Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike) triumphed from the breakaway to attain his third stage win of the 2024 Vuelta a España, beating Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ) in a two-man dash to the road on stage 10.
The Belgian was the strongest of the main duo, who had left the remainder of the transfer behind 30km from the end, in a no-contest dash end. Two minutes, Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) led dwelling William Junior Lecerf (Soudal-QuickStep) and Juri Hollmann (Alpecin-Deceuninck) to fill out the highest 5, all three having earlier been within the break.
Despite a number of climbs filling the 180km stage, together with a first-category check 20km from the end, there was no main GC motion on the stage, with the principle contenders all ending safely within the peloton over 5 minutes down.
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