2018 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
Male Team 31 Jan - 04 Feb

V. Comunitat Valenciana

687 Kilometers 5 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Alejandro Valverde
  2. Jorge Arcas
  3. Nuno Bico
  4. Héctor Carretero
  5. José Joaquín Rojas
  6. Jaime Rosón
  7. Jasha Sütterlin
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TV

Eurosport will be the official broadcaster of the race, showing all five stages live from 3pm to 4.30pm Euro time (half an hour earlier on Saturday).
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Timetable

All stages will finish around 4.10pm Euro time, except for day four, the mountain-top finish in Las Canteras / Cocentaina (Saturday 3rd), scheduled to finish around 3.40pm.
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Bonus

10-6-4" are given on stages one, two, four and five. TTTs are not allowed to offer them by UCI's regulations.
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Social Media

The race has an official Twitter account, @VueltaCV, and establishes the hashtag #VCV2018 as their official one. Our handle @Movistar_Team will offer - just as usual - live tweets and multimedia content from the heart of the race during the week.
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Score

The squads managed by Eusebio Unzué have won the GC of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana four times. Julián Gorospe claimed it first in 1993; then Toni Colom and Alejandro Valverde followed suit in 2006 and 2007; and Nairo Quintana claimed the last edition to date, 2017, with a brilliant victory atop the Alto Mas de la Costa.

Stages

Analysis

01
Oropesa del Mar - Peñíscola (191.5km)
31 January
  1. 01 Danny Van Poppel LottoNLJumbo 4h34'13"
  2. 02 Luka Mezgec Mitchelton-Scott m.t.
  3. 03 Jurgen Roelandts BMC Racing Team m.t.
  4. 17 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team m.t.
  5. 48 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team m.t.
  6. 50 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team m.t.
  7. 58 Jaime Rosón Movistar Team m.t.
  8. 117 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team m.t.
  9. 125 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team m.t.
  10. 144 Nuno Bico Movistar Team m.t.
02
Bétera - Albuixech (154km)
01 February
  1. 01 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team 3h53'55"
  2. 02 Luis León Sánchez Astana Pro Team m.t.
  3. 03 Jakob Fuglsang Astana Pro Team m.t.
  4. 24 Jaime Rosón Movistar Team +19"
  5. 36 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team +2'28"
  6. 47 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team m.t.
  7. 51 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team m.t.
  8. 119 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team +5'55"
  9. 139 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +12'31"
03
Benitatxell - Calpe (CRE) (23.2km)
02 February
  1. 01 BMC Racing Team 27'25"
  2. 02 Astana Pro Team +1'08"
  3. 03 AG2R La Mondiale +1'12"
  4. 11 Movistar Team +2'31" Team: Alejandro Valverde Jorge Arcas Nuno Bico Héctor Carretero José Joaquín Rojas Jaime Rosón Jasha Sütterlin
04
Orihuela - Cocentaina (184.5km)
03 February
  1. 01 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team 4h48'35"
  2. 02 Adam Yates Mitchelton-Scott +4"
  3. 03 Luis León Sánchez Astana Pro Team +5"
  4. 61 Jaime Rosón Movistar Team +4'48"
  5. 76 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team +9'56"
  6. 84 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team +11'13"
  7. 135 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team m.t.
  8. 151 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team +24'31"
  9. 155 Nuno Bico Movistar Team m.t.
05
Paterna - Valencia (135.2km)
04 February
  1. 01 Jurgen Roelandts BMC Racing Team 2h58'26"
  2. 02 Danny Van Poppel LottoNLJumbo m.t.
  3. 03 Clément Venturini AG2R La Mondiale +1"
  4. 23 Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team +4"
  5. 25 José Joaquín Rojas Movistar Team m.t.
  6. 31 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team m.t.
  7. 88 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team m.t.
  8. 91 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team m.t.
  9. 93 Jaime Rosón Movistar Team m.t.
  10. 138 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +5'34"

Analysis

In its third season back following a long time away from the UCI calendar, the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (69th edition) will repeat its structure from 2017, with two flat stages combined with two mountain routes and a team time trial – yet in a different order from last year.

Sprinters will have a first chance in Peñíscola (191.5km, Wednesday 31st January), as only one Cat-2 climb (La Bandereta) features in the day’s route. Stage two, 154km from Bétera to Albuixech (Thursday 1st February), will be quite more demanding: there will be three Cat-3 ascents combined with the Alto de Eslida (Cat-1; almost 6km with slopes around 7-8%) and the grueling Garbí (Cat-1), already included in the 2017 Vuelta a España, with three full kilometers above 10%. This final ascent will be completed 31km from the finish.

fast TTT (Friday 2nd) from Poble Nou de Benitatxell to a tough finishing slope in Calpe (23km), always along the Costa Blanca in north Alicante, will preceed the Queen stage (Saturday 3rd), a 184km trek from Orihuela to the Alto de las Canteras (Cat-1) in Cocentaina, following a tough route with climbs which riders training here every winter know well, like Maigmó (Cat-2), Tibi (Cat-2), Carrasqueta (Cat-1) and 2x Benillup (Cat-3). The race will end with a 135km journey from Paterna to Valencia (Sunday 4th), with no finishing circuit compared to 2017, and climbing the Alt de l’Oronet (Cat-3) 35km from the arrival.