Vuelta a España 2025 stage 5 preview - Flat Team Time Trial marks return to Spanish soil for Grand Tour

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Midweek TTT covers 24.1km around Figueres in Catalonia

TURIN, ITALY - AUGUST 21: A general view of Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, Sepp Kuss of United States, Axel Zingle of France, Ben Tulett of Great Britain, Dylan van Baarle of Belgium, Matteo Jorgenson of United States, Wilco Kelderman of Netherlands, Victor Campenaerts of Belgium and Team Visma | Lease a Bike during the La Vuelta - 80th Tour of Spain 2025, Team Presentation / #UCIWT / on August 21, 2025 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)
Visma-Lease a Bike at the start of the Vuelta a España had eight riders, but is without Alex Zingle for the TTT (Image credit: Getty Images)
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  • Start time first team: 16:37 CEST
  • Start time final team: 18:05 CEST
  • Estimated finish: 18:30 CEST
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After four days of racing in Italy and France, the 2025 Vuelta a España returns to home soil on Wednesday, albeit only temporarily, for a mid-week team time trial.

Figueres, famous for the Dalí Theatre-Museum, will send riders down the ramp for the flat 24.1km TTT in front of the museum designed by hometown surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Time checks will be taken at three locations: Cabanes (6.9km), Peralada (10.8km) and Vilanova la Muga (15.4km). An uphill finish will be the only obstacle to the procession of teams looking to gain time for their GC riders.

Look out for time trial specialist squads UAE Team Emirates-XRG and Visma-Lease a Bike attempting to make statements. For Visma, the stage could serve as an advantage for Jonas Vingegaard to retake the red leader's jersey, with the Dane currently second, on the same time as leader David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ).

The city of Figueres sits in the north-east corner of Catalonia and leads to a pair of mountain stages across Andorra, as the Vuelta route heads back out of the country on Thursday's stage 6 and Friday's stage 7.

Stage profile for the 2025 Vuelta a España

Stage 5 profile for the 2025 Vuelta a España (Image credit: Lavuelta.es)

Time checks

  • Cabanes, km. 6.9
  • Peralada, km. 10.8
  • Vilanova la Muga, km. 15.4
Jackie Tyson
Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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