Kristian Sbaragli has won the tenth stage of the 70th Vuelta a España.
With Giant Alpecin's Tom Dumoulin, back in the leaders red jersey, stage ten was 146.6kms long and from Valencia to Castellon.
The peloton were all together for the first sixteen kilometres and the numbers saw wheels touch and a crash from which everyone was able to get back on their bikes and continue.
On the first climb - the Puerto del Oronet, which was a category three climb that was 6kms long with an average gradient of 4.4% and came after thirty kilometres and the peloton split with a group of thirty seven riders going away before being joined by three more to form a group of Dario Cataldo, Matteo Montaguti, Sergio Henao, Carlos Verona, Riccardo Zoidl, Tiago Machado, Daniel Navarro, Peter Velits, Lawson Craddock, Rubén Plaza, Martijn Keizer, Luis León Sánchez, Larry Warbasse, Imanol Erviti, David Arroyo, Natnael Berhane, Jurgen Van den Broeck, Romain Hardy, Tsgabu Grmay, Andrey Amador, Pello Bilbao, Eduard Vorganov, Carlos Quintero, Maxime Monfort, Ian Boswell, Salvatore Puccio, Benjamin King, Kenny Elissonde, Stephen Cummings, Cameron Meyer, Amael Moinard, George Bennett, Darwin Atapuma, Ángel Madrazo, Mickael Cherel, Davide Villella and Rodolfo Torres
The group had a lead of 1.10 when there was a split and six riders broke clear before Nicholas Roche and Andrew Talansky went down in a crash.
Niki Terpstra was away until the 32kms to go mark and then Alessandro De Marchi (BMC), Kenny Elissonde (FDJ) and Sicard of Europcar led until four kilometres to go and the sprint was on. First over the line was Kristian Sbaragli (MTN - Qhubeka), in a time of 3.13.43, who held off John Degenkolb, Jose Joaquin Rojas, Tosh Van Der Sande and José Gonçalves of Caja Rural-Seguros RGA.
Tom Dumoulin leads the race going into the rest day in Andorra.