{"id":767450,"date":"2026-09-11T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767450\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:48:12","slug":"mas-closes-on-first-vuelta-after-dunbar-reels-in-buitrago-to-win-stage-19-summit-finish-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767450\/","title":{"rendered":"Mas closes on first Vuelta after Dunbar reels in Buitrago to win stage 19 summit finish | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irishman Eddie Dunbar secured a stunning last-ditch victory on stage 19 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> as Spaniard Enric Mas maintained his overall lead with only one mountain stage remaining before Sunday\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old caught and passed Colombian Santiago Buitrago with just 300 metres left of the mountainous 210km slog from V\u00e9lez-M\u00e1laga to Pe\u00f1as Blancas.<\/p>\n

Bahrain Victorious rider Buitrago struck out for home inside the final 2km to distance his three breakaway companions, including Dunbar, who initially did not react.<\/p>\n

However, the Pinarello Q36.5 rider launched his counterattack in the final kilometre and wasted little time in reeling in Buitrago, who is the leader of the mountains classification.<\/p>\n

Dunbar finished 14sec ahead of Buitrago, with his British teammate, Thomas Gloag, coming home in third 23sec back.<\/p>\n

Enric Mas salutes the crowd after negotiating stage 19 unscathed. Photograph: Javier Liz\u00f3n\/EPA<\/p>\n

Movistar\u2019s Mas comfortably held on to his 1min 37sec lead over four-time former champion Primoz Roglic as the overall contenders crossed the line together.<\/p>\n

Roglic\u2019s Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team and the EF Education-Easypost outfit of former Giro d\u2019Italia winner Richard Carapaz tried to increase the pace on the 18km final climb to the finish.<\/p>\n

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However, they were unable to exert any pressure on Mas, who followed comfortably as he bids for a first Vuelta title after three previous second-place finishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irishman Eddie Dunbar secured a stunning last-ditch victory on stage 19 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a as Spaniard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767450","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\/767450","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=767450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}