Aussie Ewan claims landmark Vuelta win, Dumoulin leads
Caleb Ewan celebrated the biggest win of his career on Wednesday, the 21-year-old Australian claiming the fifth stage of Spain's Vuelta with Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin the new leader.
Ewan, tackling his debut Vuelta, prevailed in a dash for the line after a 167.5 kilometre ride from Rota to Alcala de Guadaira.
His teammate, Johan Esteban Chaves, started the day in possession of the leader's red jersey but by the end of the stage he'd been relegated to second in the general classification, albeit by only one second to Team Giant-Alpecin's Dumoulin.
In third, 16sec back, was Team Sky's Irish rider Nicolas Roche.
Ewan's win was made all the sweeter as he crossed the line with specialist sprinters John Degenkolb of Germany and Slovakia's Peter Sagan in his wake.
Ewan was set up for his breakthrough success in perfect style by other members of his team in the final 50 metres.
Sagan was well placed in second but he was put in his place by the promising Aussie who came round the German to take the honours.