Stage 6 : May 10, 2018 Caltanissetta - Etna 164 km 1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Mitchelton-Scott 4.16.11 2 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0.26 4 George Bennett (Nzl) LottoNL-Jumbo 5 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 6 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 7 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 8 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 9 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 10 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 : Biggest gainers by position : +57 Kenny Elissonde +57 Giulio Ciccone +55 Niklas Eg +55 Kilian Frankiny +47 Ben Hermans +43 Domen Novak +37 Quentin Jauregui +34 Robert Gesink +32 Jeremy Roy +32 Darwin Atapuma Biggest losers by position : -40 Christoph Pfingsten -32 Felix Grossschartner -29 Giovanni Visconti -29 Manuel Belletti -29 Michael Morkov -29 Remi Cavagna -29 Tim Wellens -29 Zdenek Stybar -28 Mads Wurtz Schmidt -27 Francois Bidard -27 Ryan Gibbons Biggest gainers by time : +0:21 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio +0:17 Simon Yates Biggest losers by time : -31:27 Boy van Poppel -26:15 Alex Turrin -26:15 Davide Villella -26:15 Edoardo Zardini -26:15 Eugert Zhupa -26:15 Giuseppe Fonzi -26:15 Jacopo Mosca -26:15 Jakub Mareczko -26:15 Jean-Pierre Drucker -26:15 Liam Bertazzo -26:15 Marco Coledan Favourites by position : +17 Miguel Angel Lopez +13 Fabio Aru +11 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio +11 George Bennett +11 Christopher Froome +8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya +5 Wout Poels +4 Thibaut Pinot +4 Michael Woods +3 Louis Meintjes +3 Domenico Pozzovivo +2 Simon Yates -5 Rohan Dennis -10 David de la Cruz Favourites by time : +0:21 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio +0:17 Simon Yates -0:11 Thibaut Pinot -0:15 Tom Dumoulin -0:15 Miguel Angel Lopez -0:15 George Bennett -0:15 Fabio Aru -0:15 Domenico Pozzovivo -0:15 Christopher Froome -0:44 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya -0:46 Michael Woods -0:53 Rohan Dennis -3:07 Wout Poels -3:19 Louis Meintjes -19:32 David de la Cruz Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Simon Yates 22:46:03 (was 3rd at 0:17) 2 Tom Dumoulin 0:16 (was 2nd at 0:01) 3 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:26 (was 14th at 0:47) 4 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:43 (was 7th at 0:28) 5 Thibaut Pinot 0:45 (was 9th at 0:34) 6 Rohan Dennis 0:53 (was 1st at 0:00) 7 Pello Bilbao 1:03 (was 5th at 0:25) 8 Christopher Froome 1:10 (was 19th at 0:55) 9 George Bennett 1:11 (was 20th at 0:56) 10 Fabio Aru 1:12 (was 23rd at 0:57) ..... 14 Michael Woods 1:39 (was 18th at 0:53) ..... 17 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 1:47 (was 25th at 1:03) ..... 22 Miguel Angel Lopez 2:12 (was 39th at 1:57) ..... 26 Louis Meintjes 4:34 (was 29th at 1:15) ..... 30 Wout Poels 4:44 (was 35th at 1:37) ..... 96 David de la Cruz 30:04 (was 86th at 10:32) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Elia Viviani 131 (unchanged) 2 Sacha Modolo 55 (unchanged) 3 Jakub Mareczko 53 (unchanged) 4 Sam Bennett 50 (unchanged) 5 Marco Frapporti 49 (was 6th with 40 points) 6 Guillaume Boivin 48 (was 5th with 48 points) 7 Enrico Battaglin 37 (unchanged) 8 Rohan Dennis 32 (unchanged) 9 Tim Wellens 30 (unchanged) 10 Simon Yates 30 (was 15th with 18 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 35 (was 0 points) 2 Simon Yates 18 (was 0 points) 3 Thibaut Pinot 12 (was 0 points) 4 Enrico Barbin 11 (was 1st with 11 points) 5 George Bennett 9 (was 0 points) 6 Marco Frapporti 7 (was 2nd with 7 points) 7 Ryan Mullen 6 (was 3rd with 6 points) 8 Domenico Pozzovivo 6 (was 0 points) 9 Eugert Zhupa 5 (was 4th with 5 points) 10 Andrea Vendrame 4 (was 5th with 4 points) Retirements to date : Stage Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 6 <<< Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy 5 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Bahrain-Merida 1 Total retirements : 4