Healy on the attack at Tirreno-Adriatico but Vingegaard reigns | Video

Ben Healy was up the road today at Tirreno-Adriatico and though he buried himself for Richard Carapaz there was not stopping the one-man show that is Jonas Vingegaard (Photo: Fabio Ferrari)

Ben Healy was on the attack for almost 150km today on stage 6 at Tirreno-Adriatico, though the Irish champion was working in the service of EF Education-EasyPost team mate Richard Carapaz, who was out to win the stage.

Healy and Carapaz were part of an all-star breakaway group which was initially comprised of the Irishman, Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-QuickStep) and Nans Peters (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale). They were soon joined by Carapaz, Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X), Axel Zingle (Cofidis), Iván García Cortina (Movistar), and Nikias Arndt (Bahrain-Victorious)

Those nine riders formed the day's main breakaway with 140km remaining, though Healy was on the attack with 165km to go on the 180km stage from Sassoferrato to Monte Petrano. Despite the quality in the lead group, the Irishman hit the front in the last hour of racing and shredded what was left of the breakaway.

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Joans Vingegaard attacks the front group on the final climb to the line today, going solo for his second stage win in two days (Photo: Fabio Ferrari)

With the Visma-Lease a Bike team of race leader Jonas Vingegaard on the front of the peloton, Healy's work at the head of the dwindling breakaway kept the chase at bay. He also pulled out some additional time, stretching the leader's advantage to 1:45 on the climb up Pian di Trebbio.

And when Healy finally ran out of gas, with some 26km remaining, only Carapaz and Leknessund were still with him. However, the breakaway group had never been given enough leeway by the main peloton during the stage to give any of them a chance of making it all the way.

When the two leaders reached the base of the final climb, of Monte Petrano, the general classification battle was moving into full swing behind them, ensuring they were swallowed up, with Vingegaard attacking solo to take his second stage win in as many days.

He took victory by 26 seconds from Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) and Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe), in 2nd and 3rd. Mexican 20-year-old, Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates), was 4th at 36 seconds. And six seconds later Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) led in a small group for 5th.

After his heroics off the front today, all in the service of Carapaz, Healy trailed home in 92nd place, in a group at 17:34. With just tomorrow's final stage to come, Vingegaard now leads overall by 1:24 from Ayuso, with Hindley 3rd at 1:52.

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