Fabio Aru (Astana) claimed stage 11 of this year’s Vuelta a Espana today, after upstaging some top GC contenders, with a solo attack during the final kilometer on the final climb of the San Miguel de Aralar.
Race Details
Robert Gesink (Belkin) was finally reeled in by the chase in the closing 1.3 kilometers. From there, Aru initiated an attack from amongst the ranks of a select group of riders containing race leader Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo), Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) and Chris Froome (Sky). And, by the time the group as able to respond, Aru had garnered enough of a gap for himself, to hold off his rivals to the finish by half a dozen seconds or so.
Meanwhile, Valverde’s second place finish, earned him a six-second bonus that reduced Contador’s lead to 20 seconds, with Rigoberto Urán (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) now in third at 1:08 back. Froome remains in fourth place at 1:21 behind.
Stage 11 Results
ITA 1 ARU, Fabio (ASTANA) 3:41:03 ESP 2 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR) + 6 ESP 3 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, Joaquin (KATUSHA) ESP 4 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (TINKOFF-SAXO) GBR 5 FROOME, Christopher (SKY) + 7 COL 6 URAN URAN, Rigoberto (OMEGA PHARMA – QUICK-STEP) + 13 ESP 7 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Samuel (BMC RACING) + 15 IRL 8 MARTIN, Daniel (GARMIN SHARP) ESP 9 NAVARRO GARCIA, Daniel (COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS) + 16 NED 10 GESINK, Robert (BELKIN) + 21 ESP 11 MORENO FERNANDEZ, Daniel (KATUSHA) + 25 FRA 12 BARGUIL, Warren (GIANT-SHIMANO) + 49 ITA 13 CARUSO, Damiano (CANNONDALE) + 56 COL 14 ANACONA GOMEZ, Winner (LAMPRE – MERIDA) + 1:14 ESP 15 PARDILLA BELLON, Sergio (MTN – QHUBEKA) NED 16 KELDERMAN, Wilco (BELKIN) + 1:35 ESP 17 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI, Gorka (MOVISTAR) + 1:46 POL 18 NIEMIEC, Przemyslaw (LAMPRE – MERIDA) + 2:07 EST 19 KANGERT, Tanel (ASTANA) COL 20 CHAVES RUBIO, Jhoan Esteban (ORICA GreenEDGE) + 2:11 FRA 21 LE MEVEL, Christophe (COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS) + 2:16 FRA 22 SICARD, Romain (EUROPCAR) + 2:22 BEL 23 MONFORT, Maxime (LOTTO BELISOL) + 2:40 BEL 24 SERRY, Pieter (OMEGA PHARMA – QUICK-STEP) POR 25 CARDOSO, Andre Fernando S. Martins (GARMIN SHARP) ESP 26 HERNANDEZ BLAZQUEZ, Jesus (TINKOFF-SAXO) + 2:45 ESP 27 LANDA MEANA, Mikel (ASTANA) ITA 28 CARUSO, Giampaolo (KATUSHA) + 2:49 GER 29 NERZ, Dominik (BMC RACING) + 2:50 RSA 30 MEINTJES, Louis (MTN – QHUBEKA) + 3:02 SUI 31 ZAUGG, Oliver (TINKOFF-SAXO) + 3:20 ESP 32 HERRADA LOPEZ, Jose (MOVISTAR)
General Classification after Stage 11 ESP 1 CONTADOR VELASCO, Alberto (TINKOFF-SAXO) 40:26:56 ESP 2 VALVERDE BELMONTE, Alejandro (MOVISTAR) + 20 COL 3 URAN URAN, Rigoberto (OMEGA PHARMA – QUICK-STEP) + 1:08 GBR 4 FROOME, Christopher (SKY) + 1:21 ESP 5 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, Joaquin (KATUSHA) + 1:35 ESP 6 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Samuel (BMC RACING) + 1:52 ITA 7 ARU, Fabio (ASTANA) + 2:13 COL 8 ANACONA GOMEZ, Winner (LAMPRE – MERIDA) + 2:22 NED 9 GESINK, Robert (BELKIN) + 2:55 ITA 10 CARUSO, Damiano (CANNONDALE) + 3:51
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