Stage 6
Štybar's uphill dig in Le Havre
- Thursday 9 July 2015
- 191 km
- 1,617 m climbed
- Won by Zdeněk Štybar
The road
How it was won
- 46 km to go
Green jersey skirmish at Saint-Léonard
Quémeneur takes the intermediate sprint from the break with 46 kilometres to go, but the real racing is behind: Europcar wind it up for Coquard and Degenkolb comes past him for fourth.
- 29 km to go
Teklehaimanot takes the polka dots
The last climber's point of the day, and Daniel Teklehaimanot times it perfectly, jumping away in sight of the summit. The Eritrean becomes the first African rider ever to wear the mountains jersey at the Tour de France.
- 3 km to go
The crash that costs Martin his jersey
Everything is set for a sprint when Nibali, Quintana, Martin and a dozen others go down and block the road. The yellow jersey gets up with a fractured collarbone; he will not start tomorrow.
- At the line
Štybar's uphill dig in Le Havre
On the short, punchy rise above the Normandy port Zdeněk Štybar goes alone and holds it to the line — Etixx-QuickStep's second win in three days, and no consolation at all by evening.
The result
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zdeněk Štybar | Etixx - Quick Step | 4:53:46 |
| 2 | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff - Saxo | +0:02 |
| 3 | Bryan Coquard | Team Europcar | +0:02 |
The route on real terrain, every moment pinned to the kilometre it happened on — and the GPX to ride it yourself.