This Saturday, the twentieth and penultimate, is the final stage of the Vuelta a España 2022, a 181-kilometer route full of ups and downs through the Madrid mountains between Moralzarzal and Puerto de Navacerrada that evokes historic moments from the race of the The winners were the Spanish Perico Delgado, in 1985, and the Italian Fabio Aru in 2015.
A succession of five passes, three first class and two second class, which starts with Navacerrada (1st; km 10.3) and continues with those of Navafria (2nd, km 92.8), Canencia (2nd, km 126, 8), La Morcuera (1st, km 143.7), and Cotos (1st, km 174.3).
Terrain that might encourage Enric Mas to attack the leader Remco Evenepoel, although it will not be easy nor is it foreseeable that the Balearic throws himself into such a risky bet, that of filing the Belgian the 2:07 minutes that he takes in the general classification, having As he has, he has to secure the points for his second place to keep Movistar as a World Tour team. The Colombian Miguel Ángel López (Astana) is fourth, 42 seconds behind the third place, which is occupied by the Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE)
Follow this Saturday’s stage:
It is 4.5 km: Higuita is hunted by López’s group.
A 6.3 km: López attacks once more, but his rivals respond.
A 7.4 km: Carapaz attacks Higuita.
A 8: km: López’s group accelerates and they are 15 seconds away from catching up with Higuita and Carapaz.
A 10.5 km distance: López attacks, Remco, Mas and Ayuso respond.
11 km: Higuita and Carapaz are on top. Meintejes stays. At 59 seconds are Gesink and Gino Mader.
A 15 km: Sergio Higuita, current national road champion continues on. The main group, which includes Remco, Mas, Ayuso and López, is 1.20 minutes behind the first breakaway group.
A 20 km: Higuita, Carapaz, and Meintjes continue on. They are followed, 41 seconds later, by eight men:
Robert Gesink
Clement Champoussin
Vincenzo Nibali
Gino Mader
Jesus Herrada
Hugh Carthy
Sébastien Reichenbach
Alexander Valverde
A 28 km: It rolls at an average speed of 39 km/h. Higuita goes ahead.
A 30 km: the Ecuadorian secures the title of the mountain. He is the fifth Latin American to win this classification in the history of the race following Lucho Herrera, Oscar de J. Vargas, Martín Farfán and Félix Cárdenas.
It is 35 km: Higuita, Carapaz, and Meintjes remain at the top.
A 37 km: Juan Ayuso also attacks in the group of favorites in the last kilometer of the summit of Puerto de La Morcuera. They pursue Remco, Mas and López.
A 38 km: Miguel Ángel returns to the group of Mas and Remco, the same as Joao Almeid, who had been cut off.
A 39 km: Sergio Higuita, Richard Carapaz and Louis Meintjes are leading the race. Platoon, at 2.20.
A 40 km: Enric Mas (Movistar) attacks in the group of favorites in the ascent to La Morcuera. López begins to give ground.
A 50 km: two escape men remain: Robert Stannard and Daniel Navarro.
A 55 km: the peloton has a disadvantage of 3.47 compared to the first group.
A 57 km goal: race situation. 24 men on the run. Among them is the Colombian Sergio Andrés Higuita and the Ecuadorian Richard Caraáz, who won stages 12 and 14.
This is the general classification
1. R. Evenepoel 73:18.23
2. Enric Mas at 2.07
3. Juan Ayuso at 5.14
4. Miguel A. López at 5.56
5. Carlos Rodriguez at 6.49
6. João Almeida at 7.14
9. Rigoberto Uran at 9.56
28. S. Higuita a 1:00.36
70. H. Tejada at 2:49.53
126. S. Molano 4:38.09
This is the altimetry of this Saturday
