This year’s Vuelta a Asturias, which will take place from Friday, April 26 to Sunday, April 28, returns to eastern Asturias thirteen years later. It will be during the second and third and last of the planned stages when the cyclists advance through the region. Ribadesella, Cangas de Onís, Benia and Infiesto will be some of the towns through which the race will advance.
The first of the eastern stages of the Vuelta – second of the competition – will be on Saturday, April 27, starting in Ribera de Arriba and ending in Ribadesella, while the following day the Asturian round will start from Benia de Onís and finish in Oviedo. Before, on Friday, April 26, the first stage of the round will take place, starting from the Asturian capital and ending in Pola de Lena.
The return of the Tour of Asturias to the East has forced the elimination of the end of the stage in Cangas del Narcea and the ascent to the El Acebo pass, which was climbed for the first time in 1992 and which had become a classic in recent editions. of the career.
But the organization had set the goal of returning to the east of the region, which had not seen stages of this competition since 2010, when the first stage left Oviedo and concluded in Llanes, with victory for Pablo Urtasun, from Euskaltel, who He culminated his team’s work with a sprint victory ahead of Ángel Vicioso (Andalucía Cajasur) and Joaquín Sobrino from Llanisco, who defended the colors of the Spanish team in his homeland. The next day, the Vuelta a Asturias left Llanes and concluded in Gijón.
The stage that ends in eastern Asturias will be different this time from that of 14 years ago. If that one was practically flat, this year’s includes some mountainous difficulties that will add complexity to a day that will be long, since it is expected that nearly 200 kilometers will be covered.
The peloton will leave Ribera de Arriba in the first stage in the direction of the third category port of San Tirso. Next, you will climb Alto de la Gargantada, also third grade. Once you have overcome these two mountainous difficulties, you will pass, among other urban centers, through Pola de Siero, Nava, Infiesto and Cangas de Onís, where you will once again encounter a mountainous difficulty, in this case the Collada de Zardón, also third class.
As soon as they descend that hill, the cyclists will face the Alto del Tornu, second category, an ascent that accumulates its greatest difficulty in the first three kilometers, in which the average slope is close to 9% gradient. The other five kilometers are somewhat gentler. Before reaching the end in Ribadesella, they will climb the Alto de la Robellada, third grade, and the explosive Collau del Valle, also third grade.
Before, in the first stage, with 180 kilometers of route, five passes will be climbed: Alto Cabruñana, third category; Alto Las Estacas, second; Alto de las Cruces, second; Alto el Tenebreo, third; and El Cordal, first class. It will be the “queen” stage.
The third and final day will be somewhat shorter, about 140 kilometers, and will only have one scoring mountainous difficulty, the Alto del Violeo, second class, which will begin 9 kilometers from the end on Uría Street, in Oviedo, where the year Last year, the Asturian Pelayo Sánchez, now a Movistar cyclist, won. This last stage will start from Benia de Onís.
On April 26, the day of the start of the Vuelta a Asturias, the distinctions awarded each year by the organization of the round will be awarded. On this occasion, the gold badge will go to Joaquím Rodríguez, better known as “Purito”, a former cyclist who was on the podium in the three grand stage tours (France, Italy and Spain).
Purito Rodríguez was second in the 2012 edition of the Giro d’Italia, third in the 2013 Tour de France, and third twice in the Vuelta España, in 2010 and 2012, and second once, in 2015. In his career professional achieved 45 victories, 14 of them in the big three (2 in the Giro, 3 in the Tour and 9 in the Vuelta). José Antonio Cima, collaborator of the Vuelta a Asturias, will also receive badges; the “Masymas” supermarkets in the sponsors section and the Government delegation in the institutions section.
2024-02-04 11:34:17
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