:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/8db0a2c4-c9fd-11eb-a317-0255c322e81b.jpg "Mathieu van der Poel loses the lead in the Tour of Switzerland to winning Richard Carapaz | Cycling")
sport">The Dutchman from Alpecin-Fenix won two stages earlier this week and decided to attack early on Thursday in the 175 kilometer stage from Gstaad to Leukerbad with three others. Even before the foot of the penultimate climb to Erschmatt, at about 28 kilometers from the finish, the cyclo-cross world champion was overtaken by the peloton. He then calmly finished the stage and lost 20 minutes to stage winner Carapaz.
sport">Carapaz impressed on the final climb of the 175 kilometer stage from Gstaad to Leukerbad by convincingly jumping away from a group of favourites. The Ecuadorian of Ineos closed a gap of 41 seconds on leader Jakob Fugslang without effort, before beating the Dane of Astana in the sprint for the stage victory.
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Richard Carapaz made a strong appearance on Thursday.
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sport">Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) won the sprint of the second group at 39 seconds. The Canadian kept Julian Alaphilippe behind him, among others. The world champion of Deceuninck-QuickStep finished seventh.
sport">Sam Oomen (Jumbo-Visma) gave a minute and 22 seconds at the finish. With a tenth place he was the best Dutchman of the day. Tom Dumoulin was unable to compete with the best climbers in his first race as a returned professional rider. He came in 51st at 12.25pm.
sport">In the general classification, Carapaz, winner of the Tour of Italy in 2019, is 26 seconds ahead of Fuglsang, who is second. Ooms occupies eighth place. His delay is two minutes and nineteen seconds.
Sixth stage
sport">The sixth stage of the Tour of Switzerland leads the peloton on Friday from Fiesch to Disentis Sedrun. The stage is 130 kilometers long.
sport">An individual time trial awaits on Saturday. The eight-day stage race will be concluded on Sunday with a solid mountain stage.
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