Stage 11

The road

How it was won

1. 1127 km to go

   Froome hits the deck

   Six climbs and a summit finish crammed into 138 kilometres, and the racing is savage from the flag. Inside the first quarter of an hour Chris Froome crashes on the Collada de Beixalis.

2. 265 km to go

   Landa takes hold of the break

   On the third climb Mikel Landa grabs the escape by the scruff of the neck and hauls Erviti back, with the peloton five minutes adrift. Behind, Froome drifts back to the medical car and the Tour winner's Vuelta is effectively over.

3. 338 km to go

   Valverde and Rodríguez in the rain

   The rain comes down but the descent is dry, and Valverde charges away with Joaquim Rodríguez — a man who helped design this stage — and a gaggle of teammates. Neither the red jersey nor Aru is there, and Cataldo has to close forty dangerous seconds before the next climb.

4. 410 km to go

   Landa flies with nine to go

   Two minutes up and nine kilometres left, Landa attacks what is left of the break on the last brutal ramp to Els Cortals d'Encamp.

5. 58 km to go

   Aru follows on the same stretch of road

   Almost from the identical corner, Fabio Aru launches out of the red jersey group with Rodríguez and Moreno on him. Quintana, Valverde and Chaves are in trouble at once; his second acceleration finishes the Katusha pair off.

6. 6At the line

   Landa holds on in Andorra

   Billed as one of the hardest stages ever put in a Grand Tour, and it delivers: Landa survives to win, Aru takes the red jersey off Dumoulin, and Dumoulin's stubborn steady tempo — the tactic Chaves copies behind him — keeps his race alive.

The result