Yesterday in Spain was completed a prestigious three-week Cycling red Jersey in Madrid was dressed racer “Movistar” Nair Quintana.
The Colombian became the first leader of the standings after the eighth stage, the next day David de La Cruz took the robe Quintana leadership, but the captain of the “Movistar” 24 hours later he won the mountain stage and broke away from his nearest competitor by 57 seconds.
In the second week of the race the key was the 15-th stage of Quintana boldly attacked in the mountains, sacrificed his victory for the sake of increasing advantage in the General classification before the problem dissection. Quintana lost to Christopher Froome of more than two minutes, the next day the British tried to eliminate fifteen minutes from Quintana, but the Colombian stuck to the leader of the “Sky” and take the red Jersey to Madrid.
Nair Quintana became a two-time winner of the race Grand tour. In 2014, the year the Colombian won the Giro d’italia and the Tour de France two years in a row ranked in the top 3.
Top 5 General classification:
1. Nair Quintana (Colombia, Movistar) – 83:31, And 28
2. Christopher Froome (UK, Sky) – 1,23
3. Esteban Chaves, Colombia, Orica-BikeExchange) – 4,08
4. Alberto Contador, Spain, Tinkoff) – 4,21
5. Andrew Talansky (USA, Cannondale-Drapac) – the 7.43
Won the green Jersey (points classification) was Fabio Felline (Trek–Segafredo), mountain king Volta was Omar Fraile (Dimension Data), and in team classification was won by the Americans from BMC.
