La Vuelta: A day for the sprinters

La Vuelta: A day for the sprinters

Taking place between Cascais and Ourem, stage two was the longest of the three scheduled on Portuguese soil, and had bunch sprint written all over it. With this in mind, there weren’t many riders interested in forming a breakaway, only two men attacking after the start and going up the road, where they remained until the final 50 kilometers.

On the roads leading to the only classified climb, Mauri Vansevenant put in a probing attack but the bunch quickly reacted and kept things together. Two crashes, one on Alto de Batalha and another one in the last two kilometers, took some riders out of contention, leaving only a small group to fight for the stage, which was won by Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

Fortunately, our riders avoided the many crashes that took place in the final 20 kilometers and came home safely. The first T-Rex Quick-Step rider to finish the stage was Mikel Lands, the team’s general classification contenders for the final Grand Tour of the year, who on Tuesday will have a chance to make up ground in the general classification, as the peloton will tackle the first of the race’s ten uphill finishes.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
5:12:55
2 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:00
3 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
4 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:00
5 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
0:00
6 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
7 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
Euskaltel - Euskadi
0:00
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
9 Brandon Smith Rivera Vargas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:00
10 Filippo Baroncini
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
39 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
48 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
88 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
126 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
135 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
151 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
161 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
162 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
1 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
5:25:27
2 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
0:03
3 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
0:05
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:09
5 Edoardo Affini
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:11
6 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
0:11
7 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
0:19
8 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:20
9 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:21
10 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:22
15 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:29
17 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:30
90 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
1:08
91 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
1:09
96 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
1:12
113 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:17
119 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:22
169 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
2:04
1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
65 pt
2 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
58 pt
3 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
27 pt
4 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
20 pt
5 Luis Ángel Maté Mardones
Euskaltel - Euskadi
20 pt
6 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
20 pt
7 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
18 pt
8 Ibon Ruiz Sedano
Equipo Kern Pharma
17 pt
9 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
16 pt
10 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
14 pt
31 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
1 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
2 pt
2 Luis Ángel Maté Mardones
Euskaltel - Euskadi
2 pt
3 Roger Adrià Oliveras
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1 pt
4 Ibon Ruiz Sedano
Equipo Kern Pharma
1 pt
1 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
5:25:32
2 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
0:06
3 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
0:14
4 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:19
5 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:20
6 Filippo Baroncini
UAE Team Emirates
0:24
7 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:25
8 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
0:26
9 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:27
10 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
0:27
35 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:12
36 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:17
1 UAE Team Emirates 16:17:13
2 Lidl - Trek 0:12
3 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:13
4 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 0:24
5 INEOS Grenadiers 0:40
6 Team Jayco AlUla 0:54
7 Bahrain - Victorious 0:59
8 Groupama - FDJ 1:13
9 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:14
10 Equipo Kern Pharma 1:15

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