The Belgian Remco Evenepoel clearly won the duel against Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard in the individual time trial at the Vuelta. Filippo Ganna gets the day’s win.
Remco Evenepoel clearly won the duel in the time trial on the tenth stage of the 78th Vuelta against Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard. The Belgian time-trial world champion crossed the finish line just under a minute earlier than the Danish professional cyclist, who had clinched a decisive time-trial victory in the title duel with Tadej Pogacar at the Tour of France in July.
The Italian Filippo Ganna, time trial world champion of 2020 and 2021, took the day’s victory in the Spanish city of Valladolid in 27:39 minutes. Evenepoel was second 16 seconds behind, Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic was third and Vingegaard was tenth.
In the overall standings, Evenepoel climbed to third place and reduced the gap to the leading American Sepp Kuss from 2:22 to 1:09 minutes.
No German among the top ten
No German driver made it into the top ten over the 25.8 kilometers, Nico Denz came in twelfth. After his success on the ninth stage, Lennard Kämna missed out on the top 20.
On Wednesday, the cycling professionals have 163.5 kilometers from Lerma to La Laguna Negra on the program, the route is mostly flat before the mountain arrival. The steep final ramp with a category one climb to around 1700 meters is tough. Here it could again come to a showdown between Evenepoel and Vingegaard. In 2020, the later overall winner Roglic took second place.