{"id":764194,"date":"2026-09-08T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764194\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:12:10","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-matthew-brennan-follows-van-aerts-lead-to-complete-four-timer-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764194\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a: Matthew Brennan follows Van Aert\u2019s lead to complete four-timer | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Matthew Brennan enhanced his status as the standout sprinter at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> by winning a fourth stage on his Grand Tour debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The 21-year-old British rider was delivered to the front of the bunch with 100 metres left by an ideal leadout from Wout van Aert, his star teammate at Visma-Lease a Bike who had already won two stages at this race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Crossing the line, Brennan raised his right hand with four fingers out in a victory salute. Bryan Coquard was second and Vito Braet third. Van Aert was sixth at the end of a 181km ride in more blazing heat from Cortegana to Palos de la Frontera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. Four stages and the plan was for one,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cAs a team we\u2019re on six, I\u2019ve lost count.\u201d Of Van Aert\u2019s work setting up the win, Brennan added: \u201cIt\u2019s incredible that he can bring you in such a perfect position in such a chaotic race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">After 16 stages, overall leader Enric Mas retained his advantage in the red jersey of 2min 6sec ahead of Felix Gall. Primoz Roglic is four seconds further back in third.<\/p>\n<p>The peloton in action during the stage. Photograph: Javier Liz\u00f3n\/EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Wednesday\u2019s stage is another flat ride into Seville before a 32.5km time-trial on Thursday that could be key for Roglic\u2019s hopes. The Vuelta finishes on Sunday in Granada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Brennan enhanced his status as the standout sprinter at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a by winning a fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764194","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\/764194","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=764194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}