Valverde Wins GP Indurain

Last updated : 05 April 2014 By Covsupport News Service

Movistar's Allesandro Valverde won the GP Miguel Indurain in Spain.

This one day 187km race in the Navarre region, first started in 1951 but changed its name to remember the famous Tour De France winner in 1998.

Movistar's Gorka Izagirre and Katusha's Pavel Brutt were the first to attack but by the eleven kilometre mark they had been joined by Egor Silin and Alexandr Kolobnev from Katusha, Herrada and Izagirre of Movistar, Javier Acevedo and Nathan Haas (Garmin-Sharp), Ángel Madrazo, Heiner Parra and Antonio Molina (Caja Rural), Haritz Orbe and Jon Larrinaga (Euskadi), David Belda and Pablo Torres (Burgos), Jordi Simon (Ecuador), Raúl Alarcón (Louletano), and Evgeny Shalunov and Arkimedes Arguelyes (Lokosphinx).

Pablo Torres took the first two special sprints and this group which at one time had a 3.45 lead, started to split on the third climb of the day after Haas had taken the first climb and then was beaten into second place by Alarcón on the second climb.

With sixty kilometres to go,  Larrinaga, Shalunov and Belda attacked from the break before David Belda decided to go solo with a gap of 1.35. Three kilometres later and G Izaguirre, Herrada, Brutt, Haas and Simon joined him.

Their lead dropped under a minute with 38kms remaining and six kilometres later they were caught.

Chernetsky, Gadret, Jesus and José Herrada, Cardoso, Haas, Arroyo and Del Pino tried an attack with twenty kilometres but out of the peloton flew Allesandro Valverde who bridged with nineteen kilometres to go.

Valverde got to the Eraul with 12km to go.and away he went to take the win in 4.52.01 ahead of Slagter, Chernetski, Cardoso, Trofimov,  Hesjedal, Kolobnev, King, Arroyo and Minguez.