Tour of Catalonia: Groves wins stage 6 - Roglic still in the lead

For Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck), it was his second stage win at the Volta a Catalunya 2023, having already won the fourth section in Sabadell in his favour. The Australian won the 6th stage after 183 kilometres between Martorell and Molins de Rei in the sprint of a thinned-out field ahead of Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) and Ide Schelling (Bora-Hansgrohe) through.

>> Tour of Catalonia 2023: All stages at a glance

Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) still has the best chance of winning the Tour of Catalonia 2023. The 33-year-old defended the overall leader's jersey on stage 6 on Saturday.

Roglic maintains his lead

Ahead of the final day, Roglic is still ten seconds ahead of his closest rival, the road cycling world champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) from Belgium.

Evenepoel and Roglic reached the stage finish in Molins de Rei in 5th and 9th place after 183 kilometres. 27 kilometres before the end of the race, Evenepoel launched an attack on the last climb, but Roglic countered the Belgian's pace and could not be shaken off.

Around eight kilometres before the finish, the favoured duo was caught by the peloton again. Groves prevailed in the final sprint and took the stage win.

Tour of Catalonia 2023: Stage 6 results

• 1st Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 3:50:32

• 2nd Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) +0:00

• 3rd Ide Schelling (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:00

• 4th Maxim van Gils (Lotto-Dstny) +0:00

• 5th Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:00

• 6th Andreas Kron (Lotto-Dstny) +0:00

• 7th Dorian Godon (AG2R) +0:00

• 8th Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:00

• 9th Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +0:00

• 10th Finn Fisher-Black (UAE Team Emirates) +0:00

Tour of Catalonia 2023: The standings in the overall standings

• 1st Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 25:19:52

• 2nd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:10

• 3rd Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +1:07

• 4th Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) +1:54

• 5th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +1:55

• 6th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +1:59

• 7th Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) +2:02

• 8th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:07

• 9th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:28

• 10th Rigoberto Uran (EF Education EasyPost) +2:49

The Tour of Catalonia ends on Sunday with the final stage over 136 kilometres in Barcelona.

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