Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floors) celebrated his birthday with victory on stage 2 of the Vuelta a Burgos in Belorado, beating Adam Blythe (Aqua Blue Sport) and Tim Arisen (Roompot) in a bunch finish.
Trentin was well-marshalled by his Quick-Step Floors team in the finale, and lived up to his billing as pre-stage favourite by delivering a powerful sprint from distance and then holding off Blythe in the closing metres.
“There were seven strong riders in the break. Sky worked first and then we took over. The team worked very hard for me, they did a great job and I was able to win it,” Trentin said. “I think every stage on the Vuelta a Burgos is good for the team, Julian Alaphilippe and others can be up there tomorrow.”
Overnight leader Mikel Landa (Team Sky) finished safely in the main peloton to retain the purple jersey of race leader. The Basque is 2 seconds ahead of Sergei Chernetski (Astana), while Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) lies third, a further second back.
The stage was animated by an early break featuring Ben King (Dimension Data), Luis Más (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Alexandre Pichot (Direct Energie), Juan Feliple Osorio (Manzana-Postobon), Dani Diaz (Delko-Marseille Provence), Sjoerd van Ginneken (Roompot) and Ibai Salas (Burgos-BH), which quickly established a lead of over three minutes on the peloton.
King and Diaz were in the early break for the second successive day, and both were particularly active here, with the American picking up two intermediate sprints and the Argentinian first to the top of the climb of Portillo de Busto.
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