Tour de France: Healy wins hilly 6th stage, Van der Poel takes yellow jersey from Pogačar

VIRE NORMANDIE France AP Irish rider Ben Healy won a hilly sixth stage of the Tour de France after a long solo breakaway on Thursday and Mathieu van der Poel took back the yellow jersey from defending champion Tadej Poga ar by one second American rider Quinn Simmons finished minutes seconds behind Healy in second place and Australian Michael Storer was back in third spot Van der Poel finished eighth and Poga ar was a little further back in ninth Stage took riders over kilometers miles from Bayeux to Vire Normandie featuring six minor climbs before a sharp uphill finish with a gradient The Slovenian star accelerated at the end of the stage but could not quite do enough to stop the yellow jersey going to Van der Poel who is not considered a race contender Two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard finished th just behind Poga ar and is fifth overall The highway favored allrounders and an experienced-looking eight-rider breakaway including Stage winner Van der Poel and Giro d Italia champion Simon Yates pulled away from the yellow jersey group around three-time Tour winner Poga ar Riding through rolling countryside they opened up a four-minute lead with kilometers to go which is when Healy decided to go for the stage win and pulled away from his rivals who could not follow Friday s stage is also hilly Stage is kilometers long starting from the port city of Saint-Malo and finishing with a climb up M r-de-Bretagne in Britanny s picturesque C tes-d Armor department AP sports https apnews com hub apf-sports backslash Source