The 2021 Vuelta a España was a three-week cycling race which took place in
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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between 14 August and 5 September 2021. It was the 76th edition of the
Vuelta a España
The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...
and the third and final
grand tour
The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tuto ...
of the
2021 men's road cycling season. The race departed from
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of t ...
and finished in
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...
.
The race was won by
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
of , his third consecutive victory in the race. He became only the third rider to win the race in three successive years. He won by 4' 42", the largest margin of victory since
Alex Zülle
Alex Zülle (born 5 July 1968) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. During the 1990s he was one of the most successful cyclists in the world, winning the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, taking second place in the 1995 and the 1 ...
won by 5' 07" in
1997
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. He first took the red jersey on the
first stage time trial before relinquishing the jersey to breakaway riders on two occasions. Roglič proceeded to win three more stages,
stage 11 to
Valdepeñas de Jaén
Valdepeñas de Jaén is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2005 census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term ...
,
stage 17 to
Lagos de Covadonga
The Lakes of Covadonga (el. 1134 m.) are composed of two glacial lakes located on the region of Asturias, Spain. These lakes, often also called Lakes of Enol or simply Los Lagos, are Lake Enol and Lake Ercina located in the Picos de ...
, and the
final day's time trial in
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...
, on his way to overall victory. In second place was
Enric Mas
Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Career
Mas wa ...
of , who put in a consistent performance in the mountains throughout the race to become Roglič's closest rival.
Jack Haig of took the final step on the podium, finishing 7' 40" behind Roglič. Haig began the Vuelta as a domestique for
Mikel Landa
Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall.
Career Early career
Lan ...
, but after Landa's struggles and eventual abandon, Haig became the team's leader. He moved up to third in the
penultimate stage after successfully distancing the previous third-placed rider,
Miguel Ángel López, with just over on the stage. Haig then held on to third in the final day time trial, even extending his gap over fourth-placed
Adam Yates
Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for . He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ...
().
In the race's other classifications,
Fabio Jakobsen
Fabio Jakobsen (born 31 August 1996) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
During the 2019 Vuelta a España Jakobsen won two stages, including the final stage of the race on stage 21 in Madrid.
A few metres befor ...
of took the points classification, winning three sprint stages along the way.
Michael Storer
Michael J. Storer (born 28 February 1997) is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. He also competed in the 2019 Vuelta a España, and the 20 ...
of won the mountains classification. He won two stages from the breakaway before taking the lead in the competition in the final two mountain stages. The young rider classification was won by
Gino Mäder
Gino Mäder (; 4 January 1997 – 16 June 2023) was a Swiss road bicycle racing, road and Track cycling, track cyclist. He last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Mäder died as a result of an accident during the 2023 Tour de Suisse.
Early life and educa ...
of , who performed consistently in the mountains while serving as a domestique for first Landa and then Haig. He took the white jersey after following the decisive split in the GC group on the penultimate stage, allowing him to move up to fifth overall ahead of
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'It ...
() in sixth place. won the team classification while 's
Magnus Cort
Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)
In June 2014, World Tour team signed Cort for three years, starting from the ...
, who won three stages, was given the overall combativity award.
Teams
Twenty-three teams participated in the 2021 Vuelta a España. All nineteen
UCI WorldTeams UCI most commonly refers to:
* University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, United States
* Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for the sport of cycling
UCI may also refer to:
* Uganda Cancer In ...
were obliged to participate. Four
UCI ProTeams also participated: was automatically invited as the best-performing ProTeam in 2020, and the other three wildcard teams were selected by the
Amaury Sport Organisation
The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) is part of the French media group Éditions Philippe Amaury. It organises the Tour de France and other cycling races, as well as golf, running, sailing and off-road motorsport events. The president of ASO is Je ...
. Usually, only twenty-two teams would participate in the race, but the
Union Cycliste Internationale
The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.
The UCI issues racing ...
allowed grand tour organizers to invite one extra wildcard team in 2021 to account for hardship created by the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
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Pre-race favourites
Two-time defending champion
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
() was considered the pre-race favourite, closely followed by
2021 Giro d'Italia overall winner
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'It ...
(). Bernal's team mate and
last year’s runner-up
Richard Carapaz
Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...
(), was seen as one of their main challengers, alongside fellow team mate
Adam Yates
Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for . He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ...
,
Mikel Landa
Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall.
Career Early career
Lan ...
() and 2020 podium finisher
Hugh Carthy
Hugh John Carthy (born 9 July 1994) is a British professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carthy's nickname "Huge" was coined when his name was mispronounced by an announcer in the Giro d'Italia, but stuck due to ...
(). Other riders considered as contenders included duo
Miguel Ángel López and
Enric Mas
Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Career
Mas wa ...
,
Aleksandr Vlasov () and
Pavel Sivakov
Pavel Alekseyevich Sivakov (; born 11 July 1997) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is also a citizen of Russia and rode as a Russian until 2 March 2022.
Personal life
Sivakov is the son of Russian former cyclists Ale ...
().
Riders believed to be the main contenders for victories on the sprint stages were
Fabio Jakobsen
Fabio Jakobsen (born 31 August 1996) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
During the 2019 Vuelta a España Jakobsen won two stages, including the final stage of the race on stage 21 in Madrid.
A few metres befor ...
(),
Arnaud Démare
Arnaud Démare (born 26 August 1991) is a professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2011 he won the UCI World Under-23 Road Race Championships, and in 2016 he won the Milan–San Remo. He is one of five riders t ...
(),
Jasper Philipsen
Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .
Career
In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2 ...
() and
Michael Matthews ().
Route and stages
Vuelta organisers unveiled the route for the 2021 edition on 11 February 2021. Unusually, the race took place entirely within Spain, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 route included one new major mountain pass, the , for the finish of stage 18. This edition of the Vuelta was the first since
2014
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to finish outside Madrid. As in 2014, the final stage was an individual time trial in Santiago de Compostela.
Race overview
First week
![Primoz Roglic abans de la sortida de la 5a etapa de La Vuelta 2021 a Tarancon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Primoz_Roglic_abans_de_la_sortida_de_la_5a_etapa_de_La_Vuelta_2021_a_Tarancon.jpg)
The Vuelta began with a short
individual time trial
An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also track-b ...
in
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of t ...
.
Alex Aranburu
Alexander Aranburu Deba (born 19 September 1995 in Ezkio-Itsaso) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España.
Major results
;2016
: 8th Circuito de Getxo
...
() sat in the hot seat for the majority of the day after he set a time of 8' 38". Several riders threatened Aranburu's time, but only
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
(), the last rider off the start ramp and the defending champion, was able to best him. Roglič set a time of 8' 32", six seconds quicker than Aranburu, to take the first red jersey of the race. The next stage featured a flat route with an opportunity for the sprinters to take the win. With to go, a crash caught out several GC contenders, including
Adam Yates
Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for . He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ...
(),
Hugh Carthy
Hugh John Carthy (born 9 July 1994) is a British professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carthy's nickname "Huge" was coined when his name was mispronounced by an announcer in the Giro d'Italia, but stuck due to ...
(), and
David de la Cruz
David de la Cruz Melgarejo (born 6 May 1989) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
De la Cruz was born in Sabadell. On 28 August 2016, de la Cruz scored the biggest win of his career to that point, when he won stag ...
(), with all three losing 30 seconds to a minute by the finish. In the sprint to the line,
Jasper Philipsen
Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .
Career
In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2 ...
() outsprinted
Fabio Jakobsen
Fabio Jakobsen (born 31 August 1996) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
During the 2019 Vuelta a España Jakobsen won two stages, including the final stage of the race on stage 21 in Madrid.
A few metres befor ...
() to take the win and the lead in the points classification while Roglič retained the red jersey.
The third stage featured the first summit finish of the race, with the riders finishing atop the climb of
Picón Blanco
Picón is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
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. An eight-man breakaway was allowed to build a maximum advantage of nine minutes, with content to relinquish the red jersey to a breakaway rider. On the final climb,
Joe Dombrowski
Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (born May 12, 1991) is an American professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . A professional since 2011, Dombrowski has also competed for , , and .
Personal
Born on May 12, 1991, in Christi ...
(),
Rein Taaramäe
Rein Taaramäe (born April 24, 1987) is an Estonian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Cofidis (2008–14)
Taaramäe turned professional in 2008 for after riding for the team as a stagiaire in late 2007 and winni ...
(), and
Kenny Elissonde
Kenny Elissonde (born 22 July 1991) is a French professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Elissonde is a climbing specialist, having won the prestigious stage up the Alto de l'Angliru at the 2013 Vuelta a España ...
() emerged as the strongest riders from the break. Further up the climb, Taaramäe dropped his companions to win the stage, taking the red jersey and the mountains classification's blue polka-dot jersey in the process. The headwind on the climb discouraged riders in the GC group from attacking, and no one was able to build a substantial gap. Near the finish,
Enric Mas
Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Career
Mas wa ...
() accelerated from the group, gaining three seconds on a seven-man group of favorites. Several contenders, including Carthy,
Romain Bardet
Romain Bardet (born 9 November 1990) is a French professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Bardet is known for his climbing and descending abilities, which make him one of the top general classification contenders in Gra ...
(), and
Aleksandr Vlasov (), lost almost half a minute. Recently crowned
Olympic road race champion
Richard Carapaz
Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...
() finished a minute behind the main GC group and was also docked 20 seconds for taking an unauthorized feed.
The fourth stage was mostly flat with a slight uphill ramp to the finish line, though the sprinters were still expected to contend for the stage win. At from the line, Taaramäe, the race leader, crashed, but with the accident occurring inside the final , he was credited with the same time as the peloton and was able to retain the race lead. In the final sprint, Jakobsen outsprinted
Arnaud Démare
Arnaud Démare (born 26 August 1991) is a professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2011 he won the UCI World Under-23 Road Race Championships, and in 2016 he won the Milan–San Remo. He is one of five riders t ...
() for the win to take the lead in the points classification and the green jersey from Philipsen. The fifth stage featured another chance for the sprinters with a flat course to
Albacete
Albacete (, also , ; ar, ﭐَلبَسِيط, Al-Basīṭ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete.
Lying in the south-ea ...
. With to go, a large crash brought down most of the peloton, including Bardet and Taaramäe, but all riders who crashed managed to continue riding. In the sprint, Philipsen outsprinted Jakobsen to take his second stage win of the race; in doing so, Philipsen took back the green jersey. Taaramäe finished two minutes down, thus putting second-placed Elissonde into the red jersey, while Bardet finished 12 minutes down, dropping him out of GC contention.
The sixth stage featured the second uphill finish of the race atop the -climb of
Alto de la Montaña de Cullera. With to go, crosswinds temporarily split the peloton into echelons, but the peloton eventually reformed ahead of the final climb. The lead quintet began the climb with a lead of only 20 seconds, with
Magnus Cort
Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)
In June 2014, World Tour team signed Cort for three years, starting from the ...
() dropping his breakaway companions inside the final kilometre. With left, Roglič kicked clear and bridged up to Cort at the line, but Cort held on for the stage win. Most of the other contenders finished up to 27 seconds behind while Carthy lost almost three minutes. With Elissonde losing four and a half minutes, Roglič took the red jersey back.
The seventh stage featured six categorized climbs, including a summit finish atop Balcón de Alicante. After a furious fight for the break, 29 riders broke clear, with the peloton content to let the break battle for the stage win. The fight for the win came down to four riders:
Michael Storer
Michael J. Storer (born 28 February 1997) is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. He also competed in the 2019 Vuelta a España, and the 20 ...
(),
Pavel Sivakov
Pavel Alekseyevich Sivakov (; born 11 July 1997) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is also a citizen of Russia and rode as a Russian until 2 March 2022.
Personal life
Sivakov is the son of Russian former cyclists Ale ...
(),
Carlos Verona
Carlos Verona Quintanilla (born 4 November 1992) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.
Career
Verona was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid. On 30 July 2 ...
(), and
Andreas Kron (). Verona made the first attack with to go but Storer made the decisive move with to go and soloed to the stage win. In the GC group, Carthy struggled on the first climb before eventually abandoning. On the fourth climb, the Puerto El Collao,
Alejandro Valverde
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Valverde's biggest wins have been the Vuelta a España in 2009, Critérium du Dauphiné in 2008 and 2009 ...
() launched an attack with Carapaz and Yates. On the descent, Valverde crashed heavily on a bend, and though he was initially able to continue riding, he was eventually forced to abandon due to his injuries; it was later revealed that he had fractured his collarbone. Carapaz, Roglič, and
Miguel Ángel López () also made an attack but they were caught. On the final climb, Yates put in a few attacks that split the GC group, bringing with him Roglič, Mas, López, De La Cruz,
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'It ...
(), and
Louis Meintjes
Louis Meintjes (born 21 February 1992) is a South African cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the South African National Road Race Championships in 2014, and has finished 8th overall in the Tour de France, on 3 occasions in 2016, 2017 ...
() to the finish. Vlasov lost 13 seconds while other contenders lost around half a minute. In the GC, Roglič narrowly held on to his red jersey by eight seconds over
Felix Großschartner
Felix Großschartner (born 23 December 1993) is an Austrian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Born in Wels, Großschartner turned professional in 2012 with . In 2016, he joined UCI Professional Continental team . With this ...
(), who was in the break. The next stage was another opportunity for the sprinters. After the day's main breakaway trio was caught with around to go, attempted to split the peloton into echelons, but the peloton eventually regrouped for the sprint finish. After a late attack from
Jetse Bol () was reeled back in, Jakobsen outsprinted
Alberto Dainese
Alberto Dainese (born 25 March 1998) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Major results
;2016
: 1st Stage 3 Giro di Basilicata
;2018
: 1st Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
: Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
::1st ...
() to take his second stage win of the race.
On stage nine, the peloton faced a mountainous route with a summit finish atop the special category Alto de Velefique. The break was finally formed after almost , with 11 riders going off the front. With to go,
Damiano Caruso
Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, i ...
() dropped his breakaway companions on the Alto Collado Venta Luisa. He gradually built his lead over the chasing remnants of the breakaway before holding off the GC contenders to win the stage. In the GC group,
Mikel Landa
Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall.
Career Early career
Lan ...
() was dropped at the bottom of the Velefique, eventually losing five minutes on the day. Yates put in a few digs on the climb, with Roglič and Mas the only riders able to stay with him during his last attack. Roglič and Mas eventually dropped Yates before working together to extend their lead, with Roglič sprinting to take second place, one second ahead of Mas, to extend his lead. A chase group composed of Yates, López, Bernal, and
Jack Haig () formed behind, with Bernal unable to follow the pace. The chasers finished 39 seconds down on Roglič while Bernal finished with
Giulio Ciccone
Giulio Ciccone (born 20 December 1994) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Bardiani–CSF (2016–18)
Ciccone was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia, where he won stage 10. At the 2018 Giro d'Ita ...
() and
Gino Mäder
Gino Mäder (; 4 January 1997 – 16 June 2023) was a Swiss road bicycle racing, road and Track cycling, track cyclist. He last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Mäder died as a result of an accident during the 2023 Tour de Suisse.
Early life and educa ...
() at more than a minute down. Mas was the only rider within a minute of Roglič heading into the first rest day.
Second week
The first stage after the rest day began with gently undulating terrain before the riders tackled the second-category Puerto de Almáchar, which crested with left before the descent and a flat run-in to the finish. With the peloton content to let the break battle for the stage win, 31 riders finally broke away after more than . On the Puerto de Almáchar,
Michael Storer
Michael J. Storer (born 28 February 1997) is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. He also competed in the 2019 Vuelta a España, and the 20 ...
() dropped his breakaway companions on his way to another solo stage win. In the GC group, race leader
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
(), attacked on the climb's steepest section and crested the climb with a margin of around 20 seconds over a chase group composed of
Jack Haig () and the duo of
Enric Mas
Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Career
Mas wa ...
and
Miguel Ángel López. However, Roglič crashed on the descent, and though he was able to get back up quickly and relatively unscathed, he relinquished his gap and was quickly caught by the chasing trio.
Aleksandr Vlasov (),
Felix Großschartner
Felix Großschartner (born 23 December 1993) is an Austrian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Born in Wels, Großschartner turned professional in 2012 with . In 2016, he joined UCI Professional Continental team . With this ...
(), and Roglič's teammate,
Sepp Kuss
Sepp Kuss (born September 13, 1994) is an American professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Kuss started out in mountain bike racing as a junior and as a student at the University of Colorado won two races at the Colle ...
, bridged up to the quartet, with the seven riders crossing the line at almost 12 minutes down. A group containing the duo of
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'It ...
and
Adam Yates
Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for . He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ...
crossed a further 37 seconds in arrears.
Odd Christian Eiking (), who was part of the break and started the day just over nine minutes behind Roglič, moved into the race lead and took over the red jersey, while fellow breakaway member
Guillaume Martin
Guillaume Martin (born 9 June 1993) is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. While not necessarily considered a pre-race favourite for overall victory i ...
() moved up into second at almost one minute in arrears.
The eleventh stage featured a return to the steep uphill finish in
Valdepeñas de Jaén
Valdepeñas de Jaén is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2005 census
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. A break of five was established after , eventually leading by as much as two minutes.
Magnus Cort
Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)
In June 2014, World Tour team signed Cort for three years, starting from the ...
() dropped his breakaway companions on the Puerto de Locubín before reaching the final kilometre with a lead of just under 20 seconds; he would eventually be caught with left. In the final sprint, Roglič powered away from Mas to take his second stage win of the race. Eiking crossed the line at 11 seconds down to retain the red jersey. The next stage featured a hilly course with another large fight for the break. Eight riders broke clear after but kept their lead at a minute and a half. With to go, a crash took down several riders in the peloton, including Roglič and Yates, but all riders eventually got back up and returned to the peloton. On the last climb of the day, the break was caught before
Giulio Ciccone
Giulio Ciccone (born 20 December 1994) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Bardiani–CSF (2016–18)
Ciccone was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia, where he won stage 10. At the 2018 Giro d'Ita ...
(),
Jay Vine
Jay Vine (born 16 November 1995) is an Australian professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In December 2020, Vine was initially announced to be joining UCI Continental team for the 2021 season. However, as a ...
(),
Romain Bardet
Romain Bardet (born 9 November 1990) is a French professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Bardet is known for his climbing and descending abilities, which make him one of the top general classification contenders in Gra ...
(), and
Sergio Henao
Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (born 10 December 1987) is a Colombian former racing cyclist, who competed professionally from 2012 to 2021 for , and . He retired after the 2021 season when folded.
Early life
Henao was born in Rionegro in 1987, the ...
() pulled away from the peloton. The quartet was eventually caught in the final kilometre. In the sprint to the line,
Jens Keukeleire
Jens Keukeleire (born 23 November 1988) is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Major results
;2009
: 3rd Circuit de Wallonie
: 4th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
: 6th Kattekoers
: ...
() led out his sprinter, Cort, who took his second stage of the race.
Ahead of two consecutive mountainous stages, the thirteenth stage provided another opportunity for the sprinters. With to go, crosswinds split the peloton but it regrouped ahead of the finale. In the technical final few kilometres, took to the front and set a fast pace, which ended up causing several gaps and dropping their sprinter,
Fabio Jakobsen
Fabio Jakobsen (born 31 August 1996) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
During the 2019 Vuelta a España Jakobsen won two stages, including the final stage of the race on stage 21 in Madrid.
A few metres befor ...
. The team then turned to usual lead-out man
Florian Sénéchal
Florian Sénéchal (born 10 July 1993) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships, and was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France and the 2016 Vuelta ...
, who held off
Matteo Trentin
Matteo Trentin (born 2 August 1989) is an Italian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Professional career
In 2014, Trentin took a prestigious victory on Stage 7 of the Tour de France, where he won the spri ...
() to win his first Grand Tour stage.
The fourteenth stage was the first of those mountainous stages, with a summit finish at
Pico Villuercas. An 18-man break built up an advantage of 14 minutes as they battled for the win. Vine,
Daniel Navarro
Daniel Navarro García (born 18 July 1983) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .
Career
Navarro was born in Salamanca. Having been one of Alberto Contador's domestiques for most of his career, he ...
(), and
Sep Vanmarcke
Sep Vanmarcke (born 27 July 1988) is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In August 2021 he was named to the start list for the Vuelta a España, his seventh Grand Tour.
Career
Vanmarcke was born in ...
(), who were in the break, crashed in separate incidents but were able to continue, with Vine and Navarro getting back to the break. Bardet emerged as the strongest from the break, dropping everyone on the final climb to win the stage and take the lead in the mountains classification. His closest chasers were Vine and
Jesús Herrada
Jesús Herrada López (born 26 July 1990) is a Spanish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His brother José Herrada is also a professional cyclist, and also competes for .
Career
He was considered one of the most pro ...
() at 44 seconds down. In the GC group, the headwind on the final climb and the pace set by dissuaded attacks from the contenders. However, Miguel Ángel López's attack with to go was the first serious attempt, and he built an advantage of more than 10 seconds before being chased by Roglič in the final kilometre. Roglič was immediately followed by Mas, Bernal, and Haig, with the quartet coming to within four seconds of catching López at the finish. Eiking lost 20 seconds but stayed in the red jersey for another day.
On the fifteenth stage, the riders tackled four climbs before a short descent to the finish in El Barraco ahead of the second rest day. Another furious fight for the break ended with three riders,
Maxim Van Gils
Maxim Van Gils (born 25 November 1999) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Major results
;2017
: 1st La Classique des Alpes Juniors
;2019
: 6th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
: 10th Eschborn–Frankfurt Under–23
;2020
: ...
(),
Fabio Aru
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Rafał Majka
Rafał Majka (Polish pronunciation: ; born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finis ...
(), breaking away on the first climb while another chase group of attackers formed behind. Van Gils soon dropped back to the chase group, and with to go, Majka dropped Aru to solo off the front. The Pole maintained his advantage to the finish to win the stage. His closest pursuer was
Steven Kruijswijk
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(), who finished almost a minute and a half down. Meanwhile, the GC group remained relatively quiet before Yates animated the group with several attacks on the last climb, with his last attack giving him a 15-second advantage over the other contenders at the finish line. Eiking finished with the other contenders to keep the red jersey heading into the second rest day.
Third week
The third week began with a flat stage, possibly offering the last chance for the pure sprinters to win. A few kilometres after the stage started, a crash took down some riders, splitting the peloton in the process; all those who crashed would eventually get back up.
Giulio Ciccone
Giulio Ciccone (born 20 December 1994) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Bardiani–CSF (2016–18)
Ciccone was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia, where he won stage 10. At the 2018 Giro d'Ita ...
() was forced to abandon the race while
Enric Mas
Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Career
Mas wa ...
() and
Guillaume Martin
Guillaume Martin (born 9 June 1993) is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. While not necessarily considered a pre-race favourite for overall victory i ...
() were among those who went down. A five-man break built a two-minute lead while
Harm Vanhoucke
Harm Vanhoucke (born 17 June 1997 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España.
On 21 March 2020, Vanhoucke was assaulted by a car driver durin ...
() bridged up front on the only categorized climb of the day.
Stan Dewulf
Stan Dewulf (born 20 December 1997) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.
Major results
;2014
: 1st Overall Keizer der Juniores
;2015
: 2nd R ...
(), the last remnant of the break, was caught with to go. In the final sprint,
Fabio Jakobsen
Fabio Jakobsen (born 31 August 1996) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
During the 2019 Vuelta a España Jakobsen won two stages, including the final stage of the race on stage 21 in Madrid.
A few metres befor ...
() won his third stage of the race.
Odd Christian Eiking () kept the red jersey ahead of the two big mountain stages.
The seventeenth stage was the first of two consecutive mountain stages that was expected to be decisive in the GC battle, with a summit finish at the
Lagos de Covadonga
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. On the second ascent of La Collada Llomena, the day's main breakaway was caught, while Eiking was dropped from the peloton. With to go,
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'It ...
() launched an attack, followed immediately by
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
(). Both riders gradually increased their advantage over a group containing the other contenders, which was being led by . On the final climb up to the Lagos de Covadonga, Roglič dropped Bernal with to go and soloed to his third stage win; in doing so, Roglič took over the red jersey. Towards the top, Bernal was caught by a six-man chase group, which contained Roglič's closest rivals. In the final kilometre, as Roglič was beginning his post-race descent, his teammate,
Sepp Kuss
Sepp Kuss (born September 13, 1994) is an American professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Kuss started out in mountain bike racing as a junior and as a student at the University of Colorado won two races at the Colle ...
, sprinted to lead home the chase group at 1' 35" behind, denying the other contenders from getting the six bonus seconds on offer for second place. In the GC, Roglič increased his advantage to almost two and a half minutes over Mas.
The eigteenth stage featured the last major mountain stage, with the riders tackling the finishing climb of Altu d'El Gamoniteiru for the first time in Vuelta history. A 32-man break pulled away at the start of the stage while controlled the pace in the peloton.
Michael Storer
Michael J. Storer (born 28 February 1997) is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. He also competed in the 2019 Vuelta a España, and the 20 ...
() emerged as the strongest rider in the break, dropping his breakaway companions and embarking on a solo break. The peloton gradually decreased his advantage before he was caught by
David de la Cruz
David de la Cruz Melgarejo (born 6 May 1989) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
De la Cruz was born in Sabadell. On 28 August 2016, de la Cruz scored the biggest win of his career to that point, when he won stag ...
() on the Gamoniteiru. De la Cruz dropped Storer with left, but he was soon caught by
Miguel Ángel López (), who attacked from a reduced group containing Roglič, Kuss, Mas, and Bernal. López dropped de la Cruz immediately before soloing to the stage win. Roglič outsprinted Mas and Bernal at the finish, gapping them by a few seconds. A quartet containing
Jack Haig () finished 58 seconds behind. By finishing second, Roglič strengthened his hold on the red jersey.
The nineteenth stage featured a hilly start, with three categorized climbs before a mostly flat finale. A 24-man break pulled away at the start of the day, but and only gave the break a maximum lead of two and a half minutes. With left, a crash brought down several riders in the peloton. The biggest victim was
Louis Meintjes
Louis Meintjes (born 21 February 1992) is a South African cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the South African National Road Race Championships in 2014, and has finished 8th overall in the Tour de France, on 3 occasions in 2016, 2017 ...
(), sitting in tenth on GC, as he was forced to abandon the race. Up front, seven riders were left in the break, with the peloton hovering at half a minute behind. However, the break worked well together to maintain their advantage to the finish. In the final sprint,
Magnus Cort
Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)
In June 2014, World Tour team signed Cort for three years, starting from the ...
() sprinted past
Quinn Simmons
Quinn Simmons (born May 8, 2001) is an American road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Simmons' first sport was ski mountaineering, for which he won the bronze medal in the cadet category in the 2017 World Championships. A ...
() and held off
Rui Oliveira
Rui Filipe Alves Oliveira (born 5 September 1996) is a Portuguese cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He competed in the scratch event at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. His twin brother, Ivo Oliveira, is also an in ...
() to take his third stage win of the race. The only change in the top ten was de la Cruz climbing into tenth as a result of Meintjes' withdrawal.
The penultimate stage featured five categorized climbs inside the final . After of racing, a 16-man group broke away from the peloton, building a lead of 11 and a half minutes before began to chase. In the break, Storer took maximum points on the first three climbs to clinch the mountains classification. On the descent of Alto de Mougás,
Ryan Gibbons () attacked from the break, building a lead of over a minute on the chase group. On the ascent of the same climb,
Adam Yates
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() attacked the peloton twice. Only Roglič, Mas, Haig, and
Gino Mäder
Gino Mäder (; 4 January 1997 – 16 June 2023) was a Swiss road bicycle racing, road and Track cycling, track cyclist. He last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Mäder died as a result of an accident during the 2023 Tour de Suisse.
Early life and educa ...
() were able to follow him, with the group's lead ballooning to more than four minutes over the López and Bernal group. López would eventually abandon in the middle of the stage, despite the appeals of his teammates and ''directeur sportif''. The GC group caught the remnants of the break over the last two climbs. With Gibbons' lead at less than a minute, Yates and Mas launched some attacks on the final climb, catching and dropping Gibbons, but Roglič and Haig came back each time. Inside the final , as the four riders stalled,
Clément Champoussin
Clément Champoussin (born 29 May 1998) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España. On stage 20 of the 2021 Vuelta he won the final mountain stage find ...
() accelerated from behind and held on to win his first Grand Tour stage. Roglič finished second to retain the red jersey while Haig moved up to third. Yates moved up to fourth while Mäder climbed into the top five, taking the white jersey from Bernal in the process.
The final stage featured a time trial from Padrón to Santiago de Compostela.
Josef Černý
Josef Černý (born October 18, 1939 in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem, Bohemia and Moravia) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. He won a three medals at four Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the Inte ...
(), the first rider off the start ramp, set the first benchmark time after finishing with a time of 45' 18". Černý's time stood until Cort beat his time at the first two time checks before setting a time of 44' 16", just over a minute faster than Černý. He sat in the hot seat until Roglič, the last rider off the start ramp, took to the course. He was faster than Cort at the first two time checks. Despite almost taking a wrong turn at one point, Roglič set a time of 44' 02", beating Cort's time by 14 seconds to win his fourth stage of the race and confirm his third consecutive Vuelta win. Jakobsen, Storer, and Mäder finished the time trial safely to confirm their victories in the points, mountains, and young rider classifications, respectively. won the team classification while Cort won the overall combativity award. 142 riders finished the race, 42 less than the number of riders who started the race.
Classification leadership
The Vuelta a España had four individual classifications, for which
jerseys were awarded daily to the leading rider, as well as a team competition. The primary classification was the
general classification
The general classification (or the GC) in road bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for riders in multi-stage races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest cumulati ...
, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded at the end of every stage apart from the individual time trials (
stages 1 and
21). The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the leader of the general classification, and wore the red jersey. The leader of the general classification at the end of the race was considered the overall winner of the Vuelta a España.
The second classification was the
points classification
The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning sprints at certain places along the route, most often called ''intermediate sprints''. The points cl ...
. Riders received points for finishing among the highest placed in a stage finish, or in
intermediate sprint
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s during the stages. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. The leader was identified by a green jersey.
The next classification was the
mountains classification
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. Points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit of the most difficult climbs first. The climbs were categorized, in order of increasing difficulty, third-, second-, and first- and special-category. The leader wore a white jersey with blue
polka dot
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s.
The last of the individual classifications was the
young rider classification Young rider classification (french: classement général des jeunes) is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for ride ...
, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage for each rider born on or after 1 January 1996. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the leader of the young rider classification, and wore the white jersey.
There was also the
team classification The team classification is one of the different rankings for which competitors can compete in a multiple stage cycling race. It differs from the other usual rankings (general classification, points, king of the mountain and best young rider competi ...
. After each stage, the times of the three highest finishers of each team were added together, and all the members of the leading team wore a red number bib on the following stage. The victory was awarded to the team with the lowest cumulative time at the end of the event.
In addition, there was one individual award: the
combativity award
The combativity award is a prize given in road bicycle racing
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. This award was given after each stage (excluding the individual time trial) to the rider "who displayed the most generous effort and best sporting spirit." The daily winner wore a yellow number bib the following stage. At the end of the Vuelta, a jury decided the top three riders for the "Most Combative Rider of
La Vuelta", with a public vote deciding the victor.
* On stage 2,
Alex Aranburu
Alexander Aranburu Deba (born 19 September 1995 in Ezkio-Itsaso) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España.
Major results
;2016
: 8th Circuito de Getxo
...
, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey, because first-placed
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
wore the red jersey as the leader of the general classification.
* On stages 4–5,
Kenny Elissonde
Kenny Elissonde (born 22 July 1991) is a French professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Elissonde is a climbing specialist, having won the prestigious stage up the Alto de l'Angliru at the 2013 Vuelta a España ...
, who was second in the mountains classification, wore the blue polka-dot jersey, because first-placed
Rein Taaramäe
Rein Taaramäe (born April 24, 1987) is an Estonian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career Cofidis (2008–14)
Taaramäe turned professional in 2008 for after riding for the team as a stagiaire in late 2007 and winni ...
wore the red jersey as the leader of the general classification.
Final classification standings
General classification
Points classification
Mountains classification
Young rider classification
Team classification
References
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