As it happened: Kern Pharma win their third stage at Vuelta a España from 42-rider breakaway

Thanks for joining us for another day of full live coverage from the Vuelta. 

We’ll be back on Friday with full coverage of stage 19 to mountain finish of Alto de Moncalvillo, Roglic tries to take the leader’s jersey from O’Connor.   

It should be an huge day of racing.

Alasdair Fotheringham and Barry Ryan are in Spain and will soon have news and interviews on all today’s action, including Mikel Landa’s tough day and Soudal’s tactical meltdown. 

To read our full stage report and see our photo gallery of the action and the stage results, click below. 

Vuelta a España: Urko Berrade takes solo win on stage 18

These are the results of the stage via our friends at FirstCycling. 

Here the shot of Urko Berrade savouring his victory.

This was the moment Kern Pharma celebrated an emotional third win at the 2024 Vuelta.

The results are in. 

Landa lost 3:20 and slipped from fifth to tenth on GC. He is 5:38 down on O’Connor now.  

This is the first shot of Berrade on the attack.

Cattaneo leads in the Landa and Kuss group. But they finish more than three minutes behind. 

We wait to see how far Landa will drop in the GC. 

The GC riders, finish together and so Ben O’Connor  keeps the leader’s red jersey for another day. 

This is how Berrade won it, with a superbly timed attack 

This is the moment of  Urko Berrade’s win.

Landa is struggling to hold the wheels of his teammates. He is either sick or mentally broken. 

We now wait for the rest of the 42-rider break to finish and then the GC group, then Landa…