Roglic wins record-equalling fourth Vuelta title

Primoz Roglic has won a record-equalling 4th consecutive Vuelta a Espana title aft safely getting done nan last individual clip proceedings stage.

The Slovenian's triumph intends he pulls level pinch Roberto Heras, who won nan arena 4 times betwixt 2000 and 2005.

Roglic, 34, went into shape 21 - a 26.4km clip proceedings - pinch a 2 infinitesimal and 2 2nd lead complete Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale's Ben O'Connor.

And nan Bora-Hansgrohe rider vanished 2nd connected that shape to corroborate his victory.

Roglic, who took nan wide title lead from Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale's O'Connor aft winning shape 19, clocked a shape clip of 26 minutes and 59 seconds. He vanished pinch an wide clip of 81 hours 49 minutes 18 seconds.

"I had to spell for it aliases it is moreover harder truthful I pushed," Roglic said. "At nan extremity it was hard.

"We [me and my team] each sacrifice, we each unrecorded for it. I consciousness happy I could do it and I admit it."

Switzerland's Stefan Kung won nan last shape pinch a clip of 26:28 and Italian Mattia Cattaneo came 3rd pinch 26:70.

"It's ever bully if you triumph pinch much than half a minute, it shows you were perfectly nan best, location was nary coincidence today," Kung, who won his first Grand Tour stage, said.

"It's really nice. It yet repays each nan activity we do arsenic a team. I ever effort to beryllium master and to get nan maximum retired of myself. It feels good."

The only alteration to nan wide classification standings came pinch Danish rider Mattias Skjelmose moving into 5th aft an awesome eighth-place decorativeness successful nan past stage.

It meant France's David Gaudu vanished wide successful sixth.