Mikel Landa secures second overall in Catalunya

Mikel Landa secures second overall in Catalunya

Mikel Landa became the first Basque rider in the last 15 years to finish on the podium at the Volta a Catalunya, one of the oldest and hardest races in the world. It’s the best outing in six starts here for Mikel, who is just a couple of months into his first season with Soudal Quick-Step, and a remarkable result given the depth of the peloton that was at the start of this 103rd edition.

A rock-solid display throughout the week and podium finishes on all of the race’s summit finishes – Vallter 2000, Port Ainé and Queralt – helped Landa score the seventh top-three finish of his career in a World Tour stage race, which augurs well before his home race, Itzulia Basque Country, scheduled at the beginning of April, where he’ll team up with Remco Evenepoel.

“I am very happy with this performance. I had little idea what to expect coming into the race, but I felt good from the first day and I am delighted that I could show that on the tough climbs and do a good general classification. We tried to fight for the overall and stage wins here, but it was difficult. This didn’t stop us from giving our best and I want to thank my teammates for their strong effort.”

“Second in the standings is my best ever result here, and to do it at the age of 34 gives me a lot of confidence for the Basque Country, which is the best race in the world. I can’t wait to race it with the Wolfpack in just a week from now and I hope to be able to help Remco get a good result there”, said Mikel Landa after delivering Soudal Quick-Step’s third podium in Volta a Catalunya.

 

Photo credit: ©David Ramos / Getty Images

Race details

1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
3:15:23
2 Dorian Godon
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:00
3 Guillaume Martin Guyonnet
Cofidis
0:00
4 Stephen Williams
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
5 Patrick Konrad
Lidl - Trek
0:00
6 Sergio Higuita García
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
7 David González López
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
0:00
8 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
9 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
10 Wout Poels
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
18 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
30 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
0:34
45 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
0:34
57 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
0:52
61 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
0:56
107 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
7:30
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
28:21:29
2 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
3:41
3 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
5:03
4 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
5:56
5 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
6:01
6 Chris Harper
Team Jayco AlUla
6:01
7 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
6:02
8 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
6:33
9 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
6:33
10 Lorenzo Fortunato
Astana Qazaqstan Team
7:27
20 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
14:07
32 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
24:33
54 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
45:57
59 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
50:37
113 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
1:27:31
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
51 pt
2 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
18 pt
3 Nick Schultz
Israel - Premier Tech
10 pt
4 Axel Laurance
Alpecin - Deceuninck
10 pt
5 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
6 Idar Andersen
Uno-X Mobility
9 pt
7 Jimmy Janssens
Alpecin - Deceuninck
8 pt
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
7 pt
9 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
7 pt
10 Hugh Carthy
EF Education - EasyPost
6 pt
29 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
103 pt
2 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
70 pt
3 Harold Tejada Canacue
Astana Qazaqstan Team
37 pt
4 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
35 pt
5 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
29 pt
6 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
27 pt
7 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
24 pt
8 Attila Valter
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
21 pt
9 Steven Kruijswijk
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
20 pt
10 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
19 pt
29 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
1 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
28:27:31
2 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:31
3 Johannes Kulset
Uno-X Mobility
9:13
4 Valentin Paret-Peintre
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
15:08
5 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
15:43
6 Darren Rafferty
EF Education - EasyPost
17:38
7 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
18:31
8 Georg Steinhauser
EF Education - EasyPost
37:37
9 Edoardo Zambanini
Bahrain - Victorious
43:11
10 Jorge Gutiérrez Gonzalez
Equipo Kern Pharma
49:17
18 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
1:21:29
1 Bahrain - Victorious 85:32:47
2 Movistar Team 2:08
3 INEOS Grenadiers 2:09
4 Soudal Quick-Step 7:25
5 UAE Team Emirates 16:36
6 EF Education - EasyPost 16:42
7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 17:08
8 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 20:25
9 BORA - hansgrohe 28:19
10 Israel - Premier Tech 36:56

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