The 24-year-old Australian won in a sprint out of a large group ahead of Dorian Godon (INEOS Grenadiers), who had already managed two stage wins during the week, and Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe), who was on the offensive and helped to shape the final day, but was unable to break away on Barcelona's local mountain, the Montjuic, for seven laps like any other rider in the peloton.

As a result, the overall standings remained unchanged. Vingegaard retained a 1:22-minute lead over Martinez, who had a further eight minutes on Lipowitz. As with the podium, nothing changed in the top 10. "My entire focus today was on the GC. The guys from Red Bull did a good job and kept attacking me," said Vingegaard in the winner's interview. "I'm satisfied that I was able to defend my lead. It was a nice week for me with two stage wins and now also the overall classification. The start to the year was fantastic for me. I hope it continues like this."

Lipowitz "satisfied and proud"

It was Vingegaard's first participation in the Tour of Catalonia. He had also previously raced Paris-Nice in 2026, where he was also unbeatable. Illness and crashes delayed his start to the year, but the 29-year-old clearly did not suffer as a result.

Stage winner Gilmore, for whom it was the first victory of the year and the first at WorldTour level in his career, was similarly satisfied. "I had good legs right from the start. Yesterday I was already thinking about today's finale and hoping that I could be in a smaller group. After this day, I couldn't be happier."

Meanwhile, Florian Lipowitz saw some room for improvement, at least when looking at the day's result. "We would have liked to have won the stage today with Remco and tried to make the race difficult. But unfortunately it wasn't quite enough. Looking at the week as a whole, however, we can be very satisfied and proud of what we have achieved."

Tour of Catalonia 2026 - Results of the 7th stage

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This is how the 7th stage of the Tour of Catalonia 2026 went

Due to the shortness of the stage, the leading group of the day formed after just three kilometres. Magnus Cort (Uno-X Mobility), Einer Rubio (Movistar), Darren Rafferty (EF Education - EasyPost), Liam Slock (Lotto - Intermarché) and Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) formed the quintet that dominated the first part of the day. By the time they entered the circuit, the group, which also had two in the meantime, had a lead of 1:35 minutes.

On the third lap, the group was then caught on the climb to Montjuic - and Evenepoel went on the offensive. A group formed with almost all of the classification riders, but they were brought back. Nevertheless, this opened up the finale, with riders attacking again and again, but without creating the decisive gap.

It stayed that way for the entire seven laps. Various forays by Evenepoel and Giulio Ciccone (Lidl - Trek), who defended his mountain jersey, remained successful with regard to the stage win. And so, in the end, a group of around 30 riders sprinted out of which a surprise winner ultimately prevailed.