Mads Pedersen scored his hat-trick in Talavera de La Reina on a quiet day, because the escape of three cyclists, who managed to have more than four minutes of advantage, was not successful, since they were captured more than 40 km from the finish line, in the second pass through Puerto del Piélago, so the peloton arrived in a grouped sprint, in which the Dane was once once more the fastest.
A bit of calm before the final action in this edition of the Vuelta a España. Stage 19 did not mean changes in the upper part of the general classification, since they had their sights set on the penultimate day of competition, where the mountain will define everything.
The demand of the mountain to define the general
The route this Saturday, September 10, will be 181 kilometers from Moralzarzal to Puerto de Navacerrada with two promotions of second and three of first category, the last of them located less than 10 km from the finish line.
That Puerto de Cotos, the last of the day, will have an extension of 10.3 kilometers with an average incline of 6.9%, but some ramps reach 10%. Cyclists will go from 1,100 meters above sea level to more than 1,800.
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Superman dreams of the La Vuelta podium
Miguel Ángel López reaches this final part of La Vuelta as the best Colombian in the general classification. The Astana rider is fourth almost six minutes behind Remco Evenepoel, the owner of the red jersey, but only 42 seconds behind Juan Ayuso, who partially occupies the third step of the podium.
This Saturday will be the opportunity for Superman to look for a place in the top 3 and become the first Colombian to repeat the podium in the Vuelta a España, since he was third in 2018, the last time that our country was present among the top three. of the general. Also, Rigoberto Urán, currently ninth, will try to finish in the top 10 of the CG.
| Position | Cyclist | Equipment | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Remco Evenepoel | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 73h 18′23′’ |
| 2. | Enrique Mas | Movistar Team | +2′07′’ |
| 3. | John Ayuso | UAE Team Emirates | +5′14′’ |
| 4. | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana | +5′56′’ |
| 9. | Rigoberto Uran | EF Eduaction EasyPost | +9′56′’ |
| 28. | Sergio Higuita | Best Hansgrohe | +1h 00′36′’ |
| 70. | Harold Tejada | Astana | +2h 49′53′’ |
| 126. | Juan Sebastian Molano | UAE Team Emirates | +4h 38′09′’ |
Lucho Herrera (1987) and Nairo Quintana (2016) are the two Colombian champions of this competition. Fabio Parra is the only one who has finished second in 1989. Ours who closed the podium are: Pacho Rodríguez (1985), Óscar de Jesús Vargas (1989), Esteban Chaves (2016) and the one mentioned by Superman López four years ago.