2019 Vuelta a España Stage 6 Results & Recap
Stage 6 of the 2019 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
Herrada wins stage 6
Jesús Herrada (Cofidis) won his first Grand Tour stage today on stage 6 of the Vuelta a Espana when he pulled away from Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida) in the last kilometre of an uphill finish. A late move was instigated by Teuns on the Ares del Maestrat climb to nab the overall race lead, which he did despite taking second on the day to Herrada.
Teuns now leads the overall by 38 seconds ahead of David De La Cruz (Team Ineos). Astana’s Miguel Angel Lopez dropped to third place and now sits a minute back after his team chose not to defend his red jersey this early in the three-week race.
It was a hard start in the 190 kilometre stage that saw David De La Cruz (INS), Dylan Teuns (TBM), Robert Gesink (TJV), Tejay van Garderen (EF1), Jesús Herrada (COF), Gianluca Brambilla (TFS), Tsgabu Grmay (MTS), Bruno Armirail (GFC), Nélson Oliveira (MOV), Dorian Godon (ALM) and Pawel Poljanski (BOH) pull away about 40 kilometres in to the stage after a series of ill-fated attacks. Wout Poels (Ineos) was away solo for a short period on the first KOM of the day, but eventually was contained, and afterwards, the break of the day was formed.
The 11 riders slowly pulled out a lead that seemed comfortable for the Astana-led peloton, about four minutes, multiple crashes in the field disrupted what would otherwise have been a smooth transitional day in the saddle.
EF Education First suffered the brunt of the crash. Rigoberto Urán and Hugh Carthy had to abandon because of their injuries. Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) and CCC’s Victor De La Parte also called it a day.
On the penultimate climb, the Puerto de Culla, Grmay struck out solo, the first to make a move out of the break. Nelson Oliveira joined the Ethiopian champion and the duo gained 30 seconds on the disorganized chase group.
The leaders were caught by an antsy Teuns and Herrada on the final climb and had no response to the Belgian’s pace while Herrada had enough to sit on his wheel until 400 metres to go, when he came around to do what his brother couldn’t yesterday, win out of the breakaway.
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