2017 Vuelta a España Stage 12 Results & Recap
Stage 12 of the 2017 Vuelta a España is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Marczynski wins stage 12
Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) won today’s stage of the Vuelta a Espana after a well time attack out of the breakaway in the latter part of the day. It’s the Polish rider’s second victory at this year’s race.
Omar Fraile (Dimension Data) finished second and Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) took third, 52 seconds behind the Lotto Soudal rider.
The action really started on the final ascent, the category 2 Puerto del Torcal, when Alberto Contador (Trek – Segafredo) attacked out of the peloton and took Nicolas Roche (BMC) along with him.
Roche couldn’t handle Contador’s tempo and fell back into the bunch. Meanwhile, Everything looked good for Team Sky until Froome had a mechanical issue, then crashed after receiving a new bike.
Two of Froome’s teammates dropped back to help pace Froome back into the bunch containing his GC rivals, but the finish line came to quickly and Froome ended up losing 20 seconds to Nibali and 42 to Contador. The red jersey is still on the back of the Sky rider, who is now 59 seconds ahead of Nibali going into stage 13.
Play by Play
It was another fast start to proceedings with a break failing to establish until around 45 kilometres in to the stage.
A group of 14 riders got off the front, including: Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo), Diego Rosa (Team Sky), Pawel Poljanski, Andreas Schillinger (Bora-Hansgrohe), Julien Duval (AG2R-La Mondiale), Brendan Canty (Cannondale-Drapac), Michael Morkov (Katusha-Alpecin), Stef Clement (LottoNL-Jumbo), Jan Polanc (UAE Team Emirates), Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal), Omar Fraile (Dimension Data), Anthony Perez (Cofidis), David Arroyo (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) and Peter Koning (Aqua Blue Sport).
The leaders eventually racked up nine minutes advantage on the peloton, making certain the winner will came from this group.
On the final ascent, the attacks started and Tomasz Marczynski (LTS) took off the front solo after the others wore down from their accelerations. He opened up a gap of 40 seconds on the run in to Antequere and never looked back. \n
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