Argos Shimano's Warren Barguil got away at the end to win the thirteenth stage of the Vuelta a España.
A 169km stage from Valls to Castelldefels saw a big crash ten kilometres in and Pablo Lastras (Movistar), Laurens ten Dam (Belkin) and David De La Cruz (NetApp-Endura) were all forced to abandon.
The first break of the day came with less than one hundred kilometres to go, after Diego Ulissi had taken the riders over the first climb on the Coll de la Torreta, and a move started by Jan Barta (NetApp-Endura) and Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Argos-Shimano) saw a total of 18 riders escape.
Bauke Mollema (Belkin), Amets Txurruka (Caja Rural), Warren Barguil (Argos-Shimano), Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Iker Camano (NetApp-Endura), Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2R), Beñat Intxausti (Movistar), Mikael Cherel (AG2R), Ivan Santaromita (BMC), Antonio Piedra (Caja Rural), Jerome Coppel (Cofidis), Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida), Jelle Vanendert (Lotto-Belisol), Gianni Meersman (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), Serge Pauwels (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), Christian Meier (Orica-GreenEdge), Xabier Zandio (Sky) and Tomasz Marczynski (Vacansoleil-DCM), take control on the front and they built a lead of three minutes over the peloton.
The Category 3 Alto del Rat Penat climb was next and Lampre's Michele Scarponi, who was ten minutes down on General Classification, who led the way, watched by decent sized crowds.
Scarponi was first over the climb with 50kms remaining and he took a 1.47 over the group containing race leader Vincenzo Nibali lead going into the tricky descent which featured a number of hair-pin bends.
Scarponi was rejoined by Warren Barguil (Argos-Shimano), Rinaldo Nocentini (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Xabier Zandio (Sky), Ivan Santaromita (BMC), Jerome Coppel (Cofidis), Beñat Intxausti (Movistar), Bauke Mollema (Belkin) and Amets Txurruka (Caja Rural).as their gap went out to 3.31 with 30kms remaining.
With six to go, Coppel and Martinez attacked. Scarponi joined them as the stage went along the sea front at Castelldefels. Belkin's Bauke Mollema brought up the rest of the chasers.
Jermome Coppel tried to attack as Xabier Zandio (Sky) joined them. A right turn took them into the flam rouge. The cat and mouse games started and Argos Shimano's Warren Barguil took advantage. Up the 8.9% climb to the finish and Bargull had his win in a time of 4.00.13 ahead of Rinaldo Nocentini, Bauke Mollema, Santaromita and Xandio
Vincenzo Nibali keeps his 31 second lead over Nicholas Roche..