La Vuelta: A bunch sprint in Leon

La Vuelta: A bunch sprint in Leon

The longest stage of this year’s race, 200.5 kilometers from Villafranca del Bierzo to Vilabino, was one that on paper should have belonged to a breakaway. That’s also what the six men who attacked after the start had in mind, but they soon found out the peloton had other plans, allowing them to take their maximum advantage to just two minutes.

Puerto de Leitariegos, a 22.8km first-category climb averaging 4.5% was the main difficulty of the day, and it was there that the escapees were pegged back. Before the top, T-Rex Quick-Step’s Mattia Cattaneo moved to the front to position Mikel Landa for the descent, where the reduced bunch remained as one until the finish. There, Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) took the victory, as Landa concluded in the same time and kept his place in the top five.

The last stage of the second week will bring one of the hardest climbs of this edition, Cuitu Negru, which returns for the first time since 2012, when our team celebrated a memorable win of Dario Cataldo from the breakaway.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
4:21:34
2 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:00
3 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
4 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
0:00
5 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:00
6 Filippo Baroncini
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
7 Simon Guglielmi
0:00
8 Arjen Livyns
Lotto Dstny
0:00
9 Xabier Berasategi Garmendia
Euskaltel - Euskadi
0:00
10 Carlos Canal Blanco
Movistar Team
0:00
11 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
15 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
32 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
66 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
0:27
67 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:30
72 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
0:32
101 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
9:55
138 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
18:55
1 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
56:31:49
2 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:21
3 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
3:01
4 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
3:13
5 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
3:20
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
4:12
7 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4:29
8 Felix Gall
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
4:42
9 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
4:44
10 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
5:17
30 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
43:06
39 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
57:12
48 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
1:05:28
54 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:16:00
69 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
1:36:42
117 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
2:28:31
134 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
2:49:02
1 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
291 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
182 pt
3 Harold Tejada Canacue
Astana Qazaqstan Team
95 pt
4 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
81 pt
5 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
73 pt
6 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
70 pt
7 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
68 pt
8 Jhonatan Narváez Prado
INEOS Grenadiers
67 pt
9 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
66 pt
10 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
64 pt
18 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
48 pt
22 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
44 pt
43 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
29 pt
59 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
18 pt
85 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
1 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
46 pt
2 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
23 pt
3 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
23 pt
4 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
22 pt
5 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
18 pt
6 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
18 pt
7 Sylvain Moniquet
Lotto Dstny
17 pt
8 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
16 pt
9 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
13 pt
10 Xandro Meurisse
Alpecin - Deceuninck
13 pt
15 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
10 pt
22 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
24 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
38 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
56:36:01
2 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:17
3 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
1:12
4 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
36:04
5 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
53:00
6 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
56:12
7 Giovanni Aleotti
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:04:09
8 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
1:09:35
9 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
1:10:39
10 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:11:48
1 UAE Team Emirates 169:13:55
2 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 38:29
3 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 48:39
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:03:11
5 Israel - Premier Tech 1:03:32
6 Lidl - Trek 1:13:25
7 INEOS Grenadiers 1:14:04
8 Groupama - FDJ 1:14:24
9 Soudal Quick-Step 1:19:39
10 Equipo Kern Pharma 1:49:07

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