Dani Navarro (Cofidis) beat Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and Bauke Mollema (Blanco Cycling) on a testing uphill finish to win the Vuelta a Murcia.
The Spanish race has been reduced from a stage race to a one-day event, but it still attracted a quality field of riders keen to race in the warmer conditions of southern Europe.
The Movistar and Blanco teams rode to set up their leaders in the final kilometres, but Navarro was far too strong in the final surge to the line and had the strength to beat Mollema and Valverde.
Robert Gesink (Team Blanco) finished fourth after working for Mollema in the finale. Luis Ángel Maté (Cofidis) was fifth, Igor Antón (Euskaltel-Euskadi) sixth, Davide Rebellin (CC Polsat) seventh and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) was eighth.
Full Results
| # | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 4:40:32 |
| 2 | Bauke Mollema (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | |
| 3 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team | |
| 4 | Robert Gesink (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | |
| 5 | Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 6 | Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | |
| 7 | Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| 8 | Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team | |
| 9 | Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Sojasun | |
| 10 | Enzo Moyano (Arg) Caja Rural | |
| 11 | Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team | 0:00:03 |
| 12 | Egor Silin (Rus) Astana Pro Team | 0:00:06 |
| 13 | Jerome Coppel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:00:07 |
| 14 | José Joao Pimenta Costa Mendes (Por) Team NetApp-Endura | 0:00:08 |
| 15 | Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0:00:26 |
| 16 | Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:00:28 |
| 17 | Martijn Keizer (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0:00:44 |
| 18 | Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 0:00:46 |
| 19 | Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana Pro Team | |
| 20 | Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 0:00:49 |
| 21 | Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | |
| 22 | Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Team NetApp-Endura | |
| 23 | David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caja Rural | |
| 24 | Karol Domagalski (Pol) Caja Rural | |
| 25 | Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 0:00:53 |
| 26 | Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:01:11 |
| 27 | David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Team NetApp-Endura | |
| 28 | Ricardo Mestre (Por) Euskaltel-Euskadi | |
| 29 | Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 30 | Fabien Schmidt (Fra) Sojasun | 0:01:42 |
| 31 | Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:01:56 |
| 32 | Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 0:02:17 |
| 33 | Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | |
| 34 | Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Caja Rural | 0:02:22 |
| 35 | Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Astana Pro Team | 0:02:52 |
| 36 | Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:03:42 |
| 37 | Mikel Bizkarra (Spa) EUK | 0:06:37 |
| 38 | Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:07:01 |
| 39 | Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Team NetApp-Endura | 0:10:20 |
| 40 | Jan Barta (Cze) Team NetApp-Endura | |
| 41 | Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff (Swe) Astana Pro Team | |
| 42 | Antonio Piedra Perez (Spa) Caja Rural | |
| 43 | Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Sojasun | |
| 44 | Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Team NetApp-Endura | |
| 45 | Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| 46 | Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 0:11:57 |
| 47 | Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0:15:38 |
| 48 | Aritz Bagües (Spa) EUK | 0:17:22 |
| 49 | Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) EUK | |
| 50 | Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team | |
| 51 | Jon Larrinaga (Spa) | |
| 52 | Paul Poux (Fra) Sojasun | |
| 53 | Danail Andonov Petrov (Bul) Caja Rural | |
| 54 | Yelko Gomez (Pan) Caja Rural | |
| 55 | Igor Merino Cortazar (Spa) EUK | |
| 56 | Leopold Konig (Cze) Team NetApp-Endura | 0:17:27 |
| 57 | Stef Clement (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 0:20:38 |
| 58 | Mikel Iturria (Spa) EUK | |
| 59 | Adrian Honkisz (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| 60 | Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura | |
| 61 | Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| 62 | Illart Zuazubiskar Gallastegi (Spa) EUK | |
| 63 | Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| 64 | Gert Joeaar (Est) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:20:41 |
| 65 | David Tanner (Aus) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | |
| DNF | Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | |
| DNF | Marcos Garcia (Spa) Caja Rural | |
| DNF | José Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Brice Feillu (Fra) Sojasun | |
| DNF | Pim Ligthart (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | |
| DNF | Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | |
| DNF | Cyril Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| DNF | Nikita Novikov (Rus) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | |
| DNF | Mark Renshaw (Aus) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | |
| DNF | Simone Ponzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team | |
| DNF | Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| DNF | Maxime Mederel (Fra) Sojasun | |
| DNF | Tarik Chaoufi (Mar) Euskaltel-Euskadi | |
| DNF | Piotr Gawronski (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| DNF | Pawel Charucki (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| DNF | Mateusz Taciak (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice | |
| DNF | Unai Iparragirre (Spa) EUK | |
| DNF | Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team |
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