Mads Pedersen finally scored for Lidl-Trek, winning stage 15 of the Vuelta a España on Sunday, sprinting to the victory from a group of nine who had escaped a huge breakaway of 47 riders.
Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Louis Vervaeke (Soudal-QuickStep) attacked that group more than 100km from the finish, putting pressure on the team that had five men in the day’s huge breakaway.
Eventually, Bahrain-Victorious took over the pace setting successfully preserving Torstein Træen’s ninth place in the general classification. Træen slipped to 10th overall, with breakaway rider Junior Lecerf’s (Soudal-QuickStep) move to ninth the only change in the top 10.
Pedersen had initially missed Sunday’s breakaway and was forced to bridge to it on the day’s opening climb, only reaching the front on the ensuing descent.
“I really wanted to have a win, and today we succeeded, so that’s amazing,” Pedersen said. “The way the team worked the whole day, five guys in the first group and when the two guys went away on the second KOM, they were really strong and got a lot of time, and the boys were working so hard to make it possible. So yeah, in the end, it makes it even nicer to win when everyone is looking at us and everyone knew our plan, and still we succeed with a victory that’s absolutely incredible.”
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