Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic won the 180km sixth stage of the UAE Tour in Jebel Jais today and with it he reinforced his overall lead.
The Slovenian had taken the lead since the stage one team time-trial. He now extended his lead to 31 seconds over Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde with one sprint stage left.
Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic, pictured here at the Tour of Britain last year, won the 180km sixth stage of the UAE Tour in Jebel Jais today. Photo: Photo credits
Roglic completed the stage in 4:15:39, beating Team Sunweb’s Tom Dumoulin and Groupama-FDJ’s David Gaudu to the line.
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Stage six
1. Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:15:39
2. Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb
3. David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
4. Dan Martin (Ire) UAE Team Emirates
5. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
6. Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
7. Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
8. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
9. Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
10. James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:05
*Selected
39. Louis Meintjes (RSA) Dimension Data 0:01:52
62. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:08:05
81. Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:13:42
General classification
1. Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 18:54:09
2. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:31
3. David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:44
4. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:56
5. Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:01:04
6. Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:01:08
7. Dan Martin (Ire) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:11
8. James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:29
9. Laurens de Plus (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:45
10. Michał Kwiatkowski (Pol) 0:01:49
*Selected
31. Louis Meintjes (RSA) Dimension Data 0:06:20
55. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:18:10
78. Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:31:27
