La Vuelta: A quiet day for the GC

La Vuelta: A quiet day for the GC

One of the shortest Grand Tour stages of the season took place this Wednesday, from Arnuero to Santander, the capital of Cantabria and a city known for having witnessed many bunch sprints in the past. The fast men were hoping at the start of the day that this would be the case again at the end of stage 17, but they were forced to work hard for that to happen.

The reason for this was a four-man breakaway who took advantage of the rain, wet roads and technical finale to put pressure on the peloton and stay off the front until three kilometers to go. As soon as they were caught, other men went clear and almost pulled it off, the bunch overhauling them within sight of the finish line, where Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) finished victorious.

Mikel Landa and his T-Rex Quick-Step teammates concluded safely in the bunch, and the experienced Basque remained fifth in the ranking with four stages to go at the last Grand Tour of the season.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
3:32:14
2 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
3 Vito Braet
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
4 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:00
5 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
6 Victor Campenaerts
Lotto Dstny
0:00
7 Edward Planckaert
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
8 Mathis Le Berre
0:00
9 Arjen Livyns
Lotto Dstny
0:00
10 Xabier Berasategi Garmendia
Euskaltel - Euskadi
0:00
36 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
65 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:36
66 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:36
78 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2:11
82 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
3:11
101 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
7:37
111 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
12:46
134 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
13:49
1 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
68:41:14
2 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:05
3 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
1:25
4 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
1:46
5 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
2:18
6 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
3:48
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
3:53
8 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
4:00
9 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4:27
10 Pavel Sivakov
UAE Team Emirates
5:19
24 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
55:33
47 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:37:28
48 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:40:41
49 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
1:46:16
65 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
2:12:52
119 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
3:29:53
135 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
3:54:35
1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
222 pt
2 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
106 pt
3 Harold Tejada Canacue
Astana Qazaqstan Team
95 pt
4 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
93 pt
5 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
86 pt
6 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
82 pt
7 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
81 pt
8 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
78 pt
9 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
78 pt
10 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
74 pt
21 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
51 pt
25 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
48 pt
50 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
29 pt
66 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
18 pt
86 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
1 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
56 pt
2 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
42 pt
3 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
37 pt
4 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
27 pt
5 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
26 pt
6 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
22 pt
7 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
19 pt
8 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
19 pt
9 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
18 pt
10 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
18 pt
17 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
10 pt
22 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
25 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
42 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
68:45:07
2 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:07
3 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:34
4 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
58:52
5 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
1:12:18
6 Giovanni Aleotti
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:22:51
7 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
1:26:49
8 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
1:32:04
9 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:33:35
10 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:36:48
1 UAE Team Emirates 205:35:17
2 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 43:00
3 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:20:18
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:30:39
5 Soudal Quick-Step 1:50:28
6 Groupama - FDJ 1:59:52
7 Lidl - Trek 2:08:53
8 INEOS Grenadiers 2:20:26
9 Israel - Premier Tech 2:30:02
10 Movistar Team 2:35:35

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