Landa takes surprise stage win in Vuelta a Burgos, Rodriguez secures general classification
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Landa takes surprise stage win in Vuelta a Burgos, Rodriguez secures general classification

by Bjorn Haake at 11:21 AM EST   comments
Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results
 
Samuel Sanchez cracks two kilometers from summit finish

mikel landaEuskaltel-Euskadi's Mikel Landa quickly made the best of a faltering team strategy in the final stage of the Vuelta a Burgos. With team captain Samuel Sanchez cracking, the overall was gone fore the Basque team, so Landa escaped for the stage victory, his first win as a professional. Joaquim Rodriguez also struggled towards the end, but held on to his overall lead. Jose Juan Cobo moved up onto the final podium, with a fine second place on the mountaintop finish on the Lagunas de Neila.

The whole Euskaltel-Euskadi had been riding for Sanchez so that the 2008 Olympic Champion could make up his 21-second deficit against 'Purito' Rodriguez in the overall. Landa didn't miss a beat when Sanchez started to leave a gap with two kilometers to go and quickly put in a brutal acceleration. "I was going very well today, whereas Samuel was not," Landa said to Spanish TV at the finish.

He had built a lead of a hundred meters, but Rodriguez and Cobo managed to get back with less than 500 meters to go. "I just tried to recuperate and then do a rapid sprint," Landa explained. Rodriguez was struggling on the steep final switchbacks, but with the overall win in the bag he could afford to not kill himself.

Landa then surprised Cobo with a strong acceleration just before the final 180-degrees turn, less than 200 meters from the line. Cobo tried hard but never managed to get back into Landa's slipstream, who stormed from the right hand side of the road into the very left on that final left hand bend, sprinting up the hill.

Landa described the whole day as being good for Euskaltel-Euskadi. "We worked very hard from the first mountain and when I took over at the final climb, I had a good rhythm."

The rhythm was indeed strong - too strong for his captain, Sanchez, Too strong also for Rodriguez and eventually for Cobo as well. "We were going fast. It was impressive work by Landa," Cobo said.

Cobo did not have to look out for a captain like Denis Menchov today. "I had a bit of freedom to get a result," he said after finishing third overall. "It is a sign that I am going well."

Euskaltel-Euskadi dominates the day

With 11 riders within a minute in the overall, a break was hard to initiate. At the first sprint after 26km, everything was still together. Jordi Simón (Caja Rural) was ahead of Jesús Rosendo (Andalucía) and Danilo Napolitano (Acqua e Sapone).

It took 40 kilometers until four riders, Juan José Oroz (Euskaltel), Jose Luis Roldán (Andalucía), Víctor Cabedo (Orbea) and Cyril Bessy (Saur), were allowed some leeway (half a minute). The quartet extended it to 5'30 at kilometer 60, the maximum gap they were able to get.

At the first climb of the day, the Alto de Collado at km 97, the gap was down to 4'20. Roldán was first at the top, ahead of Cabedo, Bessy and and Oroz. The sprint at kilometer 108 was taken by Cabedo, in front of Bessy and Roldán, with the peloton at 3'46,

Bessy took off at the second climb of the day, but the fast pace set by Euskaltel-Euskadi was too much for Bessy, who was caught with a little more than 30km to go. With the categorie one Alto de Pasil de Rozaviento coming up, most riders had to surrender to the fast pace set at the front. Only ten riders stayed together over the top, although several riders managed to catch up on the descent.

Euskaltel continued to push the pace, team trialing up and down the Collado as the fourth climb of the day. The final ascent had to bring the decision and with riders dropping quickly, only six men remained in the front group: Landa, Sanchez, Cobo, Rodriguez, Daniel Moreno and Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur Sojasun)

Landa pulled hard for Sanchez and with two kilometers to go, it was apparent that Sanchez wasn't going well. Landa pulled ahead a few meters and Rodriguez passed Sanchez. Landa, realizing that it was his to take the stage, put in a small acceleration and quickly had a gap of around 100 meters. At first it was unclear if it was a tactical game by Euskaltel to take the stage, but Sanchez quickly dropped back.

While Landa was caught by Cobo and Rodriguez, he had enough left to take the stage.


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Vuelta Burgos (2.HC) Stage 5 Results: Areniscas de los Pinares to Lagunas de Neila (155 km)

  Click on the arrowsat the top of the column to sort the race results.
Country Result Name Team Time
esp ESP 1 Mikel Landa Meana (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 04:00:20
esp ESP 2 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:00:03
esp ESP 3 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Katusha) 00:00:12
esp ESP 4 Daniel Moreno Fernandéz (Katusha) 00:00:17
fra FRA 5 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur-Sojasun) 00:00:33
col COL 6 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:01:10
esp ESP 7 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:01:14
esp ESP 8 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:01:28
esp ESP 9 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Movistar) 00:01:29
esp ESP 10 Igor Anton Hernandez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:01:58
fra FRA 11 Kenny Elissonde (Française Des Jeux) 00:02:00
esp ESP 12 David Lopez Garcia (Movistar) 00:02:03
esp ESP 13 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:02:08
esp ESP 14 David Arroyo Duran (Movistar) 00:02:09
esp ESP 15 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Movistar) 00:02:10
col COL 16 Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:02:25
swe SWE 17 Tobias Ludvigsson (Skil-Shimano) 00:03:03
col COL 18 Alex Cano Ardila (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:03:04
esp ESP 19 David Blanco Rodiguez (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:03:50
ita ITA 20 Antonio Santoro (Androni Giocattoli) 00:04:36
rus RUS 21 Vladimir Karpets (Katusha) 00:04:58
rus RUS 22 Eduard Vorganov (Katusha) s.t.
esp ESP 23 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Katusha) 00:05:04
esp ESP 24 Jose Herrada Lopez (Caja Rural) 00:05:37
esp ESP 25 Jesús Lopez Herrada (Movistar) s.t.
esp ESP 26 Mikel Astarloza (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:05:54
esp ESP 27 Antonio Piedra Perez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:06:13
fra FRA 28 Yannick Talabardon (Saur-Sojasun) 00:06:31
bel BEL 29 Jerome Baugnies (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:07:01
ita ITA 30 Francesco Di Paolo (Acqua E Sapone) 00:08:03
esp ESP 31 Ramon Domene Reyes (Androni Giocattoli) 00:08:05
rus RUS 32 Denis Menchov (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:08:07
esp ESP 33 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
esp ESP 34 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:08:09
fra FRA 35 Arnaud Gerard (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
esp ESP 36 Mikel Bizkarra (Orbea - Oreka SDA) s.t.
esp ESP 37 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Caja Rural) 00:08:24
esp ESP 38 Arturo Ortiz Mora (Caja Rural) s.t.
esp ESP 39 José Alberto Roman Benitez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t.
esp ESP 40 Javier Moreno Bazan (Caja Rural) s.t.
rus RUS 41 Alexander Ryabkin (Caja Rural) s.t.
esp ESP 42 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:08:40
cro CRO 43 Vladimir Miholjevic (Acqua E Sapone) 00:08:53
col COL 44 Dalivier Ospina Navarro (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:09:15
ita ITA 45 Fabio Felline (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:09:24
ita ITA 46 Daniele Ratto (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
esp ESP 47 Jordi Simón (Caja Rural) 00:09:38
esp ESP 48 Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:09:50
esp ESP 49 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armienta (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:10:17
esp ESP 50 Inaki Isasi Flores (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
esp ESP 51 David Belda (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:10:39
fra FRA 52 Cyril Bessy (Saur-Sojasun) 00:10:44
ita ITA 53 Alessandro Donati (Acqua E Sapone) 00:11:44
esp ESP 54 Noel Martín Infante (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:11:46
esp ESP 55 Jose Luis Carmona Roldan (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:12:50
rsa RSA 56 Christopher Jennings (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:13:49
fra FRA 57 Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
fra FRA 58 Yoann Offredo (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
rus RUS 59 Egor Silin (Katusha) s.t.
fra FRA 60 Frédéric Guesdon (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
bel BEL 61 Johan Coenen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
esp ESP 62 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Movistar) s.t.
fra FRA 63 Matthieu Ladagnous (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
esp ESP 64 Carlos Verona (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) s.t.
col COL 65 Mauricio Alberto Cano Ardila (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:13:52
ven VEN 66 Jackson Rodriguez (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
esp ESP 67 Benat Urain (Orbea - Oreka SDA) s.t.
fra FRA 68 Thomas Bonnin (Skil-Shimano) s.t.
esp ESP 69 Adrian Saez De Arregi (Orbea - Oreka SDA) s.t.
esp ESP 70 Rafael Valls Ferri (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
esp ESP 71 Jesus Rosendo Prado (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t.
fra FRA 72 Etienne Tortelier (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
esp ESP 73 Aritz Etxebarria (Orbea - Oreka SDA) s.t.
jpn JPN 74 Yukihiro Doi (Skil-Shimano) s.t.
fra FRA 75 Yann Huguet (Skil-Shimano) s.t.
col COL 76 Camilo Andres Suarez Albarracin (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:14:04
ita ITA 77 Luca Barla (Androni Giocattoli) 00:14:09
esp ESP 78 Victor Cabedo Carda (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:14:48
ita ITA 79 Alessandro Bertolini (Androni Giocattoli) 00:14:49
bel BEL 80 Geert Steurs (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:15:04
bel BEL 81 Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:15:06
bel BEL 82 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:15:08
esp ESP 83 Ruben Jimenez Ventosa (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) s.t.
can CAN 84 Dominique Rollin (Française Des Jeux) 00:16:56
esp ESP 85 Antonio Cabello Baena (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:17:02
bel BEL 86 Jarl Salomein (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:18:05
ita ITA 87 Luca Solari (Androni Giocattoli) 00:21:07
ita ITA 88 Giairo Ermeti (Androni Giocattoli) 00:21:22
blr BLR DNF Aleksandr Kuschynski (Katusha)  
fra FRA DNF Alexandre Geniez (Skil-Shimano)  
esp ESP DNF Ángel Vicioso Arcos (Androni Giocattoli)  
esp ESP DNF Benat Intxausti (Movistar)  
ita ITA DNF Claudio Corioni (Acqua E Sapone)  
ita ITA DNF Danilo Napolitano (Acqua E Sapone)  
esp ESP DNF Egoitz García (Caja Rural)  
esp ESP DNF Francisco Manuel Anton Martin (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon)  
esp ESP DNF Igor Romero Etxebarria (Caja Rural)  
fra FRA DNF Jean-marc Marino (Saur-Sojasun)  
col COL DNF Jose Cayetano Sarmiento Tunarrosa (Acqua E Sapone)  
esp ESP DNF José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Movistar)  
esp ESP DNF Juan Horrach Rippoll (Katusha)  
esp ESP DNF Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Andalucia - Caja Granada)  
col COL DNF Juan Pablo Forero Carreno (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion)  
col COL DNF Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion)  
ger GER DNF Martin Reimer (Skil-Shimano)  
ita ITA DNF Massimo Codol (Acqua E Sapone)  
esp ESP DNF Pascual Orengo Lopez (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon)  
fra FRA DNF Paul Poux (Saur-Sojasun)  
ned NED DNF Robin Chaigneau (Skil-Shimano)  
fra FRA DNF Rony Martias (Saur-Sojasun)  
ned NED DNF Sander Oostlander (Skil-Shimano)  
ita ITA DNF Stefano Garzelli (Acqua E Sapone)  
col COL DNF Victor Hugo Pena (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion)  
esp ESP DNF Xabier Zabalo (Orbea - Oreka SDA)  
blr BLR DNF Yauheni Hutarovich (Française Des Jeux)  

Final general classification:

Country Result Name Team Time
esp ESP 1 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Katusha) 11:12:02
esp ESP 2 Daniel Moreno Fernandéz (Katusha) 00:00:36
esp ESP 3 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:00:45
esp ESP 4 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:01:23
fra FRA 5 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur-Sojasun) 00:01:52
esp ESP 6 David Lopez Garcia (Movistar) 00:01:58
esp ESP 7 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Movistar) 00:02:06
esp ESP 8 Igor Anton Hernandez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:25
esp ESP 9 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Movistar) 00:02:34
esp ESP 10 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:55
esp ESP 11 David Arroyo Duran (Movistar) 00:03:23
col COL 12 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:03:39
fra FRA 13 Kenny Elissonde (Française Des Jeux) 00:03:56
esp ESP 14 David Blanco Rodiguez (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:04:09
col COL 15 Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:05:17
swe SWE 16 Tobias Ludvigsson (Skil-Shimano) 00:06:11
rus RUS 17 Eduard Vorganov (Katusha) 00:06:57
fra FRA 18 Yannick Talabardon (Saur-Sojasun) 00:06:59
esp ESP 19 Mikel Landa Meana (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:07:13
rus RUS 20 Vladimir Karpets (Katusha) 00:07:41
esp ESP 21 Antonio Piedra Perez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:07:49
esp ESP 22 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Katusha) 00:07:53
ita ITA 23 Antonio Santoro (Androni Giocattoli) 00:08:20
rus RUS 24 Denis Menchov (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:08:31
esp ESP 25 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:08:38
esp ESP 26 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t.
fra FRA 27 Arnaud Gerard (Française Des Jeux) 00:08:58
col COL 28 Alex Cano Ardila (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:09:07
bel BEL 29 Jerome Baugnies (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:10:53
ita ITA 30 Fabio Felline (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:11:06
esp ESP 31 Mikel Astarloza (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:11:22
esp ESP 32 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:11:35
col COL 33 Dalivier Ospina Navarro (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:11:42
esp ESP 34 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:11:55
esp ESP 35 Ramon Domene Reyes (Androni Giocattoli) 00:12:01
esp ESP 36 Jose Herrada Lopez (Caja Rural) 00:12:05
esp ESP 37 Arturo Ortiz Mora (Caja Rural) 00:12:40
esp ESP 38 Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:12:56
esp ESP 39 Jesús Lopez Herrada (Movistar) 00:13:09
esp ESP 40 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Movistar) 00:14:38
esp ESP 41 Jordi Simón (Caja Rural) 00:14:51
esp ESP 42 Javier Moreno Bazan (Caja Rural) 00:15:00
rus RUS 43 Alexander Ryabkin (Caja Rural) 00:15:02
esp ESP 44 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Caja Rural) 00:15:09
fra FRA 45 Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) 00:15:29
fra FRA 46 Cyril Bessy (Saur-Sojasun) 00:15:39
ita ITA 47 Francesco Di Paolo (Acqua E Sapone) 00:15:44
ita ITA 48 Alessandro Donati (Acqua E Sapone) 00:15:52
jpn JPN 49 Yukihiro Doi (Skil-Shimano) 00:16:09
fra FRA 50 Matthieu Ladagnous (Française Des Jeux) 00:16:21
esp ESP 51 Jesus Rosendo Prado (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:16:31
esp ESP 52 José Alberto Roman Benitez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:16:32
cro CRO 53 Vladimir Miholjevic (Acqua E Sapone) 00:16:58
bel BEL 54 Johan Coenen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:17:14
ita ITA 55 Daniele Ratto (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
col COL 56 Mauricio Alberto Cano Ardila (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:17:21
bel BEL 57 Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:17:45
esp ESP 58 Jose Luis Carmona Roldan (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:17:57
esp ESP 59 Rafael Valls Ferri (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:18:20
col COL 60 Camilo Andres Suarez Albarracin (Cafe De Colombia - Colombia Es Pasion) 00:18:21
esp ESP 61 David Belda (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:18:59
ita ITA 62 Luca Barla (Androni Giocattoli) 00:19:01
fra FRA 63 Yann Huguet (Skil-Shimano) 00:19:10
esp ESP 64 Adrian Saez De Arregi (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:19:26
esp ESP 65 Inaki Isasi Flores (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:19:27
fra FRA 66 Frédéric Guesdon (Française Des Jeux) 00:19:35
esp ESP 67 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armienta (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:20:09
fra FRA 68 Thomas Bonnin (Skil-Shimano) 00:20:27
ven VEN 69 Jackson Rodriguez (Androni Giocattoli) 00:20:37
esp ESP 70 Noel Martín Infante (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:21:33
rsa RSA 71 Christopher Jennings (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:21:47
esp ESP 72 Victor Cabedo Carda (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:21:50
esp ESP 73 Benat Urain (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:21:56
bel BEL 74 Geert Steurs (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:21:59
esp ESP 75 Mikel Bizkarra (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:22:38
fra FRA 76 Yoann Offredo (Française Des Jeux) 00:23:44
ita ITA 77 Alessandro Bertolini (Androni Giocattoli) 00:24:30
ita ITA 78 Luca Solari (Androni Giocattoli) 00:24:37
can CAN 79 Dominique Rollin (Française Des Jeux) 00:25:14
esp ESP 80 Aritz Etxebarria (Orbea - Oreka SDA) 00:25:35
fra FRA 81 Etienne Tortelier (Saur-Sojasun) 00:25:58
esp ESP 82 Carlos Verona (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:26:36
esp ESP 83 Ruben Jimenez Ventosa (Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon) 00:26:51
rus RUS 84 Egor Silin (Katusha) 00:28:04
esp ESP 85 Antonio Cabello Baena (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:29:00
bel BEL 86 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:29:01
bel BEL 87 Jarl Salomein (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:34:12
ita ITA 88 Giairo Ermeti (Androni Giocattoli) 00:34:19

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