Egan Bernal, protagonist of the Tour of Spain 2025.
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Giulio Pellizzari took the victory in stage 17 of the Vuelta after a devastating attack on the final ramps of El Morier. The young man of Red Bull-Bora crowned alone and crossed the goal with a sufficient advantage over Thomas Pidcock and Jai Hindley, who completed the podium.
The day, Penultimate of High Mountain, kept the controlled favorite group, without significant attacks, despite the hard profile of Puerto Leonés and the wind that accompanied much of the route.
Jonas Vingegaard and João Almeida arrived together at the Meta, retaining their privilege positions in the general classification, which did not suffer alterations. With the individual counterreloj of Valladolid on the horizon, the title candidates reserved forces for stage 18, where the differences that are heading to the future champion of this edition of the Vuelta are expected to be defined.
How was the general classification?
Jonas Vingegaard is still solid as the return leader with a total time of 64h 53:55 and 50 seconds of advantage over João Almeida, his main rival. Tom Pidcock is third to 2:28, followed by Jai Hindley at 3:04 and the winner of the stage, Giulio Pellizzari, which remains fifth to 3:51.
The Top-10 is completed by Felix Gall, Matthew Riccitello, SEPP Kuss, Torstein Træen and Matteo Jorgenson, the latter unique change of the day when climbing the tenth place. Everything will be decided in the time trial on Saturday, where the first places can still move.
Harold Tejada and Egan Bernal, the protagonists on the side of Colombia
Harold Tejada has been one of the proper names of the last two days of the Vuelta. The XDS Astana Team corridor was the protagonist in the escape of stage 17, showing combativeness and great way before being hunted on the ramps of El Morirero, and thanks to his regularity he climbed to the 12th place of the general classification.
Egan Bernal, on the other hand, came to shine with his victory in stage 16 and remains in box 15, 33 minutes from the leader, confirming that he has recovered the competitive level to fight in stages and continue adding in the mountain.
Among the other Colombians, Santiago Buitrago continues to improve and climbed three positions, placing himself in 16th position of the general and showing solidity at the close of the race. Further back, Juan Guillermo Martínez descended to position 54, while Brandon Rivera is 64, in an edition where both have fulfilled teamwork rather than personal aspirations.
This will be stage 18 of the Tour of Spain 2025
Stage 18 of the Vuelta will be an individual counterreloj in Valladolid of 27.4 km, totally flat and fast, ideal for power specialists. It will be key to the general, because it will allow to open or cut differences before the last mountain stages and profile the great favorite to the title.
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