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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) stormed through the final 30km solo to win stage 6 of the Volta a Catalunya and solidify his overall lead with one day remaining.
The race leader exploded from a reduced front group on the Collada de Sant Isidre to disrupt the cadence of contenders on the steady category 1 climb and no one could match the acceleration. It was his third stage win of the week and an exclamation point on the final day in the mountains.
Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) won the battle for second place against Mikel Landa (Soudal-QuickStep) as the duo could never reel back the Slovenian, finishing 57 seconds back.
“Today was a really hard stage,” Pogačar said later. “We stayed together until the climb [Collada de Sant Isidre], and Movistar tried to attack there, and I just launched it there. I saw some people follow, but I said, ‘OK, we go to the top’, and the rest is history, solo [in the descent].
“I took it with care and the final climb was really nice with all these people, but I was suffering a lot.”
Landa retained his second position in the GC, but lost a huge chunk of time and is now 3:31 off the overall lead. Bernal’s strong ride reshuffled the leaderboard in his favour, jumping from ninth overall to third, 4:53 back, and displacing Aleksandr Vlasov…
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