Vuelta a Espana: Kaden Groves wins second Vuelta stage in as many days

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Kaden Groves sprinted to a 2nd signifier triumph successful arsenic galore days arsenic helium held disconnected a almighty Filippo Ganna surge successful signifier 5 of the Vuelta a Espana.

Belgium's Remco Evenepoel retained the wide leader's reddish jersey.

He finished successful the battalion having earlier picked up six seconds successful a bonus sprint precocious connected the 186.5km signifier to Burriana.

It means Evenepoel stretched his wide classification pb to 11 seconds implicit second-placed Enric Mas.

Lenny Martinez is 17 seconds down successful third, portion Tour de France victor Jonas Vingegaard is present 37 seconds disconnected the pb successful fourth.

Victory for Groves strengthens his grip connected the greenish jersey.

"It's a fantastic feeling, the 2nd triumph of this Vuelta, and 2 successful a row, it's a large feeling particularly doing it with the greenish jersey," Groves said.

"At the end, it was a beauteous hectic last today, akin to yesterday but without climbing. The upwind and roundabouts made it rather tense but my squad was fantastic again."

The contention returns to higher altitude connected Thursday with the 183km signifier six from La Vall d'Uixo to Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre.