Tour de France: sixth stage to Ben Healy, Mathieu Van der Poel returns to yellow jersey

With more than 40 km of solo breakaway, moreover after attacking with seven others including Mathieu Van der Poel, EF Education Easypost rider Ben Healy won the sixth stage of the Tour de France, the 201.5 km Bayeux-Vire Normandie.

The Irishman was 2’44” ahead of Lidl-Trek’s American Quinn Simmons and 2’51” ahead of Tudor Pro Cycling Team’s Australian Michael Storer.

We were saying about Van der Poel: the Alpecin-Deceunink Dutchman finished eighth today at 3’58” and by just one second took back the yellow jersey that Slovenian Tadej Pogacar had snatched from him in yesterday’s Caen time trial.

The UAE Team Emirates XRG world champion won the sprint of the top group finishing ninth at 5’27” from Healy. In the general classification, Soudal Quick-Step’s Belgian Remco Evenepoel is third at 43 seconds.