2024 Vuelta a España Stage 9 Results & Recap
Stage 9 of the 2024 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
Yates Powers to Solo WIn
On the first of two climbs up the steep Alto de Hazallanas, Adam Yates attacked from the lead group. The Briton soloed to an impeccable victory in a 58 kilometre effort. Ben O'Connor stayed in the lead of the general classification.
Wout van Aert attacked from the gun. Marc Soler and Pablo Castrillo quickly bridged across before Jonas Gregaard, Stefan Küng, Torstein Træen and Jesús Herrada made it seven at the front. But the battle kept raging, and more riders joined the attackers, including Adam Yates, Jay Vine and David Gaudu. The peloton was already trailing by over one minute when Max Poole and Gijs Leemreize were the last riders to make the junction.
The attackers rode to a maximum lead of over five minutes.
The gap fell below 5 minutes on the Alto de El Purche. Richard Carapaz attacked from the peloton, while Jay Vine, Adam Yates, Marc Soler, David Gaudu, Stefan Küng, Chris Harper, Torstein Træen, and Pablo Castrillo were the remaining leaders.
Yates headed out alone on the Alto de Hazallanas, while Antonio Tiberi is dropped from the peloton on the early slopes.
Yates crested the Hazallanas 40 seconds ahead of Gaudu and Vine. Carapaz followed a minute later with Castrillo in his wheel. The peloton was over 5 minutes in arrears.
The four chasers came together in the descent, but that doesn’t mean they were closing in on Yates on the rolling run to the second Hazallanas ascent. Quite the opposite. The Brit pulled further away.
On the second ascent of the Hazallanas, Carapaz dropped his companions. Over six minutes later Enric Mas rode away from red jersey Ben O’Connor and Primoz Roglic.
Yates reached the summit over 2 minutes ahead of Carapaz. Mas was 4.38 minutes behind, and the group O’Connor/Roglic was an extra minute in arrears.
Yates flew downhill to take one of the finest wins in his career.
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