Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) climbed to victory on stage 5 of Vuelta a Burgos atop Lagunas de Nella, dropping Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) on the final kilometre of the mountaintop finale of the five-day race.
With his second-place finish, Del Toro gained 45 seconds over Léo Bisiaux (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and secured the GC title. The Mexican climber came into the final stage trailing Bisiaux by 26 seconds, who would drop to third on GC at 25 seconds back.
Across the opening 25km, five riders moved away from the peloton for the break of the day – Nico Denz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Mathijs Paasschens (Bahrain Victorious), Carlos García Pierna (Burgos Burpellet BH), Samuele Zoccarato (Polti VisitMalta), Txomin Juaristi (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Matteo Moschetti (Q36.5 Pro Cycling).
Moschetti was the first to be dropped and once on the Alto de Rozavientos (3.3km at 9.7%), the lead was taken over by García Pierna and Afonso Eulalio (Bahrain Victorious), with under 15km to go.
Before the final ascent of the race and 10km to go, the lead duo held just a 25-second gap to the peloton, the pace driven by Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale in support of GC leader Léo Bisiaux, who also held the youth and points classification leads going into the last stage.
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