Nairo Quintana mantuvo su condición de lider de la Vuelta a Cataluña despues de la penultima jornada ganada por el Italiano Davide Cimolai en recorrido entre Lampre-Marida..
El Italiano se impuso en embalaje final despues que Cameron Meyer del Dimension Data, fue capturado y superado en los metros finales de la jornada…el hizo parte de un lote escapado e hizogala de su calida de embalador, pero Cimolai salio a tiempo para dar al Lampre-merida su primera victoria de la temporada 2016…
El Colombiano Nairo Quintana deMovistar finalizo si sobresaltos en el peloton y mantuvo su condicion de lider. Alberto Contador, lo mantuvo a raya y tambien su diferencia de 7 segundos….Richie Porte del BMC, es tercero a 17 segundos, con Daniel Martin cuarto a 18 segundos…
La vuelta a Ctalunya termina el domingo con una etapa sobre 136 kilometros en circuito en Barcelona en el area de Montjuic donde se realizaron los Olimpicos de 1992.
Davide Cimolai snatch victory for the Lampre-Merida team at the end of a hectic chase of the breakaway to Vilanova i la Geltrú at the Volta a Catalunya during stage 6.
The Italian won the sprint after Cameron Meyer (Dimension Data) was caught and passed in the final hundred metres of the stage. He had been part of the break of the day that fought hard to stay away and was only pulled back in the final kilometre. Meyer used his track speed and skills to surge away but the peloton caught him just in time for Cimolai to emerge to give Lampre-Merida its first victory of the 2016 season.
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) finished safely in the peloton and so retained his overall race lead. Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) is second at seven seconds, with Richie Porte (BMC) third at 17 seconds and Daniel Martin (Etixx-Quickstep) fourth, at 18 seconds.
The Volta a Catalunya ends on Sunday with a 136km hilly circuit stage around Barcelona’s Montjuïc area, that hosted the 1992 Olympic Games.
Brief Results
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Lampre – Merida 4:35:13
2 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
3 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal
4 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge
5 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-GreenEdge
6 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Etixx – Quick-Step
7 Aleksei Tsatevich (Rus) Team Katusha
8 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) IAM Cycling
9 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
10 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
General classification after stage 6
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 23:07:41
2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team 0:00:07
3 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:17
4 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:00:18
5 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:27
6 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:31
7 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:00:42
8 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:46
9 Hugh Carthy (GBr) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:01:01
10 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:16