Stage 6 - Rives-Gap 196.5 km

1 Valentin Ferron (Fra) TotalEnergies 4:22:17
2 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels - KTM 0:03
3 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 0:03
4 Andrea Bagioli (Ita) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:03
5 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 0:03
6 Victor Lafay (Fra) Cofidis 0:03
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) TotalEnergies 0:32
8 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:32
9 Matis Louvel (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 0:32
10 Jordi Meeus (Bel) BORA - hansgrohe 0:32

Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+11 Jasper Stuyven
+11 Andrey Amador
+10 Tiesj Benoot
+10 Pierre Rolland
+10 Jonas Gregaard
+10 Andrea Bagioli
+9 Sandy Dujardin
+9 Jordi Meeus
+9 Edvald Boasson Hagen
+9 Clement Venturini

Biggest losers by position :
-35 Samuele Battistella
-20 Michael Storer
-15 Chris Froome
-15 Stan Dewulf
-14 Bruno Armirail
-11 Laurens Huys
-10 Romain Combaud
-8 Filippo Ganna
-6 Dries Devenyns
-4 Antwan Tolhoek
-4 Jens Keukeleire

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:44 Valentin Ferron
+0:36 Warren Barguil
+0:35 Pierre Rolland
+0:30 Geoffrey Bouchard
+0:29 Victor Lafay
+0:29 Andrea Bagioli

Biggest losers by time :
-4:35 Alex Edmondson
-4:35 Amund Grondahl Jansen
-4:35 Anthon Charmig
-4:35 Antwan Tolhoek
-4:35 Bruno Armirail
-4:35 Chris Froome
-4:35 Guy Sagiv
-4:35 Idar Andersen
-4:35 Julien Bernard
-4:35 Julius Johansen
-4:35 Kevin Colleoni

Favourites by position :
+10 Tiesj Benoot
+3 Matteo Fabbro
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Patrick Konrad
+1 Jack Haig
+1 Enric Mas
+1 David Gaudu
+1 Ben O'Connor

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Wout Van Aert 21:27:20 (unchanged)
2 Mattia Cattaneo 1:03 (unchanged)
3 Primoz Roglic 1:06 (unchanged)
4 Ethan Hayter 1:32 (unchanged)
5 Jonas Vingegaard 1:36 (unchanged)
6 Damiano Caruso 1:49 (unchanged)
7 Tao Geoghegan Hart 1:55 (unchanged)
8 Matteo Jorgenson 2:00 (was 9th at 2:00)
9 Ben O'Connor 2:10 (was 10th at 2:10)
10 Wilco Kelderman 2:12 (was 11th at 2:12)
11 David Gaudu 2:13 (was 12th at 2:13)
12 Enric Mas 2:17 (was 13th at 2:17)
13 Patrick Konrad 2:22 (was 14th at 2:22)
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15 Jack Haig 2:29 (was 16th at 2:29)
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19 Brandon Mcnulty 2:45 (unchanged)
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23 Esteban Chaves 2:52 (unchanged)
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44 Matteo Fabbro 5:14 (was 47th at 5:14)
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77 Tiesj Benoot 11:39 (was 87th at 11:39)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 88 (unchanged)
2 Ethan Hayter 64 (unchanged)
3 Hugo Page 44 (unchanged)
4 Edvald Boasson Hagen 44 (was 4th with 34 points)
5 Pierre Rolland 36 (was 17th with 14 points)
6 Valentin Ferron 31 (was 0 points)
7 Warren Barguil 30 (was 0 points)
8 Andrea Bagioli 30 (was 18th with 12 points)
9 Kevin Vermaerke 28 (was 5th with 28 points)
10 Jasper Stuyven 28 (was 6th with 28 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Pierre Rolland 29 (was 1st with 17 points)
2 Alexis Vuillermoz 8 (was 2nd with 7 points)
3 Sebastian Schonberger 7 (unchanged)
4 Warren Barguil 7 (was 0 points)
5 David Gaudu 5 (was 4th with 5 points)
6 Xandres Vervloesem 4 (was 5th with 4 points)
7 Jan Bakelants 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
8 Maxime Bouet 4 (was 7th with 4 points)
9 Laurens Huys 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
10 Wout Van Aert 3 (was 9th with 3 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Jumbo-Visma 64:25:08 (was 1st at 51:16:41)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:23 (unchanged)
3 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 2:11 (was 3rd at 2:40)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 3:28 (unchanged)
5 Movistar Team 4:25 (unchanged)
6 Groupama - FDJ 4:53 (unchanged)
7 BORA - hansgrohe 5:10 (unchanged)
8 UAE Team Emirates 5:22 (unchanged)
9 Trek - Segafredo 6:24 (unchanged)
10 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 6:40 (unchanged)
11 Team Arkea Samsic 7:23 (was 11th at 7:52)
12 Astana Qazaqstan Team 9:25 (unchanged)
13 Cofidis 9:33 (was 14th at 10:02)
14 EF Education-EasyPost 9:49 (was 13th at 9:49)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 10:34 (was 15th at 11:03)
16 Lotto Soudal 11:29 (unchanged)
17 B&B Hotels - KTM 12:28 (was 17th at 12:57)
18 Israel - Premier Tech 15:34 (was 18th at 14:57)
19 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 18:08 (unchanged)
20 TotalEnergies 20:03 (was 21th at 20:35)
21 Team DSM 25:01 (was 20th at 20:26)
22 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 38:45 (was 22th at 35:47)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexis Gougeard (B&B Hotels - KTM) 6 <<<
Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) 6 <<<
Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) 6 <<<
Leon Heinschke (Team DSM) 6 <<<
Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers) 6 <<<
Taj Jones (Israel - Premier Tech) 6 <<<
Matthew Walls (BORA - hansgrohe) 5
Henri Vandenabeele (Team DSM) 2
Josef Cerny (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 2
Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Imanol Erviti (Movistar Team) 1
Niklas Eg (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 1
Niklas Markl (Team DSM) 1
Total retirements : 13

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