Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has won the 16th stage of the Spanish Vuelta to move into second place overall behind teammate Sepp Kuss.
BEJES, Spain — Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard won the 16th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Tuesday to move into second place overall behind teammate Sepp Kuss., attacked on the ascent to the finish line of an otherwise flat ride along Spain’s picturesque northern coast. It was the Dane’s second stage victory of the three-week race that finishes in Madrid on Sunday.
Kuss, Vingegaard and fellow Jumbo-Visma teammate Primoz Roglic, a three-time Vuelta winner, have held the top three spots in the general classification since VingegaardVingegaard’s second stage win on Tuesday in Spain’s Cantabria region moved him ahead of Roglic in the overall standings. Kuss now leads Vingegaard by 29 seconds, while Roglic is 1 minute, 33 seconds behind. The next chaser is Juan Ayuso, the UAE Team Emirates leader, at 2:33 back.
Kuss is the first American to lead a Grand Tour since Chris Horner won the 2013 Vuelta. He entered the race as a support rider for Roglic and Vingegaard, but took the red leader’s jersey on Stage 8 and has yet to relinquish it. Wednesday’s 17th stage is a 124.5-kilometer ride finishing atop the Altu de L’Angliru summit, a classic Vuelta ascent, after two previous category-one mountain passes.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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