Dan Martin has got his Tour de France campaign off to the best possible start with a Stage 6 victory on the first hilly test of the race to Mur de Bretagne ahead of Pierre Latour (Ag2r) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar).

Ireland’s Sam Bennett turned around a difficult opening week at his debut Tour de France with a fine 10th place finish on yesterday’s seventh stage.

Tour de France race leader Tony Martin will wait until this morning to decide whether or not he can start today’s seventh leg of the race after he crashed towards the end of yesterday’s stage.