Vuelta, Fabio Aru wins the leader’s red jersey – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on September 2, 2015 at 19:08.
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Fabio Aru is the new red jersey at the Tour of Spain after finishing in second place in ‘ eleventh stage, the hardest of the race, with an uphill finish in Andorra. The rider of Astana so ‘ousted Dutchman Tom Dumoulin of Giant-Alpecin, leading up to yesterday The village was won by Spaniard Mikel Landa, teammate of Sardinia.

The eleventh stage of the Vuelta a Espana in 2015 and ‘was the dreaded Andorra la Vella-Cortals of Encamp, of 138 kilometers, with as many as 3 Grand Prix of the Mountain of First Instance at the beginning, followed by ‘harsh Coll de la Gallina and steep arrival (9 km with an average gradient of 9 percent). To complicate matters you and ‘put the rain. Several athletes have paid the “overcooked” the high Pyrenees.

Among these Briton Chris Froome (Sky), ruler of the Tour de France, crashed in the opening lap and lags behind the best of about eight minutes. Lingered even the Italian Domenico Pozzovivo (AG2R La Mondiale), who was in tenth place in the absolute.

Day of glory for Astana, which, in addition to winning the stage with Spanish Landa has placed in second position, the Italian Fabio Aru (at 1’20 “or so), the great protagonist of the attack decisive seven kilometers from the finish.

He responded partially Spaniard Joaquim “Purito” Rodriguez (Katusha), Dutchman Tom Dumoulin (Giant Alpecin) and the Colombian Esteban Chaves (Orica GreenEdge). Losing ground instead the two leaders of Movistar, which is the Colombian Nairo Quintana (influenced) and Spaniard Alejandro Valverde.

STEP 1. Mikel Landa (Spain / Astana) 4:34:54 “2. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana) +1: 22″ 3. Ian Boswell (US / Team Sky) +1: 40 “4. Daniel Moreno (Spain / Katusha ) +1: 57 “5. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) +1: 59″ 6. Rafal Majka (Poland / Tinkoff – Saxo) +2: 10 “7. Mikel Nieve (Spain / Team Sky) 8. Esteban Chaves (Colombia / Orica) +2: 59 “9. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands / Giant) 10. Diego Rosa (Italy / Astana) +3: 02″

1 OVERALL. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana) 43:12:19 “
2. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) +27 “
3. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands / Giant) +30 “
4. Rafal Majka (Poland / Tinkoff – Saxo) +1: 28 “
5. Esteban Chaves (Colombia / Orica) +1: 29 “
6. Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar) +1: 52 “
7. Daniel Moreno (Spain / Katusha) +1: 54 “
8. Mikel Nieve (Spain / Team Sky) +1: 58 “

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