A hard day at the Vuelta a España

A hard day at the Vuelta a España

Thursday afternoon found the peloton in the Basque Country for the 179.5km stage 18 between Vitoria-Gasteiz and Maestu-Parque Natural de Izki. It was a medium-mountain day comprising two classified climbs, the toughest of which was Puerto de Herrera, coming in the last 50 kilometers.

On that steep ascent, some teams decided to put pressure on the red jersey, upping the tempo and splitting the peloton. Mikel Landa found himself distanced but tried his best to limit the losses on his way to the top of the climb, before linking up with the likes of Casper Pedersen, Mauri Vansevenant and Mattia Cattaneo, all of whom had been part of the mammoth breakaway that formed soon after the start.

The T-Rex Quick-Step guys chased hard behind the favourites’ group on this stage won by Urko Berrade (KernPharma), trading pulls at the front and doing their best to keep Mikel in contention for a good result. Thanks to their effort, the Basque remained in the top ten of the general classification ahead of Friday’s stage, which will conclude atop Alto de Moncalvillo, one of the most demanding climbs of this edition.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Urko Berrade Fernandez
Equipo Kern Pharma
4:00:52
2 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
0:04
3 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:04
4 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:04
5 Oier Lazkano López
Movistar Team
0:04
6 Ion Izagirre Insausti
Cofidis
0:04
7 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
0:04
8 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:04
9 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:04
10 Steven Kruijswijk
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:11
43 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
10:00
50 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
10:00
53 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
10:00
64 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
14:27
72 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
15:14
75 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
15:14
78 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
15:14
125 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
19:52
1 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
72:48:46
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 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
3:48
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
3:53
7 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
4:00
8 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4:27
9 Pavel Sivakov
UAE Team Emirates
5:19
10 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
5:38
23 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
58:53
44 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:40:48
50 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:49:15
54 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
1:54:50
68 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
2:21:26
118 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
3:43:05
130 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
4:02:22
1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
226 pt
2 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
117 pt
3 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
108 pt
4 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
106 pt
5 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
100 pt
6 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
98 pt
7 Harold Tejada Canacue
Astana Qazaqstan Team
95 pt
8 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
89 pt
9 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
79 pt
10 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
79 pt
22 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
51 pt
26 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
48 pt
51 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
29 pt
66 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
18 pt
87 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
1 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
57 pt
2 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
56 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 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
25 pt
7 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
22 pt
8 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
20 pt
9 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
19 pt
10 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
18 pt
17 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
10 pt
22 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
26 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
42 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
72:52:39
2 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:07
3 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:34
4 Max Poole
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
1:05:38
5 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
1:07:26
6 Giovanni Aleotti
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:31:25
7 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
1:32:04
8 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
1:35:23
9 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:36:55
10 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:45:22
1 UAE Team Emirates 217:49:31
2 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 44:46
3 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:28:40
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:39:12
5 Groupama - FDJ 2:02:25
6 Soudal Quick-Step 2:08:50
7 Lidl - Trek 2:19:13
8 INEOS Grenadiers 2:32:08
9 Equipo Kern Pharma 2:34:32
10 Movistar Team 2:37:21

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