Born a champion when he won stage 13 of the Vuelta a España at Castelldefels, 21 year old Warren Barguil (Argos-Shimano) claimed a second triumph at the uphill finish of Formigal at the end of stage 16 contested on a very high speed.
Warren Barguil hat gewonnen
He delivered a masterpiece as he outsprinted Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran (Team Sky) who had come across to him. Race leader Vincenzo Nibali struggled in the finale and lost 28 seconds from Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) who attacked strongly and 22 seconds from his closest rival Chris Horner (RadioShack-leopard) who is now only 28 seconds down on GC.
Adam Hansen (Lotto-Belisol), Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky), Juan José Oroz (Euskaltel), Juan Antonion Flecha (Vacansoleil-DCM), Bauke Mollema (Belkin), Lloyd Mondory (AG2R-La Mondiale), Pieter Serry (OPQS) and Danilo Wyss (BMC) broke away from the gun but the Movistar team brought them back.
Straight away, another group of 19 riders took off. That included polka dot jersey wearer Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) who scored some more KOM points at Puerto de Foradada (km 26) but also four Movistar riders: Eros Capecchi, Sylvester Szmyd, José Herrada and Benat Intxausti (Movistar), but Astana put an end to their initiative at km 34.
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) won the hot spot sprint of Boltana (km 53) and three seconds bonus. At km 62, nine riders rode away from the bunch: Flecha again, Amets Txurruka (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Dominik Nerz and Martin Köhler (BMC), Chris-Anker Sorensen (Saxo-Tinkoff), Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel), Nico Sijmens (Cofidis), Bartosz Huzarski (NetApp-Endura) and Rigoberto Uran (Team Sky). Later, Szmyd and Intxausti, but also Vladimir Gusev (Katusha), Jorge Azanza (Euskaltel), Juan Manuel Garate (Belkin), Christian Meier (Orica-Greenedge), Mikaël Chérel and Ben Gastauer (AG2R-La Mondiale), Luis Angel Mate (Cofidis), Maciej Paterski (Cannondale), André Cardoso (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Herrada again and Barguil made it a front group of seventeen riders.
Garate accelerated with 14km to go. But Barguil was more successful than him in his lone quest for victory even though Uran threatened him at the very end. A star is born at the Vuelta.
Ergebnisse 16. Etappe:
ETAPA MEDIA: 39.406 km/h Pag. 1
Graus – Sallent de Gállego. Aramón Formigal 146,8 kms. 09/09/2013 17:53:08
1º 22 BARGUIL, Warren FRA ARG 3:43:31 10″
2º 198 URAN, Rigoberto COL SKY m.t. 6″
3º 156 HUZARSKI, Bartosz POL TNE a 3 4″
4º 56 NERZ, Dominik GER BMC a 8
5º 5 HERRADA, José ESP MOV a 20
6º 15 CHEREL, Mikael FRA ALM a 37
7º 76 PATERSKI, Maciej POL CAN a 37
8º 63 CARDOSO, Andre POR CJR a 40
9º 68 TXURRUKA, Amets ESP CJR a 42
10º 206 SÖRENSEN, Chris Anker DEN TST a 45 2″
11º 214 FLECHA, Juan Antonio ESP VCD a 1:06
12º 16 GASTAUER, Ben LUX ALM a 1:08
13º 85 MATE, Luis Angel ESP COF a 1:09
14º 95 MARTÍNEZ, Egoi ESP EUS a 1:13
15º 177 MEIER, Christian CAN OGE a 1:29
16º 45 GARATE, Juan Manuel ESP BEL a 1:36
17º 121 RODRIGUEZ, Joaquin ESP KAT a 1:41
18º 1 VALVERDE, Alejandro ESP MOV a 1:44 3″
19º 101 PINOT, Thibaut FRA FDJ a 1:47
20º 184 HORNER, Christopher USA RLT a 1:47
21º 91 SÁNCHEZ, Samuel ESP EUS a 1:56
Ergebnisse Gesamtwertung_
Graus – Sallent de Gállego. Aramón Formigal 146,8 kms.
2518,3 kms.
09/09/2013 17:53:35
1º 31 NIBALI, Vincenzo ITA AST 64:06:01 64 12″
2º 184 HORNER, Christopher USA RLT a 28 85 24″
3º 1 VALVERDE, Alejandro ESP MOV a 1:14 12 19″
4º 121 RODRIGUEZ, Joaquin ESP KAT a 2:29 51 8″
5º 11 POZZOVIVO, Domenico ITA ALM a 3:38 66 4″
6º 205 ROCHE, Nicolas IRL TST a 3:43 62 20″
7º 101 PINOT, Thibaut FRA FDJ a 4:37 62
8º 151 KONIG, Leopold CZE TNE a 6:17 6 10″
9º 91 SÁNCHEZ, Samuel ESP EUS a 7:33 69
10º 36 KANGERT, Tanel EST AST a 9:21 80
11º 127 MORENO, Daniel ESP KAT a 9:31 97 32″
12º 61 ARROYO, David ESP CJR a 11:22 97
13º 5 HERRADA, José ESP MOV a 11:42 33
14º 131 SCARPONI, Michele ITA LAM a 12:08 96 9″
15º 92 ANTON, Igor ESP EUS a 14:44 37
16º 56 NERZ, Dominik GER BMC a 15:33 24 2″
17º 186 KISERLOVSKI, Robert CRO RLT a 18:13 28
18º 2 CAPECCHI, Eros ITA MOV a 19:16 66
19º 63 CARDOSO, Andre POR CJR a 19:58 21 4″
20º 206 SÖRENSEN, Chris Anker DEN TST a 20:51 90 2″
21º 198 URAN, Rigoberto COL SKY a 22:39 1 6″
Barguil am Podium
Aragon Landschaft
Warren Barguil solo
Horner-Valverde-Pinot
Purito attacks