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Tour de France 2017

Stage 6

Kittel’s 71kph comeback

  • Thursday 6 July 2017
  • 219 km
  • 1,733 m climbed
  • Won by Marcel Kittel

The road

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How it was won

  1. At the line

    Kittel’s 71kph comeback

    A dozen places back with 250m to go, Marcel Kittel launches a prodigious acceleration to 71kph and storms past the field to win in Troyes.

The result

Podium, Stage 6, Tour de France 2017
RankRiderTeamTime
1Marcel KittelQuick-Step Floors5:05:34
2Arnaud DémareFDJ+0:00
3André GreipelLotto Soudal+0:00
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