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Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 6: Voeckler takes win in Grenoble, Froome retains race lead

Frenchman launches sprint with line in sight to leave three breakaway companions behind

Thomas Voeckler of Europcar has won Stage 6 of the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné in Grenoble, jumping clear of three breakaway companions in the closing few hundred metres to take the first victory by a French rider in this year's race. Jose Herrada of Movistar finished second, with third and fourth place respectively filled by the Astana pair of Kevin Seeldrayers and Egor Silin.

The peloton arrived three quarters of a minute later, with Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen winning the sprint for fifth place. There's no change in the overall standings, with Chris Froome remaining in the race leader's maillot jaune with just two stages to come.

Omega Pharma-Quck Step had worked hard to try and bring back the escapees to try and set up Gianni Meersman for a sprint finish, but as the escapees headed towards Grenoble and the end of the 143km stage from la La Léchère, they managed to maintain sufficient advantage to ensure they wouldn't be caught.

Astana had the numerical advantage, but unlike in the Dwars door Vlaanderen in March, when Voeckler made an early bid for glory but was caught in the closing metres, he bided his time and his late burst for the line left his rivals with no chance to respond.

Speaking after the stage, Voeckler revealed he'd been helped by the memory of the route into Grenoble from the 2004 edition of the race, when he took the bunch sprint for third place on Stage 6, won by Michael Rasmussen ahead of Ivan Basso. 

Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 6 result  
  
1  VOECKLER Thomas        Team Europcar                 03:24:13
2  HERRADA LOPEZ Jose     Movistar Team                Same time
3  SEELDRAEYERS Kevin     Astana Pro Team                  "
4  SILIN Egor             Astana Pro Team                  "
5  BOASSON HAGEN Edvald   Sky Procycling                   00:46
6  MEERSMAN Gianni        Omega Pharma-Quick-Step   All at same time
7  GAVAZZI Francesco      Astana Pro Team                  "
8  SULZBERGER Wesley      Orica GreenEDGE                  "
9  GERARD Arnaud          Bretagne-Séché Environnement     "
10 KWIATKOWSKI Michal     Omega Pharma - Quick-Step        "
11 ROHREGGER Thomas       RadioShack - Leopard             "
12 CHERNETSKIY Sergey     Katusha Team                     "
13 KOREN Kristjan         Cannondale Pro Cycling Team      "
14 MATE Luis Angel        Cofidis Solutions Crédits        "
15 GAUTIER Cyril          Team Europcar                    "
16 QUINZIATO Manuel       BMC Racing Team                  "
17 DENNIS Rohan           Garmin-Sharp                     "
18 SLAGTER Tom-Jelte      Blanco Pro Cycling Team          "
19 PORTE Richie           Sky Procycling                   "
20 TALANSKY Andrew        Garmin-Sharp                     "
  
Overal standings after Stage 6  
  
1  FROOME Christopher    Sky Procycling                19:33:43
2  PORTE Richie          Sky Procycling                   00:52
3  DENNIS Rohan          Garmin-Sharp                     00:54
4  ROGERS Michael        Team Saxo-Tinkoff                01:37
5  MORENO Daniel         Katusha Team                     01:47
6  NAVARRO Daniel        Cofidis Solutions Crédits        01:49
7  TAARAMäE Rein         Cofidis Solutions Crédits        01:52
8  KWIATKOWSKI Michal    Omega Pharma - Quick-Step        01:58
9  KONIG Leopold         Team NetApp-Endura               02:16
10 FUGLSANG Jakob        Astana Pro Team                  02:20

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Colin Peyresourde | 11 years ago
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Those Astana boys were clueless. Though I suspect they were quite knackered.

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farrell | 11 years ago
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Any truth in the rumour that Tommy's tongue came in 3 seconds behind?

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captain_slog replied to farrell | 11 years ago
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farrell wrote:

Any truth in the rumour that Tommy's tongue came in 3 seconds behind?

His tongue won. It was the rest of him that came in three seconds behind.

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Fran The Man | 11 years ago
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Hee, hee! Tommy V!  4

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