Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott) claimed his second victory of the season, powering to the line to take a close sprint victory ahead of Danny van Poppel (Jumbo-Visma), on the second and longest stage in Ruta del Sol.
It was touch and go, as to whether Trentin could make it to the line before Ivan García Cortina (Bahrain-Merida), who held a small gap in the final few hundred metres after launching his sprint early. In the end, the 29-year-old Italian timed his sprint to perfection, blasting down the final 200metres to pass Cortina.
“It was really hard, probably the longest final kilometre ever,” the reigning European Road-Race champion said.
“It was chaotic because everyone wanted to sit on the front but of course after quite an easy stage today, everybody had the legs to be there. I got boxed in quite a lot on the last corner and Cortina got the jump. I saw he was pretty far away dragging uphill and I timed my sprint the best I could and it was just perfect.”
Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) kept the overall lead after Thursday’s stage, thanks to his victory on the uphill finish in stage 1.
#65RdS Close but he takes it ?? https://t.co/X7GO3kj8x4
— Mitchelton-SCOTT (@MitcheltonSCOTT) February 21, 2019
Vuelta a Andalucia 2019 – stage 2 results (Sevilla – Torredonjimeno):
| 1 | Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott) | 5:55:28 |
| 2 | Danny van Poppel (Jumbo-Visma) | ,, |
| 3 | Ivan Garcia (Bahrain-Merida) | ,, |
| 4 | Enrique Sanz (Euskadi-Murias) | ,, |
| 5 | Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) | ,, |
| 6 | Andrea Pasqualon (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) | ,, |
| 7 | Jonas Van Genechten (Vital Concept-B&B Hotel) | ,, |
| 8 | Edward Planckaert (Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise) | ,, |
| 9 | Michaël Van Staeyen (Roompot-Charles) | ,, |
| 10 | Vincenzo Albanese (Bardiani-CSF) | ,, |
Vuelta a Andalucia 2019 – general classification after stage 2:
| 1 | Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal) | 10:19:40 |
| 2 | Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) | +05” |
| 3 | Ion Izagirre (Astana) | ,, |
| 4 | Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 5 | Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) | +09” |
| 6 | Pello Bilbao (Astana) | ,, |
| 7 | Marco Canola (Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane) | ,, |
| 8 | Aleksandr Vlasov (Gazprom–Rusvelo) | ,, |
| 9 | Antwan Tolhoek (Jumbo-Visma) | ,, |
| 10 | Guillaume Martin (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) | +13” |
