2023 Vuelta a Espana: Stage 17 Results

Jumbo-Visma continued their domination of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, with Primoz Roglic taking the win atop the iconic Angliru and teammates Jonas Vingegaard and Sep Kuss completing the podium. Kuss ends the day with a narrow 8 second hold on La Roja.

Another day of climbing was on tap for the remaining riders. On the schedule today, the Alto de L’Angliru, a true La Vuelta icon. 12.5 kilometers, an average slope of 10% and slopes of over 23% – three numbers that define the toughest mountain pass ever to feature in La Vuelta. But before the peloton even gets to the Angliru, they have to deal with the Cat. 1 Colladiella and Cordal ascents.

It’s Sep Kuss’ 29th birthday and with 4 days remaining in the race, he’s still got a hold on La Roja.

Right off the gun it was Remco Evenepoel on the attack with Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Dstny) and Casper Pedersen (Soudal Quick-Step). They are quickly caught, but 10, then 14 riders open a gap.

Battles continued, but after the first hour it was Remco Evenepoel, Mattia Cattaneo (Soudal Quick-Step), Lorenzo Germani (Groupama-FDJ), Jarrad Drizners (Lotto Dstny) and Larry Warbasse (AG2R Citroën) off the front with the peloton trailing by 32 seconds. Jumbo-Visma is leading the chase.

Mattia Cattaneo and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) were doing most of the work at the front at 5km away from the bottom of the climb up Alto de la Colladiella (7.8km at 7.1%). The chasers trailed by 36” and the peloton by 1’20”. Germani gets dropped from the lead group 4km from the summit.

Marc Soler goes on the attack off the peloton.

Over the summit of Alto de la Colladiella, its Evenepoel, Cattaneo, and Soler.

Next up was the climb of Alto del Cordal. At the base of the mountain, it was Evenepoel in the lead with a gap of 2’45” to the peloton. He took the KOM points across the summit there and raced his way to the Angliru.

At the Angliru, the surging peloton was within 1’34” of Evenepoel as he started the 12.4km climb.

The peloton was shedding riders off the back as Romain Bardet went on the attack with 6km of climbing left to go. Wout Poels was close behind. They reeled in Evenepoel in short order.

Poels set the pace, followed by Buitrago, Landa, Vingegaard, Kuss, Roglic, and Mas.

Ayuso and Mas get dropped as Roglic went on the attack. With 2.5km to go, it was the Jumbo-Visma trio of Roglic, Vingegaard and Kuss leading the race.

Roglic and Vingegaard go again and slightly gap Kuss.

At the summit, it’s Roglic for the win! Kuss comes across 19 seconds later to keep La Roja for another day.

Stage 17 Brief Results:

1. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma)
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
3. Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), +19”
4. Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious)
5. Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious), +44”

General Classification After Stage 17:

1. Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma)
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), +8”
3. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), +1’08”