Wout Poels rides to queen stage win in Tour of Britain

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Wout Poels wins stage 6 Tour of Britain 2018

Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) leads the Tour of Britain heading into the penultimate stage as the French rider finished second behind stage six winner Wout Poels (Team Sky) on Friday.

Alaphilippe finished two seconds behind Poels on the 168.3km ride from Barrow-in-Furness to Whinlatter Pass. Hugh Carthy of the EF Education First-Drapac team was 12 seconds behind Poels in third.

Poels and Alaphilippe pulled away on the final climb up Whinlatter.

With two stages remaining, Alaphilippe leads Poels by 17 seconds in the general classification.

“Second is really nice, it’s going to be a hard fight – no more uphill finishes, everything is flat. But we’ll keep on trying,” said Poels. “I’m really happy so it’s really nice that I could finish it off,” he said.

Primoz Roglic, the overnight leader, saw his chances of overall victory dented when he dropped to third place, a further 15 seconds back.

Alaphilippe becomes the fifth Tour of Britain leader in six days of racing after also winning stage three in Bristol.

“All of my guys did an incredible performance and everybody was riding for me today to protect me before the last climb,” Alaphilippe said.

“Roglic was on my wheel at the end and I tried to attack the last time to drop him. I’m really happy to take the (leader’s) green jersey.”

Saturday’s penultimate stage runs from West Bridgford to Mansfield before the climax to the race in London on Sunday.

Tour of Britain 2018 – stage 6 results (Barrow-in-Furness – Whinlatter Pass):

1Wout Poels (Team Sky)

4:01:51

2Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors)

+02”

3Hugh Carthy (EF Education First-Drapac)

+12”

4Jonathan Hivert (Direct Energie)

+21”

5Patrick Bevin (BMC)

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6Tom Pidcock (Team Wiggins)

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7Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert)

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8Dion Smith (Wanty-Groupe Gobert)

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9Max Stedman (Canyon-Eisberg)

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10Jasha Sütterlin (Movistar)

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General classification after stage 6:

1Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors)

19:46:54

2Wout Poels (Team Sky)

+17”

3Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo)

+33”

4Patrick Bevin (BMC)

+46”

5Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors)

+51”

6Jasha Sütterlin (Movistar)

+58”

7Neilson Powless (LottoNL-Jumbo)

+01’10”

8Dmitry Strakhov (Katusha-Alpecin)

+01’24”

9Christopher Hamilton (Team Sunweb)

+01’28”

10Pascal Eenkhoorn (LottoNL-Jumbo)

+01’35”

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