{"id":108994,"date":"2025-08-31T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:38:45","slug":"vingegaard-sitting-pretty-at-the-vuelta-after-wet-mountain-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108994\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard sitting pretty at the Vuelta after wet mountain win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final stage of the 80th Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\u2019s long first week culminated with a ding-dong battle on summit finish Valdezcaray, the setting of Jonas Vingegaard seizing control of the GC situation with a big wet win. The Dane finished arms aloft 24 seconds ahead of Jo\u00e3o Almeida and Tom Pidcock. Torstein Tr\u00e6en clung tenaciously to red by 37 seconds. Canada\u2019s Nickolas Zukowsky was prominent in leading the peloton\u2019s chase. <\/p>\n

The Course<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s fare was 195 km of rolling terrain with a 13.3 km, 5.2 percent Cat 1, Estaci\u00f3n de Esqu\u00ed de Valdezcaray, as its summit finish. Rain couldn\u2019t dampen the riders\u2019 spirits.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The last stage of Week 1. Image by La FlammeRouge<\/p>\n

Torstein Tr\u00e6en had more than two and a half minutes over Vingegaard, Almeida and Ciccone.<\/p>\n

\"No<\/a>Tr\u00e6en in red. Photo: Sirotti<\/p>\n

Michal Kwiatkowski was the most notable rider in Sunday\u2019s breakaway quintet. Its gap was only 1:45 at the midway point. Canada\u2019s Nick Zukowsky was prominent at the front pulling for Tom Pidcock\u2019s hopes, toiling for at least an hour.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Zuk hauls along the red jersey group.<\/p>\n

The catch came at the foot of Valdezcaray, the Lidl-set pace of the peloton shelling out Juan Ayuso early. The wet climbing quickly whittled down the numbers. Matteo Jorgenson then launched Vingegaard, Ciccone latching on. Almeida couldn\u2019t hang but polka-dot teammate Jay Vine tried to help. With 10 km to go, Vingegaard dropped Ciccone.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Vingegaard drops Ciccone.<\/p>\n

In the pouring rain Almeida, Pidcock and Felix Gall beat on in pursuit. At first only Almeida pulled and Vingegaard increased his gap, Tr\u00e6en\u2019s hopes of keeping red looking desperate. Almeida got cross at the Brit and then Pidcock took his turns. The final kilometres were about those two trying to minimize their losses as they pulled clear in the podium battle. <\/p>\n

Labour Day is the first well-deserved rest day of the 80th edition.<\/p>\n

2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a Stage 9
1) Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark\/Visma-Lease a Bike) +2:33
2) Tom Pidcock (Great Britain\/Q36.5) +0:24
3) Jo\u00e3o Almeida (Portugal\/UAE-Emirates) s.t.
2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a GC
1) Torstein Tr\u00e6en (Norway\/Bahrain-Victorious) 33:35:46
2) Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark\/Visma-Lease a Bike) +0:37
3) Jo\u00e3o Almeida (Portugal\/UAE-Emirates) +1:15
4) Tom Pidcock (Great Britain\/Q36.5) +1:35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final stage of the 80th Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\u2019s long first week culminated with a ding-dong battle on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[68697,59440,64,63,784,6495,78030,68699,85,13093,76763],"class_list":{"0":"post-108994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-2025-uci-worldtour","9":"tag-2025-vuelta-a-espana","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-cycling","13":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","14":"tag-nick-zukowsky","15":"tag-pier-andre-cote","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spotlight","18":"tag-torstein-traeen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}