2024 Vuelta a Españastage 17 by BikeRaceInfo

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Weather at the finish city of Santander at 1:45 PM, local time. 19C (66F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 15 km/hr (9 mph). 30 kilometers into the stage rain fell on the peloton and the rain fell the rest of the stage.

Rated ascents:

Km 54.8: Alto de la Estranguada, 5.5 km @ 8.7%. Cat. 2
Km 70.4: Alto del Caracol, 7.2 km @ 6.2%. Cat. 2

The race: Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) & Sander De Pestel (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) did not start.

Grischa Niermann (Visma-Lease a Bike) provided an update on Wout van Aert’s condition after he crashed out yesterday: “For now, we know that he has no broken bones, that’s good news. On the other hand, he has deep wounds, especially in his knee. He had to stay in hospital over night. Of course he has a lot of pain. He is now about to fly back to Belgium and to go home and to have further examinations in Belgium in the hospital. No, [we do] not [know] yet [what it means for the rest of the season]. The doctors still have to say something about that. We don’t know but I think it is still, even without broken bones, a severe injury and he will not be on the bike tomorrow.”

Here's the race organizer's stage 17 summary:

The race:
Stage 17 of La Vuelta 24 was already a historic day for Australian cycling, with three riders from Down Under leading three different standings, and it finished in superb fashion, as Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) sprinted to victory in Santander. He dominated a thrilling finale to take his 3rd win in this edition, ahead of Pavel Bittner (dsm-firmenich-PostNL) and Vito Braet (Intermarché-Wanty). Meanwhile, Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) survived a rainy day to hold on to La Roja, while Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) held on to the polka-dot jersey.

Stage 17 is entirely set in Cantabria, an autonomous community deeply rooted in the history of La Vuelta. The sprinters eye a last opportunity to shine but there are two cat-2 climbs and 2,164m of elevation to overcome from Arnuero to Santander (141.5km).

4 leaders
Attackers are willing to pull the upset. Jonas Gregaard (Lotto Dstny), Thibault Guernalec (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Thomas Champion (Cofidis) and Xabier Isasa (Euskatel-Euskadi) open a gap at km 2.

Rain falling on a breakaway

Many chasers try to join them at the front but the peloton don’t let them go and the four leaders eventually build a gap of 4’10’’ en route to the two ascents of the day, the Alto de La Estranguada (summit at km 54.8) and the Alto Del Caracol (km 70.4).

Groves dominates a thrilling finale
Alpecin Deceuninck (for Kaden Groves), DSM-Firmenich-PostNL (Pavel Bittner) and Kern Pharma (Pau Miquel) pull the bunch. The gap is down to 1 minute with 18km to go.

Champion is dropped but Gregaard, Guernalec and Isasa insist until the last 2km, when Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla) tries to upset the bunch on the wet roads of Santander.

A rainy day in Spain. A break with a 15-second gap at 5 km to go.

Alpecin-Deceuninck stay in control and make sure Kaden Groves can sprint to his seventh La Vuelta stage win, the third this year. Pavel Bittner (dsm-firmenich-PostNL) finishes second.

Kaden Groves wins stage 17.

Complete results:

Stage 17 photos

141.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.003 km/hr

1	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3hr 32min 14sec
2	Pavel Bittner	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
3	Vito Braet	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
4	Pau Miquel Delgado	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
5	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
6	Victor Campenaerts	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
7	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
8	Mathis Le Berre	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	s.t.
9	Arjen Livyns	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
10	Xabier Berasategi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
11	Mauro Schmid	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
12	Max Poole	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
13	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Filippo Baroncini	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
15	Carlos Canal	Movistar	s.t.
16	Gotzon Martín	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
17	Gianmarco Garofoli	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
18	Mathias Vacek	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
19	Antonio Soto	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
20	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	s.t.
21	Guillaume Martin	Cofidis	s.t.
22	Simon Guglielmi	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	s.t.
23	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
24	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
25	Roger Adrià	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
26	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
27	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
28	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
29	Luis Angel Mate	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
30	Dylan Teuns	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Attila Valter	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	s.t.
32	Richard Carapaz	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
33	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
34	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
35	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
36	Mikel Landa	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
37	Enric Mas	Movistar	s.t.
38	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	s.t.
39	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
40	Edward Dunbar	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
41	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
42	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
43	José Félix Parra	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
44	Santiago Umba	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
45	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
46	Isaac del Toro	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
47	Cristian Rodriguez	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	s.t.
48	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
49	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
50	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
51	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
52	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
53	Lorenzo Fortunato	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
54	Clément Berthet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
55	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	s.t.
56	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
57	Nico Denz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
58	Marco Frigo	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
59	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
60	Quentin Pacher	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
61	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
62	Giovanni Aleotti	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 32sec
63	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	0:36
64	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
65	Mattia Cattaneo	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
66	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
67	Darren Rafferty	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
68	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
69	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
70	Robert Gesink	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	1:17
71	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:34
72	Quinten Hermans	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
73	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	s.t.
74	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
75	Xabier Isasa	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
76	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	2:07
77	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	2:11
78	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
79	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	2:44
80	Chris Hamilton	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
81	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	2:47
82	Kasper Asgreen	Soudal Quick-Step	3:11
83	Juri Hollmann	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
84	Urko Berrade	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
85	Thomas Champion	Cofidis	s.t.
86	Julius van den Berg	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
87	Alessandro De Marchi	Jayco-AlUla	4:04
88	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	4:20
89	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	4:24
90	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	4:55
91	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	5:14
92	Mikel Bizkarra	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
93	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
94	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	6:46
95	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	7:21
96	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	7:37
97	Reuben Thompson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
98	Eduardo Sepulveda	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
99	Pablo Castrillo	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
100	Tao Geoghegan Hart	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
101	James Knox	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
102	Gijs Leemreize	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
103	Oier Lazkano	Movistar	s.t.
104	Joan Bou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	10:02
105	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
106	Gleb Brussenskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
107	Unai Iribar	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
108	Ibon Ruiz	Equipo Kern Pharma	s.t.
109	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	12:46
110	Riley Sheehan	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
111	William Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	13:49
113	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
114	Fran Miholjevic	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
115	Felix Engelhardt	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
116	Laurens Huys	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	s.t.
117	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
118	Jorge Arcas	Movistar	s.t.
119	Patrick Gamper	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
120	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
121	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
122	Filippo Zana	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
123	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
124	Victor Lafay	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
125	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	s.t.
126	Jesus Herrada	Cofidis	s.t.
127	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
128	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
129	Sylvain Moniquet	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
130	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
131	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
132	Txomin Juaristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
133	Ide Schelling	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
134	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
135	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
137	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Wanty	16:59
138	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
139	Nicolas Vinokurov	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
140	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:13
141	Jorge Gutiérrez	Equipo Kern Pharma	21:10

GC after stage 17:

GC leader: Ben O'Connor (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale)
Mountains classification leader: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
Points classification leader: Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
Best young rider: Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers)
Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

2,748.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.010 km/hr

1	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	68hr 41min 14sec
2	Primoz Roglic	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 5sec
3	Enric Mas	Movistar	1:25
4	Richard Carapaz	EF Education-EasyPost	1:46
5	Mikel Landa	Soudal Quick-Step	2:18
6	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	3:48
7	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	3:53
8	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	4:00
9	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	4:27
10	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates	5:19
11	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates	5:20
12	Sepp Kuss	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	6:25
13	Cristian Rodriguez	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	10:42
14	Edward Dunbar	Jayco-AlUla	12:25
15	Guillaume Martin	Cofidis	17:47
16	Lorenzo Fortunato	Astana Qazaqstan	18:21
17	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	23:52
18	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	25:00
19	José Félix Parra	Equipo Kern Pharma	29:26
20	Clément Berthet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	45:42
21	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	50:51
22	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	51:22
23	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	54:40
24	Mattia Cattaneo	Soudal Quick-Step	55:33
25	Attila Valter	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	55:35
26	Quentin Pacher	Groupama-FDJ	59:03
27	Mikel Bizkarra	Euskaltel-Euskadi	1:00:46
28	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:02:45
29	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	1:06:55
30	Sam Oomen	Lidl-Trek	1:08:15
31	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:11:08
32	Max Poole	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	1:16:11
33	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:23:09
34	Nairo Quintana	Movistar	1:25:16
35	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	1:25:28
36	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	1:25:34
37	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	1:26:05
38	Giovanni Aleotti	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:26:44
39	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	1:28:08
40	Isaac del Toro	UAE Team Emirates	1:30:42
41	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates	1:31:00
42	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	1:32:33
43	Daniel Martinez	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:33:12
44	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Wanty	1:35:39
45	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:35:57
46	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	1:37:07
47	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	1:37:28
48	William Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	1:40:41
49	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	1:46:16
50	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:47:10
51	Gotzon Martín	Euskaltel-Euskadi	1:47:16
52	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:47:58
53	Simon Guglielmi	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	1:50:22
54	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	1:50:32
55	Marco Frigo	Israel-Premier Tech	1:52:41
56	Roger Adrià	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:54:28
57	Filippo Zana	Jayco-AlUla	1:55:07
58	Gianmarco Garofoli	Astana Qazaqstan	1:57:00
59	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:57:43
60	Urko Berrade	Equipo Kern Pharma	2:01:16
61	Robert Gesink	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	2:01:27
62	Tao Geoghegan Hart	Lidl-Trek	2:02:17
63	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	2:02:26
64	Luis Angel Mate	Euskaltel-Euskadi	2:07:32
65	James Knox	Soudal Quick-Step	2:12:52
66	Mathias Vacek	Lidl-Trek	2:15:11
67	Darren Rafferty	EF Education-EasyPost	2:19:32
68	Pablo Castrillo	Equipo Kern Pharma	2:21:17
69	Mathis Le Berre	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	2:23:07
70	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:23:19
71	Chris Hamilton	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:24:53
72	Pau Miquel Delgado	Equipo Kern Pharma	2:25:40
73	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	2:26:20
74	Dylan Teuns	Israel-Premier Tech	2:26:29
75	Mauro Schmid	Jayco-AlUla	2:27:34
76	Carlos Canal	Movistar	2:28:16
77	Quinten Hermans	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:28:25
78	Filippo Baroncini	UAE Team Emirates	2:29:02
79	Gijs Leemreize	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:30:58
80	Laurens Huys	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	2:32:33
81	Vito Braet	Intermarché-Wanty	2:37:35
82	Joan Bou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	2:38:09
83	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto Dstny	2:40:00
84	Unai Iribar	Equipo Kern Pharma	2:40:35
85	Fran Miholjevic	Bahrain Victorious	2:45:14
86	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	2:46:20
87	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	2:47:01
88	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	2:47:38
89	Thomas Champion	Cofidis	2:52:54
90	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	2:52:59
91	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	2:53:09
92	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	2:55:03
93	Arjen Livyns	Lotto Dstny	2:58:28
94	Victor Campenaerts	Lotto Dstny	2:58:36
95	Jesus Herrada	Cofidis	2:58:38
96	Juri Hollmann	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:00:09
97	Eduardo Sepulveda	Lotto Dstny	3:00:42
98	Felix Engelhardt	Jayco-AlUla	3:02:17
99	Lorenzo Germani	Groupama-FDJ	3:04:08
100	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:04:56
101	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	3:06:29
102	Xabier Isasa	Euskaltel-Euskadi	3:07:11
103	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	3:07:58
104	Xabier Berasategi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	3:10:23
105	Nico Denz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	3:13:58
106	Oier Lazkano	Movistar	3:14:10
107	Reuben Thompson	Groupama-FDJ	3:15:30
108	Santiago Umba	Astana Qazaqstan	3:18:05
109	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:18:10
110	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	3:18:11
111	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:19:37
112	Ibon Ruiz	Equipo Kern Pharma	3:20:56
113	Sylvain Moniquet	Lotto Dstny	3:23:51
114	Jorge Gutiérrez	Equipo Kern Pharma	3:25:46
115	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	3:26:49
116	Txomin Juaristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	3:27:08
117	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:27:14
118	Victor Lafay	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:29:03
119	Kasper Asgreen	Soudal Quick-Step	3:29:53
120	Pavel Bittner	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	3:30:04
121	Antonio Soto	Equipo Kern Pharma	3:30:10
122	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	3:33:10
123	Jorge Arcas	Movistar	3:34:51
124	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Groupama-FDJ	3:37:59
125	Patrick Gamper	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	3:38:22
126	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	3:42:03
127	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	3:42:18
128	Riley Sheehan	Israel-Premier Tech	3:45:34
129	Gleb Brussenskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	3:45:55
130	Alessandro De Marchi	Jayco-AlUla	3:47:50
131	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:50:28
132	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	3:51:30
133	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:53:42
134	Julius van den Berg	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	3:53:49
135	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	3:54:35
136	Nicolas Vinokurov	Astana Qazaqstan	3:55:38
137	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	3:58:51
138	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-B&B Hotels	4:00:29
139	Ide Schelling	Astana Qazaqstan	4:04:51
140	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	4:07:15
141	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	4:16:06