Bert Jan Lindeman secured a timely and well calculated victory for Lotto NL-Jumbo on the first major summit finish of the Vuelta a Espana in what is the Dutch team’s first win in a Grand Tour this season.
For Lindeman, too, victory on the Alto de Capileira as he powered away from fellow breakaway Ilia Koshevoy (Lampre-Merida) represented a major breakthrough. As the 26-year-old pointed out, he has never taken a WorldTour win before, with his biggest previous success in the Tour de L’Ain in 2014.
"For me this was unexpected, with all the top GC candidates there and by far the biggest win of my career,” Lindeman said.
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“It won’t really sink in until tomorrow, I think. I got third in one stage in Romandie this year but this is on another level altogether.”
“It’s very important for team morale, too. We have had a lot of bad luck but we got through and we’re still fighting.”
In a tactically complex final seven kilometres, France’s Jérome Cousin (Europcar) opened up the hostilities amongst the breakaway group of five riders but then was caught and passed by Koshevoy. The Lampre-Merida rider was then joined by Cousin again, and then by Lindeman as the finish line approached, and the Dutchman had saved just enough fuel in the tank to go clear.
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