Gall still 6th overall

Czech Bittner wins 5th Vuelta stage!

Pavel Bittner(Bild: AFP)

Czech rider Pavel Bittner won the 5th stage of the Vuelta a Espana in a bunch sprint on Wednesday!

The 21-year-old from the DSM racing team came out on top after 177 kilometers in Seville in sweltering heat of up to 40 degrees, just ahead of Wout van Aert (Visma) and Kaden Groves (Alpecin), both of whom had already won a stage of the 79th Tour of Spain. Bittner had already won a stage on his Grand Tour debut. The four Austrians did not finish in the top 70.

Primoz Roglic (Red Bull) continues to lead the overall standings ahead of Thursday's mountain stage from Jerez de la Frontera to Yunquera, which covers 185.5 kilometers and 3700 vertical meters.

Like the rest of the leading peloton, Felix Fall (Decathlon) maintained his sixth place overall. The East Tyrolean is 47 seconds behind the Slovenian Roglic.

At the prologue of the Tour of Germany in Schweinfurt (2.9 kilometers), Carinthian Marco Haller showed up with eighth place. The Olympic sixth-placed rider from the Red Bull team was five seconds slower than the victorious Italian Jonathan Milan (Lidl).

The result of stage 5:
1st Pavel Bittner (CZE) DSM 4:25:28 hrs.
2nd Wout van Aert (BEL) Visma
3rd Kaden Groves (AUS) Alpecin - all same time
Further:
74th Patrick Konrad (AUT) Lidl
109th Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon
110th Patrick Gamper (AUT) Red Bull
139th Rainer Kepplinger (AUT) Bahrain - all same time

The standings in the overall standings:
1st Primoz Roglic (SLO) Red Bull 18:58:36 hrs.
2nd Joao Almeida (POR) UAE +8 sec.
3. Enric Mas (ESP) Movistar +32
Further:
6th Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon +47
69th Patrick Konrad (AUT) Lidl +9:16 min.
117th Rainer Kepplinger (AUT) Bahrain +16:22
137th Patrick Gamper (AUT) Red Bull +18:18