As it happened: A sprint showdown on stage 6 of the Tour de Suisse

Hello and welcome to live coverage of stage 6 of the Tour de Suisse!

179km to go

The riders are off for the start and there are attacks from the off.

Harry Sweeny, Stefan Küng, former race leader Romain Grégoire, and Mauro Schmid are on the move.

Matej Mohorič is chasing.

The peloton lies at 1:20 down on the attackers at the moment.

Visma-Lease A Bike are leading the peloton currently.

Yesterday's stage 5 saw a two-man duel for the win at Calanca.

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Here's a look back at the stage results.

169km to go

Over an early hill and the peloton has closed in on the attacking group. More riders are trying to jump away.

It's still Sweeny, Küng, Gregoire, and Schmid out front at the moment.

Thomas Gloag (Visma-Lease A Bike) attacks from the peloton.

The riders are on a flat section between the opening small hill and the Wildhaus, the 9km, 6.8% second-category climb coming after 50km of racing.

152km to go

Gloag is 1:30 down on the break, while the peloton is a further minute down.

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The breakaway is now on the Wildhaus climb.

It's 3:15 for the leaders on the way up. Gloag is stuck in between at 1:45 down.

Gloag on the attack from the peloton earlier.

140km to go

The riders have covered 47km of racing so far in around 70 minutes.

Gloag has given up the chase now and he has dropped back to the peloton.

2:35 between the four breakaway men and the main group.

A look at the four-man break of the stage.

The break now coming to the top of the climb, the longest of the two on today's stage.

Nolann Mahoud (Cofidis) and Roel van Sintmaartensdijk (Intermarché-Wanty) have abandoned the race in the past few kilometres.

130km to go

Meanwhile, the breakaway quartet lead the race over the top of the climb with 2:20 on the peloton.

Schmid led the break over the top. KOM leader Aleksandr Vlasov nipped out of the peloton to add a point to his tally.

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Vlasov leads the mountain classification with 39 points. João Almeida is in second place on 24 points.

121km to go

One major climb left to come and it's the Hemberg (6.2km at 5.7%) coming up shortly.

Two minutes back to the peloton now as the riders take on the Hemberg climb.

And now more riders attack from the peloton on the way up.

114km to go

Ewen Costiou of Arkéa and the Bahrain duo of Mohorič and Pello Bilbao are on the move.

Schmid led the way over the top of the climb ahead of Sweeny, Gregoire, and Küng.

Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) has abandoned the race.

Race leader Kevin Vauquelin in the peloton today.

105km to go

With the two major climbs of the day over and done with, it's largely flat and rolling roads to the finish.

At 100km to go, the leading quartet have 1:20 over the chasing trio and 2:20 over the peloton.

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We're past the halfway point of the day as the break hits the 93km gone marker.

A look at the three men in the chase group, 1:45 back from the break.

The trio in the chase aren't making much progress, to be honest. Like Gloag, they're stuck between break and peloton.

81km to go

....and now they've given up the ghost. Just the four men out front now.

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Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Alpecin-Deceuninck, Q36.5 among the teams working at the front of the peloton currently.

1:55 for the breakaway currently.

Küng, Sweeny, Schmid, and Gregoire still working well together out front with a long way left to run.

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The break's advantage is coming down ever so slightly. 1:42 now.

66km to go

Three intermediate sprints to go before the big one at the finish.

Just under 10km to go until the intermediate sprint in Lommis. That's followed by two Tissot sprints for bonus seconds.

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The pace is upping again in the peloton as they take the gap under 1:30 with 63km to go.

An average speed of 42.2kph so far today.

128km done for the riders.

Küng led the breakaway through the sprint point at Lommis. Gregoire and Schmid behind him.

Riding on rolling roads now and the gap to the break is down to 1:25.

The breakaway quartet racing under the high mountains of Switzerland today.

45km to go

Romain Gregoire drops away from the leaders having worked hard for teammate Stefan Küng in the move today.

Gregoire almost back with the peloton now.

1:35 up to the break from the main group.

Red Bull, Lotto, Picnic, Alpecin all present at the front of the peloton currently.

The peloton is only bringing the gap down now. It's slow but steady progress.

1:03 for the leaders now.

We're closing in on the 30km to go marker.

30km to go

Küng, Sweeny, and Schmid plough onwards, but their gap is falling under a minute now.

They flew through the two Tissot sprints, sharing the bonus seconds among themselves.

52 seconds and counting now...

Gregoire back with the peloton after his efforts out front.

It's largely flat ground from here on out.

The gap is shifting under 50 seconds now...

23km to go

It looks like it won't be possible for Küng and co. to last to the finish.

The trio are still battling on hard.

Down to 43 seconds for the break now as they head towards the last 20km of the day.

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20km to go

40 seconds for the three.

It's a matter of when, not if, the catch will be made.

The sprinters want their shot at a win today.

16km to go

26 seconds for the break now.

This race doesn't boast the highest quality sprinter's field around but Arnaud De Lie, Jordi Meeus, Danny van Poppel, Madis Mihkels, Pavel Bittner, and Lewis Askey will all be hoping for a shot at the finish today.

12km to go

22 seconds...

KOM leader Aleksandr Vlasov puting in work at the head of the peloton.

Picnic and Lotto are leading the work at the moment.

10km to go

18 seconds for the leading trio.

They're hanging on but it will be very tough, almost impossible, to keep the peloton behind them here.

8km to go

20 seconds.

The riders are all on a straight piece of road, so the peloton can see the break just up ahead.

Still Picnic and Lotto lead the chase.

Crash for Tiesj Benoot in the peloton.

5km to go

The breakaway men are hanging on here. 16 seconds for them still.

It isn't a straightforward final today, with a ramp heading into the final kilometre before it flattens out for the final 600 metres or so.

4km to go

12 seconds now for the breakaway.

They're closing in now as the finish line looms.

3km to go

Coming into the finish town it's down to eight seconds.

The trio are clinging on to a five-second lead heading to the final 2km now.

2km to go

It's almost over...

1km to go

The peloton makes the catch, led by Tudor, just as the riders head under the flamme rouge.

Küng gets the combativity award today.

There's a brief counter-attack from the peloton but it comes to nothing. It's all lined up for the sprint now.

De Lie is in a good position up front.

Meeus launches the sprint from Van Poppel's wheel!

He had the prime spot there and it doesn't look like anyone can come around.

It's not the widest finishing straight and Meeus heads to the finish first.

Finish

Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) wins stage 6 of the Tour de Suisse!

Meeus beat Davide Ballerini, Lewis Askey, and Madis Mihkels to the line.

De Lie wasn't up in the top 10 in the end.

De Lie finished 15th at the line.

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That's Meeus' second win of the season, following a stage of the Volta ao Algarve, and the 13th of his career.

It's Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe's 14th win of 2025, taking them level with Ineos Grenadiers in the season win rankings.

It's the second WorldTour win of 26-year-old Meeus' career. His other one came on the final stage of the 2023 Tour de France in Paris...

No change in the overall standings after today's stage. Kevin Vauquelin will continue to lead Julian Alaphilippe by 29 seconds as João Almeida lurks a further 10 seconds back.

Here's what Meeus had to say after his win today...

"It was definitely a hard week for me so far. It's not really my most favourite terrain with all the hills and climbs. I was pretty disappointed with stage 2 because that was supposed to be a flat stage, but my legs didn't feel great at the beginning of the week.

"During the days, the legs felt better and better. I felt straight away that I had good legs today, and I'm really happy to finish it off.

"This is just my second win on the WorldTour level, so I'm super happy to take the win home today."

Two tough stages coming up this weekend at the Tour de Suisse, with tomorrow's hard hilly day to Emmetten followed by Sunday's 10km mountain time trial to Stockhütte.

Will Kevin Vauquelin be able to defend the race lead and take a huge win this weekend?

Join us to find out with our final two days of live coverage of the Tour de Suisse!