2023 Tour de France Femmes Stage 6 Results & Recap

Stage 6 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.

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Jorgensen upsets sprinters

Emma Jorgensen (MOV) held off a charging peloton to win stage 6 of the Tour de France Femmes after spending much of the day in the breakaway. Charlotte Kool (DSM) won the bunch sprint for second and race leader Lotte Kopecky (SDW) was third.

"I am lost for words, really. It’s been a very difficult start to the year. I want to thank everyone, my family, my husband, and the team for believing in me after being out the whole spring… It’s my biggest victory ever. I’m so emotional, so happy. A few years ago, I might have gone for the sprint, but I need to realise that I’m not as fast as Charlotte Kool or Lorena Wiebes anymore, and I need to find other ways to find success. When I woke this morning, I was like: ‘Oh no, another day where I have to work, another day where I have to suffer…’ I was in such a bad mood I needed three cups of coffee before anyone could speak to me. And then my sports director came to tell me about that plan of going in the breakaway… I was thinking: ‘Are you kidding me?’ Now I love him! Obviously, the big goal is to win the GC with Annemiek [van Vleuten], and we truly believe she can finish it off. But it’s nice that we can also chase stage wins. I was so emotional when Liane [Lippert] won. It gave me a huge boost."

Lotte Kopecky (SDW) remains in yellow before the queen stage tomorrow.

"I don’t know why the break has won three times already in the Tour," Kopecky said. "Maybe we need to start and learn how to count. But the break was really strong, teams were fully chasing behind. Again, it went pretty fast and in the finale, the breakaway was probably stronger. It’s really nice [to be out of reach in the points standings]. At the end of your career if you look back an can say you won the GJ of the Tour de France, it’s a really nice thing. We’ve won two stages, we’ve had the yellow jersey since the start… Now, we have one goal, so we hope we can help Demi [Vollering] tomorrow and hopefully, she can finish it off and make big differences on the Tourmalet."

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