Dunbar wins stage as Roglic all but seals Vuelta

Eddie Dunbar won shape 20 of nan Vuelta a Espana arsenic Primoz Roglic each but sealed wide victory.

Irishman Dunbar, riding for Team Jayco Alula, attacked pinch astir 5km near to drawback leader Pavel Sivakov connected nan last climb of this year's race.

He caught nan Frenchman pinch astir 3km remaining, past dropped him to triumph nan shape by 7 seconds.

Movistar's Enric Mas was 2nd and Red Bull - Bora-Hansgrohe's Roglic 3rd - a further 3 seconds adrift - connected nan 172km shape from Villarcayo to Picon Blanco.

Slovenian Roglic vanished 4 seconds up of Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale's Ben O'Connor to agelong his lead successful nan wide classification to 2 minutes 2 seconds.

"This 1 decidedly feels a spot sweeter," said Dunbar, who won shape 11.

"I felt bully successful that 2nd portion today. I conscionable backed myself connected that climb and paced myself really well.

"I knew this climb from a fewer years ago. I rode nan steep parts beautiful difficult and nan level bits really conservatively to make judge I had capable near successful nan tank."

"I'm ace happy that I could clasp on."

Barring accident, Roglic is almost definite to corroborate a 4th Vuelta triumph successful Sunday's last 24.6km clip proceedings successful Madrid.

1. Eddie Dunbar (Irl/Team Jayco Alula) 4hrs 38mins 37secs

2. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +7secs

3. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull - Bora-Hansgrohe) +10sec

4. Richard Carapaz (Ecu/EF Education-EasyPost) +12 secs

5. Urko Berrade (Spa/Equipo Kern Pharma) +14

6. Ben O'Connor (Aus/Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale) +14

7. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama - FDJ) +21

8. Mikel Landa (Spa/Soudal - Quick-Step) +23

9. Florian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull - Bora-Hansgrohe) +37

10. Mattias Skjelmose (Den/Lidl-Trek) +37