2025 Tour de France Stage 6 Report: Ben Healy placed on an unimaginable show, taking an incredible 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 proper mixture of twists, turns and hills that simply screamed breakaway. The possibilities of mentioned breakaway then elevated after Tadej Pogacar acknowledged this morning that he wouldn’t thoughts letting a break go and was blissful to lose the yellow jersey – end result? All people needed to be within the break of the day!
At this time’s stage profile – 6 small climbs & up and down all day
After the intermediate dash at simply 22km into the stage gained 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 person may get throughout although and the primary hour of racing merely flew by at a mean of 49.6kph!
Finally 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.
Identical 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 finally caught because the kilometers continued to tick by at an unimaginable pace.
Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was the following to strive his luck with the dynamic duo of Healy & Simmons able to strive once more they usually had been quickly joined by Harold Tejada (XDS Astana) and Will Barta (Movistar).
This quintet quickly reached a really onerous fought 30 second lead and Eddie Dunbar (Jayco AlUla) & Michael Storer (Tudor) sensed the hazard and bridged throughout, adopted a little bit 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 making an attempt to get throughout however the 8 out the entrance labored nicely collectively and the significantly decreased peloton realized that their possibilities of a stage victory immediately had disappeared up the street underneath the wheels of the magnificent eight.
Mathieu Van der Poel had essentially the most to achieve immediately with this break seemingly propelling him to each the inexperienced & yellow jerseys – may he prime all of it with the stage victory as nicely?
Van der Poel drove the break in his quest for yellow, inexperienced & a stage victory…
Ben Healy didn’t need to danger his probability of the stage victory on the ultimate climb of the day so he determined to assault with a little bit greater than 40km remaining. Absolutely a suicidal transfer with 7 robust males working nicely chasing him behind?
1 vs 7. The percentages weren’t in Healy’s favor…
Sure, the chances had been towards 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 rapidly took his hole out to 50 seconds towards the seven behind who had been all pulling stable turns.
With slightly 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 exhibiting zero indicators of weak point. The American/Aussie duo behind had been doing their greatest and pulling away from the Van der Poel led group behind however Healy was merely untouchable, rising his lead each kilometer.
In the long run Healy would win by nearly 3 minutes from his fellow first attacker of the day, Quinn Simmons who additionally did an incredible journey 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 nicely deserved.
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Tour de France Stage 6 End result:
01 Healy Ben EF Schooling-EasyPost 04:24:10
02 Simmons Quinn Lidl-Trek + 02:44
03 Storer Michael Tudor Professional Biking Crew + 02:51
04 Dunbar Edward Crew Jayco-AlUla + 03:21
05 Yates Simon Crew Visma | Lease a Bike + 03:24
06 Barta William Movistar Crew + 03:29
07 Tejada Harold XDS Astana Crew + 03:52
08 van der Poel Mathieu Alpecin-Deceuninck + 03:58
09 Pogacar Tadej UAE Crew Emirates-XRG + 05:27
10 Vingegaard Jonas Crew 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 Crew Emirates-XRG + 01
03 Evenepoel Remco Soudal Fast-Step + 43
04 Vauquelin Kévin ARKEA-B&B HOTELS + 01:00
05 Vingegaard Jonas Crew Visma | Lease a Bike + 01:14
06 Jorgenson Matteo Crew Visma | Lease a Bike + 01:23
07 Almeida João UAE Crew Emirates-XRG + 01:59
08 Healy Ben EF Schooling-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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