La Vuelta: Mikel Landa continues to fight on

La Vuelta: Mikel Landa continues to fight on

We’re just two stages into the second week of the Spanish Grand Tour, but Mikel Landa has managed to gain some more time in the general classification. It’s true there were no changes in Padron, where the peloton concluded on Wednesday, but the most important thing is that T-Rex Quick-Step’s leader has gained precious time in the standings, which moved him closer to the podium.

The day featured a large breakaway which included James Knox, a huge group that got reduced to just a couple of riders on the last ascent of the day, and from where Eddie Dunbar (Jayco-AlUla) soloed to victory. It was on the hard Puerto Cruxeiras that the main moves came from the peloton, the moment two riders took away on the steepest part of the climb.

Mikel remained calm and rode his own place before linking up with Mattia Cattaneo, who came incredibly from behind and pulled hard to reduce the gap, preparing the jump for Mikel, who then reduced the gap with each meter before eventually bridging across just before the top. On the descent, the group swelled to eight men, who kept pushing to extend their gap on the chasers, in the end putting more than 30 seconds into them, including the red jersey.

“It’s been another hard stage. The breakaway took two hours to go, then on the last ascent we rode full gas, as some of the GC guys wanted to gain time. I had a moment of difficulty, but luckily, I found Catta, who did a good pace and helped me return to the front. I am happy with how things panned out in the end and already thinking of tomorrow’s stage”, said Mikel, who is separated from the podium by just 40 seconds with plenty of hard stages to come.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
3:44:52
2 Quinten Hermans
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:02
3 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:02
4 Jhonatan Narváez Prado
INEOS Grenadiers
0:04
5 Urko Berrade Fernandez
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:04
6 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
0:04
7 Ion Izagirre Insausti
Cofidis
0:04
8 Carlos Verona Quintanilla
Lidl - Trek
0:04
9 Gianmarco Garofoli
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:04
10 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
0:04
20 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
1:11
36 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
3:31
44 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
4:08
73 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
7:44
76 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
7:44
85 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
9:17
100 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
11:21
147 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
17:09
1 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
43:54:54
2 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
3:16
3 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
3:58
4 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
4:10
5 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
4:40
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
5:23
7 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
5:29
8 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
5:30
9 Felix Gall
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
5:30
10 George Bennett
Israel - Premier Tech
5:46
40 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
42:01
49 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
53:26
52 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
57:51
53 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:02:06
80 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
1:21:34
125 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
1:56:23
144 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
2:11:23
1 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
243 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
162 pt
3 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
81 pt
4 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
66 pt
5 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
65 pt
6 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
59 pt
7 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
57 pt
8 Harold Tejada Canacue
Astana Qazaqstan Team
52 pt
9 Ibon Ruiz Sedano
Equipo Kern Pharma
51 pt
10 Quentin Pacher
Groupama - FDJ
49 pt
16 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
44 pt
36 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
28 pt
55 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
13 pt
85 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
1 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
22 pt
2 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
22 pt
3 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
18 pt
4 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
18 pt
5 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
17 pt
6 Sylvain Moniquet
Lotto Dstny
16 pt
7 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
14 pt
8 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
12 pt
9 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
11 pt
10 Pelayo Sánchez Mayo
Movistar Team
10 pt
12 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
10 pt
34 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
35 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
44:00:17
2 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:06
3 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
1:18
4 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
16:33
5 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
33:08
6 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
36:59
7 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
41:44
8 Giovanni Aleotti
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
47:05
9 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
48:03
10 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
56:43
1 UAE Team Emirates 131:51:14
2 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 13:10
3 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 13:11
4 Groupama - FDJ 23:51
5 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 44:00
6 INEOS Grenadiers 46:05
7 Israel - Premier Tech 46:46
8 Lidl - Trek 57:12
9 Soudal Quick-Step 59:29
10 Movistar Team 1:03:52

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