BORA-hansgrohe Team (Spain) - Press Release: The stage around Amorebieta-Etxano near Bilbao, which was shortened to 164.5 km, was energy-sapping, featuring a number of short but steep climbs before the route ended with a demanding finishing lap. Before the final intermediate sprint, the race was all together but on the uncategorised climb immediately afterwards, a 20-man group with Sergio Higuita broke clear from the peloton. With 5km remaining, the leaders had a 15-second gap. With 200m to the finish line, Sergio launched his sprint and the Colombian was too fast to be caught. He thereby took the second stage win for BORA-hansgrohe in this year's race and also moves up to 8th place in the general classification.

Result:

1. S. Higuita: 3:59:57
2. A. Bagioli: +0:00
3. M. Skjelmose: +0:00