Rui Costa won the 15th stage of the Vuelta de España, from Pamplona to Lekunberri of 158.3 km.

Another winning escape at the finish line: after a rather chaotic first part of the race, due to Juan Ayuso's attack which however was short-lived, about fifteen attackers began their action. Among them, once again, Remco Evenepoel . But today the Belgian, winner of yesterday's stage and increasingly leader of the climbers' ranking, is less brilliant.

Rui Costa, Santiago Buitrago and Lennard Kamna took advantage of this and fought for the day's success in a sprint. The Portuguese from Intermarché is faster than his opponents and takes the victory. Evenepoel finishes fourth.

The red jersey group, Sepp Kuss , arrived almost 3' late. Nothing changes in the top positions of the general classification.

Tomorrow second day of rest before the last week of racing.

Photo Sprint Cycling

Order of arrival

1 COSTA Rui Intermarché - Circus - Wanty 3:30:56

2 KÄMNA Lennard BORA - hansgrohe ,,

3 BUITRAGO Santiago Bahrain - Victorious ,,

4 EVENEPOEL Remco Soudal - Quick Step 0:02

5 KRON Andreas Lotto Dstny,,

6 RUBIO Einer Augusto Movistar Team ,,

7 RODRÍGUEZ Cristián Team Arkéa Samsic ,,

8 HAMILTON Chris Team dsm - firmenich ,,

9 DENZ Nico BORA - hansgrohe 0:36

10 JANSSENS Jimmy Alpecin-Deceuninck 1:07

General ranking

1 KUSS Sepp Jumbo-Visma 54:38:42

2 ROGLIČ Primož Jumbo-Visma 1:37

3 VINGEGAARD ​​Jonas Jumbo-Visma 1:44

4 AYUSO Juan UAE Team Emirates 2:37

5 MAS Enric Movistar Team 3:06

6 SOLER Marc UAE Team Emirates 3:10

7 LANDA Mikel Bahrain - Victorious 4:12

8 VLASOV Aleksandr BORA - hansgrohe 5:02

9 UIJTDEBROEKS Cian BORA - hansgrohe 5.30

10 ALMEIDA João UAE Team Emirates 8:39