Cycling-Teuns wins Tour stage six as Ciccone takes yellow

Belgian Dylan Teuns won the sixth stage of the Tour de France, a 160.5-km ride from Mulhouse on Thursday. The Bahrain-Merida rider beat Italian Giulio Ciccone, who claimed the overall leader's yellow jersey at the top of La Planche des Belles Filles after a 7km ascent at an average gradient of 8.7%.

Belgian Xandro Meurisse took third place. Defending champion Geraint Thomas was the strongest of the overall contenders as he took fourth place, two seconds ahead of fifth-placed Thibaut Pinot of France.

Thomas's Ineo teammate Egan Bernal of Colombia ended up 12th, nine seconds behind the Briton.