Skip to main content

Vuelta a Espana stage 16 Live - Chaos in Tomares as Pedersen wins again

Refresh

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 16 of the Vuelta a España.

A look at the map for today's stage, which is largely flat for most of the day as the riders wind inland in Andalucía towards Tomares.

So far two more riders have left the race ahead of today's stage.

A reminder of the stage 15 results and the GC picture heading into today's stage.

Remco Evenepoel remains in the red jersey with a strong lead over Primož Roglič. The GC battle is unlikely to ignite on the closing hills of today's stage.

On Sunday, Evenepoel shed 15 seconds to Roglič, having lost 48 seconds the previous day. Up the road, meanwhile, Thymen Arensman was on the way to a breakaway stage victory.

20 minutes to go until the riders roll out to start today's stage.

Could the Vuelta a España still unravel for Remco Evenepoel?

A look at today's final. A couple of small hills that shouldn't put off the versatile fastmen like Pedersen, Coquard, Wright and Ackermann who contested the finish on stage 13.

Ayuso believes GC is yet to be fully decided in Vuelta a España

The peloton has rolled to begin the neutral zone now. 15 minutes of that before the flag drops.

189km to go

Ander Okamika (Burgos-BH) y Luis Angel Maté (Euskaltel-Euskadi) are on the attack early on.

It looks like the peloton is letting this two-man breakaway go straight away.

180km to go

Trek-Segafredo control the peloton on behalf of green jersey Mads Pedersen.

We have four hours of this to go... No climbs on today's stage to liven things up.

The gap is now up to 3:45 as Maté and Okamika press on.

174km to go

An early mechanical problem for Mads Pedersen, who is back in the peloton in no time.

168km to go

162km to go

Today's stage is the first one in the break for 38-year-old Maté.

148km to go

A lot of Grand Tour wins between these two – Primož Roglič and Chris Froome chat in the peloton.

137km to go

Relegation watch: White says 'system needs an overhaul' as BikeExchange miss out in Baltimore

The other half of the breakaway, Ander Okamika, has been out front three times already in this Vuelta, on stages 3, 4, and 13.

A look at the peloton during today's pretty quiet stage.