Stage 6 : Jul 9, Montargis - Gueugnon, 227.5 km 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia 5.37.42 2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Katusha 5 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram 6 Sebastien Turgot (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom 7 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team 9 Robert Hunter (RSA) Garmin - Transitions 10 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 : Biggest gainers by position : +6 Daniel Lloyd +5 Stephane Auge +5 Manuel Quinziato +5 Jeremy Roy +5 Brett Lancaster +5 Andreas Klier +4 Simon Spilak +4 Samuel Dumoulin +4 Nicki Sorensen +4 Jeremy Hunt Biggest losers by position : -43 Bert Grabsch -20 Maxim Iglinskiy -15 Daniel Navarro Garcia -10 Anthony Roux -8 Christophe Kern -8 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde -8 Paolo Tiralongo -8 Stijn Vandenbergh -6 Jens Voigt -5 Dmitriy Muravyev -5 Jurgen Van De Walle Biggest gainers by time : +0:03 Tyler Farrar +0:03 Thor Hushovd +0:03 Sebastien Turgot +0:03 Robert Hunter +0:03 Robbie McEwen +0:03 Mark Renshaw +0:03 Mark Cavendish +0:03 Lloyd Mondory +0:03 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil +0:03 Gerald Ciolek Biggest losers by time : -10:55 Bert Grabsch -10:55 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde -8:42 Anthony Roux -8:42 Daniel Navarro Garcia -8:42 Dmitriy Muravyev -8:42 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez -6:16 David De La Fuente Rasilla -2:49 Paolo Tiralongo -1:55 Dries Devenyns -1:55 Jens Voigt -1:55 Jurgen Van De Walle Favourites by position : Favourites by time : Top 3 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Fabian Cancellara 28:37:30 (unchanged) 2 Geraint Thomas 0:20 (was 2nd at 0:23) 3 Cadel Evans 0:39 (unchanged) ..... 6 Andy Schleck 1:09 (unchanged) ..... 9 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:40 (unchanged) ..... 13 Denis Menchov 1:49 (unchanged) 14 Bradley Wiggins 1:49 (unchanged) ..... 16 Roman Kreuziger 2:24 (unchanged) 17 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 2:25 (unchanged) 18 Lance Armstrong 2:30 (unchanged) ..... 24 Levi Leipheimer 2:53 (unchanged) ..... 28 Andreas Kloden 3:01 (unchanged) ..... 42 Robert Gesink 3:16 (unchanged) ..... 46 Carlos Sastre 3:19 (unchanged) 47 Ivan Basso 3:20 (unchanged) ..... 58 Joaquin Rodriguez 3:33 (unchanged) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Thor Hushovd 118 (was 1st with 102 points) 2 Alessandro Petacchi 114 (was 2nd with 88 points) 3 Robbie McEwen 105 (was 3rd with 81 points) 4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 92 (was 4th with 73 points) 5 Mark Cavendish 85 (was 9th with 50 points) 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 82 (was 5th with 64 points) 7 Sebastien Turgot 79 (was 6th with 59 points) 8 Geraint Thomas 74 (was 7th with 59 points) 9 Gerald Ciolek 71 (was 10th with 49 points) 10 Daniel Oss 54 (was 8th with 54 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Jerome Pineau 13 (unchanged) 2 Mathieu Perget 12 (was 0 points) 3 Sylvain Chavanel 8 (was 2nd with 8 points) 4 Rein Taaramae 8 (was 3rd with 8 points) 5 Sebastian Lang 7 (was 0 points) 6 Jurgen Van De Walle 6 (was 4th with 6 points) 7 Maxime Monfort 5 (was 5th with 5 points) 8 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios 4 (was 6th with 4 points) 9 Ruben Perez Moreno 4 (was 0 points) 10 Matthew Lloyd 4 (was 7th with 4 points) Retirements to date : Stage Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Transitions 3 David Le Lay (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 3 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 3 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team HTC - Columbia 2 Mickael Delage (Fra) Omega Pharma-Lotto 2 Manuel Cardoso (Spa) Footon-Servetto 1 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1 Total retirements : 9