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Stage 6 - Martorell -Molins de Rei 174.1 km

1 Kaden Groves (Aus) Alpecin-Deceuninck 3:50:32
2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
3 Ide Schelling (Ned) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
4 Maxim Van Gils (Bel) Lotto Dstny 0:00
5 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal - Quick Step 0:00
6 Andreas Kron (Den) Lotto Dstny 0:00
7 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00
8 Patrick Konrad (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
9 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
10 Finn Fisher-Black (Nzl) UAE Team Emirates 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+28 Kaden Groves
+21 Bryan Coquard
+21 Andreas Kron
+20 Patrick Konrad
+19 Ide Schelling
+19 Abel Balderstone
+18 Tsgabu Grmay
+18 Clement Venturini
+17 Corbin Strong
+16 Nans Peters

Biggest losers by position :
-22 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
-17 Matthew Riccitello
-15 Jose Felix Parra
-15 Richard Carapaz
-14 David Gonzalez
-12 Eduard Prades
-12 Rainer Kepplinger
-11 Ben Tulett
-11 Frederik Wandahl
-11 Jonathan Klever Caicedo
-10 Antonio Pedrero

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:05 Kaden Groves
+0:01 Bryan Coquard

Biggest losers by time :
-15:56 David Gonzalez
-15:56 Eduard Prades
-15:56 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
-15:56 Jose Felix Parra
-15:56 Pablo Castrillo
-15:56 Txomin Juaristi
-10:59 Alessandro De Marchi
-10:59 Alexandre Delettre
-10:59 Andrey Amador
-10:59 Antonio Pedrero
-10:59 Arne Marit

Favourites by position :
+6 Gino Mader
+3 Romain Bardet
+2 Guillaume Martin
+2 Adam Yates
+1 Geraint Thomas
-1 Mikel Landa
-15 Richard Carapaz

Favourites by time :
-0:05 Romain Bardet
-0:05 Rigoberto Uran
-0:05 Mikel Landa
-0:05 Joao Almeida
-0:05 Jai Hindley
-0:05 Jack Haig
-0:05 Guillaume Martin
-0:05 Gino Mader
-0:05 Ben O'Connor
-0:05 Adam Yates
-2:12 Geraint Thomas
-10:59 Richard Carapaz

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 25:19:52 (unchanged)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:10 (unchanged)
3 Joao Almeida 1:07 (was 3rd at 1:02)
4 Marc Soler 1:54 (was 5th at 1:50)
5 Mikel Landa 1:55 (was 4th at 1:50)
6 Michael Woods 1:59 (was 6th at 1:54)
7 Giulio Ciccone 2:02 (was 7th at 1:57)
8 Jai Hindley 2:07 (was 8th at 2:02)
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks 2:28 (was 9th at 2:23)
10 Rigoberto Uran 2:49 (was 10th at 2:44)
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15 Ben O'Connor 4:42 (was 15th at 4:37)
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17 Jack Haig 5:51 (was 17th at 5:46)
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22 Guillaume Martin 9:20 (was 24th at 9:15)
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26 Romain Bardet 10:51 (was 29th at 10:46)
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31 Adam Yates 13:48 (was 33rd at 13:43)
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43 Geraint Thomas 23:41 (was 44th at 21:29)
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51 Gino Mader 26:50 (was 57th at 26:45)
52 Richard Carapaz 27:16 (was 37th at 16:17)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 37 (was 1st with 32 points)
2 Remco Evenepoel 31 (was 2nd with 26 points)
3 Kaden Groves 20 (was 4th with 10 points)
4 Giulio Ciccone 14 (was 3rd with 14 points)
5 Bryan Coquard 12 (was 6th with 6 points)
6 Simone Petilli 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
7 Ide Schelling 8 (was 10th with 4 points)
8 Hector Carretero 5 (was 7th with 5 points)
9 Rune Herregodts 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
10 Roger Adria 4 (was 9th with 4 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) 6 <<<
Jimmy Janssens (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 6 <<<
Lukasz Owsian (Team Arkea Samsic) 6 <<<
Marc Brustenga (Trek - Segafredo) 6 <<<
Marco Brenner (Team DSM) 6 <<<
Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 6 <<<
Rudiger Selig (Lotto Dstny) 6 <<<
Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 5
Oscar Riesebeek (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5
Quinn Simmons (Trek - Segafredo) 5
Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) 4
Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty) 4
Michael Storer (Groupama - FDJ) 4
Alexandre Balmer (Team Jayco AlUla) 3
Clement Davy (Groupama - FDJ) 3
Anthony Delaplace (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
Chris Hamilton (Team DSM) 2
Eduardo Sepulveda (Lotto Dstny) 2
Hugo Hofstetter (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
Kenny Elissonde (Trek - Segafredo) 2
Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 2
Pelayo Sanchez (Burgos-BH) 2
Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 1
Luke Plapp (INEOS Grenadiers) 1
Maxime Bouet (Team Arkea Samsic) 1
Total retirements : 25

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