Orica BikeExchange's Simon Yates has won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España.
Stage six with Darwin Atapuma ahead by 28 seconds from Alejandro Valverde and thirty two seconds ahead of Chris Froome, was a 163.2 kilometre stage from Monforte de Lemos to Luintra.
The break took a long time to get established and with just under fifty kilometres gone, Laurent Didier (Trek-Segafredo), Kevin Reza (FDJ), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Jan Bakelants (AG2R - La Mondiale), Alberto Losada (Katusha), Gert Dockx (Lotto Soudal), José Mendes and Gregor Muhlberger (Bora-Argon18), Omar Fraile (Dimension Data), Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) and Valerio Conti (Lampre - Merida), managed to slip away.
With 90kms left, they were 2.16 ahead before Omar Fraile (Dimension Data) who had started the break, went off and took the points on the first climb, the intermedediate sprint and those on the category two climb at Alto Alenze.
Fraile was 1.10 ahead of the chasers and 2.08 ahead of the peloton with 30kms left.
The peloton were now closeing and Bakelants, Zeits and Frank caught Fraile on the climb and Frank took the points with 19kms left.
Frank stayed clear whilst behind him there was a crash which took out a number of riders including Bart De Clerq.
Orica Bikeexchange sent Simon Yates after Frank and he caught him with 3.7kms left.
Yates passed him and carried on sailing under the flam rouge and won in 4.05.00 ahead of Luis Leon Sanchez and Fabio Felline.
Darwin Atapuma finished safely and keeps his lead in the race.