Stage 5

The road

At the start

Four climbs and a wall at the end

Matteo Trentin took the sprint in Tarragona and nothing moved above him: Froome by two seconds from De la Cruz, Roche and Van Garderen, Nibali at ten, Chaves at eleven. John Degenkolb did not start. Today is the archetypal modern Vuelta stage — undulating all day over four categorised climbs, then a short wall to the hermitage above Alcossebre where a handful of seconds is all anyone can take.

How it was won

1. 150 km to go

   The break over the climbs

   The escapees battle over the day’s categorised climbs, whittling their own numbers.

2. 27 km to go

   Lutsenko goes clear

   On the run to Alcossebre Alexey Lutsenko drops the last of his breakaway companions.

3. 31 km to go

   Froome gains a few seconds

   Behind, Froome accelerates in the final kilometre to nibble a little more time from his GC rivals.

4. 4At the line

   Lutsenko survives at Alcossebre

   Alexey Lutsenko holds off the chase on the short, steep haul to win at Alcossebre.

The result