The Spaniard Juan Ayuso won the 7th stage solo after his failure of the day before

After a completely missed 6th stage, the Spaniard of the UAE Team Emirates XRG caught up perfectly during this 7th stage of the Vuelta on Friday.

The renewed pride. Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates XRG) raised his arms first, alone, on arrival in Cerler-Huesca la Magia, at 1,905 meters above sea level, Friday, August 29. After the first mountain stage on Thursday, which saw the victory of Australian Jay Vine (UAE Emirates) and the counter-performance of Ayuso, the latter multiplied the attacks during this 7th stage, between Andorra-la-Vieille and Cerler (province of Huesca), last to cross a non-espanol territory and 188 km long and 4,211 meters of elevation. His last attack, 11 km from the finish, was paying, since no runner of the escape could follow him.

He thus signs the pReview Spanish victory of this 2025 edition and won a victory on the Vuelta for the first time, his second on a big round after the 7th stage of the Giro this year. He is ahead of Marco Frigo (Israel-Prime Tech) at 1'15 “and Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B & B Hotels) at 1'21”.

Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious) remains the leader for the second consecutive day. “I didn't really take advantage (from the red jersey). I was nervous because I didn't want to lose it today. I may be a little more enjoying it tomorrow because I don't have the fear of letting go of the last ascent”, reacted to the microphone of the Torstein Træen organizers. THE Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike), who did not fall for the attack Du Portugais Joao Almeida (Uae Team Emirates XRG), Going back to the provisional general classification, from 5th to 2nd place, to +2 '33' 'from the Norwegian. Nice operation also for Almeida, who completes the podium, and Talonne the Danish (+2 '41' ').

Frenchman Bruno Armirail (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale), then second of the general at the end of the 6th stage, lost big, falling in 16th place (+3 '40' '), while remaining the best placed French.