchanged)
19 Drone Hopper - Androni Giocattoli 49:53 (was 19th at 49:49)
20 Israel - Premier Tech 54:54 (was 20th at 54:50)
21 Groupama - FDJ 56:02 (was 21th at 55:58)
22 Lotto Soudal 1:16:11 (was 22th at 1:16:03)

Retirements to date : Stage
Filippo Fiorelli (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane) 5
Jakub Mareczko (Alpecin-Fenix) 4
Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 4
Jan Tratnik (Bahrain - Victorious) 3
Total retirements : 4

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