Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) moved into the top spot in the Vuelta a España’s mountain classification ranking on stage 16 after the previous leader, Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), crashed heavily on the descent of the mid-stage cat. 1 Collada Llomena and was forced to quit.
Vine’s advance on the mountains ranking paralleled his compatriot Kaden Groves’ (Alpecin-Deceuninck) move into top spot in the points competition, also previously led by Van Aert, with Ben O’Connor’s success in keeping the red jersey, meaning that Australians are currently leading three of the Vuelta’s four individual classifications.
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