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Friday, June 13: Stage 6, Grenoble - Poisy, 178.5 km

Stage 6 photos | Stage 6 profile |

Rated Ascents:

• Km 89.5: Côte de la Bétaz, 1.5 km @ 4.4% average gradient, Category 4
• Km 159: Côte de Marcellaz-Albanais, 4.6 km @ 4.1%, Category 4
• Km 171: Côte de Ronzy, 1.7 km @ 6.3%, Category 4

The Race: The first 40 kilometers were jumpy with constant attacks until 16 riders (with Jens Voigt, of course!) were able to go clear. A gap of five and a half minutes had been allowed but first Sky and then FDJ went to the front to control the break. With 25 km remaining the gap was slightly more than four minutes.

Sixteen riders in a break meant someone would get ambitious. Lieuwe Westra jumped, quickly to be joined by Pim Lightart and Jan Bakelandts who clawed their way off the front of the escape. with 17 km to go, the strong trio had 20 seconds on the break and were three and a half minutes ahead of the peloton.

Westra and Bakelandts shelled Ligthart. Further back, a crash took down race leader Chris Froome, delaying the waiting peloton and allowing the gap to the front duo to grow to nearly five minutes.

Shortly after the red kite Westra jumped, trying to force Bakelants into the barriers. But Bakelandts came by to win stage six.

Chris Froome, showing the effects of his crash, finished with the main group to conserve his 12-second lead over Alberto contador and Wilco Kelderman.

Complete Results:

Winner's average speed: 43.330 km/hr

1	Jan Bakelants	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	4hr 07min 20sec
2	Lieuwe Westra	ASTANA PRO TEAM
3	Zdenek Stybar	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	@ 24 seconds
4	Pim Ligthart	LOTTO-BELISOL
5	Jens Keukeleire	ORICA GREENEDGE
6	Jens Voigt	TREK FACTORY RACING
7	Maciej Bodnar	CANNONDALE
8	Bram Tankink	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
9	Valerio Conti	LAMPRE - MERIDA
10	Julien Simon	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
11	Jean-Christophe Peraud	AG2R LA MONDIALE
12	Cesare Benedetti	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
13	Thomas Damuseau	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
14	Imanol Erviti Ollo	MOVISTAR TEAM
15	Sergio Paulinho	TINKOFF-SAXO
16	Aleksejs Saramotins	IAM CYCLING	0:01:14
17	Richie Porte	TEAM SKY	0:03:55
18	Mikel Nieve Iturralde	TEAM SKY
19	Christopher Froome	TEAM SKY
20	David Lopez Garcia	TEAM SKY
21	Alberto Contador	TINKOFF-SAXO
22	Jakob Fuglsang	ASTANA PRO TEAM
23	Ralf Matzka	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
24	Daniel Navarro	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
25	Vincenzo Nibali	ASTANA PRO TEAM
26	Jurgen Van Den Broeck	LOTTO-BELISOL
27	Tanel Kangert	ASTANA PRO TEAM
28	Wilco Kelderman	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
29	Jesus Hernandez Blazquez	TINKOFF-SAXO
30	Adam Yates	ORICA GREENEDGE
31	Sébastien Reichenbach	IAM CYCLING
32	Leopold Konig	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
33	Lars Boom	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
34	Kristijan Durasek	LAMPRE - MERIDA
35	Marco Marcato	CANNONDALE
36	Andrew Talansky	GARMIN - SHARP
37	Alex Howes	GARMIN - SHARP
38	Tejay Van Garderen	BMC RACING TEAM
39	Yury Trofimov	TEAM KATUSHA
40	Romain Bardet	AG2R LA MONDIALE
41	Christophe Le Mevel	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
42	Luis Angel Mate Mardones	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
43	Daniel Moreno Fernandez	TEAM KATUSHA
44	Peter Velits	BMC RACING TEAM
45	John Darwin Atapuma	BMC RACING TEAM
46	Bart De Clercq	LOTTO-BELISOL
47	Andrey Zeits	ASTANA PRO TEAM
48	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.FR
49	Haimar Zubeldia	TREK FACTORY RACING
50	Greg Van Avermaet	BMC RACING TEAM
51	Mikael Cherel	AG2R LA MONDIALE
52	Maxime Bouet	AG2R LA MONDIALE
53	John Gadret	MOVISTAR TEAM
54	Bartosz Huzarski	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
55	Geraint Thomas	TEAM SKY	0:04:03
56	Gustav Larsson	IAM CYCLING	0:04:32
57	Nicky Van Der Lijke	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
58	Kévin Reza	TEAM EUROPCAR
59	Arnaud Demare	FDJ.FR
60	Nicolas Edet	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
61	Daryl Impey	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:04:55
62	Simon Gerrans	ORICA GREENEDGE
63	José Ivan Gutierrez	MOVISTAR TEAM
64	Markel Irizar	TREK FACTORY RACING
65	Alexander Rybakov	TEAM KATUSHA
66	Enrique Sanz Unzue	MOVISTAR TEAM
67	Ben Gastauer	AG2R LA MONDIALE
68	Alexei Tcatevich	TEAM KATUSHA
69	Egor Silin	TEAM KATUSHA
70	Michael Valgren Andersen	TINKOFF-SAXO
71	Pierrick Fedrigo	FDJ.FR	0:05:05
72	Cyril Gautier	TEAM EUROPCAR
73	Sébastien Hinault	IAM CYCLING
74	Peter Stetina	BMC RACING TEAM
75	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R LA MONDIALE
76	Damiano Cunego	LAMPRE - MERIDA
77	Amaël Moinard	BMC RACING TEAM
78	Lars-Peter Nordhaug	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
79	Scott Thwaites	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
80	Jurgen Roelandts	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:05:24
81	Stig Broeckx	LOTTO-BELISOL
82	Sylvain Chavanel	IAM CYCLING
83	Thierry Hupond	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
84	Johannes Fröhlinger	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
85	Christian Meier	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:05:37
86	Thomas Voeckler	TEAM EUROPCAR
87	Julian Alaphilippe	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:05:51
88	Damien Howson	ORICA GREENEDGE
89	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
90	Jan Barta	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
91	Martijn Keizer	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
92	Kevin De Weert	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP
93	Yoann Bagot	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
94	Bruno Pires	TINKOFF-SAXO
95	Arthur Vichot	FDJ.FR
96	Rein Taaramae	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
97	Nicki Sorensen	TINKOFF-SAXO
98	Sebastian Langeveld	GARMIN - SHARP
99	Ramunas Navardauskas	GARMIN - SHARP
100	Dmitriy Gruzdev	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:06:15
101	Ivan Santaromita	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:06:54
102	Filippo Pozzato	LAMPRE - MERIDA
103	Giovanni Visconti	MOVISTAR TEAM
104	Damiano Caruso	CANNONDALE
105	Natnael Berhane	TEAM EUROPCAR
106	Yannick Martinez	TEAM EUROPCAR
107	Dmitry Kozontchuk	TEAM KATUSHA
108	Chad Haga	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
109	Edwald Suarez Beltran	TINKOFF-SAXO
110	Frantisek Padour	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
111	Kristijan Koren	CANNONDALE
112	Simon Spilak	TEAM KATUSHA
113	Davide Cimolai	LAMPRE - MERIDA
114	Romain Sicard	TEAM EUROPCAR
115	Dries Devenyns	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
116	Igor Anton	MOVISTAR TEAM
117	Carlos Verona	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP
118	Yaroslav Popovych	TREK FACTORY RACING
119	Andriy Grivko	ASTANA PRO TEAM
120	David Millar	GARMIN - SHARP
121	Blel Kadri	AG2R LA MONDIALE
122	Ryder Hesjedal	GARMIN - SHARP
123	Jean Marc Marino	CANNONDALE
124	Bob Jungels	TREK FACTORY RACING
125	Nikias Arndt	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:07:20
126	Tony Gallopin	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:07:26
127	Michal Golas	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:08:28
128	Michal Kwiatkowski	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP
129	Elia Favilli	LAMPRE - MERIDA
130	Vasil Kiryienka	TEAM SKY
131	Matthias Brandle	IAM CYCLING	0:09:33
132	Anton Vorobyev	TEAM KATUSHA	0:09:39
133	Yoann Offredo	FDJ.FR	0:10:48
134	Mickaël Delage	FDJ.FR
135	Alexis Gougeard	AG2R LA MONDIALE
136	George Bennett	CANNONDALE	0:12:01
137	Jack Bobridge	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
138	Rory Sutherland	TINKOFF-SAXO
139	Daniel Schorn	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
140	Jack Bauer	GARMIN - SHARP
141	Jonathan Hivert	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
142	Alessandro De Marchi	CANNONDALE
143	Alessandro Vanotti	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:12:35
144	Kris Boeckmans	LOTTO-BELISOL
145	Danny Pate	TEAM SKY	0:13:11
146	Frederik Willems	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:15:16
147	Sylvester Szmyd	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:15:29
148	Leigh Howard	ORICA GREENEDGE
149	Vincent Jerome	TEAM EUROPCAR
150	Xabier Zandio	TEAM SKY

GC after Stage 6: 895.9 km raced so far at an average speed of 38.609 km/hr

1	Christopher Froome	TEAM SKY	23hr 12min 15sec
2	Alberto Contador	TINKOFF-SAXO	@ 12 seconds
3	Wilco Kelderman	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
4	Andrew Talansky	GARMIN - SHARP	0:00:33
5	Jurgen Van Den Broeck	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:00:35
6	Vincenzo Nibali	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:00:50
7	Haimar Zubeldia	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:01:22
8	Jakob Fuglsang	ASTANA PRO TEAM
9	Adam Yates	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:01:24
10	Tanel Kangert	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:01:35
11	Romain Bardet	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:01:40
12	Sébastien Reichenbach	IAM CYCLING
13	Daniel Navarro	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:01:43
14	Leopold Konig	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:01:44
15	Jan Bakelants	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:01:58
16	Tejay Van Garderen	BMC RACING TEAM	0:02:22
17	Kristijan Durasek	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:02:32
18	Mikel Nieve Iturralde	TEAM SKY	0:02:36
19	Daniel Moreno Fernandez	TEAM KATUSHA	0:02:42
20	Bart De Clercq	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:02:47
21	John Darwin Atapuma	BMC RACING TEAM	0:03:31
22	Bartosz Huzarski	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:03:56
23	John Gadret	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:04:01
24	Maxime Bouet	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:05:09
25	Lieuwe Westra	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:05:59
26	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.FR	0:06:09
27	Gustav Larsson	IAM CYCLING	0:06:27
28	Egor Silin	TEAM KATUSHA	0:06:31
29	Jesus Hernandez Blazquez	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:07:14
30	Yury Trofimov	TEAM KATUSHA	0:07:50
31	Jean-Christophe Peraud	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:08:20
32	Nicolas Edet	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:08:28
33	Damiano Caruso	CANNONDALE	0:09:02
34	Mikael Cherel	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:09:10
35	Peter Stetina	BMC RACING TEAM	0:09:19
36	Tony Gallopin	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:09:35
37	Valerio Conti	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:10:21
38	Amaël Moinard	BMC RACING TEAM	0:10:23
39	Alexander Rybakov	TEAM KATUSHA	0:10:27
40	Ivan Santaromita	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:10:35
41	Ryder Hesjedal	GARMIN - SHARP	0:10:57
42	Richie Porte	TEAM SKY	0:11:08
43	Yoann Bagot	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:11:11
44	Michal Kwiatkowski	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:11:18
45	Sylvain Chavanel	IAM CYCLING	0:11:23
46	Peter Velits	BMC RACING TEAM	0:11:50
47	Cyril Gautier	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:11:55
48	Luis Angel Mate Mardones	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:11:59
49	Thomas Voeckler	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:13:32
50	Julien Simon	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:14:17
51	Alex Howes	GARMIN - SHARP	0:14:22
52	George Bennett	CANNONDALE	0:14:51
53	Carlos Verona	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:15:19
54	Lars-Peter Nordhaug	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:15:23
55	Greg Van Avermaet	BMC RACING TEAM	0:16:13
56	Ben Gastauer	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:17:45
57	Romain Sicard	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:18:03
58	Igor Anton	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:18:10
59	Imanol Erviti Ollo	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:18:14
60	David Lopez Garcia	TEAM SKY	0:18:49
61	Jens Keukeleire	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:19:03
62	Andriy Grivko	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:19:16
63	Kristijan Koren	CANNONDALE	0:19:19
64	Giovanni Visconti	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:19:33
65	Christophe Le Mevel	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:20:10
66	Bram Tankink	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:20:20
67	Chad Haga	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:21:04
68	Geraint Thomas	TEAM SKY	0:21:27
69	Dmitry Kozontchuk	TEAM KATUSHA	0:21:37
70	Zdenek Stybar	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:22:05
71	Thomas Damuseau	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:22:18
72	Pim Ligthart	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:22:24
73	Arthur Vichot	FDJ.FR	0:22:29
74	Edwald Suarez Beltran	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:23:49
75	Kevin De Weert	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:23:54
76	Sergio Paulinho	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:24:13
77	Jens Voigt	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:25:39
78	Simon Spilak	TEAM KATUSHA	0:25:50
79	Markel Irizar	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:26:27
80	Pierrick Fedrigo	FDJ.FR	0:27:04
81	Christian Meier	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:27:19
82	Bob Jungels	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:27:46
83	Julian Alaphilippe	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:28:06
84	Michal Golas	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:28:42
85	Daryl Impey	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:30:36
86	Jan Barta	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:31:01
87	Jurgen Roelandts	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:32:01
88	José Ivan Gutierrez	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:32:11
89	Simon Gerrans	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:33:18
90	Blel Kadri	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:34:03
91	Andrey Zeits	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:34:16
92	Damien Howson	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:34:54
93	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:34:57
94	David Millar	GARMIN - SHARP	0:35:45
95	Lars Boom	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:35:59
96	Bruno Pires	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:36:04
97	Maciej Bodnar	CANNONDALE	0:36:29
98	Marco Marcato	CANNONDALE	0:37:29
99	Nikias Arndt	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:37:40
100	Cesare Benedetti	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:39:27
101	Dmitriy Gruzdev	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:41:42
102	Nicky Van Der Lijke	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:41:55
103	Damiano Cunego	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:42:32
104	Kévin Reza	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:44:05
105	Johannes Fröhlinger	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:44:42
106	Alessandro De Marchi	CANNONDALE	0:44:46
107	Aleksejs Saramotins	IAM CYCLING	0:44:48
108	Thierry Hupond	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:45:02
109	Frantisek Padour	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:45:50
110	Martijn Keizer	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:45:55
111	Enrique Sanz Unzue	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:46:55
112	Elia Favilli	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:48:25
113	Stig Broeckx	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:49:59
114	Nicki Sorensen	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:50:03
115	Alessandro Vanotti	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:50:08
116	Jean Marc Marino	CANNONDALE	0:50:52
117	Rory Sutherland	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:51:40
118	Sébastien Hinault	IAM CYCLING	0:51:57
119	Michael Valgren Andersen	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:53:03
120	Yaroslav Popovych	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:53:43
121	Ramunas Navardauskas	GARMIN - SHARP	0:55:09
122	Yoann Offredo	FDJ.FR	0:55:11
123	Yannick Martinez	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:55:15
124	Matthias Brandle	IAM CYCLING	0:55:55
125	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:56:27
126	Scott Thwaites	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:56:41
127	Arnaud Demare	FDJ.FR	0:56:44
128	Jack Bobridge	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:58:53
129	Filippo Pozzato	LAMPRE - MERIDA	1:00:00
130	Anton Vorobyev	TEAM KATUSHA	1:00:44
131	Sebastian Langeveld	GARMIN - SHARP	1:01:10
132	Ralf Matzka	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	1:01:22
133	Davide Cimolai	LAMPRE - MERIDA	1:02:00
134	Mickaël Delage	FDJ.FR	1:03:37
135	Frederik Willems	LOTTO-BELISOL	1:03:55
136	Dries Devenyns	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	1:04:10
137	Alexei Tcatevich	TEAM KATUSHA	1:06:40
138	Alexis Gougeard	AG2R LA MONDIALE	1:07:32
139	Natnael Berhane	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:08:48
140	Rein Taaramae	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	1:10:16
141	Daniel Schorn	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	1:10:48
142	Jack Bauer	GARMIN - SHARP	1:12:49
143	Kris Boeckmans	LOTTO-BELISOL	1:14:23
144	Danny Pate	TEAM SKY	1:14:38
145	Vincent Jerome	TEAM EUROPCAR	1:17:29
146	Vasil Kiryienka	TEAM SKY	1:19:01
147	Jonathan Hivert	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	1:23:12
148	Sylvester Szmyd	MOVISTAR TEAM	1:32:49
149	Xabier Zandio	TEAM SKY	1:37:57
150	Leigh Howard	ORICA GREENEDGE	1:39:09

Stage 6 photos:

Race leader Chris Froome at the start

Andrew Talansky is having a great Dauphine. He's currently sitting in fourth place.

Thomas Voeckler

The winning break. Jan Bakelandts and Lieuwe Westra have dropped Pim Lightart.

Chris Froome, scuffed up from his crash.

Alberto Contador (green jersey)

Bakelandts celebrates his stage win while Westra knows he screwed up the sprint by going too early.

Stage winner Jan Bakelandts.

Another day in yellow for Chris Froome.

Stage 6 profile:

Stage 6 profile

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