Stage 6 : August 30, 2018 Huercal-Overa - San Javier. Mar Menor 155.7 km
1 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 3.58.35
2 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
3 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
4 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
5 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
6 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
7 Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Astana Pro Team
8 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team
9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
10 Michael Morkov (Den) Quick-Step Floors
Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+14 Elia Viviani
+12 Simone Consonni
+12 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
+11 Vincenzo Nibali
+11 Pieter Serry
+11 Michael Morkov
+11 Imanol Erviti Ollo
+10 Tosh Van der Sande
+10 Sebastian Langeveld
+10 Peter Sagan
Biggest losers by position :
-18 Richie Porte
-18 Victor Campenaerts
-17 Jorge Cubero Galvez
-16 Alexis Gougeard
-16 Antonio Molina
-16 Hector Saez Benito
-15 Pavel Sivakov
-13 Alessandro De Marchi
-13 Marc Sarreau
-13 Oscar Cabedo Carda
-12 Johannes Frohlinger
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:26 Danny van Poppel
+0:24 Elia Viviani
+0:20 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:20 Tosh Van der Sande
+0:20 Tony Gallopin
+0:20 Tom Van Asbroeck
+0:20 Sven Erik Bystrom
+0:20 Steven Kruijswijk
+0:20 Simone Consonni
+0:20 Simon Yates
Biggest losers by time :
-7:42 Tom Leezer
-7:42 Victor Campenaerts
-7:37 Alessandro De Marchi
-7:37 Johannes Frohlinger
-7:37 Michael Schwarzmann
-7:37 Oscar Cabedo Carda
-7:37 Pavel Sivakov
-7:35 Luis Angel Mate Mardones
-7:34 Jorge Cubero Galvez
-5:36 Alexis Gougeard
-5:36 Ian Boswell
Favourites by position :
+11 Vincenzo Nibali
+3 Rigoberto Uran
+3 Miguel Angel Lopez
+3 George Bennett
+2 Adam Yates
+1 Steven Kruijswijk
+1 Nairo Quintana
+1 Jon Izagirre Insausti
-2 Daniel Martin
-3 Ilnur Zakarin
-5 Thibaut Pinot
-11 Wilco Kelderman
-18 Richie Porte
Favourites by time :
+0:20 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:20 Steven Kruijswijk
+0:20 Simon Yates
+0:20 Rigoberto Uran
+0:20 Nairo Quintana
+0:20 Miguel Angel Lopez
+0:20 Jon Izagirre Insausti
+0:20 George Bennett
+0:20 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-1:24 Wilco Kelderman
-1:24 Thibaut Pinot
-2:45 Ilnur Zakarin
-2:45 Daniel Martin
-2:45 Adam Yates
-5:15 Richie Porte
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rudy Molard 22:26:15 (unchanged)
2 Michal Kwiatkowski 0:41 (was 2nd at 1:01)
3 Emanuel Buchmann 0:48 (was 3rd at 1:08)
4 Simon Yates 0:51 (was 4th at 1:11)
5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:53 (was 5th at 1:13)
6 Jon Izagirre Insausti 1:11 (was 7th at 1:31)
7 Tony Gallopin 1:14 (was 8th at 1:34)
8 Nairo Quintana 1:14 (was 9th at 1:34)
9 Steven Kruijswijk 1:18 (was 10th at 1:38)
10 Enric Mas 1:23 (was 11th at 1:43)
11 George Bennett 1:26 (was 14th at 1:46)
12 Miguel Angel Lopez 1:27 (was 15th at 1:47)
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14 Rigoberto Uran 1:29 (was 17th at 1:49)
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17 Wilco Kelderman 2:50 (was 6th at 1:26)
18 Thibaut Pinot 3:08 (was 13th at 1:44)
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42 Ilnur Zakarin 10:13 (was 39th at 7:28)
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52 Vincenzo Nibali 13:14 (was 63rd at 13:34)
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77 Daniel Martin 20:36 (was 75th at 17:51)
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119 Adam Yates 37:26 (was 121st at 34:41)
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157 Richie Porte 46:49 (was 139th at 41:34)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Michal Kwiatkowski 48 (was 1st with 46 points)
2 Elia Viviani 41 (was 7th with 25 points)
3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 33 (was 2nd with 33 points)
4 Simon Clarke 30 (was 3rd with 30 points)
5 Danny van Poppel 30 (was 28th with 10 points)
6 Ben King 29 (was 4th with 29 points)
7 Alessandro De Marchi 28 (was 5th with 28 points)
8 Simone Consonni 26 (was 24th with 12 points)
9 Rohan Dennis 25 (was 6th with 25 points)
10 Giacomo Nizzolo 25 (was 11th with 20 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 42 (was 1st with 36 points)
2 Pierre Rolland 20 (unchanged)
3 Ben King 12 (unchanged)
4 Ben Gastauer 7 (unchanged)
5 Bauke Mollema 6 (unchanged)
6 Nikita Stalnov 6 (unchanged)
7 Thomas De Gendt 5 (unchanged)
8 Nans Peters 4 (unchanged)
9 Richie Porte 4 (was 0 points)
10 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 3 (was 9th with 3 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0