The Australian Caleb Ewan (Team Jayco-AlUla) won the Vuelta a Castilla y León, a 200.1km classic with a start and finish in Valladolid, beating the sprint against the Italian Davide Cimolai (Movistar Team) and the Belgian Jenthe Biermans (Arkea-B&B Hotels). The Portuguese Ivo Oliveira (UAE Team Emirates) also completed the final sprint and achieved the best fifth place. .
The Vuelta a Castilla y León begins with Clément Alleno (Burgos – BH), Unai Cuadrado and Nicolás Alustiza (Euskaltel – Euskadi), Carlos Garcia Pierna (Kern Pharma Team), Edgar Curto (Illes Balears Arabay Cycling), Brayan Vargas (Colombia Potencia de la Vida-Strongman) and José Mendes (Victoria Sports Cycling Team) to form a day break. You will get a lead of 3:20 over the platoon that was commanded by the Astana Qazaqstan Team and Team Jayco-AlUla. Vargas ended up missing a long time in front of the bullfight and ended up being hit.
Around km 80, José Mendes lost his ability to follow the pace of the front group. 15km later, Alustiza also lost contact with the front group. The ball slowed down slightly and the pace increased to 4:00. The Astana Qazaqstan Team was the team that worked the best in the peloton.
44km from the end, Edgar Curto gave up and was reached. 2km later, Garcia Pierna attacked Cuadrado and Alleno with no capacity to continue. A few kilometers later, the two pursuers have reached each other. Garcia Pierna has a lead of 1:30 on the ball. The finish line is 16km away, and I finally reached it. The pace of the race was going to increase, as the cyclists were entering the last climb of the day of 2.3km at 4.5%. UAE Team Emirates ended up being mixed in a race with Finn Fisher-Black and Jan Christen, but both of them were quickly marked and failed to win an important space. At 10km from the finish line, new attacks occur in the platoon, but they will end due to no success.
In the last few kilometers, you equip two sprinters to command the peloton and set a high pace so that no attack happens. Our final steps, Arkea-B&B Hotels assumed the command of the group. Jenthe Biermans launched the final sprint with Caleb Ewan on her ride. The Australian quickly passed the Belgian and finished for no reason, thus achieving his second victory of the season in the Vuelta a Castilla y León. Davide Cimolai still managed to pass Biermans to be second. After some great work by the Astana Qazaqstan Team during the stage, Max Kanter was only fourth.
Ivo Oliveira fez a beautiful bullfight. The Portuguese was well placed in the final sprint, but ended up breaking in the last meters. Likewise, Ivo achieved an excellent fifth place and conquered 50 UCI points. António Morgado (UAE Team Emirates) was 32nd to 0s and received the award for the best Under-23 cyclist in the race. Rúben Guerreiro (Movistar Team) saw winning form and finished 40th at the same time as the winner. After a day on the run, José Mendes ended up abandoning Prova.