The slim South African, Louis Meintjes, powered up the final steep climb to the finish to take his first Grand Tour stage. Behind the break, Remco Evenepoel left the other GC men in his dust on final climb to add time to his overall lead before the second rest day.

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Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung again played a major role in the sixth stage of the Tour of Korea (June 9 – 16 / UCI 2.2), as Dennis van Niekerk and Louis Meintjes rode in the break of the day and with their escape companions made the overall rankings even more exciting with only two stages to go. The successful move now places both South Africans in the top ten of the overall classification with van Niekerk 6th (+1’37″) and Meintjes 9th (+3’02″). Kristian Sbaragli is tenth (+3″05″) as the team…