Lennard Kamna soloed to victory on stage 9 of the Vuelta a Espana to complete his set of wins in Grand Tours on Sunday as Sepp Kuss retained the total chief’s crimson jersey.
The hilly 184km stage from Cartagena had its common classification timings taken 2km from the official end after earlier rain had left mud on the highway floor.
Kamna (Bora-hansgrohe) managed to be a part of a breakaway group that was by no means critically chased down by the peloton.
He then picked his second to roared away on his personal on the twisty and steep climb to Collado de la Cruz de Caravaca with Matteo Sobrero (Jayco-Alula) second, 13 seconds again, and Chris Hamilton of the DSM-Firmenich crew in third place.
“I’m super happy. I worked really hard the last couple of months,” Kamna mentioned. “The climb was at all times going up and down and it was onerous to discover the second to drop the others.
“I went totally over my limit for two minutes and then it was just a fight to the finish.”
It was all pretty anti-climactic, nevertheless, as a result of of the climate points which meant the common classification timings have been taken simply over 2km from the line with the closing steep sections lowered to a mild cruise dwelling.
(*9*)There was some motion in the GC, nevertheless, with Primoz Roglic placing in a fast acceleration to achieve a pair of seconds at the ‘finish’ which solely he appeared to know the location of.
Roglic gained two seconds on GC rivals Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Enric Mas (Movistar), Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), and crew mate Jonas Vingegaard, transferring up one place to sixth total whereas Evenepoel jumped up to fourth forward of Mikel Landa and Wout Poels who each struggled and dropped again.
Ahead of Monday’s rest day, Kuss nonetheless leads total by 43 seconds from UAE Team Emirates rider Marc Soler.
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