Dom gets 3rd in 15th Stage of La Vuelta

Stage 15: Jaén - Córdoba 167.7km

Dom got into the winning 13 man break today with team mate Martin Velits. Dom was riding well within the break and was first to follow Columbia-HTC rider, Vicente Reynes (Spa) attack. Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank and Serafín Martínez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia joined the lead group. With about 23 km to go Martinez attacks, dropping the Columbia rider with Lars Boom and Dominik sticking. With 22.6 km to go Lars Boom picks up the pace on the San Jerónimo ascent and Dom was unable to match the pace, but kept going strong. At 22.2 km to go Martinez was no longer able to hang on to Lars Boom's wheel. Lars Boom continued his hard effort and quickly built 30 second gap. Dom and Martinez went back to the group. Somewhere in the next kilometers David Herrero (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia attacked (I was too excited about Dom and missed when this happened). Lars Boom continued to ride into the win while David Herrero got 2nd. Dom attacked somewhere, but it was not on video, built a gap again and got third. Team mate Martin Velits almost took the small group sprint but took 7th.

Great Day for Team Milram. A spectacular day for Dom.

Team Milram report here, Deutsche hier

View video of last km here. You'll see dom in the background as David Herrero is finishing.

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Results:

1 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank 4:12:56
2 David Herrero (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 0:01:36
3 Dominik Roels (Ger) Milram 0:01:44
4 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 0:02:04
5 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana
6 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Saxo Bank
7 Martin Velits (Svk) Milram
8 Serafín Martínez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia
9 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 0:03:23

Team Milram

18 Paul Voß (GER) Team MILRAM +25:01
65 Christian Knees (GER) Team MILRAM
145 Matthias Ruß (GER) Team MILRAM + 25:46
147 Gerald Ciolek (GER) Team MILRAM

General Classification

1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 65:08:50
2 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 0:00:31
3 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:01:10
4 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas 0:01:28
5 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 0:01:51
6 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 0:01:54
7 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0:05:53
8 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-NGC 0:06:34
9 Tom Danielson (USA) Garmin-Slipstream 0:08:28
10 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 0:10:45