Evenepoel lights up Volta a Catalunya

Evenepoel lights up Volta a Catalunya

Remco Evenepoel was everywhere on the penultimate stage of the race! Staying true to his nature and instinct, the Belgian attacked on the only climb of the day – just 500 meters from the top – and continued to push hard on the descent with Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), the only rider who could follow him, in his wheel. Evenepoel was the only one to pull, and his effort resulted in a 30-second advantage when the duo entered the flat final kilometers.

With the Slovenian refusing to share the work, the two got caught, but not even when the peloton came back, with five kilometers to go, Remco didn’t stop, opening a huge acceleration to take three bonus seconds at the last intermediate sprint. Then, to round it out, he got in the mix with the pure sprinters after a solid lead-out of Mattia Cattaneo on the finishing straight in Molins de Rei, and impressed again by taking fifth place – a result that leaves him in the fight for the overall ahead of the tough Barcelona stage.

“We wanted to attack today, and that’s what we did. I felt good, so why not try something. If Primoz had worked with me, we could have gone for the win, but he refused to do it, so that’s that. It will be difficult to turn around the general classification, but we’ll see what we can do on the Barcelona stage. It’s going to be a hard day, up and down all the time, but we are motivated to do our best again”, a confident Remco said after the stage.

 

Photo credit: ©David Ramos / Getty Images

Race details

1 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
3:50:32
2 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
0:00
3 Ide Schelling
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
4 Maxim Van Gils
Lotto Dstny
0:00
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
6 Andreas Kron
Lotto Dstny
0:00
7 Dorian Godon
AG2R Citroën Team
0:00
8 Patrick Konrad
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
9 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:00
10 Finn Fisher-Black
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
36 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
54 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
55 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
83 Fausto Masnada
Soudal - Quick Step
4:55
100 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
10:54
134 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
10:54
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
25:19:52
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:10
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:07
4 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
1:54
5 Mikel Landa Meana
Bahrain - Victorious
1:55
6 Michael Woods
Israel - Premier Tech
1:59
7 Giulio Ciccone
Trek - Segafredo
2:02
8 Jai Hindley
BORA - hansgrohe
2:07
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
2:28
10 Rigoberto Urán Urán
EF Education-EasyPost
2:49
39 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
22:24
49 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
25:52
54 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
27:55
62 Fausto Masnada
Soudal - Quick Step
36:30
74 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
42:00
125 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
1:08:43
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
37 pt
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
31 pt
3 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
20 pt
4 Giulio Ciccone
Trek - Segafredo
14 pt
5 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
12 pt
6 Simone Petilli
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
8 pt
7 Ide Schelling
BORA - hansgrohe
8 pt
8 Héctor Carretero
Equipo Kern Pharma
5 pt
9 Rune Herregodts
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
4 pt
10 Roger Adrià Oliveras
Equipo Kern Pharma
4 pt
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
56 pt
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
49 pt
3 Guillaume Martin
Cofidis
46 pt
4 Simone Petilli
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
37 pt
5 Giulio Ciccone
Trek - Segafredo
32 pt
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
28 pt
7 Maxim Van Gils
Lotto Dstny
20 pt
8 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
19 pt
9 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education-EasyPost
18 pt
10 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
16 pt
17 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
10 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
25:20:02
2 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
2:18
3 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
3:11
4 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
5:13
5 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
22:14
6 Oscar Onley
Team DSM
24:37
7 Hugo Toumire
Cofidis
26:09
8 Finn Fisher-Black
UAE Team Emirates
29:03
9 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
29:38
10 Raúl García Pierna
Equipo Kern Pharma
37:45
1 UAE Team Emirates 76:06:05
2 EF Education-EasyPost 9:14
3 BORA - hansgrohe 9:40
4 Bahrain - Victorious 12:06
5 Movistar Team 14:17
6 AG2R Citroën Team 17:08
7 Jumbo-Visma 19:51
8 Cofidis 28:16
9 Soudal - Quick Step 30:57
10 Intermarché - Circus - Wanty 32:45

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