Race leader Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) secured a hat-trick of victories at Itzulia Basque Country, beating Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) in a two-up sprint at the end of an attacking stage 5.
On the race’s Queen stage, the attacks, ignited by Seixas and Lipowitz, started early on the eight categorised climbs, and the pair finally went away together on the Trabakua climb with 30km.
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From the chase, Javier Romo (Movistar) – who had been with the leaders but crashed over the top of the penultimate climb – jumped out of the pursuing group to claim third on the line.
With his win, Seixas extended his lead over everyone except Lipowitz – bar four bonus seconds – by nearly a minute and continues to lead the GC by 2:30 with one final stage remaining on Saturday. Lipowitz leapfrogged teammate Primož Roglič into second overall.
Results
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Position |
Rider |
Time |
|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Paul Seixas (Fra) Decathlon CMA CGM |
4:30:02 |
|
2 |
Florian Lipowitz (Ger) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe |
+0:00:00 |
|
3 |
Javier Romo Oliver (Spa) Movistar Team |
+0:01:03 |
|
4 |
Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Ineos Grenadiers |
+0:01:11 |
|
5 |
Ion Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Cofidis |
+0:01:11 |
|
6 |
Harold Alfonso Tejada Canacue (Col) XDS Astana |
+0:01:11 |
|
7 |
Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor) Uno-X Mobility |
+0:01:11 |
|
8 |
Clément Champoussin (Fra) XDS Astana |
+0:01:11 |
|
9 |
Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious |
+0:01:11 |
|
10 |
Alex Baudin (Fra) EF Education-EasyPost |
+0:01:11 |