2020 Tour de France Stage 6 Results & Recap
Stage 6 of the 2020 Tour de France is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Lutsenko victorious on Mont Aigoual
Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) climbed to an impressive solo win today at Mont Aigoual after attacking breakaway companion Neilson Powless (EF Education First) on the summit of col de la Lussette with 17.5km to go. It was the Kazakhstan national champion's first win at the Tour de France.
"This victory is very important for me," Lutsenko said. "This is the Tour de France, the most important race in the world. I'm very happy. I've worked so hard to get this victory. All this work has paid off.\nToday we talked before the start, at the bus, with our DSs and our manager Alexandre Vinokourov. Since I had lost quite some time in previous stages, I had the chance to go in the breakaway. I did my best on the last climb to win. I never actually get dropped - I just kept a steady pace. The team car was telling us on the radio there were two very hard kilometres at the second part of the climb, so I rode my tempo and gave it all at those to create a gap big enough to win."
Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) finished second a minute behind and Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) outsprinted Powless for third. Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) finished in the GC group to keep the yellow jersey.
"At the start, a big group went up the road," Yates said. "None of them were dangerous, so it was about controlling the gap and keeping it as easy as possible. The final climb wasn't too hard. It was difficult to make a gap there, so attacking would have been a huge effort for a small gain. So we rode steady to save energy for the coming days. I felt pretty good today. I watched the race back when I was a kid, everyone likes to be leader of the Tour de France. It was a delight to wear yellow. Hopefully I'll keep for a few more days. Let's first see how it goes tomorrow."
Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) was the first to attack at the starting gun, and was soon joined by Jesus Herrada (Cofidis), Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quick Step) and Greg Van Avermaet (CCC), Neilson Powless (EF), Edvald Boasson Hagen (NTT), Daniel Oss (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana).
The peloton allowed a maximum advantage of almost seven minutes before Jumbo Visma took control and bought the gap down to a more manageable four minutes on the first Cat. 3 climb, Cap de la Lusette.
By the time the breakaway reached the col de la Lusette, it had shattered after Powless accelerated. Lutsenko was the only rider who kept pace with the American, and dropped him 4km to the summit before soloing to his first win at the Tour de France.
Three minutes later, the GC group arrived at the finish. In the final kilometre, Julian Alaphilippe attacked to gain back some time he lost yesterday and gained a second.
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