2023 Vuelta a España Stage 19 Results & Recap
Stage 19 of the 2023 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
Dainese wins stage 19
Alberto Dainese (DSM) sprinted to victory on stage 19 of the Vuelta a Espana in Iscar after 177.5km flat and fairly quick stage that had minimal action until the final few kilometres, when Kaden Groves (ADC) got caught behind a crash taking him out of contention. Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) almost beat his compatriot to the line but had to settle for second.
"We did a super job," Dainese said. "We were looking back to the other sprints to see what we did wrong. And today we delivered. I was unlucky to lose two teammates in the crash, but they delivered me in the perfect position, where I wanted to be, and I’m super happy to finish such hard work this way. It’s really nice. I really wanted to end the season in a good way and also to end my time with DSM in a good way. This is special. Today I felt a lot of pressure because I knew it was almost the last opportunity for the sprint. Yesterday, we were speaking [with Filippo Ganna] in the gruppetto about sprinting and now I’ve done it."
Race leader Sepp Kuss is still in the red jersey with no issues today, however, the American isn't totally out of the woods yet. Tomorrow's stage is going to be a battle of attrition with 10 climbs (all Cat. 3) on the menu.
"These days are more stressful now," Kuss said. "Normally, I just sit at the back and ride to the finish line but now there’s a bit more to lose. The guys helped me really well today, we were always up front and another day done. The pace was okay. Sometimes it’s better to keep a bit of tension on the legs. It was always kind of an annoying wind from the side so it wasn’t too too easy. There’s no easy day in the third week. I think in these stages where it’s more relaxed along the day, people take risk and crash in the end but we stayed out of trouble. It’s quite a few climbs tomorrow! But we have a really strong team and we can go into tomorrow with a lot of confidence. But it’s gonna be a really hard day, everyone is gonna go all in."
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