Tour de France 2025 stage 6 preview
Thursday, July 10, 2025: Bayeux - Vire Normandie, 201 km


Starting in Bayeux on the Cherbourg Peninsula, the Tour de France continues to make its way across Normandy on stage 6, with another day of undulating terrain for the riders as they head south to Vire-Normandie.
Six categorised climbs are included along the route, with the final climb, the Côte de Vaudy (1.2km at 7.2%), summiting with around 4km to go.
This could provide the perfect launchpad for an opportunistic puncheur to go clear and deny the sprinters late on, but do not count out the breakaway to all the way either.
Stage 6 Sprints
- Villers-Bocage, km. 22.2
Stage 6 Mountains
- Côte de Mont Pinçon (cat. 3), km. 35.5
- Côte de la Rançonnière (cat. 3), km. 56
- Côte de Mortain Cote 314 (cat. 3), km. 138
- Côte de Juvigny-le-Tertre (cat. 3), km. 154.5
- Côte de Vaudry (cat. 4), km. 197.1
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Joseph Lycett is a freelance writer for Cyclingnews and has been covering professional cycling since 2022, writing for outlets such as GCN and Cycling Weekly. Joe is also a keen cyclist himself, regularly racing in his local crit races and time trials.
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