2025 Tour de France Stage 6 Report: Ben Healy placed on an unimaginable show, taking a tremendous solo win after attacking an elite break with greater than 40km remaining. Meanwwhile the battle for the yellow jersey got here all the way down to only one second!
Stage 6 was the right mixture of twists, turns and hills that simply screamed breakaway. The possibilities of stated breakaway then elevated after Tadej Pogacar said this morning that he wouldn’t thoughts letting a break go and was completely happy to lose the yellow jersey – outcome? Everyone wished to be within the break of the day!
Immediately’s stage profile – 6 small climbs & up and down all day
After the intermediate dash at simply 22km into the stage received by Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) forward of Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) the breaks began to go and it was the American champion, Quinn Simmons and EF’s robust man, Ben Healy who had been the primary to get away.
These two held a lead of only a handful of seconds for what appeared like an eternity because the assaults and counter assaults continued within the peloton behind. No one may get throughout although and the primary hour of racing merely flew by at a mean of 49.6kph!
Ultimately the duo had been caught and a flurry of assaults adopted however nothing gained quite a lot of meters till Wout Van Aert (Visma Lease A Bike) and Pablo Castrillo (Movistar) had been capable of get a ten second lead. Sure, simply 10 seconds.
Similar to the pairing of Simmons & Healy these two stayed out the entrance for a very long time however they may by no means construct on their lead and had been ultimately caught because the kilometers continued to tick by at an unimaginable pace.
Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was the subsequent to attempt his luck with the dynamic duo of Healy & Simmons able to attempt once more they usually had been quickly joined by Harold Tejada (XDS Astana) and Will Barta (Movistar).
This quintet quickly reached a really laborious fought 30 second lead and Eddie Dunbar (Jayco AlUla) & Michael Storer (Tudor) sensed the hazard and bridged throughout, adopted just a little later by Simon Yates (Visma). We lastly had the break of the day!
The peloton wasn’t giving up although with quite a few counter assaults attempting to get throughout however the 8 out the entrance labored effectively collectively and the significantly diminished peloton realized that their possibilities of a stage victory as we speak had disappeared up the street below the wheels of the magnificent eight.
Mathieu Van der Poel had probably the most to realize as we speak with this break seemingly propelling him to each the inexperienced & yellow jerseys – may he high all of it with the stage victory as effectively?
Van der Poel drove the break in his quest for yellow, inexperienced & a stage victory…
Ben Healy didn’t need to threat his probability of the stage victory on the ultimate climb of the day so he determined to assault with just a little greater than 40km remaining. Certainly a suicidal transfer with 7 robust males working effectively chasing him behind?
1 vs 7. The percentages weren’t in Healy’s favor…
Sure, the percentages had been in opposition to Healy however the Irishman was on an unimaginable day. After being within the first assault of the day with Simmons, Healy nonetheless had the vitality and shortly took his hole out to 50 seconds in opposition to the seven behind who had been all pulling stable turns.
With just below 30km to go Healy was now being pursued by Simmons & Storer who broke away on the Cote de Saint-Michel however Healy was persevering with to extend his lead and was displaying zero indicators of weak spot. The American/Aussie duo behind had been doing their finest and pulling away from the Van der Poel led group behind however Healy was merely untouchable, rising his lead each kilometer.
Ultimately Healy would win by virtually 3 minutes from his fellow first attacker of the day, Quinn Simmons who additionally did a tremendous experience however he was merely outclassed by Healy. Storer took third forward of Dunbar & Yates however Van der Poel cracked on the ultimate climb and was merely crawling up the climb.
Might he preserve his hole to take again the yellow jersey from Pogacar who was in a quick approaching peloton? Sure was the reply however solely by one second!
What a stage by Healy! The person is a machine and the victory was actually effectively deserved.
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Tour de France Stage 6 Consequence:
01 Healy Ben EF Training-EasyPost 04:24:10
02 Simmons Quinn Lidl-Trek + 02:44
03 Storer Michael Tudor Professional Biking Group + 02:51
04 Dunbar Edward Group Jayco-AlUla + 03:21
05 Yates Simon Group Visma | Lease a Bike + 03:24
06 Barta William Movistar Group + 03:29
07 Tejada Harold XDS Astana Group + 03:52
08 van der Poel Mathieu Alpecin-Deceuninck + 03:58
09 Pogacar Tadej UAE Group Emirates-XRG + 05:27
10 Vingegaard Jonas Group Visma | Lease a Bike + 05:27
Tour de France Total After Stage 6:
01 van der Poel Mathieu Alpecin-Deceuninck 21:52:34
02 Pogacar Tadej UAE Group Emirates-XRG + 01
03 Evenepoel Remco Soudal Fast-Step + 43
04 Vauquelin Kévin ARKEA-B&B HOTELS + 01:00
05 Vingegaard Jonas Group Visma | Lease a Bike + 01:14
06 Jorgenson Matteo Group Visma | Lease a Bike + 01:23
07 Almeida João UAE Group Emirates-XRG + 01:59
08 Healy Ben EF Training-EasyPost + 02:01
09 Lipowitz Florian Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe + 02:32
10 Roglic Primoz Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe + 02:36
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