2008 Vuelta a EspaÃ±a, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 13

The 13th stage of the Vuelta a España 2008 on September 13, led over 209.5 kilometers from San Vicente de la B. the Alto de L' Angiru. There are two sprints and one each mountain rating of 3 and Especial category and three climbs of the first category were on the program.

After the second rest day were at today's queen stage, with target on the very steep Alto de L' Angiru and its up to 23.6 percent slope, to cope with a total of 3708 meters of altitude from the drivers. Despite the difficulties ahead, the first two hours of the race were run very fast. In the first, launching an hourly average of more than 45 kilometers and in the second of more than 43 kilometers. As to the two stages before a trio was able to sell: Christophe Kern, Maarten Tjallingii and Matej Jurco. Core had attacked on the first mountain stage and the two others had followed him. Meanwhile, the three of them had a head start of ten minutes and reached the next three climbs of the first category ahead of the field. In this case, each core secured the maximum number of points and passed it after the end of the stage to the second in the mountains classification. But the continued leading in this rating David Moncoutie could collect 26 points over the day. For a slugfest of the favorites for the Tour victory, it came on the last climb of the day. Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde, Joaquin Rodriguez and Levi Leipheimer: The second part of the mountain, only four riders in the lead were. Valverde attacked, Contador and Leipheimer and Rodriguez followed fell back. This was actually already a preliminary decision for the overall ranking dropped. Today residue should Leipheimer can not make amends. Three and a half kilometers from the finish and Contador attacked could disassociate his opponents. He won the stage ahead of Valverde. He also took the golden jersey Leipheimer and Carlos Sastre before, the day was fifth. For a large joint favorites the Vuelta was completed in the descent of the penultimate mountain: Igor Antón crashed and broke his collarbone.

Tasks

023 José Antonio López
081 Igor Antón
102 Mathias Frank
Óscar Freire 151

Sprints

Second intermediate sprint in Fresnedo ( km 195.6 ) ( 360m above sea level. NN )

Finish in Alto de L ' Angiru ( 1.560m above sea level. NN )

Climbs

Alto de Ortigueiro, 3rd category ( 45.9 km ) ( 450 m above sea level. NN )

Puerto de Arnicio, 1st class ( km 116.7 ) ( 910m above sea level. NN )

Alto de la Colladona, 1st class ( km 154.8 ) ( 850m above sea level. NN )

Alto del Cordal, 1st class ( km 188.1 ) ( 780m above sea level. NN )

Alto d L' Angliru, Category Especial ( 208.7 km ) ( 1.573m above sea level. NN )

Vuelta a España 2008

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