Stage 6 - Binche-Longwy 219.9 km

1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 4:27:13
2 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00
3 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
4 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
5 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00
6 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
7 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
8 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
9 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
10 Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+43 Michael Woods
+43 Franck Bonnamour
+40 Rafal Majka
+40 Michael Matthews
+39 Pierre Latour
+37 Sebastian Schonberger
+36 Benoit Cosnefroy
+36 Andreas Kron
+35 Philippe Gilbert
+35 Alexis Vuillermoz

Biggest losers by position :
-70 Mads Pedersen
-61 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-61 Stefan Bissegger
-53 Wout Van Aert
-47 Nils Politt
-46 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg
-45 Jasper Stuyven
-38 Taco Van Der Hoorn
-37 John Degenkolb
-36 Mathieu Van Der Poel
-35 Michael Morkov

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:19 Tadej Pogacar
+0:15 Michael Matthews
+0:13 David Gaudu
+0:09 Thomas Pidcock
+0:09 Romain Bardet
+0:09 Primoz Roglic
+0:09 Pierre Latour
+0:09 Neilson Powless
+0:09 Nairo Quintana
+0:09 Jonas Vingegaard

Biggest losers by time :
-15:46 Marc Hirschi
-15:01 Anthony Turgis
-15:01 Mikkel Bjerg
-15:01 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-15:01 Stefan Bissegger
-15:01 Vegard Stake Laengen
-14:41 Gianni Moscon
-14:32 Caleb Ewan
-14:32 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg
-11:19 Albert Torres
-11:19 Alberto Dainese

Favourites by position :
+23 Ion Izagirre
+16 Primoz Roglic
+15 Ben O'Connor
+12 Damiano Caruso
+10 Enric Mas
+9 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+8 Nairo Quintana
+7 Jakob Fuglsang
+5 Aleksandr Vlasov
+4 Jonas Vingegaard
+4 Geraint Thomas
+4 Adam Yates
+3 Tadej Pogacar
-9 Maximilian Schachmann

Favourites by time :
+0:19 Tadej Pogacar
+0:09 Primoz Roglic
+0:09 Nairo Quintana
+0:09 Jonas Vingegaard
+0:09 Enric Mas
+0:09 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+0:09 Adam Yates
+0:04 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:04 Geraint Thomas
+0:04 Aleksandr Vlasov
-0:12 Damiano Caruso
-1:05 Maximilian Schachmann
-2:18 Ion Izagirre
-2:28 Ben O'Connor

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tadej Pogacar 20:44:44 (was 4th at 0:19)
2 Neilson Powless 0:04 (was 2nd at 0:13)
3 Jonas Vingegaard 0:31 (was 7th at 0:40)
4 Adam Yates 0:39 (was 8th at 0:48)
5 Thomas Pidcock 0:40 (was 9th at 0:49)
6 Geraint Thomas 0:46 (was 10th at 0:50)
7 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:52 (was 12th at 0:56)
8 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:00 (was 17th at 1:09)
9 Romain Bardet 1:01 (was 18th at 1:10)
10 David Gaudu 1:02 (was 20th at 1:15)
11 Nairo Quintana 1:05 (was 19th at 1:14)
12 Enric Mas 1:12 (was 22nd at 1:21)
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14 Jakob Fuglsang 1:16 (was 21st at 1:20)
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23 Maximilian Schachmann 2:07 (was 14th at 1:02)
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25 Damiano Caruso 2:11 (was 37th at 1:59)
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28 Primoz Roglic 2:27 (was 44th at 2:36)
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52 Ben O'Connor 7:02 (was 67th at 4:34)
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56 Ion Izagirre 7:42 (was 79th at 5:24)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 198 (was 1st with 178 points)
2 Fabio Jakobsen 137 (was 2nd with 126 points)
3 Jasper Philipsen 89 (was 5th with 76 points)
4 Magnus Cort 86 (was 3rd with 86 points)
5 Peter Sagan 86 (was 4th with 86 points)
6 Christophe Laporte 83 (was 6th with 73 points)
7 Tadej Pogacar 78 (was 17th with 28 points)
8 Simon Clarke 67 (was 7th with 67 points)
9 Dylan Groenewegen 60 (was 8th with 60 points)
10 Taco Van Der Hoorn 50 (was 9th with 50 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Magnus Cort 11 (unchanged)
2 Alexis Vuillermoz 2 (was 0 points)
3 Wout Van Aert 2 (was 2nd with 1 points)
4 Quinn Simmons 1 (was 3rd with -1 points)
5 David Gaudu 1 (was 0 points)
6 Jakob Fuglsang 1 (was 0 points)
7 George Bennett -1 (was 0 points)
8 Mathieu Burgaudeau -1 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 62:15:57 (was 1st at 48:54:18)
2 Jumbo-Visma 1:01 (was 2nd at 0:01)
3 BORA - hansgrohe 2:21 (was 7th at 0:36)
4 EF Education-EasyPost 2:59 (was 4th at 0:06)
5 Trek - Segafredo 3:05 (was 3rd at 0:03)
6 Bahrain - Victorious 3:23 (was 12th at 2:28)
7 Team DSM 3:54 (was 9th at 1:23)
8 UAE Team Emirates 5:07 (was 17th at 4:36)
9 Team Arkea Samsic 5:12 (was 10th at 1:50)
10 Groupama - FDJ 5:50 (was 8th at 1:14)
11 Israel - Premier Tech 6:16 (was 11th at 2:02)
12 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 6:38 (was 6th at 0:23)
13 Cofidis 7:01 (was 15th at 4:18)
14 AG2R Citroen Team 8:55 (was 19th at 7:50)
15 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 10:06 (was 5th at 0:21)
16 B&B Hotels - KTM 10:21 (was 18th at 7:39)
17 Lotto Soudal 11:47 (was 20th at 8:54)
18 Movistar Team 12:10 (was 14th at 4:02)
19 Alpecin-Deceuninck 12:37 (was 13th at 3:56)
20 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 13:45 (was 16th at 4:34)
21 TotalEnergies 15:39 (was 21th at 12:38)
22 Astana Qazaqstan Team 31:29 (was 22th at 23:16)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alex Kirsch (Trek - Segafredo) 6 <<<
Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies) 6 <<<
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5
Total retirements : 4

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