2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 6
The sixth stage of the Tour de France 2009 on July 9, via 181.5 km from Girona to Barcelona. It contains three intermediate sprints and five climbs on the 3rd and 4th category. Furthermore, the whole stage by Spain runs.
The stage was made particularly difficult by the weather: rain meant that were around 20 to 40 drivers do not keep on the bike, without ever overthrow, also lost again some top 10 candidates time: Haimar Zubeldia lost 50 seconds Mikel Astarloza and Denis Menchov already over a minute, the worst it but got Michael Rogers. The Australians from Team Columbia Highroad lost over 13 minutes and fell into the overall ranking of 16th place back into the no man's land, after he was overthrown at the beginning of the rise.
Tasks
- 46 Robert Gesink not begun to stage ( fall consequences Stage 5 )
Sprint
- Second intermediate sprint in Sant Pol de Mar ( 85.5 km ) (20 m above sea level. NN )
- Third intermediate sprint in Cardedeu ( 132.5 km ) ( 192 m above sea level. NN )
- Goal in Barcelona ( km 181.5 ) (96 m above sea level. NN )
Climbs
- Côte de Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Category 4 ( 32 kilometers ) (. 120 m above sea level, 2.0 km à 5,4 %)
- Côte de Tossa de Mar, Category 4 ( 55 km ) ( 176 m above sea level, . 3.8 km à 4,2 %)
- Côte de Sant Vicenç de Montalt, Category 3 ( 98 kilometers ) (. 202 m above sea level, 3.3 km à 5,2 %)
- Collsacreu, Category 3 ( 110 km ) ( 345 m above sea level, . 4.1 km à 5,2 %)
- Côte de la Conreria, Category 4 ( 159 km ) (330 m above sea level, . 4.7 km à 4,5% )
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Driver's field
- Tour de France 2009