{"id":758346,"date":"2026-09-03T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758346\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:02:14","slug":"brennan-sprints-to-stage-11-win-at-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758346\/","title":{"rendered":"Brennan sprints to stage 11 win at Vuelta a Espana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Matthew Brennan completed a hat-trick of victories after he claimed a sprint finish on stage 11 of La Vuelta in Lorca.<\/p>\n<p>The largely flat 151.3km run from Cartagena had always looked set for the sprinters, with Brennan \u2013 on his debut Grand Tour \u2013 delivering a third stage win for UCI Team Visma-Lease a Bike with a late attack for the line ahead of Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) and Jodri Meeus (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).<\/p>\n<p>After a four-man breakaway, which included Britain\u2019s Ethan Hayter, was eventually pulled back in, Belgian Wout Van Aert took on the challenge heading into the final kilometres, before team-mate Brennan made his signature finishing dash.<\/p>\n<p>In the general classification standings, Movistar\u2019s Enric Mas finished in the peloton to retain his red jersey with an overall lead of one minute and 18 seconds from Primoz Roglic.<\/p>\n<p>Lidl-Trek had earlier confirmed sprinter Mads Pedersen\u2019s withdrawal from the race ahead of stage 11 because of illness.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Eddie Dunbar (Pinarello &#8211; Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), who crossed the line in 97th on Wednesday, is 46th overall in the general classification and 31st in the points standings, while Darren Rafferty (EF Education &#8211; EasyPost) is 114th in the GC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Matthew Brennan completed a hat-trick of victories after he claimed a sprint finish on stage 11 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}