Lampre's Winner Anacona has won the ninth stage of the Vuelta a España.
The stage ahead of Monday's rest day, was 187kms long and from Carboneras de Guadazaón to Aramón Valdelinares.
Twenty five riders in Winner Anacona. Damiano Cunego, Rinaldo Nocentini, Alexey Lutsenko, Paul Martens, Dominik Nerz, Danilo Wyss, Peio Blibao, Jerome Coppell, Romain Zingle, Natnael Bethane, Yannick Martinez, Ryder Hesjedal, Johan Van Summeren, Pirmin Lang, Eduard Vorganov, Adam Hansen, Javier Moreno, Daniel Teklehaimnot, Jay Robert Thomson, Tom Boonen, Carlos Verona, Sam Bewley, Dario Cataldo, Julien Arredondo, Fabio Felline and Bob Jungels, got clear and were allowed to get 7.50 clear with seventy kilometres left due to their being no threat to the red leader's jersey held by Alejandro Valverde.
The heat that had been experienced in Andalucia has vanished and there was reports of heavy rain and thunderstoms on the finish line at Aramón Valdelinares.
Jerome Cousin took the first climb of the day as this group's lead went out to 8.30.
Into the final 25 kilometres and Anacona is clear with Jungles and Moreno.
The gap was slowly coming down to Anacona, who was the virtual leader on the road only being 2.50 down on Valverde's time. The trio were 5.51 ahead with 15.2kms of the stage left.
Anacona took the second climb and they had a lead of forty seconds over the other escapers.
With 5.8kms left and on the final climb, Anacona went away with a lead of 3.44.
The Lampre-Merida rider was giving it everything and went towards the flam rouge whilst back down the road, Alberto Contador shot away from the peloton. Quintana went after Contador.
Winner Anacona had ridden superbly and he won in 4.34.15 ahead of Lutsenko, Cunego, Moreno and Bilbao.
Contador was chasing the leader's jersey as well and with Valverde seemingly not reacting, Contador finished third some 2.16 down just ahead of Quintana who now leads the race by three seconds from Contador and eight seconds from Valverde.
However, Valdverde out of nowhere put in a final finish and finished 2,38 down on Aanacona's time.
"This is very special for me and I had tears when I crossed the finishline," Anacona said:
"I might tire later in the race but this has been a great day for me, my team and my country."