Stage 6 : Aug 23, Tarazona - Jaca, 175.4 km 1 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team 4.35.22 2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 0.05 3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0.10 4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank 0.19 5 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 6 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling 7 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0.25 8 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0.28 9 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 10 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0.33 Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 : Biggest gainers by position : +55 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil +45 Angel Vicioso Arcos +44 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni +42 Javier Moreno Bazan +41 Gianni Meersman +40 Xabier Zandio Echaide +40 Pieter Weening +37 Pablo Lastras Garcia +36 Pim Ligthart +33 Philippe Gilbert Biggest losers by position : -45 Adrian Palomares Villaplana -45 Egor Silin -44 Mikel Landa Meana -38 Pablo Lechuga Rodriguez -35 Assan Bazayev -33 Michel Kreder -32 Yannick Eijssen -31 David Moncoutie -30 Simon Clarke -28 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez -28 Gabriel Rasch Biggest gainers by time : Biggest losers by time : -20:28 Joost van Leijen -20:26 Jens Debusschere -19:23 Javier Ramirez Abeja -19:21 Michel Kreder -19:21 Steven Cummings -19:18 Assan Bazayev -19:18 Cheng Ji -19:16 Cameron Meyer -19:16 Egor Silin -19:16 Nacer Bouhanni -19:16 Thomas Peterson Favourites by position : +13 Thomas De Gendt +11 Denis Menchov +2 Rigoberto Uran +1 Maxime Monfort +1 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo +1 Damiano Cunego -4 Bauke Mollema -11 Jurgen Van Den Broeck -19 John Gadret -21 Cameron Meyer -28 Tony Martin Favourites by time : -0:09 Christopher Froome -0:31 Rigoberto Uran -0:31 Alberto Contador Velasco -0:45 Robert Gesink -0:47 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo -0:56 Maxime Monfort -1:03 Bauke Mollema -1:45 Damiano Cunego -3:42 Thomas De Gendt -5:24 Denis Menchov -8:50 John Gadret -8:57 Jurgen Van Den Broeck -17:13 Tony Martin -19:16 Cameron Meyer Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 22:04:32 (unchanged) 2 Christopher Froome 0:10 (was 2nd at 0:01) 3 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:36 (was 3rd at 0:05) 4 Rigoberto Uran 0:42 (was 6th at 0:11) 5 Robert Gesink 0:54 (was 5th at 0:09) 6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:54 (was 9th at 0:36) 7 Nicolas Roche 1:04 (was 8th at 0:24) 8 Bauke Mollema 1:12 (was 4th at 0:09) 9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 1:17 (was 7th at 0:14) 10 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 1:34 (was 11th at 0:47) ..... 22 Maxime Monfort 2:34 (was 23rd at 1:38) ..... 27 Damiano Cunego 4:00 (was 28th at 2:15) ..... 47 Thomas De Gendt 11:04 (was 60th at 7:22) ..... 50 John Gadret 11:30 (was 31st at 2:40) ..... 63 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 15:35 (was 52nd at 6:38) 64 Denis Menchov 16:20 (was 75th at 10:56) ..... 97 Tony Martin 27:00 (was 69th at 9:47) ..... 143 Cameron Meyer 39:54 (was 122nd at 20:38) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 John Degenkolb 51 (was 1st with 50 points) 2 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 45 (was 8th with 20 points) 3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 41 (was 6th with 25 points) 4 Christopher Froome 37 (was 12th with 17 points) 5 Allan Davis 29 (was 2nd with 29 points) 6 Alberto Contador Velasco 29 (was 15th with 15 points) 7 Simon Clarke 27 (was 3rd with 27 points) 8 Elia Viviani 27 (was 4th with 27 points) 9 Daniele Bennati 26 (was 5th with 26 points) 10 Nicolas Roche 24 (was 14th with 17 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Simon Clarke 16 (unchanged) 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 11 (was 3rd with 10 points) 3 Pim Ligthart 11 (was 2nd with 11 points) 4 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 10 (unchanged) 5 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 9 (was 6th with 6 points) 6 Tony Martin 8 (was 5th with 8 points) 7 Philippe Gilbert 6 (unchanged) 8 Assan Bazayev 5 (unchanged) 9 Christopher Froome 4 (was 12th with 2 points) 10 Alberto Contador Velasco 4 (was 9th with 4 points) Retirements to date : Stage David Boucher (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 4 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Pro Team Astana 1 Total retirements : 2