2018 Vuelta a Aragón
Male Team 11 - 13 May

Vuelta a Aragón

500 Kilometers 3 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Jorge Arcas
  2. Carlos Barbero
  3. Daniele Bennati
  4. Héctor Carretero
  5. Jaime Castrillo
  6. Jaime Rosón
  7. Marc Soler
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TV

The race will be shown live on Aragón TV, which will cover the final 90 minutes of racing from 3pm local time (CEST). Also, Eurosport 1 will be showing all stage finishes right after its Giro d'Italia coverage, starting around 5.30pm CEST.
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Timetable

All three stages will finish around 4.30pm CEST - that's around 40 minutes before the expected Giro finish, which allows for spectactors to watch both of them.
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Bonus

Bonus seconds will be the most common on UCI races: 10-6-4" at every finish and 3-2-1" at intermediate sprints.
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Social Media

The race's official Twitter account is @Vuelta_Aragon; the hashtag used by them is #VA2018. Over at @Movistar_Team we'll be covering the whole weekend on site, at the same time stages seven, eight and nine of the Giro are raced -and followed on our Twitter handle-.
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Score

The Movistar Team has got a rich history in the Vuelta a Aragón, with 15 stage victories -Indurain, Delgado, Arroyo, Gorospe or Leonardo Piepoli, who won up Cerler three times (2000, 2002, 2003)- as well as eight GC triumphs, the sixth Spanish stagerace with most victories for the Eusebio Unzué-led group. The full lists are available on our website's History section.

Stages

Analysis

01
Teruel - Caspe (180km)
11 May
  1. 01 Jon Aberasturi Euskadi-Murias 4h06'52"
  2. 02 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team +1"
  3. 03 Gari Bravo Euskadi-Murias "
  4. 26 Marc Soler Movistar Team "
  5. 31 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team "
  6. 33 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team +10"
  7. 102 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team +1'13"
  8. 134 Jaime Castrillo Movistar Team +6'31"
02
Huesca - Zaragoza (194km)
12 May
  1. 01 Matteo Malucelli Androni Giocattoli 4h27'37"
  2. 02 Sondre Holst Enger Israel Cycling Academy "
  3. 03 Jon Aberasturi Euskadi-Murias "
  4. 07 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team "
  5. 10 Marc Soler Movistar Team "
  6. 15 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team +11"
  7. 16 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team "
  8. 17 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  9. 113 Jaime Castrillo Movistar Team +4'28"
03
Sabiñánigo - Cerler (Ampriu) (126.6km)
13 May
  1. 01 Mikel Bizkarra Euskadi-Murias 4h16'15"
  2. 02 Gari Bravo Euskadi-Murias +15"
  3. 06 Marc Soler Movistar Team +29"
  4. 51 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team +4'36"
  5. 57 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team +5'10"
  6. 110 Jaime Castrillo Movistar Team +17'05"
  7. 111 Carlos Barbero Movistar Team "
  8. 112 Daniele Bennati Movistar Team "

Analysis

It’s by far the best news for Spanish pro cycling when it comes to its 2018 calendar. Thirteen years after its last edition to date in 2005, the Vuelta a Aragón comes back to the UCI Europe Tour calendar as a three-day event, covering all three province of this northern Spanish region and offering terrain for both climbers, sprinters and adventurers.

The race will start on Friday 11th May, with 180km, south to north, between Teruel and Caspe. The peloton will tackle the Alto de Just (Cat-3) prior to descending to Alcañiz and Caspe, whose Castle will witness an uphill finish (2.2km at 3.4%). Saturday 12th will, in turn, bring the longest stage of the event: 194km from Huesca to Zaragoza with the climbs of Loarre -not categorized- and Alcubierre (Cat-3).

To close the race, a demanding Queen stage (Sunday 13th) will see riders covering 126km between Sabiñánigo and Cerler, with the ascents of Petralba (Cat-3), Foradada (Cat-3) and the finish in Ampriu (Cat-1). It’s a 12km climb at above 6% average, with a first half containing more steady ramps before the ski resort -around 7%- and two short flat sections in its second, which still features two kilometers at 9%.