Isaac del Toro won the first stage and became the leader of the Vuelta a Asturias

The Mexican Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates) sole winner of the Pola de Lena and won the first stage of the 66th Vuelta a Asturias after the attack five kilometers from the finish line, and the leader of the general classification ahead of his Polish teammate Rafal Majkawho came in a minute later.

The first stage, that is left Oviedostarted with a small leak at the speed of the race for Grado starring the Spaniards Fran Muñoz (Team Polti Kometa) and Jose Maria Garcia (Illes Balears – Arabay) and the British Oliver Rees (Sabgal Cycling Team).

With a hundred kilometers to go, an escape of six cyclists crowned the Alto de Las Estacas: Fran Muñoz (Team Polti Kometa), Oliver Rees (Sabgal Cycling Team), José María García (Balearic Islands – Arabay) and Ibon Ruiz (Kern Pharma Team), Asier Pablo Gonzalez (Balearic Islands – Arabay) and Víctor Martínez (Sidi Ali -UnlockTeam).

As Ibon Ruiz (Kern Pharma Team) attacked again and opened a small gap of over half a minute sixty kilometers from the finish line, UAE Team Emirates began to dominate the pace of the peloton -consisting of more than 40 runners- and this one shortened the distances to keep the breakaway under surveillance at all times.

Jorge Gutiérrez (Kern Pharma Team), Sergio Samitier (Movistar Team) and Finn Fisher-Black (UAE Team Emirates) They crowned the Alto del Tenebreobut the escape was neutralized by the peloton with twenty kilometers to go, before the start of the climb to El Cordal, a first-class port.

is with five kilometers to go Mexican Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates) attacked and left the peloton, crossing the Pola de Lena finish line alone after a big descent and with more than a minute ahead of his teammate Rafal Majka (UAE Team Emirates), second, and Eric Antonio Fagundez (Burgos-BH), third.

This is about Mexican Isaac del Toro’s first win since the Tour Down Under was held in Australia in January of this year.

He The 20-year-old UAE Team Emirates rider won the Tour del Porvenir last summer, when I was a beginner.

The first Spaniard in the general standings is Jose Manuel Diaz (Burgos-BH), fifth.

This On Saturday will be held the longest stage of the Asturian round -200 kilometers-, which will take the runners from Ribera de Arriba to Ribadesella and that will have as incentives the Port of San Tirso (3rd), the Alto de la Gargantada (3rd), the Lathe top (2nd) -with slopes of almost 9%-, the Alto de la Robellada (3rd) and the Collau del Valle (3rd).