Strong Vansevenant in La Vuelta breakaway

Strong Vansevenant in La Vuelta breakaway

The day started out at La Vuelta with Mikel Landa on the podium, where he received the solidarity jersey, awarded each day to a rider for sportsmanship, and continued with T-Rex Quick-Step going on the attack from the gun, when Mauri Vansevenant and Louis Vervaeke joined a strong 33-man group.

It came as no surprise that this breakaway didn’t have success, as the collaboration lacked there in many moments, so soon after, on the long Puerto del Boyar, another group emerged after this one was overhauled by the peloton. This time, only a dozen riders found themselves at the front, including the always determined Mauri, who impressed with the incredible amount of work he put in the group.

By the time they entered the last 70 kilometers of the day, the escapees had five minutes on a somewhat lethargic bunch, who wasn’t too keen on chasing. In the meantime, attacks began coming from the leading group, which fragmented before the penultimate ascent, leaving every rider for himself out there. Mauri did his best to follow, producing a strong effort on the sweltering roads of Andalusia despite riding alone a good chunk of the stage, and concluded seventh – behind winner Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R) – for his fifth top ten in a Grand Tour stage.

“The whole day was full gas from the start, we didn’t have a moment of respite and rode at an incredible speed despite the tough conditions. I had very good legs, but it was hard and I was running low on energy at one point. But I am satisfied with my ride and I hope I can do more in the next weeks of the race”, Mauri said after stage six, which his T-Rex Quick-Step teammate Mikel Landa finished together with the rest of the GC favourites.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
4:28:12
2 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
4:33
3 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
5:12
4 Clément Berthet
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
5:12
5 Cristián Rodríguez Martín
5:12
6 Gijs Leemreize
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
5:12
7 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
5:35
8 Urko Berrade Fernandez
Equipo Kern Pharma
6:02
9 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
6:31
10 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
6:31
27 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
6:31
36 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
6:31
55 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
11:39
56 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
11:39
110 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
20:32
157 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
27:09
158 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
27:09
1 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
23:28:28
2 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4:51
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
4:59
4 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
5:18
5 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
5:23
6 Cristián Rodríguez Martín
5:26
7 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
5:29
8 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
5:32
9 Felix Gall
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
5:38
10 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
5:49
12 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
5:49
40 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
10:15
45 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
11:31
58 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
19:37
61 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
20:20
107 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
32:46
144 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
41:57
146 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
42:43
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 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
50 pt
5 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
49 pt
6 Luis Ángel Maté Mardones
Euskaltel - Euskadi
35 pt
7 Cristián Rodríguez Martín
34 pt
8 Clément Berthet
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
34 pt
9 Ibon Ruiz Sedano
Equipo Kern Pharma
34 pt
10 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
33 pt
29 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
13 pt
44 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
9 pt
69 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 Pelayo Sánchez Mayo
Movistar Team
10 pt
5 Luis Ángel Maté Mardones
Euskaltel - Euskadi
9 pt
6 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
9 pt
7 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
7 pt
8 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
6 pt
9 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
6 pt
10 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
5 pt
19 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
23:33:46
2 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:11
3 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
0:14
4 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:31
5 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
0:59
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:03
7 Cian Uijtdebroeks
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:49
8 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:30
9 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
3:46
10 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
4:57
12 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
6:13
1 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 70:36:30
2 UAE Team Emirates 5:08
3 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 5:08
4 Israel - Premier Tech 7:46
5 Movistar Team 8:15
6 Bahrain - Victorious 10:02
7 INEOS Grenadiers 10:30
8 Groupama - FDJ 12:50
9 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 14:38
10 Soudal Quick-Step 14:49

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