{"id":621733,"date":"2026-09-11T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621733\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:44:11","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-2026-eddie-dunbar-wins-stage-19-as-enric-mas-maintains-overall-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621733\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espana 2026: Eddie Dunbar wins stage 19 as Enric Mas maintains overall lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland’s Eddie Dunbar won the 19th stage of the Vuelta a Espana as Spain’s Enric Mas maintained his overall lead with two stages remaining.<\/p>\n

Friday’s stage was a hilly slog of 210.8km from Velez-Malaga to Penas Blancas, with Dunbar, 30, catching and passing Santiago Buitrago 300 metres from the finish.<\/p>\n

Both were part of a four-man breakaway and the Colombian, the King of the Mountains leader, attacked with two kilometres to go.<\/p>\n

Dunbar did not respond initially but the Pinarello-Q36.5 rider timed his counter-attack perfectly to cross the line 14 seconds before Buitrago, with his British team-mate Thomas Gloag in third.<\/p>\n

Four-time Vuelta winner Primoz Roglic closed the gap on race leader Mas by 33 seconds during Thursday’s time trial,<\/a> but the Movistar rider held on to his lead despite general classification rivals Roglic and Richard Carapaz trying to increase the pace on the 18km climb to the finish.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Oscar Onley finished alongside the rest of the leading contenders to retain his fifth position overall and keep hold of the white jersey for the best young rider.<\/p>\n

Mas, who has finished second overall three times in the Vuelta, has a cushion of one minute and 37 seconds heading into Saturday’s 186.8km mountain stage from La Calahorra to Collado del Alguacil.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old will hope to seal his first Grand Tour title when the race concludes on Sunday with a 112km stage in Granada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Eddie Dunbar won the 19th stage of the Vuelta a Espana as Spain’s Enric Mas maintained his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-621733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}