- Slovenian completes overall win by 24sec for Jumbo-Visma
- Irishman Sam Bennett loses out in photo finish on final stage
There was no fairytale weekend to conclude Hugh Carthy’s Vuelta a España, but huge relief for Primoz Roglic after the Slovenian successfully defended the title he had won in 2019 in hugely different circumstances. In Madrid, the final sprint of the relaunched professional cycling season went to Pascal Ackermann of Bora-Hansgrohe after his fellow German Lisa Brennauer had earlier taken overall honours in the three-day Ceratizit Challenge, which finished on the same circuit based on the Paseo della Castellana.
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