Thrilling duel: Roglic puts Evenepoel in his place at the mountain finish

Tour of Catalonia: Roglic ten seconds ahead of Evenepoel

The Slovenian cycling star from Jumbo-Visma won the uphill finish of the fifth stage in Lo Port by six seconds ahead of Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step). This puts Roglic ten seconds ahead of the Belgian road world champion ahead of the final weekend.

The favoured duo had started the stage at the same time, Roglic was ahead in the overall standings due to his better placings on the day. After a largely quiet stage, Evenepoel launched the first attack 4.5 kilometres before the finish, but Roglic followed without any problems. The Belgian then held back before attacking again 300 metres before the finish. However, he was no longer able to follow Roglic's counterattack.

Tour of Catalonia 2023: Stage 5 results

• 1st Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 4:27:41

• 2nd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:06

• 3rd Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +0:12

• 4th Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) +0:28

• 5th Rigoberto Uran (EF Education EasyPost) +0:44

• 6th Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ) +0:47

• 7th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:56

• 8th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +0:56

• 9th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +1:04

• 10th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +1:15

Tour of Catalonia 2023: The standings in the overall standings

• 1st Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 21:29:25

• 2nd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:10

• 3rd Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +1:02

• 4th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +1:50

• 5th Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) +1:50

• 6th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +1:54

• 7th Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) +1:57

• 8th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:02

• 9th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:23

• 10th Rigoberto Uran (EF Education EasyPost) +2:44

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