Vuelta a Burgos 2016 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE] (spanish)

August 06, 2016

Vuelta a Burgos 2016 – Stage 5– Caleruega – Lagunas Neila – 163 km

Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite men’s professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos province of Spain. Since 2005, Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour.

Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) has shown rising form for the Vuelta a España this August with the narrowest of overall victories in the Vuelta a Burgos, his first stage race since pulling out of the Tour de France this July.

Contador took second on the final stage, a decisive mountain 163-kilometre stage, behind Caja Rural-Seguros RGA veteran Sergio Pardilla and winning overall in Spain’s biggest stage race outside the WorldTour by a single second.

“It’s been very, very close,” Contador said afterwards. “To tell the truth I had no idea if I could win, my pulse rate was so high I stopped looking and just went for it.”
Contador captured what is – at 32 – his first ever win of his career in the Vuelta a Burgos after the battle for the overall came down to the last, and by far the hardest, climb of the five-day race, the ultra-steep six-kilometre ascent to the summit finish at Lagunas de Neila.

Pardilla attacked a third of the way up the narrow, densely wooded climb to go clear solo with Contador sitting on second wheel in the bunch as Movistar shredded the peloton behind. Lying 31 seconds down on overnight leader Gianni Meersman (Etixx-QuickStep), Pardilla’s gap rose quickly to nearly a minute which would have netted him the race.

Contador’s looming presence in the bunch behind, meanwhile, effectively put a brakes on the chasing, and as the finish line approached, it looked as if Pardilla could take the biggest win of his career.

However, Ben Hermans (BMC Racing), another rider in the fray for the overall, attacked in the last two kilometres where the climb rose to a punishing 20 per cent, Contador followed then, when Hermans started to flail, finally launched his own move.

The stage was almost certainly going to go to Pardilla, but the question was whether Contador, previously 13 seconds back, had left it too late in the day to recapture enough time to claim, the overall victory.

Pardilla – a talented climbing veteran whose 2015 season was wrecked by the same major crash in the Vuelta al País Vasco that also badly injured Peter Stetina (Trek-Segafredo) – calculated his effort well and crossed the line for his first win since a stage of the Volta a Portugal back in 2013.

Contador then finished 17 seconds later and with a five-second margin on a recovering Hermans, just enough to secure the overall victory by one second on Pardilla and the BMC Racing rider. Fourth overall, showing rising form after his recent win in the GP Villafranca-Ordizia in the Basque Country, was Simon Yates (Orica-BikeExchange), just four seconds back, with Pete Kennaugh (Sky) impressing on the climbs and taking a solid fifth place on GC, 11 seconds down.

As Contador said later, although the gaps were very narrow, he is still building his form towards the Spanish Grand Tour, where he confirmed on Saturday that the aim will be to go for a fourth overall win.

After his abandon in the Tour de France and opting out of the Olympic Games, in terms of morale, victory in Contador’s only stage race between July and the Vuelta a España represents a key stepping stone en route to what has become the biggest challenge of his season in a fortnight’s time.

Results :
1 Sergio Pardilla (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 4:13:34
2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team 0:00:17
3 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:22
4 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-BikeExchange 0:00:24
5 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 0:00:31
6 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:34
7 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:43
8 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:00
9 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:01:03
10 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:01:16
11 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:01:36
12 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar Team
13 David De La Cruz (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:01:39
14 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:01:44
15 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Dimension Data 0:01:49
16 Mikel Iturria (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:01:57
17 Jaime Roson (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:02:04
18 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team 0:02:25
19 Hugh Carthy (GBr) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:02:35
20 Eliot Lietaer (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:02:51
21 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Tinkoff Team 0:03:02
22 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:03:07
23 Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:03:39
24 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:03:42
25 Javier Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team
26 José Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team
27 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac
28 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:04:00
29 Luis Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:04:03
30 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:04:11
31 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:22
32 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:55
33 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
34 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:05:18
35 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ 0:05:42
36 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:06:25
37 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team
38 Ibai Salas (Spa) Burgos BH 0:07:27
39 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:07:33
40 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Orica-BikeExchange 0:07:50
41 Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:08:14
42 David Arroyo (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:08:27
43 Igor Merino (Spa) Burgos BH 0:09:56
44 Cédric Pineau (Fra) FDJ 0:10:09
45 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 0:10:50
46 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:11:12
47 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:13:19
48 Jesus Del Pino (Spa) Burgos BH 0:14:09
49 Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team
50 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
51 Jorge Cubero (Spa) Burgos BH
52 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data
53 Aleksei Tsatevich (Rus) Team Katusha
54 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Tinkoff Team
55 Sindre Skjoestad Lunke (Nor) Team Giant-Alpecin
56 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky
57 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
58 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
59 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
60 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team
61 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling
62 Carlos Verona (Spa) Orica-BikeExchange
63 Floris De Tier (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise
64 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
65 Marino Kobayashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini
66 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Katusha
67 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
68 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin
69 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
70 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
71 Manuel Sola (Spa) Burgos BH
72 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
73 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
74 Ruben Zepuntke (Ger) Cannondale-Drapac
75 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Team Katusha
76 Mikel Bizkarra (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias
77 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:14:35
78 Omar Fraile (Spa) Dimension Data
79 Artur Ershov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
80 Reinier Honig (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:14:39
81 Giacomo Berlato (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:14:53
82 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:15:28
83 Etienne Van Empel (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:15:46
84 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) ONE Pro Cycling
85 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:16:06
86 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:16:30
87 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:17:13
88 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky
89 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:17:40
90 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
91 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange
92 Jesper Asselman (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton
93 Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
94 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ
95 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:20:12
96 Imanol Estevez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:20:37
97 Adrian Gonzalez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias
98 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Tinkoff Team 0:21:21
99 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Team
100 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:22:16
101 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:25:25
102 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
103 Kristoffer Skjerping (Nor) Cannondale-Drapac
104 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise
105 Alan Marangoni (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
106 Bert Van Lerberghe (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise
107 Vladimir Isaychev (Rus) Team Katusha
108 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini
109 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
110 Pablo Torres (Spa) Burgos BH
111 Sebastian Lander (Den) ONE Pro Cycling
112 Grega Bole (Slo) Nippo – Vini Fantini
113 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-BikeExchange
114 Daniel Lopez (Spa) Burgos BH
115 Sergey Nikolaev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
116 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx – Quick-Step
117 Yanto Barker (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
118 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ
119 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky
120 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data
121 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
122 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
123 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale
124 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha
125 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton
126 Eneko Lizarralde (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias
127 Jacques Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
128 Julen Irizar (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias
129 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:25:49
130 André Looij (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:26:06
131 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
132 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team

Final General classification :
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team 15:50:50
2 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:01
3 Sergio Pardilla (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
4 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-BikeExchange 0:00:04
5 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:11
6 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:16
7 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:00:36
8 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:00:57
9 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 0:01:04
10 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
11 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:09
12 David De La Cruz (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:01:12
13 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:01:14
14 Jaime Roson (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:01:48
15 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Dimension Data 0:01:54
16 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team 0:02:04
17 Mikel Iturria (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:02:07
18 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:02:09
19 Eliot Lietaer (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:02:41
20 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:03:10
21 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:03:25
22 Javier Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:32
23 José Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:41
24 Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:03:46
25 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:03:55
26 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:28
27 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:04:39
28 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:43
29 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Tinkoff Team 0:04:49
30 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:04:55
31 Luis Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:05:07
32 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ 0:05:26
33 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:05:31
34 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:05:42
35 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:05:55
36 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:05:58
37 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Orica-BikeExchange 0:08:48
38 David Arroyo (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:09:25
39 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:09:55
40 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 0:10:27
41 Ibai Salas (Spa) Burgos BH 0:11:00
42 Cédric Pineau (Fra) FDJ 0:12:25
43 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:13:39
44 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
45 Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team 0:13:48
46 Carlos Verona (Spa) Orica-BikeExchange 0:13:49
47 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Katusha 0:13:50
48 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:13:53
49 Floris De Tier (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:13:59
50 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling 0:14:14
51 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky 0:14:19
52 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:14:32
53 Omar Fraile (Spa) Dimension Data 0:14:59
54 Aleksei Tsatevich (Rus) Team Katusha 0:15:09
55 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:15:11
56 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data 0:15:22
57 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:15:32
58 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 0:15:33
59 Ruben Zepuntke (Ger) Cannondale-Drapac 0:15:34
60 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:15:57
61 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale 0:16:03
62 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:16:08
63 Manuel Sola (Spa) Burgos BH 0:17:03
64 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:17:07
65 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:17:11
66 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:17:17
67 Igor Merino (Spa) Burgos BH 0:17:24
68 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 0:17:27
69 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:17:48
70 Sindre Skjoestad Lunke (Nor) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:17:55
71 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Team Katusha 0:17:56
72 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:18:49
73 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) ONE Pro Cycling 0:20:54
74 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:21:05
75 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:21:30
76 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Tinkoff Team
77 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:21:38
78 Marino Kobayashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:22:05
79 Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:22:14
80 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ 0:22:16
81 Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:22:21
82 Hugh Carthy (GBr) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:22:57
83 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 0:24:59
84 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-BikeExchange 0:25:05
85 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:25:15
86 Artur Ershov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:25:20
87 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:25:33
88 Jesper Asselman (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:25:37
89 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:25:39
90 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team 0:25:42
91 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:25:45
92 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:26:20
93 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:26:38
94 Jesus Del Pino (Spa) Burgos BH 0:26:43
95 Jorge Cubero (Spa) Burgos BH 0:26:47
96 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:26:51
97 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:26:58
98 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:27:07
99 Kristoffer Skjerping (Nor) Cannondale-Drapac 0:27:47
100 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:28:23
101 Alan Marangoni (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:28:25
102 Imanol Estevez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:28:27
103 Etienne Van Empel (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:28:55
104 Giacomo Berlato (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:29:02
105 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:29:09
106 Jacques Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:29:13
107 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 0:29:17
108 Bert Van Lerberghe (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:29:32
109 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 0:29:36
110 Reinier Honig (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:29:48
111 Pablo Torres (Spa) Burgos BH 0:30:42
112 Mikel Bizkarra (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:30:57
113 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise 0:31:03
114 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:31:24
115 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Team 0:32:01
116 Adrian Gonzalez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:32:19
117 Grega Bole (Slo) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:33:01
118 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:35:08
119 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:35:51
120 Sebastian Lander (Den) ONE Pro Cycling 0:35:52
121 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:35:58
122 Daniel Lopez (Spa) Burgos BH 0:36:01
123 Julen Irizar (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:37:24
124 Sergey Nikolaev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:37:36
125 André Looij (Ned) Roompot – Oranje Peloton 0:37:41
126 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:38:06
127 Yanto Barker (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:39:05
128 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Tinkoff Team 0:39:26
129 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 0:39:35
130 Vladimir Isaychev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:40:19
131 Eneko Lizarralde (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country – Murias 0:40:43
132 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:42:49