Jasper Philipsen achieves his second victory in La Vuelta 2025

Stage designed for the spectacle to be provided by the Cierzo wind, but as the wind did not make an appearance, it ended up being another mundane day with a sprint finish, a specialty in which, at present, Jasper Philipsen is an unbeatable cyclist, achieving his second victory in this 2025 edition of La Vuelta.

Philipsen continues to feed his reputation as the best sprinter of the present in La Vuelta

Very little to tell in stage 8 of La Vuelta that proposed a completely flat route between Monzón, Huesca, and Zaragoza. A stage that La Vuelta likes to include hoping for the appearance of the Cierzo, the fresh and dry northwest wind that usually lashes these lands.

However, the atmospheric stability of these last days also meant that the cyclists barely faced a light breeze, moreover, in the opposite direction to the march in the entire initial part of the stage, so almost any option of a different outcome than a sprint finish vanished almost from the start.

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Breakaway at the start with Sergio Samitier being a prophet in his land, accompanied by Joan Bou and José Luis Faura. As usual in recent times, they did not enjoy more than 4 minutes in an adventure with no possibility that ended up dying 17 kilometers from the finish line, already in the final circuit that the organization had prepared inside the city of Zaragoza.

In the last kilometer, Lotto entered leading the peloton for the Italian Elia Viviani. Behind the Belgians, Filippo Ganna tried to position Ben Turner while the Alpecin-Deceuninck train also tried to make a comeback. But, just at the decisive moment when Planckaer started to launch Jasper Philipsen, he lost the wheel and had to improvise an alternative plan.

He quickly managed to find a gap to latch onto Viviani's wheel at the precise moment he came out of the slipstream of his lead-out man. The exact place at the exact moment. So, with the usual power that Jasper Philipsen demonstrates, he had no problem overtaking the Italian and beating him with some ease, thus achieving his second stage win in this edition of La Vuelta.

Stage 8 Classification

1. Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) +3h43'48''
2. Elia Viviani (Lotto) +00''
3. Ethan Vernon (Israel-PremierTech) +00''
4. Arne Marit (Intermarché-Wanty) +00''
5. Anders Foldager (Jayco-AlUla) +00''
6. Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) +00''
7. Madis Mihkels (EF Education-EasyPost) +00''
8. Thibaud Gruel (Groupama-FDJ) +00''
9. Fabio Christen (Q36.5) +00''
10. Ben Turner (INEOS Grenadiers) +00''

General Classification

1. Torstein Træen (Bahrain-Victorious) 29h01'50''
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +2'33''
3. Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +2'41''
4. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) +2'42''
5. Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS-Astana) +2'47''
6. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +2'49''
7. Jai Hindley (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +2'53''
8. Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +2'53''
9. Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) +2'55''
10. Felix Gall (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) +2'58''