Vuelta a España arrives in Zaragoza

A city inextricably linked to cycling – as evidenced by its presence on the route of the first edition of Spanish Grand Tours, as well as the more than two decades spent as the start of the Clasica Sabiñanigo – Zaragoza returned at the Vuelta for the first time since 2008. Just like then, the sprinters were in the spotlight, despite the many roundabouts and tricky corners that spiced things up in the closing kilometers.
Remco Evenepoel, who stayed tucked in the peloton the entire day together with his Soudal Quick-Step teammates around him, came home with the bunch and retained his third place on the general classification ahead of the tough stage to Tourmalet, the mythical climb coming after a stage featuring also Col d’Aubisque.
“Friday we’ll have a very hard stage on the menu. No flat, only up and down the entire time, and some hard stages; it’s one of the most demanding stages of this race and many things can happen. We’ll see how it goes, but one thing is certain: we’ll try to do our best”, said the white jersey wearer, who after the stage got to show off his football skills in the presence of Real Zaragoza’s Victor Mollejo and Lluis Lopez.
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Race details
1 |
Juan Sebastián Molano Benavides UAE Team Emirates |
3:23:35 |
2 |
Kaden Groves Alpecin-Deceuninck |
0:00 |
3 |
Boy van Poppel Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
0:00 |
4 |
Rui Oliveira UAE Team Emirates |
0:00 |
5 |
Edward Theuns Lidl - Trek |
0:00 |
6 |
Marijn van den Berg EF Education-EasyPost |
0:00 |
7 |
Alberto Dainese Team dsm - firmenich |
0:00 |
8 |
Orluis Aular Sanabria Caja Rural - Seguros RGA |
0:00 |
9 |
Hugo Page Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
0:00 |
10 |
Milan Menten Lotto Dstny |
0:00 |
24 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step |
0:00 |
122 |
Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:36 |
123 |
Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:36 |
135 |
Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:54 |
137 |
James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:54 |
138 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:54 |
159 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal - Quick Step |
2:46 |
1 |
Sepp Kuss Jumbo-Visma |
42:51:20 |
2 |
Marc Soler Giménez UAE Team Emirates |
0:26 |
3 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:09 |
4 |
Primož Roglič Jumbo-Visma |
1:32 |
5 |
Lenny Martinez Groupama - FDJ |
2:02 |
6 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
2:16 |
7 |
Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen Jumbo-Visma |
2:22 |
8 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
2:25 |
9 |
Enric Mas Nicolau Movistar Team |
2:50 |
10 |
Aleksandr Vlasov BORA - hansgrohe |
3:14 |
26 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step |
23:44 |
37 |
Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step |
38:11 |
46 |
Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step |
44:39 |
62 |
James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step |
57:45 |
110 |
Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:30:05 |
144 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:50:17 |
1 |
Kaden Groves Alpecin-Deceuninck |
203 pt |
2 |
Marijn van den Berg EF Education-EasyPost |
85 pt |
3 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step |
79 pt |
4 |
Juan Sebastián Molano Benavides UAE Team Emirates |
78 pt |
5 |
Andreas Kron Lotto Dstny |
77 pt |
6 |
Marc Soler Giménez UAE Team Emirates |
73 pt |
7 |
Edward Theuns Lidl - Trek |
72 pt |
8 |
Andrea Vendrame AG2R Citroën Team |
66 pt |
9 |
Primož Roglič Jumbo-Visma |
65 pt |
10 |
Geoffrey Soupe TotalEnergies |
65 pt |
31 |
Casper Pedersen
Soudal - Quick Step |
30 pt |
63 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step |
10 pt |
1 |
Jesús Herrada López Cofidis |
22 pt |
2 |
Eduardo Sepúlveda Lotto Dstny |
21 pt |
3 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step |
20 pt |
4 |
Matteo Sobrero Team Jayco AlUla |
11 pt |
5 |
Sepp Kuss Jumbo-Visma |
10 pt |
6 |
Lennard Kämna BORA - hansgrohe |
10 pt |
7 |
Andreas Kron Lotto Dstny |
10 pt |
8 |
Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen Jumbo-Visma |
10 pt |
9 |
Damiano Caruso Bahrain - Victorious |
9 pt |
10 |
Primož Roglič Jumbo-Visma |
8 pt |
33 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step |
1 pt |
1 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step |
42:52:29 |
2 |
Lenny Martinez Groupama - FDJ |
0:53 |
3 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
1:07 |
4 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
1:16 |
5 |
Cian Uijtdebroeks BORA - hansgrohe |
4:07 |
6 |
Santiago Buitrago Sánchez Bahrain - Victorious |
5:28 |
7 |
Einer Rubio Reyes Movistar Team |
5:28 |
8 |
Attila Valter Jumbo-Visma |
12:51 |
9 |
Antonio Tiberi Bahrain - Victorious |
25:19 |
10 |
Michel Ries Team Arkéa Samsic |
38:30 |
1 | Jumbo-Visma | 128:02:10 |
2 | UAE Team Emirates | 0:57 |
3 | Bahrain - Victorious | 7:27 |
4 | BORA - hansgrohe | 10:06 |
5 | Movistar Team | 25:54 |
6 | INEOS Grenadiers | 35:36 |
7 | Groupama - FDJ | 38:56 |
8 | Soudal - Quick Step | 41:56 |
9 | EF Education-EasyPost | 47:54 |
10 | TotalEnergies | 1:00:02 |