A calm day for the Vuelta bunch

A calm day for the Vuelta bunch

La Vuelta returned on the flat for the fifth stage, which travelled from Fuente del Mestre to Sevilla. The Andalusian city, which thrived five centuries ago due to its status as the port of entry and exit for all the Indies trade, controlling the wealth transported to the New World, made its return at the race 14 years from the previous time it hosted a stage, a team time trial which kicked off the 65th edition.

The stage concluded around ten kilometers from Mairena del Aljarafe, where Zdenek Stybar – clad in the Czech National Champion jersey – fooled the sprinters in 2013, winning a two-man sprint. This time, the peloton kept things together and the day came down to a mass gallop, won by Pavel Bittner (DSM-Firmenich) after a tight finish.

T-Rex Quick-Step’s leader Mikel Landa punctured on the long finishing straight, but as this happened in the last three kilometers, he got the same time as the rest of the peloton, meaning he retained his place in the general classification top ten ahead of Thursday’s uphill finish in Yunquera.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
4:25:28
2 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:00
3 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
4 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
0:00
5 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
6 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
7 Jhonatan Narváez Prado
INEOS Grenadiers
0:00
8 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
9 Gianmarco Garofoli
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
10 Antonio Jesús Soto Guirao
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:00
20 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
22 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
70 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
95 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
96 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
119 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
134 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
162 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
1 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
18:58:36
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:08
3 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
0:32
4 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:38
5 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
0:41
6 Felix Gall
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:47
7 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
0:50
8 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:58
9 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:58
10 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:00
51 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
6:20
53 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
6:40
73 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
9:38
78 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
10:21
104 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
13:54
120 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
16:28
130 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
17:14
1 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
158 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
145 pt
3 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
81 pt
4 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
49 pt
5 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
Euskaltel - Euskadi
37 pt
6 Luis Ángel Maté Mardones
Euskaltel - Euskadi
35 pt
7 Ibon Ruiz Sedano
Equipo Kern Pharma
34 pt
8 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
33 pt
9 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
32 pt
10 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
32 pt
35 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
9 pt
57 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
1 Sylvain Moniquet
Lotto Dstny
16 pt
2 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
11 pt
3 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
10 pt
4 Luis Ángel Maté Mardones
Euskaltel - Euskadi
9 pt
5 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
7 pt
6 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
6 pt
7 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
4 pt
8 Xabier Isasa Larrañaga
Euskaltel - Euskadi
3 pt
9 Mikel Bizkarra Etxegibel
Euskaltel - Euskadi
3 pt
10 Ibon Ruiz Sedano
Equipo Kern Pharma
3 pt
1 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
18:59:14
2 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
0:03
3 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:20
4 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
0:26
5 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
0:48
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:52
7 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:12
8 Cian Uijtdebroeks
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:38
9 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:19
10 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
3:35
12 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
5:42
13 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
6:02
1 UAE Team Emirates 56:57:29
2 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 1:19
3 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 2:42
4 Movistar Team 3:07
5 Bahrain - Victorious 4:14
6 Israel - Premier Tech 4:36
7 INEOS Grenadiers 5:22
8 Groupama - FDJ 7:42
9 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 9:10
10 Astana Qazaqstan Team 10:26

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