Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) underlined his crushing domination of the 2017 Volta a Catalunya this year with a superbly timed third and final stage win on Sunday, this time in a small group sprint in the Montjuic park in Barcelona. Already victorious this week in La Molina and the crucial summit finish of Lo Porto, in Barcelona the Movistar rider chased down a surging late attack by Dan Martin (Quick Step Floors) with just three kilometres remaining in the last of eight hilly laps in Montjuic. Valverde then fended off the bunch, headed in by Jarlinson Pantano (Trek-Segafredo) by half a bike length for the seventh stage win of his career in the Volta. Valverde has now taken the Volta a Catalunya for a second time in his career, too, with his next big objectives the Ardennes Classics, where he also has multiple wins in Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spain) Movistar Team 25:27:15, 2 Alberto Contador (Spain) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:03, 3 Marc Soler (Spain) Movistar Team 0:01:16, 4 Adam Yates (Great Britain) Orica-Scott 0:01:31, 5 Tejay Van Garderen (United State America) BMC Racing Team 0:01:34, 6 Daniel Martin (Ireland) Quick-Step Floor's 0:02:29, 7 Steven Kruijswijk (Netherland) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:02:56, 8 Carlos Verona (Spain) Orica-Scott 0:03:00, 9 George Bennett (NewZealand) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:03:01, 10 Romain Bardet (France) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:05, 11 Rafal Majka (Poland) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:33, 12 Davide Formolo (Italy) Cannondale-Drapac 0:05:14, 13 Darwin Atapuma (Col) Team UAE Emirates 0:05:39, 14 Daniel Navarro (Spain) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:07:57, 15 Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark) Astana Pro Team 0:12:41.
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