Irish Ben Healy (EF Education Easypost) celebrates his victory in the sixth stage of the Tour de France.
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Irish Ben Healy surprised this Thursday and took the victory in the sixth stage of the Tour de France 2025 after completing a demanding half -mountain day played between Bayeux and Vire Normandie, with a 201.5 kilometers route.
Healy, an EF Education-Easypost corridor, was part of an eight-running escape and launched an attack more than 30 kilometers of the finish line that the others could not counteract. He crossed with a difference of more than two minutes and 45 seconds over his main persecutors.
American Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) and Australian Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling) worked together in the final kilometers with the intention of reaching it. Between them they defined the remaining bonuses of the stage, with Simmons staying with second place.
As for the general classification, the Dutch Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) recovered the yellow jersey after crossing the goal with more than two minutes of advantage over the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, current champion of the tour and one of the great favorites to the title of this edition.
This Thursday's fraction was an ideal day for stages hunters. The layout included six mountain awards: five third category and one fourth. The arrival, in Vire Normandie, was a demanding rise that in the final meters had a inclination of 12%.
Huilense Harold Tejada was the most prominent of Colombians in this sixth stage of the France Tour 2025. Astana Qazqstan Team cyclist was part of the escape of the day, but failed to continue the step and ended in the seventh position.
The general classification has Mathieu van der Poel as leader, who for just a second dethroned Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). The podium is completed by the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Qiuck-Step), 43 seconds from the new owner of the yellow shirt.
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